The best Windows Store apps for the holidays

This time we are going to focus more on dealing with applications that have some use this holiday season, instead of talking exclusively about those that are directly related to these important dates. Therefore, below you will find applications that will help you when preparing cocktails, cooking, preparing a trip, and even when congratulating someone.

Cocktail Flow

Cocktail Flow is an application that will help you surprise your guests with spectacular cocktails, preparing them step by step thanks to its excellent recipes . You can prepare drinks by buying what you need for a specific one, or you can indicate to the application what alcoholic beverages and mixes you have, to know what cocktails you can prepare With all that.

Cocktail Flow | Windows 8 | Windows Phone 8

Adrià at Home

If what you are looking for this Christmas is to prepare one of the best lunches/dinners you have ever had, perhaps the Adrià en Casa application is what you are looking for. We have already talked about it before, explaining that it makes available to everyone the menus that the elBulli staff ate

With this application you will be able to prepare those same menus without any problem, since it contains guides explained step by step with the smallest detail, along with a plenty of photographic material It has the ability to indicate what ingredients you need to buy for your chosen dishes, and even how far in advance you should start cooking.

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eBay

Do you want to give a gift for Christmas but you still don't know what? On eBay, the world's largest online marketplace, you'll find items both new and second-hand, but you can also sell anything you don't use. And thanks to the official application for Windows 8, you'll be able to access it wherever you are, to keep track of your bids, know when you're outbid, or the status of your item for sale.

eBay | Windows 8 | Windows Phone 8

TripAdvisor Hotels Flights Restaurants

If you are planning to travel this Christmas, you cannot miss the TripAdvisor application when planning everything. Thanks to it, you will not only be able to search for flights or hotels like any other search service, since you will also have millions of traveler opinions, photos and maps from TripAdvisor

TripAdvisor makes it easy to find the cheapest airfare, the best hotels, great restaurants and fun things to do, wherever you go . And if to this, we add that you have the opinions of people who have used this same service, the result is an effective search service, in which you will know the quality of the hotels and restaurants that you are going to book, thanks to the opinions of other users.

TripAdvisor | Windows 8 | Windows Phone 8

Movie Showtime

Movie Showtime allows you to forget about the newspaper when it comes to checking the movie listings, since with this application you won't even have to to access their daily programming online. By indicating the city you want to search in, or having your current location used, the app will display a list of nearby cinemas and offer you all your billboard with schedules. And as if this were not enough, you can also book tickets or invite your friends through social networks.

Movie Showtime | Windows 8 | Windows Phone 8

Nook

Nook is a reader of Barnes&Noble ebooks, magazines, newspapers and comics, which has already been launched in Spain.As a special promotion, you can try FREE NOOK ebooks or also for 14 days any newspaper or magazine of those available.

But this does not end here, because for the Christmas holidays, another promotion is available that offers you five free books, with really attractive titles:

"I was in the air, by Sergio Vila Sanjuan, this year&39;s Nadal Award winner"
"Shoot, I&39;m already dead, by Julia Navarro, the season&39;s bestseller"
"We&39;re not crazy, from Greater Wyoming."
"The Cupcake Club, by Clara P. Villalón, a culinary proposal for Christmas"
"Little History of the World, by Fernando García de Cortázar, for children"

Personalize your reading and you will be able to see the books with different fonts, line spacing and themes, turn the page with one finger or go directly to any page.And so you never forget where you're going, the NOOK App syncs the last page you read on your tablet and PC.

Regardless of the device, you can always continue reading where you left off. Thanks to NOOK, you will read what you like best, where you prefer.

Nook | Windows 8

Christmas Time Pro

Christmas Time Pro is a counter of the days, minutes and seconds remaining for the arrival of Christmas Day Its operation is exactly the same in Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, since in both systems you will also have the possibility of anchoring your Live Tile to Start, so that it indicates through it (or through the lock screen), the remaining days until the December 25th.

Christmas Time Pro | Windows 8 | Windows Phone 8

Christmas Card Maker

Do you want to surprise your friends and family with a Christmas card made for you? Then Christmas Card Maker is your ideal application. Do not miss the video that is just above these lines to discover everything you can do with the different decorative elements on your images.

In addition, sharing these creations is very easy, since the application makes use of the Share charm of Windows 8, which will allow you to send them through an email, or social networks. Even so, you can also save the images on your PC, in case you want to print them, for example.

Christmas Card Maker | Windows 8

Special moments

Special Moments gives you the ability to cut up to 60 seconds that you'd like to keep from a previously recorded video, although you can also use the built-in camera of your device or webcam to record it at that moment.After choosing which part you want to keep, you can add sub titles with various styles, and add music from your collection or from those offered by the application.

Special Moments | Windows 8

wordBrush

Are you bored with the inline text you put on your images and would like to change it? With wordBrush you can decorate your images with all kinds of text, which will be oriented the way you want. To do this, the application writes the text that you have previously entered, along the entire path of your finger when sliding it across the screen (or the mouse cursor). The faster you swipe, the larger the text will be.

The amazing thing about this application is that it has more than 200 fonts, more than 20 brushes and the ability to import images. Don't think twice, if you want to add text to an image, wordBrush is an application that you should at least give a chance to.

wordBrush | Windows 8

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