Tag Archives: Metro

Metro Facebook design by an Aussie

Brisbane art director and designer, Fred Nerby has come up with a seriously nice design for Facebook. His intention is for the concept to be used for desktop and iPad,…

NAB update will bring Metro-style design

National Australia Bank has another refresh on the way. If you’re a NAB customer and log out of their online portal, you’ll get taken to a promo page for the…

4Browsers tries to answer your Metro Multitasking needs

A new application in the Windows 8 Store is 4Browsers. As the name suggests it’s 4 browsers in 1. This tries to solve a problem with Windows 8 apps, that…

Vodafone launch Windows 8 app

A number of us early adopters have begun to use Windows 8 Consumer Preview as our primary Operating System. We’re now in the cycle of checking the Store daily for…

SkyDrive update: Metro-style Win8 app, 2GB file size support!

Overnight Microsoft have confirmed some rumoured updates to their cloud storage offering – SkyDrive. Arriving with Windows 8, will be a Metro-style SkyDrive app, as well as deep integration into…

Windows Azure just got sexy

After using Windows Azure since around April this year for the backend of Constructiv, I’ve gotten pretty familiar with the website. Today there’s been a massive overhaul of Windows Azure,…

Even SQL Azure gets the Metro UI.

Those logging into SQL Azure today will get a prompt to update to Silverlight 5. Why the need for the latest developer version of Silverlight? It turns out even Microsoft…

Xbox 360 Dashboard update, adds Metro Aussie voice control

Update 3 Well it seems those last minute gremlins are now sorted out, the new Dashboard has now started rolling out. Reactions online are mixed, some loving it, some hating,…