Spotify's premium, paying subscribers can download tracks onto laptops via its desktop app to have songs available later even without connectivity. Joan E. Solsman was CNET's senior media reporter, ...

The Google App for Windows, sadly, isn't a resurrection of the long-dead Google Desktop, but it is an interesting tool that ...

Canonical is adding a new feature to its Ubuntu operating system that will allow desktop users to access popular Internet services without opening a browser window. Instead, a Web page can be accessed ...

Windows 11 customization is fairly limited out of the box, and even more so with Windows 11 making it harder for some apps to operate the way they used to. One thing not many apps to try to do is just ...

Puter is a web service that provides a complete operating system with a desktop and apps that run directly in the browser.

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Besides that, desktop use of the app has been steadily increasing, unlike that of many other web applications these days. When Quip launched in January, 2014, 20 percent of usage happened in Quip’s ...

Google has updated the Chrome Remote Desktop app for Android, ditching the previous native app for a (buggy) new web-based version. Before today, Chrome Remote Desktop – Google’s free service that ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google’s Allo chat app isn’t blowing up the app charts (not that it ever really did), and part of the reason ...

As a part of Google’s effort to kill off Chrome Web Store apps, Google is moving Chrome Remote Desktop to the web. You can now access it through a browser instead ...

Fire up your Start menu or Dock and think carefully for a moment: Out of all your aging desktop apps, how many do you really rely on these days—or even better, how many of them don’t already have very ...

Cubiez is fun to use and will get even better. It’s worth a try. Web apps are great when you’re on your PC, but they require a browser. Mobile apps, on the other ...