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There is, of course, a flood of Windows Phone apps leaving the Windows Store, but some of them are more high profile than others. One such as is the New York Times app for Windows Phone, more because of the profile of the augustinstitution than the popularity of the app itself.In a post on their website, the newspaper aounced that it is ending support for their app this month, suggesting Windows Phone users use the website instead.They write:Begiing in December 2017, The New York Times will no longer support the NYTimes app for Windows Phone. You can access a more complete New York Times experience through our mobile site (mobile.nytimes.com) from your phone’s browser.The mobile website incl...

Oh dear. Apple appears to be in the habit of leaving their users exposed to whichever villainous person happens to pass by.Last time we describedApple’s approach to security to be the same as leaving your door unlocked in a quiet area – OK until some-onenefarious comes along and actually tries the door.Little did we know a week later Apple would actually be leaving physical doors open to hackers.9to5Mac reports that Apple’s Homekit has a vulnerability which would allow hackers to unlock your smart-lock-equipped doors, switch your thermostat on and off or mess in any way they wanted with your smart home.The vulnerability has not been described and has been patched via a server-side update whi...

During the press event at IFA 2017, ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today revealed the brand-new ROG Chimera gaming laptop with an exceptional display. It is the first gaming laptop in the world to feature an17.3-inch Full HD wide-view display with G-SYNC technology for a 144Hz refresh rate and 7ms response time. It is powered by the factory-overclocked Intel Core i7-7820HK processor with up to 4....

Dead Rising 4 was one of the last big Xbox One releases of 2016, coming out all the way back on December 6th. Despite not being part of Xbox Play Anywhere it also featured a PC version that was temporarily exclusive to the Windows Store, with the exclusivity deal for PC originally plaed to last ju...

Despite the presence of APIs to back up app data to OneDrive some apps, especially games, do not do a good job of backing and restoring their state after a hard reset. If you have an interop unlocked windows 10 mobile handset (possible for most Windows Phones except for the new x50 range) there is now an app on XDA-Developers which lets you back up the isolated storage for each app on an app by app basis. App Data Manage Tool is a tool for Windows 10 Mobile devices to create backups from current state of apps and games, and restore them at a later time, or to another phone, or to your phone after a factory reset. This tool helps you to create local backup archives from any of your apps and g...

Four years ago, at the launch of Windows 8 in October 2012, the New York Times proudly launched their Windows 8 app which allowed subscribers to enjoy the full breadth of content available to them from an optimized app,including full articles, videos, photos, slideshows and blogs. The apps featured tiles, which allow users to pin any of the sections and blogs to quickly see the latest headlines at a glance, offline reading and many more features. At the timeDenise Warren, general manager, NYTimes.com and senior vice president and chief advertising officer, The New York Times Media Group, said: “The introduction of these two apps for Windows 8 demonstrates our commitment to bringing our joual...

On the eve of launch of the latest generation of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 we are reminded once again of Microsoft’s failed Courier project, which was one of the first to propose a pen-first operating system. At the time the project was cancelled as Microsoft was not convinced that the user interface was productivity-focussed enough, and it may therefore still be a poor fit for today’s Microsoft. As a reminder to our readers, see the Courier concept video below. [embedded content] The pen however remains a powerful user interface paradigm, particularly when combined with touch, allowing both high precision work and for creative flair, and doubling the number of modes of interaction a user ca...

Microsoft’s Surface Book are well designed, powerful machine with quite a few accessories to expand their functionality. The Surface Dock, normally $199, allows you to hook your Surface up to different peripherals and effectively tu it into a desktop. Microsoft is now offering a deal where buyers can get the Dock for only $99 if they purchase a Surface Book. The Surface Dock adds 2 Mini DisplayPorts, 1 Gigabit Etheet port, 4 USB 3.0 ports and 1 Audio out portand augments theSurface Book with an Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage model, which itself is also on sale for $150 off its normal price, from $1,699 down to $1,549. The deal is available till the 18th June. Grab i...

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Are you ready for your ultimate adventure? Prepare yourself to face the best sidescrolling action platformer you have ever met. We are talking about BADLAND, a game who made 20 million players fall in love. Your jouey will take place in a forest full of inhabitants, trees, flowers and… traps and obstacles! Will you be alone? You can choose to play with up to 4 friends thanks to the local multiplayer it features: you can cooperate with them or challenge them to see who will survive. Oh… we forgot to mention that usually it costs $ 3.99, but… not today. We are proud to aounce that you can have it for free for the next 24 hours on your Windows Phone, thanks to the guys from myAppFree! So what a...