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So long as you can control yourself during a Steam sale these apps should give you endless joy, without hurting your wallet. Apparently in the old days music fans used to go into "shops" and buy music on "records". How quaint! These days anyone with the Spotify app can access pretty much every piece of music ever recorded. You can use its recommendation engine and your friends' tastes to find brand new artists and unjustly overlooked oldies alike.
The only downside to the free version is the odd advert. Skype for Windows 8 is available in two forms: as a dedicated modern app, which you can access via the Windows Store, and as a downloadable version for those of us who prefer to spend our time using the Windows Desktop. Both versions offer free Skype-to-Skype messaging, audio and video calling, and you can also use the app to make low-cost calls to landlines and mobiles anywhere on Earth.
Valve Software's mighty gaming platform is a fantastic thing. Steam gives you access to stacks of games as well as mods fan-made modifications that change the way a game plays, or in some cases add whole new levels and downloadable content for games you've already got in your library.
You can use it in the living room too thanks to the Big Picture mode, which is designed for gaming on your big-screen TV. VLC is a media player that can play pretty much anything and it can do it without having to download a whole bunch of codec packs for audio and video.
Ad-free, spyware-free and completely free, it can take any kind of media, change it and quite possibly put a donk on it too. There are two versions: the familiar VLC app for the desktop, and a modern version. The latter one is still in beta, so you can expect the odd crash, but the desktop version is rock solid and a must-have for anyone who wants to play a range of media files.
It's particularly handy for anybody who needs to write code or sites and test them on lots of different systems, or for anyone who'd like to learn, fiddle with and generally explorer other OSes. What started as a replacement for the famous and until fairly recently famously rubbish Windows Paint application has become something much more interesting and useful: paint. The fourth major version has just reached the beta stage and is a very powerful and user-friendly image creation and editing tool.
It's a genuine alternative to expensive pro-level image editors. That's because its owner, Google, might benefit from your models.
It isn't just for buildings, either. Opening the Store. Categories in the Windows Store. Navigating to categories in the Store. Clicking an app to see more information. The app information page. Clicking an app. Clicking the Install button. An app installation notification. The installed app on the Start screen. Downloading a demo of an app. Installing a Desktop app from the Store.
Uninstalling an app. Installing apps to another Windows 8 device. Checking for app updates. Clicking Updates. Installing updates. The completed updates. Updates on the tile.
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