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Microsoft Office for iPad review

Unknown 0 Apple, iPad, Microsoft, Office, Software, Windows 7:13 AM

Microsoft Office for iPad review

Microsoft Office for iPad When Apple announced that its iWork suite would be bundled, free of charge, with new iOS and Mac devices, it ...

Firefox Launcher for Android

Unknown 0 Android, Download, Firefox, Mobile, Software 3:08 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">The Firefox Launcher offers you recommendations and smart searches will recommend apps you already have installed, along with other ones that match a searched keyword. In the morning, the prediction bar suggests apps related to the weather. Think of the information you might hear on the radio during morning drive time. In the afternoon, the recommended apps might lean toward your calendar, local businesses (to find a restaurant for the evening) and some news apps so you can check what has happened that very day.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">When you use the search feature on the launcher, related apps and websites you've visited appear on the phone. And the links go pretty deep. As an example, if you search for Katy Perry, instead of seeing the Spotify homepage, the launcher will reveal a Spotify shortcut to the singer's artist page. And if you search for 'news' or 'tech', you will see cards with relevant information to your search, including videos.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">The app still has some work in front of it, before undergoing beta testing.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">source: </span><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/02/05/preview-of-firefox-launcher-for-android/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mozilla</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> via </span><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/05/firefox-launcher/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">TechCrunch</a></span>

Firefox Launcher for Android

The Firefox Launcher offers you recommendations and smart searches will recommend apps you already have installed, along with other ones t...

AndroidPIT app v. 2.1 released: new design, great functions & more

Unknown 0 Android, Download, Mobile, Software 3:05 AM

AndroidPIT app v. 2.1 released: new design, great functions & more

AndroidPIT Our app’s interface has been refined and optimized with version 2.1, which you can see right away on the first page with a v...

Xbox One's first major update split in two, launching in February and March

Unknown 0 Microsoft, Software, Update, Windows, XBOX 2:55 AM

Xbox One's first major update split in two, launching in February and March

Xbox One's When the first component of Xbox One's spring update arrives on February 11th, it'll be a few weeks ahead of th...

iOS : Google Maps Will Alert You to Faster Routes

Unknown 0 Download, Google, iOS, iPhone, Mobile, News, Software 12:55 AM

iOS : Google Maps Will Alert You to Faster Routes

Google Maps We can pretty much all agree that being stuck in traffic sucks, right? Well, we have some good news. Google wants to help y...

Mozilla show Metro Firefox ship date to mid-March

Unknown 0 Firefox, News, Software, Windows 8:05 AM

Mozilla show Metro Firefox ship date to mid-March

Mozilla Mozilla has again pushed back the release date for a touch-enabled version of Firefox that will run in Windows 8's "Mo...

HTC provides details on the software update process

Unknown 0 HTC, News, Software, Update 6:52 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the past one of my major concerns with HTC was the lack of timely software updates. They have done a great job with the HTC One, bringing <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/t-mobile-htc-one-4-3-update-now-available-sense-5-5-not-included-7000022266/" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Android 4.3</a> soon after release with <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/htc-and-motorola-announce-android-4-4-kitkat-updates-for-existing-devices-7000022724/" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4.4 coming soon</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">HTC launched a new website, <a href="http://www.htc.com/us/go/htc-software-updates/" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HTC Software Updates</a>, that includes the status of current devices along with a full diagram of the entire update process. I knew there were a lot of parties involved at different stages, but didn't know the process was as complicated as it is. It is also quite clear that carriers have a lot of influence on the update process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The diagram and detailed information should help give us all a better understanding and maybe a bit more patience when it comes to receiving updates. I see my T-Mobile HTC One is currently in the integration phase with certification and push to customer stages still to come.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Via: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/htc-provides-details-on-the-software-update-process-7000024656/">ZDNet</a></span></i></div>

HTC provides details on the software update process

In the past one of my major concerns with HTC was the lack of timely software updates. They have done a great job with the HTC One, bring...

Best 25 apps to install on your Windows tablet

Unknown 0 App, Download, Microsoft, Software, Tablet, Windows 3:30 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><i style="font-weight: normal;">Embracing touch</i></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Embracing touch</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let’s start with apps that highlight the strengths of Windows 8 and Microsoft’s quest to deliver a singular, unified experience across a multitude of devices. Surprise! They all come straight from Microsoft.</span></div>
<figure class="large " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 23.33333396911621px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="fresh paint" height="326" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/12/fresh-paint-100160791-large.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="580" /></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Microsoft’s Fresh Paint app offers a rich selection of artistic tools. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/fresh-paint/1926e0a0-5e41-48e1-ba68-be35f2266a03" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Fresh Paint</a></strong> was a star at Windows 8’s 2012 launch, and it still shines brightly a year later. The free app comes chock-full of watercolors, oils, and pencil tools that will keep you doodling for hours in full multitouch glory. If that gets boring, try something else: Fresh Paint also allows you to paint over pictures stored on your PC, or to pull in “inspiration” from photos on Bing. You can purchase optional “packs” (read: coloring books) for your kids, including some starring Disney characters such as Mickey and Nemo. As simple as it sounds, Fresh Paint is a blast.</span></div>
<figure class="large " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 23.33333396911621px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="xbox one smartglass" height="362" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/12/xbox-one-smartglass-100160799-large.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="580" /></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Xbox One Smartglass in action. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Don’t feel like finger painting? <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.xbox.com/en-US/smartglass" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Xbox Smartglass</a></strong> lets you navigate and control your Xbox 360 or Xbox One console with your slate, and much more. Games with Smartglass support (such as <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Halo 4, Ryse: Son of Rome,</em> and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dead Rising 3</em>) offer unique gameplay capabilities in-app, and a number of movies provide supplemental content through Smartglass. You can also use Xbox Smartglass to buy videos from Xbox Video and shift them from your tablet to your TV and back again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you’d rather game on your tablet, check out <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/skulls-of-the-shogun/c919c1a7-ad5d-4423-9a30-32cf731c04d7" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Skulls of the Shogun</a></strong></em> or <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/halo-spartan-assault/8fe2d694-baa2-4011-99c0-3a22216223bb" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Halo: Spartan Assault</a></strong></em>. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Skulls of the Shogun</em> syncs your progress between the Windows 8, Windows RT, Windows Phone, and Xbox Live Arcade versions of the game (assuming you’ve bought more than one), and allows players on one platform to go head-to-head with users of other devices. “<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2044126/one-microsoft-all-the-time-what-ballmers-newly-unified-vision-could-mean-to-you.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">One Microsoft</a>” indeed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Find strategic gameplay in ‘Skulls of the Shogun.’ (Click to enlarge.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Halo: Spartan Assault</em> is, well, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Halo</em>, even if it can’t cross platform borders as <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Skulls of the Shogun</em> can. And hey—if those don’t scratch your gaming itch, you can pick up fun, touch-optimized versions of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/1a36fd17-5161-4651-ae2d-13384e427ea8" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Solitaire</a></strong></em> and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/microsoft-minesweeper/45ac18d7-e742-494f-a1b1-009aa412a179" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Minesweeper</a></strong></em>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Getting social</span></h2>
<figure class="large " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 23.33333396911621px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="twitter windows 8" height="326" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/12/twitter-windows-8-100160798-large.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="580" /></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 0.7em;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Tweeting my peeps. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No Windows tablet is an island, given Windows 8’s cloud-centric nature. The Windows Store lacks apps for many social networks, but the big two—<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/facebook/add3d66a-358d-4fe2-be68-8a3f934e9ea1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Facebook</a></strong>and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/twitter/8289549f-9bae-4d44-9a5c-63d9c3a79f35" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Twitter</a></strong>—are available, along with a surprisingly awesome <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/3b4b8be2-f224-4827-9449-019739d9c4c8" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Foursquare</a></strong> app.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The two big-name apps each have some quirks: Twitter lacks in-stream retweet/favorite options, and you can’t share content to Facebook via the Share charm. Overall, however, the two apps are rock-solid. They deliver systemwide notifications, as well, and you can “snap” them to a portion of the screen for handy multitasking, just as you can any other proper Windows app—two highly useful additions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The Windows 8 Foursquare app is purdy, and it can point you toward local businesses and restaurants.</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Beyond social networks, you’ll want to download <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/im-instant-messenger/99c049c4-5ef8-4b17-802e-4cf5463d4ef3/m/ROW" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">IM+</a></strong> if you use instant messaging services. The Messages app in Windows 8 offers bare-bones IM support, and the Skype app that replaced it in Windows 8.1 doesn’t even have Messages’ Facebook chat support. IM+, in contrast, plays nice with Facebook, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, and plenty of other IM services—including Skype.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">A portable boob tube</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fortunately, the Windows Store has a solid lineup of entertainment apps just waiting to please your peepers, and video and audio apps are an especially good fit for the modern UI.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hyper for YouTube offers an elegant video-viewing interface. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/d8d75bb2-c5cd-44f2-8c26-c1d1ae5b13fa" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Netflix</a></strong> and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/ad77e4ed-0398-4f5b-a41e-88973007dca1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Hulu Plus</a></strong> subscribers will want to check out those respective apps post-haste. YouTube, unfortunately, isn’t available as an app, but you won’t mourn its loss if you check out <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/hyper-for-youtube/aa71044c-c4b9-4a9c-96fa-2ab6f9d716c8" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Hyper for YouTube</a></strong>, a slick YouTube viewer that includes video-quality options and full YouTube account support. (Most of the YouTube-related offerings in the Windows Store don’t.) Or, if you’re just into YouTube for the free tunes, check out the free <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/60041c70-3a67-4917-b120-eef7180a16c9" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Vevo</a></strong> app.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Slacker Radio app contains a wealth of artist and album info, beyond its killer station selection. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you’re looking to soothe your savage breast, install <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/bd964815-8620-4a05-abf9-ad1f87f68027" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Slacker Radio</a></strong>. Sure, Windows 8 bakes in the Xbox Music service by default, but Xbox Music restricts your free listening after six months and has limited device support outside of Microsoft’s ecosystem. Slacker Radio offers free, unlimited listening to the service’s superb<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</em> 300-plus, DJ-curated radio stations, while subscribing for $10 per month unlocks on-demand music and playlist support.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But what if you’re already a Spotify subscriber? The fan-made <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/cbbddd16-5d65-453b-b556-de3e7b3afa15" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Spotlite</a></strong> app lets premium Spotify subscribers jam to the service’s tunes, and it sports a sleek, Xbox Music–esque interface.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Finally, if you have a large music and movie library of your own, grab <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/plex/647bfcf7-7f87-4a72-ad86-2e6274f969e3" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Plex</a></strong>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Display resolutions are only climbing higher, and with a flood of easily graspable 8-inch tablets such as the <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2068828/dell-venue-8-pro-review-windows-8-1-in-a-pint-sized-package.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Dell Venue 8 Pro</a>, <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2054399/lenovo-shows-off-an-8-inch-bay-trail-t-tablet-the-miix2.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Lenovo Miix2</a>, and <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2055580/acer-joins-the-8-inch-windows-tablet-fray-with-the-atom-powered-iconia-w4.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Acer Iconia W4</a>hitting the shelves, Windows tablets can be a great way to catch up on your reading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Windows Store features both <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/kindle/1d7e4396-0143-4aed-8892-84eb75e799f3" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Kindle</a></strong> and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/05dbbb07-cd42-4a5f-9cd3-a329d52bd372" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Nook</a></strong> apps. Each serves as a gateway to the bounty of ebooks and magazines available in their respective digital bookstores.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If your tastes skew toward shorter forms, try the stellar <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/e62e393a-acc9-40d9-a34a-13a41f2eeef0" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Flipboard</a></strong> app, which finallytouched down in the Windows Store this fall. It compiles stories from around the Web into a beautiful magazine-style format. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/comics/39c58b6e-8b89-4127-a7a3-914cc7918b98" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Comixology</a></strong>, meanwhile, has more than 40,000 digital comics available for purchase from top-name publishers such as Marvel, DC, and Image. Some people have run into minor bugs with the app, but nothing crippling, and its deep troves are a wonderful way to spend any day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Comixology is a comic lover’s dream app. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Cool extras</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some of Windows 8’s best apps don’t fit into the neat boxes we’ve talked about. If you’re not overwhelmed with all the choices yet, check out the following.</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.45em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/bing-maps-preview/75ce2a6a-8a25-4916-83d0-19b8e7b60787" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Bing Maps Preview</a></strong> is a version of Bing Maps that supports <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2068830/bing-maps-preview-is-microsofts-answer-to-google-earth.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Google Earth–like 3D maps</a>. It’s a big improvement over the basic Bing Maps, and with Google largely sitting on the Windows Store sidelines, it’s the marquee maps option available for Windows tablets.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.45em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you go cuckoo for Coco Crisp or any other athlete or sports team, you’ve got to grab the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/3c3536bd-f432-468c-a6e4-fa1ecd49e5fc" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">ESPN</a></strong> Windows 8 app, which dishes out up-to-the-minute scores, analysis, and videos from the Worldwide Leader in Sports. Plus, you can pin live tiles for your favorite teams to the Windows 8 Start screen.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.45em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/5980cefa-aafa-47e4-8ef1-8d72fc208dc0" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Music Maker Jam</a></strong> lets you make your own jams, man, complete with an orchestra’s worth of premade loops and a multitude of effects. It’s a blast.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.45em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you’re over 21, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/88e08b7c-10d0-45b8-9280-946bd889e243" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Cocktail Flow</a></strong> is the personal bartender you’ve always wanted. The app packs alcoholic-drink recipes and recommendations by type, by spirit, by whatever you have in your liquor cabinet, or heck, even by color. Grab the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/41465f3f-1ecd-4e43-814d-a77b12ff2fbd" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Allrecipes</a></strong> food app to go with it, and you’ll never have to think about dinner again.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22.546875px;"><i>Source  : <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2080811/25-excellent-apps-to-install-on-your-new-windows-tablet.html">PCWorld</a></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every year, around December, people like to come up with their predictions for what they believe will happen in the technology world in the year to come. This is like that, only focused on what I feel are the 10 most interesting distributions of Linux (desktop or mobile) to watch in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">elementary OS</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The desktop Linux space is filled with examples of new Linux Distros appearing out of nowhere, as if by magic, and capturing significant market share. A great example is the first release of Ubuntu, back in 2004, which caused a dramatic shift in the entire Linux ecosystem.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is one reason why I think it is worth keeping an eye on<a href="http://elementaryos.org/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">elementary OS</a>. This relative newcomer to the scene has already catapulted to the Distrowatch top 10 and shows no signs of slowing down. With its focus on gorgeous design and a new release scheduled for April 2014, I could easily see this distro becoming a “Top 5” consumer distro in the next year or two.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Up until now, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ubuntu Touch</a> (the mobile-focused version of Ubuntu) has been available purely for developers and pro users looking to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/review-ubuntu-touch-nexus-7-almost-awesome" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">test out the new platform</a>. That's all set to change in 2014 with actual, shipping hardware. You, I and everyone else will be able to order their own Ubuntu-powered cellphone within the year.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Will it be a smash hit, quickly rivaling many of the other dominant mobile OS players? Will it fall flat on its face and fail to ship enough units to even register as a blip on the radar? Or, perhaps more reasonably, will the results fall somewhere in the middle? Regardless of the outcome, Ubuntu Touch is going to be an interesting one to watch.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The world of Linux Distros can be a chaotic and crazy place, especially lately. Changed user interface over here, controversy over there. The net result is a lot of Linux users leaving their current distro and looking for greener pastures.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the big exceptions to this is openSUSE – which continues to be one of the most steady, consistent forces in the Linux world. In a Linux world that seems to be in constant flux, that dependability is...refreshing. Do I expect any of this to change in 2014? Not a chance. But I do anticipate that openSUSE will see a boost in users as people seek a safe harbor in the various “display server” and “desktop environment” wars.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I considered not including Google's ChromeOS on this list, as it bears very little resemblance to a “traditional Linux Distro.” However, Linux it is. And, with the marketing muscle it has behind it, there can be no doubt about the traction it has gained this year.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://lubuntu.net/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Lubuntu</a> – which is, in essence, Ubuntu with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(user_interface)" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Unity</a>environment ripped out in favor of the lightweight <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXDE" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">LXDE</a> – has already experienced a pretty substantial boost in popularity, thanks in large part to many long-time Ubuntu users looking to escape from (what they feel is) the bloated slowness of the Unity desktop environment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lubuntu seems to now have hit a critical mass, gaining attention from non-Ubuntu users as well for its speed and low-memory footprint. I expect to see this distro’s user-base grow steadily throughout 2014. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mer + Plasma Active</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Remember Maemo or Moblin? <a href="http://merproject.org/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mer </a>is the sort of spiritual successor to those ill-fated mobile Linux distributions. Mer is being used as a base distro for the <a href="http://plasma-active.org/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">KDE Plasma Active</a>team’s mobile system. Will we see hardware shipping with Mer and Plasma Active preloaded in 2014? I truly don't know.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The pessimist in me says no way, although the optimist says it's a possibility. But even if we don't see shipping hardware, the technology being produced here is truly interesting and, in my opinion, hugely important for one critical reason - it approaches things very differently than the other mobile systems (such as Android, Ubuntu Touch or FirefoxOS). That alone makes it worth keeping tabs on. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mint</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Linux Mint</a> is an interesting beast. It initially appeared on the scene as a version of Ubuntu with some added codecs and drivers. It then quickly earned a (much-deserved) reputation for excellent visual design and has, over the last few years, built up a sizable user base – catapulting it to the No. 1 spot on the DistroWatch list.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This popularity has caused the system to splinter into a variety of flavors and versions, which is both interesting and confusing. My prediction is that Linux Mint will become a single version of a single distro (re-focusing its message) in 2014, or it will see a significant drop in popularity. Regardless of what its talented team does, I will be watching closely. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Arch</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.archlinux.org/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Arch</a> is, at more than 11 years old, certainly no newcomer. And the Arch user base consists of a small, niche subset of the overall Linux market, just as it always has. So why should we be paying any extra special attention to it in 2014?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I truly don't know. Call it intuition. Maybe it's the alignment of the stars. Perhaps some unusual solar flare activity or something in the air. Let's just say “I've got a hunch” that, during 2014, Arch is going to be worth watching.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Roll Your Own</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The Year Of The Linux Desktop" has become a bit of a running joke at this point, but I'm going to make a similar declaration and say that 2014 will be "The Year Of Everyone Having Their Own Linux Distro." At this point, the tools for building your own Linux distribution (such as <a href="http://susestudio.com/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Suse Studio</a>) are so mature and easy to use that, in many cases, the best Linux Distro for you to use is the one you whip up for yourself based on an existing distro.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Call it an appliance. Call it a re-spin. Either way, the ability to make your own system (and provide it to others who may share your needs) is going to get pretty big in 2014. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">SteamOS</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let's take stock. Valve, one of the most important video game developers and publishers in the business, is now making Linux games. Its Steam store is running on Linux. It’s a member of the Linux Foundation. And it’s even built its own Linux Distro – <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SteamOS</a> – that will power multiple game consoles shipping in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If successful in the market, and there's little reason to think they won't be at least moderately successful at this point, this could have a huge impact on the Linux gaming scene. The largest we've ever seen. You know Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo (and just about everyone else) will be watching very closely what Valve does with SteamOS in 2014. </span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Via : <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/slideshow/detail/132493/10-Linux-distros-to-keep-an-eye-on-in-2014?source=cwfb#slide12" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Computerworld</a></span></i></div>
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