Do you like inspirational, amazing, educational, awe-inspiring, cool, funny or just plain awesome videos? Then you'll love to know that you can watch your favorite videos everywhere, anytime and that for free, without ads and in HQ! Meet the Vimeo Windows...

Hi all, This week I like to introduce an app I use nearly every day. Many of you already know LEO Dictionary from the website http://dict.leo.org/ . In my eyes it's one of the best online dictionaries and I'm really happy that they now have an app...

Two days ago we saw the unveiling of the Surface Tablet , a really awesome product I’d like to get my hands on as soon as possible. Of course it will be running Windows 8 with Metro Style Apps. Since this is a whole new perspective on building rich...

...because we love mountains! Today I will present you another interesting augmented reality app called TouchMountain that makes great use ufe the windows metro design. We got the input from two students Chris and André that worked on this app...

Since I have a Windows Phone 7 that was the app I was waiting for. Photosynth is a 360° panorama photo tool … that works ! Before I switched to the Nokia Lumia 800 I had the LG E700. The cool thing about that phone was it has a homegrown...

Big fan of 9gag or of memes in general? I know, I know, who isn’t these days? Well if you do like them and you also enjoy having a few laughs with your friends, have I found the app for you! It’s called Funny Faces and it is an augmented...

Hi there Today I’ll write about an incredible cool puzzle game I found out there in the marketplace, “Feed me Oil”. It’s fun to play and if you really like it you can purchase it for only CHF 1.29. An oil pipeline is broken...

Let me introduce you this week the famous application Spotify, that recently announced a new mobile application for Windows Phone 7 users, more than a year after the music streaming service first said it would bring its service to Microsoft's newest mobile...

It has happened to me on multiple occasions that I was in a heated debate with a friend about a movie we have seen recently and whether a certain actor played in it or not. Since me and most of my friends are movie and/or tv series aficionados, discussions...

This week's app is a "must have" on Windows Phone : "Translator" by Microsoft. By now you must already think that it is one more boring translation app... Hold on... you might be surprised! When is it that the use of the a translation app is the most...

Today I like to present you another communication app called WhatsApp. I'm pretty sure some of you already know this app, but maybe didn't know that it also exist for Windows Phone 7. So what can you do with this app. WhatsApp is a free messenger working...

Hi all! Some times ago, there was a really cool conference organized by Microsoft Switzerland called Shape . In this blog I like to give you some impressions about this event, because in my eyes every student who likes to code for Windows Phone 7 or...

Let me stay again in the big world of games in this App Of the Week's blog post. Last time, Benjamin presented you with the fact that smartphone games as well can shine with very expensive and detailed graphics. In my case I think graphics are sometimes...

I’m not using often my phone to play games, because I know their potential of drawing me in and keep me locked down for hours. Usually on the Xbox or PC it’s not that problematic but sitting in a tramway and driving around in circles in the...

For a long time now I was in search of a good app where I could find new and cool music. Last week, while I was running around at the Shape conference to show and give people there the opportunity to play with the Windows 8 Slate , i had a revelation...

Hi there This week I’ll write about Endomondo . When I started with my first workouts last year I used an app for my WP7 to record them. I was able to upload the data and to analyze it, but only the plain data for speed and distance...

The YMITS competition is over and during the first wave of phone distribution a lot of you might had contact with the local Microsoft Lead Student Partners. Who we are and what we are doing is the topic of this post. Eight Lead-Student-Partners are working...

Hello to all you contest lovers! Microsoft Switzerland has organized another easy-to-participate-to contest contest via Microsoft Schweiz Facebook account. All you have to do is to “Like” and enroll to competition on the on the Microsoft...

We are looking for students. The job description is in German and French: AmbassadorIn für "World of Windows" Studieren war noch nie so einfach. Die umfangreiche Produktpalette von Microsoft und Windows unterstützen Dich bei Deinem Studium...

iSpeak Looking for a speech Translator application that can translate Klingon language? If you want to just translate the other major languages in use today then we might have an app for you called iSpeak Speech Translator . iSpeak allows...

In seven days the SHAPE Conference in Zürich will open its doors. It’s all around APPs. The key aspect of the Conference is how to develop apps and games for Windows 8, Windows Phone and Windows Azure – see the agenda here . Also there...

What is better than a free app? A free really great app! This week’s review is about an app that I love and that come for free and even preinstalled on every Windows Phone 7: Office. Sounds “déjà vu” but this app really...

Don't we all know the feeling of being overwhelmed by too many things to do? Be it in personal or professional life, an ever increasing flood of tasks seems to be the norm. Managing these tasks and their respective deadlines can get painful quite fast...

I think a lot of us were waiting long time for this and now we have it – Skype for Windows Phone 7! It is still in beta version, but as I need it a lot, I just installed it on my WP7 to test it. In this blog I like to give you some first impressions...

Since it is natural for everybody to control his television or hi-fi system with a remote, one of the questions that every user of a computer wondered about at least once in his life is: "Why is there no remote control for my PC?". I was one of these...