Remember BitTorrent? The controversial peer-to-peer file sharing application. Well, things have dramatically changed since those days, and the company is developing new interesting products today. BitTorrent Labs, just released “BitTorrent Sync”, a free application that continues using P2P technology and it can well be your next favorite “remote backup”/”private cloud” solution, you’ve been waiting for. BitTorrent Sync [...]
Stardock ModernMix changes the way we interact with Windows 8 apps by bringing them to the Desktop in the traditional windowed environment. As you may already have experienced the new Windows 8 apps (also often referred to as “Modern apps”, “Windows Store Apps” or “Metro style apps”) only run full-screen or snapped on either side of the [...]
When I heard about BlueStacks back in 2011, it was just amazing for the first time being able to run apps only available for Android in Windows. Now the emulator company from Silicon Valley is back with a new version that is optimized specifically for the recently launched Microsoft Surface Pro, bringing over 750,000 new apps to the [...]
Keeping your tasks organized may just be one of the most difficult things to do, and when it comes to task list manager applications, most of them don’t do a pretty good job. Yeah, you can use a notepad, but how long will it takes before it gets clutter and impossible to manage? This is [...]
StartW8 for Windows 8: Since Microsoft decided to remove for good the Start menu from its operating system, users have looked for ways to re-enable this iconic menu, but because there isn’t a way within Windows 8 to bring it back, many developers took upon themselves to create alternative replacements; now we have an array of Start menus [...]
Windows 8 comes with a default set of colors and patterns to personalize the Start screen and there isn’t an option if anyone want to add their own background images. However that doesn’t mean that people can’t find alternate ways to customize the Windows 8′s Start screen, Decor8 from Stardock does just that. The application allows [...]
USB drives have become a ubiquitous element to store documents to keep them safe or just to have them at our reach on the go. Even though, most of the time we use this type of storage media to have copy of our data in case something goes wrong, you still want to create a [...]
Right Click Enhancer for Windows is a nifty little tool that enables you to add additional items (shortcuts) to the right-click context menu. So it doesn’t matter where the cursor is on the desktop, you can simply right-click and launch apps, websites, or any file and folder location you want, fast and easy. This is [...]
Microsoft Security Essentials, the popular free antivirus among PC users, has now been upgraded to version 4.0. This latest release can be installed in Windows 7 PCs and still holds support for Windows XP and Windows Vista users as well. The MSE 4.0 is ready for download from the Microsoft Download Center web page and [...]
Windows 8 is getting closer to its release date (unofficially this could be in October 2012), and by now millions of people are testing the beta version, which by the way it is the easiest to install, compared to previous releases of the operating system — just download the ISO image, burn it to a [...]