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We just got our hands on the Windows Phone 7 during an interview at GDC , and given our unnatural obsession with bolstering our online notoriety, the most prevalent question in our mind was: just how many Gamerscore points can we crank outta this thing? The answer: A beefy 200 Gamerscore points per game, which will be added to ..Read More

Windows: Kiwi is a free utility that monitors any application and springs into action when that application meets any user-defined criteria within a set of basic rules—like restarting an application or email you when it’s memory use exceeds a pre-defined level. More »

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There is finally some weighty news about the Windows 7 phone operating system that’s likely to be announced in the not-so-far future. It seems the Microsoft have done their part to accelerate the 3D APIs in the series. There will be integration of Visual Studio 2010 and buffered audio support. Thanks to the XNA Game Studio 4.0 will help ..Read More

Windows 7: Hailing from the camp of “software that does exactly what its name implies”, Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer fine-tunes the size, spacing, and margins of your Windows 7 Superbar icons. If you’re unhappy with the size and spacing of application and folder thumbnails on your Superbar (less enthusiastically dubbed the taskbar in some circles), Windows 7 Taskbar ..Read More

Apple subsidiary FileMaker has released version 11 of its flagship FileMaker Pro database. The updated software purports to make building and maintaining databases even easier, while acknowledging that many users are accustomed to using spreadsheets for database purposes by including pivot table-like reporting and Excel-like charting features. FileMaker Pro Server has also been updated, dropping the simultaneous client access ..Read More

Curse the fact (again) I don’t live in Japan! Akihabara News has greased their mitts all over Hanwa’s dongle , which upgrades the audio on your laptop to that of DTS surround sound sensation. After admitting they were—understandably—skeptical about what the dongle would do to a laptop’s audio, the Windows-only peripheral comes with DTS headphones, an installation CD and ..Read More

Whether you’ve switched to OS X but still occasionally need Windows, you want to play Windows-only games, or whatever, Mac users have several strong options for running Windows. Gizmodo breaks down how to choose the right tool for the job. The post examines three popular virtualization tools for the job: VMware Fusion, Parallels, and VirtualBox (the last is the ..Read More

Whether you’ve switched to OS X but still occasionally need Windows, you want to play Windows-only games, or whatever, Mac users have several strong options for running Windows. Gizmodo breaks down how to choose the right tool for the job. The post examines three popular virtualization tools for the job: VMware Fusion, Parallels, and VirtualBox (the last is the ..Read More

Windows only: Free application Tableau Public creates beautiful visualizations from your data and lets you publish them to the web, where uses can interact with your charts and graphs with live updates. The video above provides a great overview of how the tool works. Essentially, you import your data into the desktop Windows application, then play around with different ..Read More

A company called JOOS has unveiled a new solar charger that will work with the iPhone called the JOOS Orange . The charger has a 5400mAh battery and claims to be able to deliver up to 30 times more power than other solar chargers on the market. SlashGear has put up a video unboxing of the HTC Legend . ..Read More