45 Essential Microsoft Surface three Windows Apps
To hit a lower price-point, Microsoft designed the fresh Microsoft Surface three with an Intel Atom processor and only 2GB of RAM on the lower cost $500 model. Even on the more powerful 4GB model that I bought, software requiring lots of muscle won’t run slickly on the Surface Three.
It’s hard to find many quality apps in the app store on the Surface Trio. We hope Microsoft’s initiative to entice Android and iOS developers by making it effortless to port their apps over to Windows Store works. Until then, here’s a roundup of forty five essential Microsoft Surface three Windows Store apps. Get these forty five Windows Store apps. They will turn the Surface three into a competitive alternative to the iPad Air Two. The right apps will make people ditch their Android tablet for a convenient ten-inch tablet that runs apps and utter Windows software.
Productivity Windows Apps
The Surface three comes with a free version of Microsoft Office three hundred sixty five Individual (normally $70/year). Make sure you activate it. However, it’s not the only productivity app that people might want to use on their Surface Trio. These Productivity Windows Apps will make your tablet work for you.
gmail calendar – Free
gmail calendar will sync inbetween Google Calendar and the tablet. It looks pretty. Various calendars in your account demonstrate up in the left mitt side bar. It’s elementary to add fresh events to the calendar. gmail calendar works better than the Windows calendar pre-installed on the Surface Three.
TouchMail – Free
TouchMail does email better than the built-in Mail client. It works with Gmail and other email services too. The user-interface does a nice job of presenting email in a touch-friendly environment. People who like to archive their mail instead of deleting it can do that too, with one tap. Not all Gmail apps treat archives well. Large icons showcase the email sender’s photo, if they’ve set one up or you synced contacts with Facebook.
YouNote – Free
YouNote lets users take notes by typing on the Surface three Type Cover or with the Surface Pen. It does a excellent job of inking, organizing notes, importing pictures and syncing notes with a desktop computer or other tablet running Windows 8.1.
MetaMoji Note – Free or $11.99
For people who need to sync with other platforms and tablets, like an iPad or Android device, should attempt out MetaMoji Note. This powerful note taking and organizing program does one thing that makes it an even better option for Surface three users. There’s a zoomed inking box (see pic above). This box opens up at the bottom of the screen. Users write in the box and the app places the drawings on the screen where the user placed the entry box. Attempt out the free version very first before buying the total app for $11.99.
Wunderlist – Free
Wunderlist is the best cross-platform project management and to-do list service. Users can keep track of tasks by category. It’s effortless to share a group task list with family or co-workers. Get a version for all the major platforms or run it in a browser.
The service costs $Five/month or $50/year for those who need all the features, but those of us with plain needs can use it for free.
Evernote Touch – Free
Fairly honestly, the Evernote Touch Windows Store app deepthroats! However, Evernote as a service offers a ton of useful features. So, the Windows Store app makes the list for use in emergencies.
Install it on the Surface three because you just might want to use it sometime and hopefully it will get better. Until then, also install the total version from Evernote.com.
Bamboo Paper – Free
The Windows Store version of Bamboo Paper doesn’t suggest as much as the iOS or Android versions, but it’s still a capable drawing and note-taking app. Use one of the above apps for serious note-taking. Get Bamboo Paper for drawing. A talented artist can draw beautiful photos or designs with Bamboo Paper and the Surface Pen.
Social Networking Windows Apps
Twitter and Facebook make apps for the Windows Store, but here are a few other fine social networking apps.
Tweetium – Free Trial or $Two.99
Tweetium might suggest the best Twitter client on any platform. It’s well worth the $Three for the total version. It’s a clean, slick and well-organized app with tabs across the top showcasing the timeline, connections like direct messages or @ replies, and search. Tap on a Tweet and it increases, displaying media right in the timeline. It’s effortless to reply or retweet. The app comes with some different themes for light or dark looks.
Skype – Free
Face talk with friends or family anywhere around the world cheaply or free. Skype is the best movie talk contraption for the Surface Three. The app puts notifications on the Surface three lock screen so a user can see who’s calling without even unlocking their tablet.
IM+ Instant Messenger – Free
People hate using a bunch of different instant messaging apps, so grab IM+ Instant Messenger to put all IM services in one place. According to the listing in the Windows Store it works with:
Surface three Photography Apps
Pro photographers very likely won’t use the Surface three for their serious edits nor would videographers, but the rest of us can. The touch makes quick and elementary edits joy and effortless. These apps excel at fixing snapshots and exporting, printing or sharing them.
Fotor – Free
Fotor is my go to app for quickly touching up shots. It’s effortless to crop a shot, fix exposure, color and boost detail and then share it. It also comes with some filters for those who like that sort of thing.
The app will add borders and overlay graphics or text to doctor up a shot. There’s a useful one-tap enhance device that gives photo editors a good place to commence with a fresh picture. The collage feature combines a few shots into an artful collection of pics in one JPG file.
Import shots from the Surface three and then export them using the prompt resizing feature.
Adobe Photoshop Express – Free
Adobe fans will love Photoshop Express since it’s plain to use and gives users access to all of their pictures stored in Adobe’s online photo backup service. It does much of the same things Fotor does.
Adobe Pixlr – Free
The above options work better for those want to do quick edits, but Adobe Pixlr helps with some more advanced features. Those include things like…
- Dual exposures created from two pictures
- Export to social networks quicker than the above apps
- Viewing photo metadata
- Better sharpening, smoothing and blurring effects
So why not use Pixlr very first over other programs? It’s not as effortless and requires a sign in to get at some of these advanced features.
PowerDirector Mobile – Free Trial or $9.99 Utter
It’s hard to find a good movie editor in Windows Store. Microsoft’s Movie Maker still works on the Surface, but it’s not touch friendly. PowerDirector Mobile does the basics but it only comes as a free trial version with the utter version costing $Ten. There’s a timeline movie editing mode or a wizard based editor. Included are transitions, glides, text and transitions. Users can switch the look of movie with numerous effects. Export in 720p in the free version or utter 1080p in the paid version. They can also upload to Facebook or YouTube from within the app.
To work with 1080p, MPEG2, work in an ad-free environment and to get rid of the annoying watermark, users will need to pay for the utter version. However, the $Ten app is the best movie editor for that price that runs as a touch-friendly editor on the Surface Three.
Flickr Upload – Free
Flickr Upload helps users post their pics to Flickr quickly using a touch-friendly app. They can lightly and quickly upload numerous pictures to the photo sharing site with a few taps. Pictures can be collective via Twitter, Facebook and other apps. The Play To feature in Windows 8.1 shows the pictures on an Xbox or other DLNA devices.
Games for Surface Three
Games for the Surface three is worth its own post, but here’s a few awesome Windows Store games to have joy with on a Microsoft Surface Trio. See the screenshots in the gallery below the list.
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Utilities for Surface Trio
Utilities extends the features that come as part of the operating system or they improve on a feeble features of the OS. The following will make life lighter while using the Microsoft Surface Three.
Lastpass – Free, $12 Annual Subscription
Lastpass saves login information for websites and services in an encrypted, password protected database so you don’t have to memorize passwords and won’t use the same password for all your sites. Unluckily, the Windows Store version doesn’t log you into apps that are installed, like the Android version does. However, the user can quickly run the app, find their login and copy/paste to apps and web sites. Users can use the built-in browser to log into websites from inwards the app.
TeamViewer Touch – Free
TeavViewer Touch requires a TeamViewer account. The app gives access to other computers running the client. I can control my Mac mini, MacBook Pro, or my Windows desktop. I install the client on all my machines and I can log into them on my Surface three to remotely control them regardless of what OS they run.
I sometimes user TeamViewer to control the computer at the back of the auditorium at my church when I don’t have a volunteer to run it during church services. Since that computer connects to our projectors, I can still control presentations without the need of an expensive long-range presenter’s mouse or cumbersome wires.
The service is free for private use, but costs for those using it in business or on a large number of systems.
DropBox – Free
Most people know that Dropbox will sync files across numerous devices and backup files to the cloud. Slew of other apps will connect with Dropbox. The service costs nothing and users get 2GB free. They can add more storage by buying certain products, participating in promotions or by adding it with a paid subscription costing $Ten/month for 1TB of space or $15/month for unlimited storage.
There’s a Windows Store Dropbox app that lets users see their files and lightly upload files from the Surface Trio. Store media files and stream them to the Surface three from inwards the app. This way the user doesn’t need to install the total Windows application which will download the files in the Dropbox account to the Surface Trio. This licks up the limited storage space on the Surface Trio. Users can free up space by turning on the automatic camera uploading feature, which backs up photos letting the user delete them from the Surface Trio.
Windows Apps for Entertainment
Go after the latest in TV, Movies or general entertainment news with these excellent apps. Stream movie from these awesome services.
The Windows Store includes many of the big names in entertainment and movie streaming like …
The store also includes many network streaming apps. However, it’s missing a few favorites like HBO Go or IMDB.
Here’s a lesser known app that solves the IMDB problem.
Search All – Free plus $1.99 Version
The Search All app brings IMDB search to the Surface Trio. It also searches YouTube, Google, Bing, Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, eBay, CNN and more.
Windows Apps for News and Sports
Keeping track of the latest news and following sports requires some apps like the following.
WatchESPN – Free
Sports fans can observe their beloved sports from ESPN’s online stream using WatchESPN. That’s if they subscribe to a cable or satellite provider that permits them access.
Readiy – Free
Feedly treats RSS feeds better than most services, including the feature built into Internet Explorer. Readiy does a good job of bringing Feedly to the Winodws 8.1 environment. The Windows Store app shows feeds and makes it effortless to read, share and organize RSS.
Flipboard – Free
Users can read news in a Pinterest style presentation using Flipboard. The app looks beautiful and helps users detect news sites, articles, authors or curators. They can subscribe to interesting curators who add interesting reads to their collections for others.
Windows Apps for Shopping
The slideshow below shows the screenshots of these shopping apps. The links underneath the slideshow will take you to the Windows Store page for each shopping app. They’re all free.
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- Amazon – the best online department store
- Best Buy – the only national brick-and-mortar electronics store left
- eBay – buy and sell through online auctions
- Zappos – Amazon for boots
- Newegg – xxx electronics and parts store for serious geeks
Books and Education
Learn from these awesome book and education based apps or just entertain yourself through eBooks.
Amazon Kindle – Free, Books cost extra
Grab the Kindle app to read your Amazon Kindle eBooks. It’s not as good as the Kindle apps for iOS and Android and nowhere near as good as reading on a physical Kindle, but it works. You can also just open your browser and read using the Amazon Cloud Reader.
Wikipedia – Free
Sure, a person can just surf over to the Wikipedia site, but why not use an available app? Tap the icon and it launches. In case you didn’t know, Wikipedia is the user managed and curated online encyclopedia.
Wolfram Alpha – $Two.99
As the app describes itself, Wolfram Alpha comes as close to a Starlet Trek computer as you can buy today. It’s excellent for getting help with homework, finding interesting data, learning fresh things, doing some conversions and more. I wish Microsoft would integrate it with Cortana like Apple did with Siri.
PocketBible Bible Explore App – Free
Laridian makes the best Windows App for reading and studying the Bible. Since this one book predominates western thought, it’s a good idea for educated people to know what it says even if they don’t even believe in God. The company offers a large library of books and users can do some advanced research with PocketBible Bible Investigate App.
Khan Academy – Free
Thanks to the Khan Academy app, parents don’t need to fret over not being able to help their kids with homework they don’t understand. My kid studies math I don’t even understand, so I can’t help him any more. This app can. It’s utter of good movies instructing basics to advanced topics. There’s more than math too.
Lynda.com – Free with paid subscription
Khan’s free, but Lynda.com offers more specialized training. It’s only $25/month for the basic tier that includes all the fine Lynda.com movies for learning anything in tech from how to use Windows to how to program advanced software programs using the latest coding languages. A person could skip college and use this service and the Windows Store app on their Surface three to become a good programmer and invent the next good app that gets bought by Google or Microsoft for a billion dollars. I use it to learn how to use software and used it to master my Nikon camera.
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7 Comments
Patrick
12/28/2015 at 8:00 pm
Why would non-believers need to know what a fictional book says? Other than that, pretty good list.
William
01/07/2016 at Trio:21 pm
Hi, Patrick. Wow, you seem to have a very petite mind. Have you read Moby Dick? Have you read any of Gandhi’s philosophies? Did you learn about history of Europe, or the Vikings?
As was clearly stated, the Bible has and has had a large role in shaping and defining Western thinking. Women in the Western world are treated MUCH differently than women in the Eastern world because of the Bible. American laws — even the founding documents of this nation — reflect much of the philosophy of life contained in the Bible. I could go on and on…because I consider myself to be an educated person.
Education is about knowing and understanding, not about sharing a belief. Even your statement in the question displays your ignorance! The Bible is not fiction (you need to have actually read it to know this). Oh yea, you may not believe some of what is written there…but any educated person will quickly tell you that it does not qualify as a fictional writing.
Dude, expand you mind a bit! Or don’t…you are more than welcome to remain in the class of the uneducated who neither understand nor care to understand about the world around them. Why are we here, why are things like they are, what has history instructed us, why have certain books suffered for centuries, why has certain music suffered for centuries. Only the educated person can reaction such questions. The rest just live as cattle from moment to moment, clueless to larger humanity.