App

DigiTweet (Beta) by Digiflare is a beautiful new Twitter desktop application built with WPF and .NET technologies. The software, still under development, provides Windows users with a decent alternative to TweetDeck, an Adobe AIR app (and often a resource hog). In DigiTweet, you have a similar…

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…

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…

If you blog about Windows Mobile, you probably use a utility that lets you grab screenshots of what’s showing on your device’s screen. There are a number of applications that do this, but PocketNow points out what may be one of the more fun options that’s out there. From Extreme Apps, a free utility…

I just saw this over on the Windows Experience blog: a new baseball-themed gadget for the Vista Sidebar. The Fantasy Baseball Gadget lets you check your Fantasy Baseball news, player stats, and create your own roster, and the categories update every 10 minutes. Brandon points out that the gadget…

A new Facebook application called Zine is an online magazine of articles and videos that you can add to your Facebook profile.  You can completely customize the magazine so you only see the topics that are interesting to you, whether that's News, Sports, Entertainment, Lifestyle, or…

I just came across TweetyBot, a new Twitter desktop application for users of Windows XP or Vista. This small app includes a lot of features – even more than my everyday Twitter client, Twhirl. Across the top of TweetyBot are several tabs which allow you to see the usual views – your tweets,…

The Pocketnow blog points us to yet another great application for Windows Mobile users – it’s an app called “WikiPock,” and like you may have guessed, it puts a copy of Wikipedia on your mobile phone. Actually, the application installs to a storage card of about 4 GB, not the phone itself, which is…

In December, we told you about 360Desktop, a new software application for Windows that lets you see your desktop in a 360 degree format. As you open programs and windows, you can spin to a virtual “other side” of your desktop to have more space. Although we were excited for the program back then,…

You may remember hearing about Family.Show – it’s a pretty well-known and well-liked reference application for WPF development that started a couple of years back. The idea was to design a real-world app that could show off the power and beauty of what WPF could do. The application functions…