Category Archives: Windows 8

/r/etro is the best Reddit app on Windows 8

/r/etro describes itself as ‘a new kind of Reddit application for a new kind of operating system.’ The great news is that it absolutely lives up to this claim. Most…

Lenovo parades the ThinkPad Helix at CES.

The Consumer Electronics Show always provides device manufacturers with an avenue to excite and fascinate current and potential customers, and this year Lenovo appear to have brought their A-game with…

New Samsung ATIV Smart PC products makes your office portable [Sponsored]

Samsung’s here and ready to play with a range of Windows 8 devices. The ATIV Smart PC product range give you plenty of options, but one of the most interesting…

Introducing Vizual, the fullscreen twitter stream for Windows 8

Vizual is a Windows 8 app that lets you visualise your twitter stream in a simple, fullscreen mode. This app is perfect for that spare monitor or even a business…

NewHouse release 2 adds ARM support

NewHouse is the Windows 8 app to track your decisions as you build a new home. Initially when I published it, there was a bug preventing ARM support from working…

Giveaway: Win a ticket to AppFest Sydney

This morning Microsoft announced that they had sold 40 Million Windows 8 licences since it’s launch on October 26th. That’s an awful lot of people who are wanting apps for…

NewHouse keeps track of your house building decisions

When building a new house, people face literally hundreds of decisions. From the number of rooms, right down to the tap styles and location of power points. With so many…

Microsoft are building a gaming tablet…?

Reports straight out of The Verge, who have elected not to disclose sources relating to this matter, are detailing (and practically confirming) that Microsoft is ready to begin building its…