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Air Soccer Fever Updates in the Store with lots of Enhancements.

Our friends from Dangling Concepts has also released an enormous update to their Air Soccer Fever App in the Store, bringing a lot of enhancements to the App, and adding Portrait and Snapped mode play. Now you can play your buddy in Brazil while you keep an eye on your Stocks Tickers . Or startContinue reading “Air Soccer Fever Updates in the Store with lots of Enhancements.”

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Freda–That Awesome eBook Reader Updates in the Store

Turnipsoft has done it again, they’ve made Freda even more user friendly by releasing a barrage of Updates to the App, bringing it to version 3.2. This version now has almost everything the users were complaining about in the Reviews: Bookmarks, Annotations, Delete books from bookshelf etc etc etc. Just see this Release Notes andContinue reading “Freda–That Awesome eBook Reader Updates in the Store”

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SAP GRC Policy Survey Business App in the Store

SAP has started releasing its Business Apps into the Windows Store. Microsoft mentioned partnership with SAP during the launch of Windows 8 as an example of its Business Enterprise push for the new Windows Platform. The series released by SAP are more of information sources apps to aid your workforce. This current one is oneContinue reading “SAP GRC Policy Survey Business App in the Store”

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The Official ESPN App is now in the Store

Finally, the long awaited ESPN App arrives in the Store! It took a long time coming since Microsoft demoed the App during the launch of Windows 8, and I have been keeping an eye on it since for its debut. As you can see it has already garnered 45 ratings at almost 5 Stars. TheContinue reading “The Official ESPN App is now in the Store”

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Why Metro Apps on a Desktop or Laptop

If you have been following McAkins Online, you know that we are dedicated to bringing to you the latest from the Windows Store and are here to feature some great Metro Style (aka Windows Store) apps for you to check out. But the question remains is why should you care about Metro Style apps, especiallyContinue reading “Why Metro Apps on a Desktop or Laptop”

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Official Holiday Inn App is in the Store

If you are a regular guest of the Holiday Inn hotel chain and you own a Windows 8 device, you are in for a treat with this app. To celebrate their 60 years anniversary, Holiday Inn has just released this Windows 8 app. You can find and book a room worldwide via this app. YouContinue reading “Official Holiday Inn App is in the Store”

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Network Usage App – Keep an eye on your 3G/LTE Data

Here is a really nice Tool to help keep an eye on your 3G/LTE Data consumption. The App presents your data consumption in a graph per month showing your download and upload totals. This way you can make sure you don’t overuse you data quota from your ISP. You can also see the details ofContinue reading “Network Usage App – Keep an eye on your 3G/LTE Data”

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Valve, If You Don’t Integrate Steam with Metro, Someone Else Will…And They Have!

Valve and its founder Gabe Newell doesn’t really like Windows 8 and its “metro” environment. As such, we didn’t expect Valve to integrate its flagship product, Steam, with Windows 8. Well, good news because an elegant solution arrived sooner than we would have thought. The community stepped up and created a Windows Store app thatContinue reading “Valve, If You Don’t Integrate Steam with Metro, Someone Else Will…And They Have!”

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Total App Count 2012-11-25

[Data per 2012-11-25] Current Total App Count in Windows 8 RTM Store = 13783 App Stats: App Class: Total Paid Apps: — Total Free Apps: — Total Desktop Apps: — Localization: Total English Apps: — Total Localized Apps: — Accessibility: Accessible Apps: — Non-Accessible Apps: — Store News: Hello All, welcome to this iteration ofContinue reading “Total App Count 2012-11-25”

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Star Chart – Solar System Explorer Update and a 75% Discount!

Star Chart, a massively popular astronomy app on Windows 8 has another major update, which adds the ability to explore the solar system in a very cool way! It also ads real time planetary positions of Earth and all other planets in our solar system. So, the position of the planets you see when usingContinue reading “Star Chart – Solar System Explorer Update and a 75% Discount!”

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Shark Dash! – Xbox Game for Windows

Screenshots Description Discover the new benchmark for physics puzzle games! Shark Dash is a highly addictive game that takes the physics puzzler to fun new heights with a unique cartoonish style starring funny little bath toys!Sharkee and his merry band of toy sharks were living happily in the bathtub. That is, until a bunch ofContinue reading “Shark Dash! – Xbox Game for Windows”

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Windows 8 Introductory Tutorial

New to Windows 8? Check out this video tutorial I made to help you get started with Windows 8. The video is meant to help you get started, but to truly get used to the new OS, you need to have hands-on time with it. Windows 8 is all about muscle memory.

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YouTube RT – A Must-have App for Music Lovers and Surface Users

If you love listening to YouTube videos in the background, in cases of music or podcasts, for example, then you might have noticed a short-coming in the metro version of IE10 in Windows 8 and Windows RT. If you play YouTube videos or audio from, say, Pandora, and you switch away from IE to anotherContinue reading “YouTube RT – A Must-have App for Music Lovers and Surface Users”

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PrimeTube – The Most Elegant YouTube Player to Date In the Store

Here is another elegant YouTube player in the Store, and this time, I think we’ve got ourselves a winner in PrimeTube. This App supports all YouTube features, that I am worried they get in trouble with Google with this client. I mean, if you have this client, why bother to go to YouTube site anymoreContinue reading “PrimeTube – The Most Elegant YouTube Player to Date In the Store”