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In Windows 8, we wanted to make it really simple for developers to create Windows Store apps in multiple languages to reach more markets.The translation editor in the Multilingual App Toolkit allows you to manage and translate your app either manually or using the integrated Microsoft Translation…

As we get closer to the launch of Windows Phone 7, thousands of developers are beavering away to create apps for the platform. Once which has excited me the most is My Mediacenter Remote – a remote control app for Windows 7 Media Center. The app allows you to control Windows Media Center from the…

From Enterprise Mobile, there comes an application for Windows Mobile users that allows you to troubleshoot network connections right from your Windows Mobile device. The app is called the Windows Mobile IP Utility and it lets you run the following commands: ping, trace route, ping sweep (ping a…

Earlier this month, AOL released their first custom-made IM application for Windows Mobile phones (versions 5 and 6). The application, AIM for Windows Mobile, lets you IM your friends, update your AIM status, manage your buddy list, insert emoticons into your updates, and more. In a variation on…

This weekend, I decided to look for an alternative to Windows Explorer. Although Windows Explorer gets the job done, there’s just a lot that it doesn’t do that I wish it would, and frankly, I miss XP’s version. Well, now, I have it back and then some! That’s one of the great things about…

On Tuesday, mobile phone app Dashwirereleased Dashwire 2.0, a much improved version of their mobile phone backup and sync service. With Dashwire 2.0, you can backup your phone’s content – like photos, videos, text messages, ringtones, bookmarks, speed dials, contacts, and call logs – to Dashwire’s…

We’ve heard that Windows 7 will bring us a kinder, gentler version of Vista’s User Account Control (UAC), a security service which pops up windows asking for permission when you try run .exe files, make system changes, access restricted files, or perform other actions that could impact your…

Have you been eying the new Windows 7 features with envy? Well, now you can get at least one of them on your Vista computer: Aero Shake. Over at LifeHacker, they’ve released an app that lets you shake your active window to minimize all the other open windows, just like in Windows 7. Shake again,…

Gestures are getting hot, are they not? Lately, I’ve noticed a bunch of apps that let you use mouse gestures to execute predefined commands or actions. But this is hardly a new trend…apps like StrokeIt, the Windows-only global mouse gestures app were getting attention as far back as spring 2007. So…

Evernote, the popular cross-platform note-taking service, recently updated their Windows Mobile application to include several new improvements. The most notable of these is speed – uploading text notes, photos, and audio is much faster than before. The new version also includes a new, simplified…