By default, this dialog doesn't just list your installed apps — it also shows «suggested»
apps Windows wants you to install from the Store.
Not exact matches
It's no surprise that the
apps that you'll see on anyone's Android, iOS and
Windows Phone devices look, feel and act the way you
want them to.
That's key for classrooms, Myerson says, where teachers
want control over what
apps their students can use, and students
want something with great battery life and a selection of familiar
Windows software.
Wish sets itself apart from Amazon by focusing on discovery and treating its
app more like a shopping mall that displays products the customer might
want in a
window instead of requiring people to type in a search query like on Amazon.
Facebook will display a
window confirming they
want to remove all the
apps selected before it deletes them.
You can't make a FaceTime call to an Android or
Windows Phone, for example, or run the Apple Maps
app on those devices (not that you'd
want to).
If I drove with the air off and the
windows down, I have to remember to turn it back to automatic 68 degrees when I park if I
want to use the
app.
Barnes and Noble
wants their users to be entirely dependent on their Nook hardware and their line of Nook
apps for Android, iOS or
Windows 8 to read your e-books.
I would say the Stream 7 does well if you
want to install the Native
Windows Apps, there are all small in size and take up little to no memory.
You can download the free Kindle
app to your PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, Android, or
Windows phone and read all the ebooks you
want.
It's entirely possible that with the new look and feel of
Windows 8, Microsoft will
want to bring in e-book support with a custom reader
app.
With the free
Windows 10 Pro upgrade, buyers can install whatever
apps and programs they
want.
Microsoft is working on a major
Windows 8
app that will be a boon for people with RT Tablets and
wanting major functionality for eBooks and PDF Files.
Not true at all, you can buy the amazon books which usually have the best price, but if you
want to buy them somewhere else (ibooks or even kobostore) or get them for free on project gutenberg or any other source all you have to do is to load them on an
app called calibre (available for mac, linux and
windows) which will automatically convert the books into the more appropriate format and send them by email to amazon cloud which will make them appear almost imediatly in your kindle.
Microsoft also
wanted to integrate the Nook reading
app into all
Windows 8 devices and provide a valid eBook experience on
Windows phones.
Viewsonic says the device is designed for business users who work in the
Windows Operating but also
want ability to switch to entertainment and personal
apps in Android.
The ability to run
Windows apps is its only good point and it looks good in theory, but you really do need to use the keyboard and trackpad to do it — so why would anyone
wanting to run
Windows applications buy this kludged assortment of clip together bits with a second rate keyboard and trackpad, low battery life, and semi-stable parts as opposed to a proper ultrabook laptop?
Microsoft said in a statement «As part of our effort to make Office even more intuitive and easier to use, we
want to make pen and ink a primary input across Office
apps. While digital inking tools have been available in Office on
Windows PCs since 2007, today we are releasing new inking tools in Office for iPad and iPad Pro to make it easy to use your finger or Apple Pencil to work on documents, presentations, spreadsheets and notes.»
I
want the Kindle Fire and I ain't old, I am 16 and have a
Windows Phone and Android device and an iPad, I don't
want it because other devices are too confusing, but because I am very involved in the Amazon ecosystem, I purchase stuff from there all the time, and they have all the media I need (News, Mags, Books, Music, Movies, TV,
Apps) So it's not because I'm to old or stupid to understand a normal android tablet, it's because this is what fits alot of peoples needs, for a great price.
For the ultra-technical person who
wants to know how to create
Windows 8
apps, here's a free eBook on programming and developing
apps on
Windows 8.
When docked, there's a sort - of
Windows - style Start menu offering recent
apps, although by the time you've tapped the button, you might as well have opened the Android
apps tray to select what you
want.
They also know that we don't
want to open up a special
app to do a little doodling, so their latest
app offering called WriteIt taps into the accessibility layer in
Windows 8 in such a way that you can enter handwriting into any text field (whether it is on a webpage or an input field inside any other piece of software).
If you
want to install additional programs, you may find them in the
Windows Store, which is growing but still missing a number of key
apps.
With the new Pen
Window, you can even run a third app on the screen by drawing a shape on the screen and then selecting the app you want to run in that window, such as the calcu
Window, you can even run a third
app on the screen by drawing a shape on the screen and then selecting the
app you
want to run in that
window, such as the calcu
window, such as the calculator.
A video series by Bob Tabor that later converted into text and helpful for absolute beginners who
want to create
Windows 8.1
apps.
As this is
Windows 8.1 you can install pretty much anything you should
want, although many
apps are now tailored for directly through the
Windows Store, such as VLC player.
You can long press the photo with a pen in the browser
window, select Copy and then tap Clipboard in the S Note
app and choose the image you
want to drop into your note.
If you
want to get Android up and running on a
Windows laptop or desktop, there are several different ways to go about it — but few are as straightforward as Nox
App Player.
It's not a bad idea if you
want the
Windows 7 tablet features like running PC
apps and handwriting recognition now and Fujitsu's Stylistic Q550 combines the power of
Windows with a touch screen and stylus... Read more
It's a widely - held belief that developer participation in a mobile ecosystem is what ultimately makes or breaks it (which is why Microsoft has been incentivizing developers on
Windows Phone in a variety of ways), but this takes it to a new level: developers don't
want to spend the time to port their
apps or write new ones if they won't see a return on investment, and a guaranteed payout of $ 10,000 is an interesting attempt to alleviate those concerns.
If you've always
wanted to run all your favorite Android
apps on your
Windows computer, you're in luck.
Apple, Google, and Microsoft
want to sell you a device (in this case, a tablet) that is tightly linked to their own content store (Apple Store, Google Play,
Windows Live), and that displays the books, music,
apps, and movies bought at the store beautifully and seamlessly.
Speaking of
apps, if you
want to quickly hop into another one without going to the home screen, you can hit the menu button to bring up a
window of running
apps.
A lot of them only allow you to write within a very constrained
window where you can fit one or two words before the
app wants to append those words to a separate image of the notes that it renders in a
window above the writing area.
Purchase ebooks, music and now movies from Amazon, store them in Amazon's cloud, play them on Amazon's device and, with a nod to Microsoft's
Windows strategy, if you don't
want to buy a Kindle you can use Amazon's Kindle
app on your iPad.
Today, Amazon announced that Kindle
apps will also be tailored specifically for Android and
Windows based tablets to enable customers to access the Kindle Store, and with it the largest selection of the books people
want to read.
That Nook would even
want to stop developing its
Windows 8
app suggests it wasn't bringing in as much business as the Nook
apps for other platforms, such as Android and iOS (even though the
apps themselves are free).
The first thing that you'll
want to do is download the FIFA 15 Companion
App, which is available on iOS, Android, and
Windows Phone.
This makes a ton of sense for folks who use their
Windows PCs as living room entertainment machines, and
want a more intuitive UI for browsing
apps and movies.
Taking naming queues from a similar update on the 360 that brought with it radical changes to the system, the New Xbox One Experience will bring a revised dashboard intended to make it faster for gamers to get to what they
want, integration of
Windows 10 (and support of some universal
apps eventually I'd imagine) and backward compatibility of a select number of Xbox 360 titles (over 100).
The in the last menu, the
apps I owned and
wanted were randomly moved around and pushed away by
apps I didn't
want, and now you do the same, and at the same time squeeze everything at the top of the
window, while the rest of the screen is for ads?!»
Actually, that distinction belongs to Metroid Prime 4, but nevertheless, it's a nifty
app targeted specifically at Xbox One (including Xbox One S and Xbox One X) and
Windows 10 users who
want to up their game with 360 - degree surround sound on the cheap.
Just select the item you
want the password for, copy the password, and paste it into the
app or browser
window.
As long as the OneDrive desktop
app for
Windows is installed on a PC, Fetch enables users to access files that have not been saved to OneDrive so long as the PC you
want to access is on and running OneDrive with Fetch enabled.
If you
want to access your LIC account from mobile then download
Windows app.
Burying the current computer's file browser as a secondary option in a cloud storage
app shows just how serious Microsoft is about SkyDrive and cloud storage — they
want to drag
Windows users along to a new, connected future where their important files are stored in the cloud.
The integration of the new «universal
apps» into the desktop means you might actually
want to use them alongside your traditional
Windows desktop programs.
However,
Windows Media Player is not available for
Windows RT — Microsoft
wants you to use the new Music and Videos
apps in the Modern interface instead.
If you
want more details, you can open up the companion
app (available for iOS, Android, and
Windows Phone) and see a full overview of each metric.
And if you need to do something in the
app but don't
want to close the QSlide
window, you can make it semi-transparent while you interact with the
app behind it.