applications

ISV Discovery Day BelgiumSession : (Re-)Architecting Cloud applications on the Windows Azure PlatformSpeaker : Kurt Claeys, Technical Sales Professional Azureat Microsoft EMEA

Whilst reinstalling Windows on a PC may not be a task we cherish, I’m sure many of us who like to live on the sharper edge of the PC world are well used to installing the OS, drivers and Windows Updates, after which comes the tedious task of downloading and installing our favourite apps. Short of a…

CCleaner is one of the most popular programs for cleaning up the extra files and leftover data on your PC. Although I haven’t had much use for it on my more modern PCs (Windows 7 apparently does its own maintenance regularly) I know I’ve used it in the past to restore friends’ older and somewhat…

The (unofficial) gallery of Windows Media Center applications, MadeForMediaCenter.com is like an app store just for Media Center users. Now that gallery is available as a Media Center addin so you can download new apps to Media Center without having to leave the Media Center user interface. To get…

Sobees’ desktop Twitter client, a native app built using .NET technology, has just been updated with a fresh design and built-in real-time search, reports TechCrunch. The updated application looks a lot like competitor TweetDeck with its columnar interface, but it offers a few differences. Llike…

It’s been awhile since I last looked at Launchy, the open source application launcher for Windows. With this application, you use keyboard shortcuts to launch applications, files, folders, bookmarks and more with just a few keystrokes. Once installed, it hides in your system tray waiting for its…

“Local Lens” is one of Bing’s cooler features that displays hyperlocal content from various blogs on Bing Maps. Once enabled, snippets from blog posts appear in the sidebar when viewing a specific locale in the maps service. The feature, introduced late last year, is one of Bing’s many…

The concept behind AllMyApps.com is genius. This website lets you create a list of all the applications you already have installed on your computer and saves that list so that you can re-install those apps at any time with just one click. If you’re formatting your PC in order to install a new OS,…

Here’s a handy little app that I just stumbled across thanks to MakeUseOf: CNET’s TechTracker. If you use a lot of desktop applications, you may have trouble keeping up with which programs are in need of an update. Not only do updates deliver critical bug fixes and security patches, they often…

Yammer, the “Twitter for the Enterprise” application that brought microblogging status updates to company employees behind the firewall, recently announced the availability of two new Yammer plugins. The plugins came to be thanks to a partnership between Microsoft and Yammer via the BizSpark…