Although some game vendors have been slow to adapt to mobile/web-based gaming, Electronic Arts - known commonly as simply EA - has been extremely busy in its quest to stay relevant in a market as fiercely-contested as it has ever been.
It's a natural trait within humanity that some people take better to change than others. As trivial as it may seem in the grand scheme of life's priorities, not everybody testing out Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Preview has managed to get past the lack of a Start button / Orb.
Of all the popular titles to have forged a significant following on mobile devices over the last couple of years, Angry Birds is far and away the leader.
OS X and Windows are two quite different operating systems with very opposite agendas. Similarly however, both are currently nearing a stage of mass transition, with elements and influences from mobile devices playing a key part in the respective futures of each.
As far as download numbers are concerned, the Consumer Preview of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 has gone down pretty well - building on the popularity of the early Alpha release with over a million downloads in its 24 hours.
Personally speaking, I am not a big Facebook fan, but there are millions upon millions of people all over the globe who can't go a day without logging into the world’s largest social network and checking out what kind of sandwich their old school friend had for lunch, or poking their best friend in an act of online bullying. Although already wildly popular, the whole Facebook experience may be a distinctly better one for a large portion of users if they didn't need to be constantly signed into the web service with a browser running all the time.
VLC is, without a shadow of doubt, one of the most popular media players available. Combining a sleek, simplistic interface with the ability to play seemingly any audio or video file, its underbelly of rich features have seen the application become an essential utility to the masses.
Aside from being a great music player, iTunes is an integral part of an iPhone, iPad and iPod user's digital life. This is all well and good if you're on iOS of course, allowing the most harmonious of synchronization; and as of iOS 5 - wirelessly so - providing your iDevice is Wi-Fi compatible.
With the launch of Microsoft's newest operating system, Windows 8, nearing ever closer, it looks as though the Redmond company is looking to provide a platform which could prove to be a lot friendlier to developers and small software publishers.
Dropbox is amongst the most popular file-hosting and file-syncing services and for good reason: it syncs files seamlessly, works on a bunch of platforms and, in addition to the free 2GB space, the company gives away free space to users every once in a while.
