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Read eBooks on your PC, iPhone and Android with iBis Reader

Ibis reader is a free eBook reader for mobile phones, laptop, tablets and netbooks which helps you find the best books online. You can get hold of your favorite books and read them anywhere on your laptop or mobile device and keep them in sync on all your gadgets.. The best thing about iBis reader is that you don’t have to install anything on your PC or mobile phone. All you have to do is open iBis Reader website and look for the best books available on there site or upload eBooks from your PC or mobile. All this is possible thanks to HTML5.

Fishbowl – Facebook Desktop Client optimized for Windows 7

fishbowl With the announcement of Silverlight 4 on day 2 at PDC09, Silverface, a desktop application for Facebook, was demoed. Two days back, an application called Fishbowl was released by UXLabs@Microsoft. This application is a sample Facebook client that lets you update you status, scroll through your news feeds, easily browse through friends, browse and upload photos etc and is specially optimized for Windows 7.

Apps for Windows : Moderate WordPress comments from your desktop with Moderator

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Apps for Windows has been away lately, but it’s back with a focus on making life easy for bloggers :) . Moderator is one of my personal favorites and makes moderating WordPress comments from the comfort of your desktop very easy. It’s an Adobe Air based application and works fine on Windows, OS X and Linux as well. The requirements are very simple; you must have a self-hosted WordPress blog and sufficient rights to install plugins. Here’s the list of features it provides:

Download the Bing Windows 7 Theme

Bing Windows 7 ThemeDo you Bing? If you do, this Windows 7 theme is just for you! With a brand new wallpaper, a matching color scheme and custom startup and shutdown sounds, this theme is just waiting to be installed to your Windows 7 desktop. It’s not an official theme. The credit for the wallpaper and sound editing goes to me, but the sounds have been created by Microsoft themselves and Bing as well ;) So, what are you waiting for?! Download it now!

Apps for Windows – Desktop Apps for Facebook

Apps for Windows - Desktop Apps for Facebook If Twitter clients weren’t enough already, Facebook recently updated its API to allow developers to create client applications that would let you update your status or keep an eye on your stream. But which are most popular Facebook clients amongst them all? To answer that question, this edition of Apps for Windows is dedicated to Desktop Apps for Facebook.

Get the Vista Sticky Notes Sidebar Gadget for Windows 7

Windows Vista Notes Sidebar Gadget Windows 7

If you all can take out the issues you had with Windows Vista out of your mind for a minute and think hard, you’ll remember it had a very useful sidebar gadget called Notes. It let you quickly scribble down ideas, phone numbers and all sorts of texts and looked just like real sticky notes. It also had a few options for different fonts, font sizes and stick note color.

How to bring Bing to your desktop

Bing is live as we all know by now, and the reception has been very good so far. You might have Google as your default browser in Firefox and Live Search in IE, so it’s time to change them to give Bing a try. Here’s a guide on how to add Bing to your desktop and desktop applications:

Official Windows 7 Themes from Microsoft available now

That was quick by Microsoft. The Windows 7 customization website, also accessible from the personalize window is now up and running. It contains themes, backgrounds, desktop gadgets and sideshow gadgets. The last 2 things can be found at Windows Live Gallery as we, so why the duplication? Weird, I know. But they had to fill it up with something. Even the 12 themes they’ve put up are less than the 22 I’ve made so far. ( hint: check back this weekend again, that number might change ). The themes on the Windows 7 Personalize website are mostly regional apart from a few nature related ones. So, head over to the website and give them a try, if you don’t like them, you can always come back to ithinkdiff themes for more.Windows Personalize