Fishbowl, the WPF based Facebook client developed by uxlabs@Microsoft has been updated with a couple of new changes and features. It gets a Facebook chat client, which is basically the chat widget running in a separate window although the online status of your friends is shown in a Facebook chat like bar in the app now.  Read more...

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Not so long ago, Microsoft had teamed up with Fox to promote Windows 7 through Family Guy. As it turned out, Microsoft axed support for that episode due to the content not being fit for the brand (wonder why didn’t they think that before making the deal?). Luckily for us, Microsoft has published those clips on their Windows Youtube Channel, and now you can make your own judgment on how good or bad they are.  Read more...

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Aero Shake is one of the coolest features in Windows 7 that lets you shake on application’s Windows which minimizes the everything else. It’s really awesome and has been shown in Windows 7 advertisements too. Ever wondered about the developers who worked on this innovative feature? Song Zou, principle development lead for the Windows Core Experience Team and a Microsoftie for 12 years helped create the Windows 7 taskbar as well as the Aero Shake feature.  Read more...

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Final version of Paint.NET 3.5 has just been released and is available for download. Paint.NET is a free image and photo editing application that is designed to run on Windows platform. The freeware contains all the essential features such as crop, rotate, resize, color adjustment and much more. Paint.NET 3.5 final release brings support for Aero in Windows 7 and Vista, a revamped UI, a few bug fixes and much more.  Read more...

Permalink: Paint.NET 3.5 final version released, utilizes Aero in Windows 7 and Vista

I got this idea of a free Windows 7 Ultimate giveaway competition from a picture recently taken at a Nokia press conference. The picture has a person holding a phone to my ears for a pose. When I posted in on Twitter, people actually took some interesting guesses. So keeping in mind that this should be different than other Windows 7 competitions, here it goes: Your chance to win a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate via ithinkdiff.com!  Read more...

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Windows 7 has really spurred on developers to create new apps that make the best use of the new taskbar features such as jumplists, button and progress bar overlays. Here are a couple of new applications called Taskbar Meters, available on CodePlex that show CPU utilization or memory utilization in the taskbar using the progress bar overlays.  Read more...

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It seems that certain Windows 7 users are experiencing problems when running uTorrent. Reports suggest that uTorrent is exceeding memory limits (sometimes reaching the 100% mark), download stops at 99.9%, false reports are produced and so on. In short, uTorrent performance is not up to the mark when running uTorrent with Windows 7. Well AddictiveTips has come up with a potential fix for this problem. We have listed the steps that will solve the problem  Read more...

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Microsoft CodePlex has made available for  Windows 7 users a small application called c2iGmailNotifier. It simply notifies you whenever you receive emails on your Gmail account. This application works on Windows 7 only. (Download link provided below)  Read more...

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Microsoft has made available the Windows 7 Product Guide. With the recent launch of Windows 7, some users would be looking for a concise guide that helps them in understanding what Windows 7 has to offer in terms of features and how it can be fruitful for their business. Windows 7 Product guide represents Microsoft’s efforts in that direction. It is available in both XPS and PDF version.

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We’ve been hearing about Windows 7 launch events from everywhere nowadays, including house parties but this has to be one of the most interesting and unique launch ceremony by Microsoft’s Hyderabad campus in India. According to Manan, 22 Microsofties from that campus used 7000 dominoes to create a cascading Windows 7 logo which made up for a very cool unveiling.  Read more...

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