Category: Windows 8 Applications
Today’s featured Windows 8.1 app is from Kdan Mobile, a leading mobile application developer. Their company has developed an iPad, iPhone, and Mac-specific software application, Animation Desk, which focuses …
Windows 8 is slowly and steadily getting key mobile apps left and right, with several large companies and services starting to port their solutions to Microsoft’s flagship operating platform. …
Finally! The Windows 8 VLC player app is coming along rather nicely. The beta version of the app is said to be offered to Kickstarter backers sometimes this month. …
Guess what? The newest version of 3DMark benchmark software that was being developed for Windows 8 is delayed once more. And this time the developer is giving no timeline …
Add an Account Summon the Settings Charm to add an account, and click on “Add an Account”. It will list the service providers that Calendar app currently supports. Select …
How to Launch It Invoke the Start Screen by hitting Windows Key. Search for the “Calendar” app tile. Clicking it will launch the app. OR As an alternative, type …
Launch the Mail app from the Start Screen. Summon the Settings Charm to add a mail account through Charms Bar, or pressing “Win+I” key combo. Click on “Add an …
Welcome Screen Apart from the wallpaper-sized image, the welcome screen has 2 sections. Featured Destinations – It lists cities all over the world that are worthy as travel destinations. …
How to Launch It Invoke the Start Screen by hitting Windows Key. Search for the “Travel” app tile. Clicking it will launch the app. OR As an alternative, type …
Welcome Screen The welcome screen displays a big image, embedded with a related news headline, and not related stock market indices. Click on the headline to read the details. …
How to Launch It Invoke the Start Screen by hitting Windows Key. Search for the “Finance” app tile. Clicking it will launch the app. OR As an alternative, type …
Add an Account Summon the Settings Charm to add a mail account, and click on “Add an Account”. It will list the service providers that Mail app currently supports. …
How to Launch It Invoke the Start Screen by hitting Windows Key. Search for the “Mail” app tile. Clicking it will launch the app. OR As an alternative, type …
Windows Live Messenger integration Text, audio and video chatting with friends Multiplayer gameplay Video services to stream videos online Bing search engine Last.fm music streaming Achievement points for completed …
Friends section lists your Xbox and, perhaps, Windows Live Messengers friends. You may initiate a text, voice or video chat with a friend from this section. Game Activity section …
My Music Section This section lists content from the Music Library, as well as the songs that you purchase from the Marketplace. You can filter the music on the …
How to Launch It Invoke the Start Screen by hitting Windows Key. Search for the “Music” app tile. Clicking it will launch the app. OR As an alternative, type …
How to Launch It Invoke the Start Screen by hitting Windows Key. Search for the “Video” app tile. Clicking it will launch the app. OR As an alternative, type …
My Videos Section This section of the app lists content from the Videos Library, as well as the videos (movies and series) that you bought in the Marketplace (provided …
Initialization If it is the first time for the app, then you will be prompted to enter a location. Most probably, you would want to enter your current city …
How to Launch It Invoke the Start Screen by hitting Windows Key. Search for the “Weather” app tile. Clicking it will launch the app. OR As an alternative, …
How to Launch It Invoke the Start Screen by hitting Windows Key. Search for the “People” app tile. Clicking it will launch the app. …
Microsoft account Outlook Mail Hotmail Google Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Connecting to a Service Let us take an example of a Facebook account. …
How to Launch It Invoke the Start Screen by hitting Windows Key. Search for the “Messaging” app tile. Clicking it will launch the app. OR As an alternative, type …
Add an Account Following the design principles of Windows 8 apps, Messaging works in conjunction with the People app. In fact, it gels so well with People app that …
Pictures Library Collecting all your pictures under one roof can be helpful when your pictures are distributed over several partitions or hard disks. The Pictures library can become that …
Categories The main page of the app lists all the main categories, like Games, News and Weather, Photo, Music & Video, Sports, Education, etc. Each category provides a quick …
Download I couldn’t find any download link on Apple’s website. The recommended option for Mac computers is to obtain the update via Apple’s Software Update center. That, however, doesn’t …
Store App Microsoft has provided Store app in order to access Windows Store. Store app follows the suit of Metro interface, and gives a very clean and easy to …
How to Launch It Invoke the Start Screen by hitting Windows Key. Search for the “Camera” app tile. Clicking it will launch the app. OR As an alternative, type …
