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Windows 7

Windows sponsors Playlist 7: Offers 7 FREE music downloads every week

January 19, 2010

I think Microsoft has developed a ‘thing’ for music since Windows 7 launched. Some weeks back, we did a post on Microsoft’s Win741 campaign and provided free MP3s of songs featured in Microsoft videos. Now recently Microsoft declared its sponsorship to ReverbNation’s Playlist 7 program whereby music fans like you and me can vote for [...]

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Animated Startmenu for Windows

January 8, 2010

deviantART is full of crazy people doing all the awesomeness don’t know since when. One such deviantART user, oO-MrHigh-Oo made a small utility called ‘Startmenu Animation’ that gives a nice 3D animation to the Startmenu in Windows XP, Vista and 7. Basically that’s all it does. But it deserves a post because the way it [...]

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Download MP3s of songs from Microsoft videos

January 2, 2010

As a part of their marketing strategy for promoting Windows 7, Microsoft launched Win741 campaign whereby students can get huge, ultra-cheap deals on Windows 7 packages. While the campaign was really good, it itself was not able to mark it’s (considerable) presence online as well as offline. Apart from a few hardcore fans, it’s tunes [...]

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Windows 7: Remove recent items from ‘jumplists’

December 21, 2009

Windows 7 has a very nice feature called ‘Jumplists’ which is otherwise very helpful but can get a little annoying at times. The main concern is that it not only displays the core functions of a program in the Windows 7 taskbar, it also displays a list of recent items stacked together, which is not [...]

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Windows 7: Christmas Theme Pack

November 22, 2009

The festive season is not too far away and so I thought of creating some eyecandy using Christmas as a theme. Did my best in Photoshop to make some beautiful hi-resolution wallpapers and then gift-wrapped them into a Windows 7 themepack. Enjoy! Details: 5 beautiful 1920×1200 widescreen wallpapers. Windows Sound scheme: Festival. Download Windows 7 [...]

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Fishbowl brings Facebook on your desktop

November 20, 2009

Today’s technological scenario is all about integration and making every task simpler and every information easily accessible. Well, similar are the thoughts of UXLabs at Microsoft. They have created a very sleek Facebook client application that brings the complete Facebook experience right on your Windows desktop – Fishbowl. Although in a ‘trial’ (beta) stage, Fishbowl [...]

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Microsoft Pivot: Bringing visual search to life

November 20, 2009

In PDC ‘09, Microsoft unveiled a prototype called Pivot, created by Microsoft Live Labs that claims to revolutionize the way we search the web by introducing a new dimension called ‘visual search’. Redmond company explains that Pivot lets users experience the web in a more subtle and ‘visual’ way, instead of series of pages. Powerful, [...]

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Force Windows Live Mail to always minimize to system tray in Windows 7

November 16, 2009

Sometime ago I showed a simple trick how you can minimize Windows Live Messenger to system tray in Windows 7. Based on the similar trick, I am going show you how you can set Windows Live Mail to always minimize to tray. 1) Right-click on the Windows Live Mail icon and then click ‘Properties’. 2) [...]

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Classic Start Menu for Windows 7

November 13, 2009

I have seen many of my friends who recently switched to Windows 7 but have all the nostalgia and love for the aging Windows XP. They are not wrong. Windows XP did rule for quite a long time and I see no reason for someone not to get used to it. One of the many [...]

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100+ free games from Microsoft

November 13, 2009

Instead of exploring new things all the time, sometimes I dig into what I have already got and I always come up with something new. Very few of us might know that Microsoft also offers lots of free games to its users. ‘The Games’ section in Windows Vista and Windows 7 is often listed in [...]

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