Christmas was a good week for all of us, but a great week for apps with analytics firm Flurry reporting a 60% leap in app downloads on the previous week.  The figures which cover smartphones and tablets for just iOS and Android operating systems estimated that 6.8 million iOS and Android devices were activated on Christmas day [...]

Categories: Apple, Google

Microsoft’s next operating system Windows 8 will have an app store. That’s what every tech savvy Windows user knows. Microsoft’s own Antoine Leblond and Ted Dworkin have now started a small series of posts about the Windows Store over at the Building Windows 8 blog. Much of what’s being said in the first post is [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Windows

In a story that seems to have surprised nobody except Facebook, the developers of some applications for the world’s largest and most popular social networking website have been selling user details, harvested by their apps. The user data, which is gathered quite legitimately by apps on the site, was found to have been sold to [...]

Categories: Facebook

A new European project, kick-started by 22 European companies and organisations aims to develop an application development environment that will work across all platforms by providing a web-based approach, according to the BBC. The move which is backed by €10M in funding, aims to create apps that would work on any device from Internet TVs to [...]

Categories: Google Android, iPhone, Mobile Computing, Online Services, Open Source, Operating Systems, The Web

Over the past years I’ve been using task managers on and off, but one I always come back to is Todoist. While there are certainly more powerful options out there (Remember The Milk), Todoist, to me, is the perfect balance between power and simplicity. If you take a look, you can’t argue that it has [...]

Categories: Online Services

I was thinking on rounding up some of the net’s best freeware apps and putting them into one easily installable pack. As these things go, it seems like some clever people have beaten me to it. While I am a bit sad, I am actually really happy to have found this, since they did a [...]

Categories: Open Source, Software, Tools

Windows reacts in a predefined way if you right-click a folder, file or blank space. It offers all kinds of actions such as Open, Delete, Add to archive and Send to which is a convenient way but I sometimes have the feeling that some commands are missing in that dialog. The freeware FileMenu Tools makes it easy to add new entries to the file menu by offering a set of predefined actions that can be enabled with a mouse click.

Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows