Apps

Weibo – or Sina Weibo, as it officially calls itself – is one of China’s most popular social media platforms; often compared to Twitter, the platform serves hundreds of millions of users across China. Weibo’s launch on the Xbox is significant, not only because of its size and popularity but …

The Desktop App Converter has become a treasured tool for developers who want to bring their existing apps to the Windows Stored without much fuss. Adobe has cherished its benefits, and so have quite a few smaller players like Evernote, join.me, Arduino, etc. Slack wants in; the folks at Slack …

Upgrading a mobile device can often prove to be difficult – migrating all the data and logs isn’t an easy task; Android usually handles most of it, but there’s plenty of information left behind. The problem gets worse if the upgrade involves not only a new device but also a …

It can be quite difficult to juggle between a balance of security and convenience; longer and stronger passwords are secure, but harder to remember; a four-digit PIN is somewhat secure but adds another step between you and your work. Yubico has been making its Yubikey authentication devices for a while …

Just last week, the folks at Dropbox dropped an update for the Dropbox app on Windows Store, and added support for Xbox One; the Xbox One support also came with a custom built-for-Xbox design that utilized the screen real estate a TV beholds upon them. Today, the Dropbox team has …

Microsoft has started rolling out an update for the OneDrive app on iOS; the update adds quite a lot of general improvements to the app, along with a few major features. The OneDrive app can be a lot more than just something to access your files on the cloud – …

Microsoft isn’t always very good at keeping feature parity between the several versions of its software – especially now that they are publishing most of their software on multiple platforms including Android and iOS. It is often noticed – quite ironically – that the Windows 10 Mobile version of certain …

Amazon is making some big moves in the streaming industry right now – the service just launched in about 240 countries around the world, a big jump from the five countries it was available in just two days ago; though, not all is well – there is some sprinkling of …

In early November, Microsoft officially announced Microsoft Teams – Microsoft’s attempt at competing with the dominance of Slack. Microsoft Teams was announced at an Office event, but doesn’t share the Office branding; it’s also developed by the Skype team, but doesn’t share Skype’s branding either. Slack didn’t seem too worried …

The Universal Windows Platform – or UWP, for short – has turned into Microsoft’s go-to app development framework for everything 1st-party; almost every new application from Microsoft is being built in UWP, while the old ones are being ported. There’s even a UWP file explorer in the works; the confidence …