Windows Apps

Action Note for Windows

With Evernote recently announcing some big changes to the free version of it’s service a lot of you might be looking to jump ship. While Microsoft’s own Onenote might be the most obvious choice for a lot of users there are other alternatives out there. If you are firmly inside the…

VLC arrives as a UWP in beta form

VLC one of the most popular media player apps in the world has finally made it’s way onto the store as a proper universal app. It’s available now for both the desktop and mobile. It’sa little rough around the edges being in beta and the app did crash on me several…

Cast — A windows Podcast app done right

While searching for a good universal podcast app we came across the simply titled app Cast. We put the app through it’s paces and here are our impressions. Cast may not be the best looking app out there but it’s still easy to figure everything it has to offer.

Whatsapp introduces a Windows desktop app

After some recent rumors that have now turned out to be true Whatsapp has introduced a desktop version of their app. While this is great news for heavy users in it’s current state the desktop version simply seems to be a web wrapper for the current web…

Windows 10 gets some new features for UWP games

While the future of games on the Universal Windows Platform is still in a state of flux. Microsoft does seem to be listening to users feedback on it. To this end they have announced the release of new updates that make Windows 10 gaming a better…

Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition is here

A special edition of one of the Xbox One’s most beautiful platformers is now available from the Windows Store and Steam. The update includes the following new features

• New areas

Engadget releases a brand new Windows 10 app

Engadget has had Windows apps in the store for a while. Unfortunately they had fallen into the category of apps that don’t get updated much after they are released. Also as seen from the app reviews the app was almost useless in it’s current state. So…

Fontbase — A free font manager for designers

This one is for all the designers out there. Fontbase is a font previewer tool that let’s you preview, collect and manage your font collection. It’s basically what you need when the built in Windows font manager doesn’t quite cut it.

A new Skype Universal app is coming soon

In recent times it’s really been hard to figure out what exactly Microsoft is doing with Skype on Windows. First they killed the Windows 8 a while ago. Then they integrated it into the messaging app for Windows 10. This takes care of the messaging part. There…