Top five best Windows Phone apps and games as of June 14th

The Windows Phone Store is home to many apps and every day it grows with new submissions. Let's continue our weekly trend of exploring the top apps available in the Windows Phone Store.
As of June 14th, the top-five free apps are Files, Facebook, Pandora, ooVoo Video Call, and Messenger. The top five paid apps are Download MP3, Background Designer, Theme+, Metrotube, and FLV Player HD. The top-five trending apps are ooVoo Video Call, Pinterest Beta, TED, Forza Football, and Music & Audio.
The top-five free games are Piano Tiles, Extreme Survival Run, Temple Run 2, Don't Tape on The White Tile, and 100 Balls. The top-five paid games are Doodle Devil, Angry Birds, Cut The Rope Exp, BADLAND, and Sonic CD.
Let's explore these apps and see if we can find you your new favorite app!

Pinterest Beta (free) - Earlier this week, we were treated to the debut of the official Pinterest app for Windows Phone. But don't get too excited, the app is just a mobile web wrapper and offers only a few unique experiences. This fact is reflected in the app's ratings, where many disappointed users left comments like "lazy" and "I waiting for long time a Pinterest official app but I feel a quite disappointed with this version. It's not different [than] a mobile site version."
For those that did not know, Pinterest is a tool to help you discover and plan things you want to do. When you find something that looks interesting, just Pin it! Pins are visual bookmarks that you organize and share the way you want.
The app is available right now and is currently in Beta. This app is currently trending in the Windows Phone Store.

ooVoo Video Call (free) - "With ooVoo you can make FREE video calls, voice calls, and send text messages to easily connect with friends and family. ooVoo is the highest quality video chat app, beating other leading brands hands down. Start a free video call with one person or up to twelve people and experience the best quality video and audio. Over 100 million people are on ooVoo, it’s easy to sign up and add friends," the app description reads.
ooVoo lets you do one-on-one video calls and group video calls with up to 12 participants as well as instant messaging, and also includes echo cancelation for crystal clear audio. ooVoo is known for offering the best video experience possible even at places with low bandwidth.
This app is currently trending in the Windows Phone Store and is in the top-five free apps list for this week.

TED (free) - "TED's official app presents talks from some of the world's most fascinating people: education radicals, tech geniuses, medical mavericks, business gurus, and music legends. Find more than 1700 TEDTalk videos and audios (with more added each week) on the official TED app -- now for Windows Phone," the app description reads.
In case you aren’t familiar, TED is an independent, non-profit organization that invites people to share their remarkable stories with others. These stories are made available to all for free on the Web. Earlier this week, the official app for this delightful service arrived at the Windows Phone Store.

Forza Football (free) - "Live scores and push notifications, and video highlights for more than 420 football leagues and cups around the world. As well as being a live score app known and loved internationally, Forza Football is simultaneously changing the face of football by liberating and sharing the collective opinion of fans from all over the world," the app description reads.
This app is simple and is currently trending in the Windows Phone Store. You can set alerts for your favorite teams, receive detailed and customized push notifications for each team or match you are following, and you can receive quick and accurate updates compared to other football apps. If you are watching the 2014 FIFA World Cup, this app is the perfect companion!

Music & Audio (free) - "In the Music & Audio, music fans will receive all the features that they require from a Music app. It allows you to search, listen and download lots of songs for free. It also provides an excellent music player. It is quick and convenient," the app description reads.
This app is also trending in the Windows Phone Store and is a fantastic music player for Windows Phone. The app features various genres of music includes Pop, R&B, Hip-Hop, Rap, Soul, Funk, World, Reggae, Jazz & Blues, Rock, Urban, Metal, Electronic, Classical, Mixtape, audiobooks, learning, storytelling, entertainment. Interestingly enough, you can search for almost any song you want to hear and save it too (utilizing the SoundCloud API).
You can create offline playlists, transfer music to your phone's library, log in via your SoundCloud account, and much more. Give this app a try and see if you like it.
Stay tuned for next week's Windows Phone Store app highlights!

Xbox Music app for Windows Phone 8.1 expected to receive update 'early next week'

Xbox Music app for Windows Phone 8.1 expected to receive update 'early next week'

Continued focus on stability and performance improvements.
Initial sync of local and cloud content happens in the background.
Support for more than 100 songs... in the Now Playing queue.
Faster loading of longer lists.
Transparent Tile support.
Live Tile support.
Kid’s Corner support.
General UX improvements.

Internet Explorer 12 to feature 'substantial changes' to the user interface?

In an official Microsoft blog post late last month, it was revealed that the Redmond giant had already begun development on the next version of Internet Explorer - currently known as Internet Explorer 12 (IE12). Microsoft outlined some of these new features and indicated that they were in development, as part of Microsoft's commitment of delivering interoperable implementations for the latest features on the modern Web.

But it seems like Microsoft has more up it's sleeve with the development of IE12. One of our readers reported an issue with Internet Explorer 11's bookmarks bar requiring some user interface improvements. The issue was reported to Microsoft's Internet Explorer team on Microsoft Connect. While this may be considered a minor issue (if you want to call it that), the interesting part about this is Microsoft's response. "Thanks for the feedback. We're making substantial changes to the UI, we'll keep this in mind. Best Regards, The Internet Explorer Team."
From the sounds of it, Microsoft is looking to make some big changes to Internet Explorer 12, especially to the user interface. Will there be changes for the desktop or the Modern interface? Or will it be for both interfaces? Details are nonexistent right now but we are sure to hear more about this as development continues. Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer's primary competitor, recently underwent a major user interface overhaul too.
Thusfar, Microsoft has outlined a few new features for IE12, such as Web Audio, Media Capture, and HTTP/2 support. Web Audio, for those that did not know, is a specification that describes a high-level JavaScript API for processing and synthesizing audio in web applications. Media Capture allows access to a device's camera or microphone, while HTTP/2 is a major revision of the Web's protocol and is intended to decrease the wait time spent loading web pages. You can see a list of planned features by visiting status.modern.ie.
In the mean time, what interface improvements would you like to see in Internet Explorer 12?

Nokia Camera Beta and Storyteller for Windows Phone receive various bug fixes and improvements

Today has been a day full of app updates. Not to be outdone, new updates are available for Nokia Camera Beta and Nokia Storyteller. Both app updates offer various improvements and bug fixes. Let's dive in and see what's new!

As you most likely already know, the Nokia Camera app is designed to make the most of your Nokia Lumia Camera. The Beta version of the app offers users a chance to toy with the latest fixes and features. In the latest update to version 4.7.1.9, a fix for camera roll delays was implemented, along with a fix for a crash caused when re-framing pictures captured with the front facing camera. There is also a fix for corrupt videos when recording over the 4GB limit. The app update also fixes various bugs and adds new improvements.
Nokia Storyteller, an exclusive app for Lumia devices, also received an app update to version 2.0.4.5. "Nokia Storyteller automatically groups all your photos, videos and cinemagraphs into individual events called stories. In your timeline you can browse your stories and modify them, then view them as slideshows or share them with friends. You can also sort your photos and videos by location, add captions and create a list of favorites, and when you’re looking at a photo you can zoom out to see where you took it on a map," the app description reads.
Here are the new improvements:

• Living Images are displayed in Nokia Storyteller
• Photos and videos in a story are combined with a backing track to create a 30-second story video
• Nokia Storyteller integrates with Nokia Creative Studio and Nokia Video Trimmer for editing your photos and videos
• Location data is associated with your photos within Nokia Storyteller

Hit the downloads links below to snag the updates. Thanks to everyone who emailed us about these updates!

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Nokia Camera Beta

Nokia Storyteller

GunFinger for Windows Phone will allow you to test your fast finger skills and mow down undead hillbillies

How fast are your finger skills when it comes to mowing down hordes of undead hillbillies? Check out GunFinger for Windows Phone, a free game that that offers an awesome shooting adventure on phone and tablet! All you have to do is use your finger to point at a zombie to fire your weapon. Your aim makes all the difference.



The game features some of the most awesome 3D graphics you'll see on a phone or tablet. It supports cutting edge effects like real-time reflections, shadows, and normal maps. You can customize an arsenal of unique weapons - including shotguns and sniper rifles - to take down undead monsters, rescue civilians, and complete increasingly challenging skill missions.
The Daily Challenge mode lets you enjoy playing a new mission every day if you become bored with the missions. There are over seventy missions set across locations including spooky farmsteads, desert canyons and underground mines. Fight zombies, monsters, and even rubber ducks!
The game is free to play and you can purchase in-game items via an in-app purchase. You can turn off the payment features by disabling the in-app purchases via your device's settings.
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