Inky is a half-baked yet delicious email client for your PC desktop

Yaara Lancet, 18 Jun 13 For many of us, there's nothing more important to do online than check, read, and write emails. Inky is an email desktop client that brings all your email accounts together under one roof. It offers most of the features you're used to, and something different as well.

Dragon Notes lets you try out Nuance's speech recognition engine at low cost

Erez Zukerman, 18 Jun 13 As a writer, I find Dragon NaturallySpeaking wonderful. Its time-tested and mature speech recognition engine understands me well, and it can transcribe audio files I record on my phone. But at $100-$200, it's also an expensive piece of software, and no, you can't download a demo. What you can do if you're curious about Dragon's speech recognition is plop down $20 for Dragon Notes, marketed as a smart sticky-note replacement.

Kingdom Rush Frontiers towers above its predecessor in every way

Chris Holt, 18 Jun 13 Armor Games' Kingdom Rush for iOS was a challenging, charming, and moderately deep real-time strategy experience. Enemies and the soldiers you hired to kill them were adorably caricatured, and you could easily whittle away hours at a time coming up with the best strategy for stopping your foes. Kingdom Rush Frontiers, the sequel (spin off? successor?) to Kingdom Rush landed earlier this month and brought with it a number of improvements that help make it one of the best tower defense games on mobile.

Evoland compresses three decades of video game history into one game

Ian Harac, 15 Jun 13 In Evoland, you play a nameless (until you eventually unlock the ability to name yourself) adventurer, who wanders a rapidly changing world, stabbing monsters and looking for chests, without purpose (until you unlock the "Storyline" feature). Evoland began as a contest entry for 24-hour videogame design, and was sufficiently well received that Shiro Games expanded it into a full commercial product.

Magnus iPad stand offers sleek design, limited positions

Jackie Dove, 14 Jun 13 Ten One Design's $50 Magnus Low-Profile Magnetic Stand for iPad holds your tablet in place using magnets, and the nifty design of the stand means that with your iPad (2 or later) in the stand, the thin aluminum base of this low-profile stand is literally all you see from the front or side--it appears to any observer as if your iPad is standing up all by itself. The stand itself blends into the iPad so organically that unless you look very hard, there's no obvious point at which the tablet ends and the stand begins. It's minimalist design to the max.

Emcee tries to bring Mission Control to Windows 8

Erez Zukerman, 14 Jun 13 Years after its debut, Mission Control (formerly known as Exposé) remains one of Mac OS X's most distinctive features. It allows you to to lay out miniature copies of all of your windows on the screen at once, making it both useful and pretty. Microsoft briefly experimented with a fancy task switcher of its own for Windows, called Flip 3D, but the feature was retired in Windows 8, along with the Start button and other familiar fixtures. It also introduced the Modern interface with its own separate breed of apps that defy the notion of a window. This makes it difficult to create an effective Mission Control clone for Windows, but Emcee for Windows 8 is one utility that rises to the challenge.

Mac Gems: Mailplane 3 melds Gmail and your Mac

Nathan Alderman, 13 Jun 13 Four years ago, we reviewed Mailplane 2, the first dedicated Gmail client that avoided traditional IMAP and POP approaches to Gmail, opting instead for standard browser technology under the hood. The result was an app that gave you the benefits of "real" Gmail with the advantages of a native Mac app.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery now handles RAID and Outlook

Jon L. Jacobi, 12 Jun 13 There's nary a media type that some edition of Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery 6 won't handle: hard drives, memory cards, optical discs...all covered.

Text editor UltraEdit 19 is feature-packed and flexible

Ian Harac, 12 Jun 13 UltraEdit 19 is a feature-rich and powerful text editor. It doesn't just have a kitchen-sink list of features. It's got a kitchen sink full of bells and whistles crammed inside another sink. When many developers are focusing on stripped-down software for the exploding mobile and tablet markets, it's nice to see someone out there is still thinking, "But what else can we add?"

Tweetro+ is a perfect mash-up between Twitter and Modern interface

Yaara Lancet, 11 Jun 13 The fairly recent Windows 8 operating system, and the even more recent trend of affordable Windows-operated touchscreen laptops and tablets, call for a new look at the way we're used to doing things. One of the most common actions in my daily routine is to fire up MetroTwit and find out what's new in the world according to Twitter. Even Windows 8 can't change that. Tweetro+ is a $10 Twitter client for Windows 8 devices that brings the Modern interface to Twitter in full blast, while retaining all the important features.