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Recently, we’ve been getting numerous requests for the creation of an AddictiveTips Google+ page. We’ve had a Google+ page for quite a while now, but it has, as yet, been inactive. However, in light of the recent flurry of requests by avid users of the growing social network, we’ve decided to, well, spread the addiction. Starting from today, in addition to Facebook and Twitter, you will be able to catch our app reviews, guides, giveaways, tips and social media-exclusive posts on Google+ as well.

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With due apologies to our addicted readers, we are aware that AddictiveTips’ homepage had been down for over 15 hours lately. Only the front page was affected, while individual articles remained accessible through their permalinks. The 502 bad gateway that had been plaguing our landing page was bad – real bad – and our technical knights were trying hard to overcome this obstacle. Now, with their untiring efforts, they’ve managed to slay the evil dragon that was was blocking the otherwise-good gateway, and you’re free to access the AddictiveTips kingdom without any delays or restrictions.

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We know full well how addicted our readers are to the awesome freeware and tips we bring on a daily basis, and that addiction leads to them browsing through AddictiveTips on their mobile devices regularly. Due to some unexpected incompatibilities with our recent backend improvements, AddictiveTips mobile website had been down for almost a week. Well, we bring good news now, for the mobile version is back up and running!

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Today is my last day at AddictiveTips.

After founding AddictiveTips and running it for a little more than 3 years, it is time for me to step down from the role of Editor-in-Chief. Aatif Khan will be the new Editor-in-Chief and Usman Javaid will be the Associate Editor – a new position to make sure the quality of articles meet the standard that readers have come to expect.

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The most important question for us this year is a simple one, to cover paid apps or not? After taking feedback from our readers and discussing internally, we have all agreed to cover paid apps but only occasionally. Our primary goal has always been to find and cover free apps (for all platforms) and we will stick to it. This is our mission and an important one.

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Windows 8 installation is perhaps as simplified as that of any other Windows operating system. However, the users who are currently testing the Windows 8 Developer’s Preview may face a new dilemma when reinstalling or using the “Reset Your PC” option since no product keys were released by Microsoft with the current Windows 8 release. In this post we will provide you with the product keys for Windows 8 Developer Preview. These product keys were released on an MSDN forum by Microsoft support member. Check out our guide to learn about the Windows 8 Reinstall and Reset feature which allows restoring the system to a formerly saved state.

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The wait is finally over, as Google has just announced the launch of the first Google+ APIs, opening the doors to developers to integrate Google’s social app into their apps. What this means for the end users is a more integrated experience with applications that till now offered integration with and authentication via Twitter, Facebook and other social networking services but had Google+ missing from the picture. Read on for our coverage of the press release..

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There is one topic that we have been debating internally for a while and we need feedback from our readers for that. We would like to know what you think about AddictiveTips covering paid apps?

We are known for covering tips, and apps that are freeware. Lately, we have focused more on covering free apps since there are plenty of them around and nobody else seems to be covering them. The rate at which free apps are released every day for all platforms leaves us no choice but to cover them. However, there are some instances where there are paid apps that are worth covering too. Apps that solve some serious problems/annoyances and make life easier for users. We have been ignoring them, simply because they are not free. As a result, we have avoided covering some very nice apps.

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Are you a geek who loves to develop applications? Do you want to develop some apps this summer but are out of ideas? Why not develop applications based on our ideas and earn some bucks  (lots of them) along the way?

After years of covering applications for Windows, Mac, and Linux, we are looking to releasing some of our own. There are problems for which no solution exists yet and we are aiming to release applications to solve them. The applications will be available to everyone for free.

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GIGABYTE Touch BIOS is a software developed by the famous GIGABYTE manufacturers for their z-68 motherboards. It is a GUI based application which enables configuring the BIOS from within the native operating system in touch screen mode. The touch screen mode is an optional utility, you can also use a mouse to perform BIOS configuration functions. Moreover, there is also a screenshot button for taking a quick snap of any part of the BIOS. This can be quite handy for saving your BIOS settings in the form of an image for later review.

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