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Microsoft paraded 3 Windows Phone 7 Series smartphones during MIX 10, which is obviously attracting the likes of Engadget. It is quite unexpexted since there are already 3 prototypes of Windows Phone 7 Series smartphone right now, as there is still 8-9 months to go before the phone is opened for sale.
Except Samsung (the most left), which is the hacked version of i8910 HD, the Asus and LG smartphone specifications remain unknown. Can someone persuade Microsoft to lend this phone please?
If you’re skipping Windows Vista and directly jumping into Windows 7 from Windows XP, you’ll be surprised with lots of features offered in Windows 7 that you can’t found in Windows XP (of course). Some of these feature are the refinement of what was introduced in Windows Vista but make it way into Windows 7 with a lot more features.
Game Explorer is one such feature, first introduced in Windows Vista. Imagine Game Explorer just as the common windows/file explorer that you use daily to manage your file. It assist you to manage all games installed in your computer without miss. Whether it is the default games that comes with operating system, or advance games such as Grand Theft or Fifa, Games Explorer will taking care of that games properly.
One feature in Game Explorer that you’ll appreciate the most is, it’s ability to find and notify you if it found new updates on any of your games. To make your life even easier, you can download and install the update from inside the Game Explorer itself. Do note that this option can be turned on or off depend on your preference.
Other feature that you will found useful if you have kids is, the Parental Control setting. By default all games has been set with parental control set by Windows 7. If you prefer other filter, there are a lot of predefined set of parental control that already available which you can choose from.
Having all these wonderful features are meaningless if it can’t be viewed easily. If you notice, the Game Explorer windows is separated into 2 section. The left hand side is the list of games itself, and the right section is where the information will be displayed when any games is selected. Info about games that will be displayed here is the parental control, update notification and the statistic of the game.
Beginning 2009, we have seen a lot of applications offering geo location features, among other Twitter and Flickr. If you use iPhone or Android smartphone, some of app will asking if you would like to let them know your location the first time you use it.
Now, you must be wondering if your Windows 7 machine can be turned to location aware devices as well. But unlike smart phone, majority notebooks and PC are not equipped with built in GPS chips. Well good news is, we don’t need any additional hardware for that purpose. Folks from istartedsomething and withinwindows has developed Geosense, application that allow Windows 7 machine to be able to detect it’s current location.
Without having to go through the installation and testing process, which is well covered in this post, you may find the Geosense is not working immediately after you install it. For instance, I live in Selangor, but somehow Geosense detect my location somewhere in Johor Bharu.
But leave it a while, Geosense will shows your accurate.
Beside hunting for wonderful Windows 7 themes on Internet, interestingly there are also hidden themes does exist in Windows 7. The hidden themes are originally meant to visible for certain countries only based on their folder name, but by using this workaround, you can have and activate the themes for your own usage as well.
Here are the themes called Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom and United Kingdom. In less then 5 minutes, you have 5 additional themes to delight your day.
It is time to give your Windows 7 computer another fresh looks. By default, most Windows 7 only provides 8-10 themes like what I had in my computer. That is just to fewl.
There are tonnes of gorgeous Windows 7 themes out there, but if you prefer to spend your time on something else, you can get the news themes directly from official Windows 7 theme gallery by Microsoft.
As of now, there are 58 themes available to choose from, including 6 new themes such as ‘Samsung Winter Sports’, Valentine and Year of Tiger. New themes usually released in accordance of any events such as Olympic or festive season such as Chinesse New Year.
