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Windows Phone 7 Series – Rebirth Of Microsoft’s Mobile Platform

If there is one thing that Microsoft should have done years ago, it’s none other than Windows Phone  7 series. That’s what I feel and also some respond that I read about the newest mobile operating system that Microsoft just unveiled yesterday. The Windows Phone 7 Series is on the class on it’s own, stated by Endgadget in one of it’s post.

As excited as you’re, I have followed the Engadget’s live blog (coincidentally I work at night GMT+8 time, so no problem stay late) to witness the new beginning, of what I can say is the true contender for the next generation mobile operating system.

It’s totally awesome I have to admit. The UI concept is moving away from the common UI mobile OS in the market, which pretty much doing what iPhone has invented, slide left an right or up and down, and with big move-able icons on each page, some with customize background.

Windows Phone 7 Series UI is giving new perspective of what Mobile OS should be,  although the main interface remain ‘slide up an down’ concept. Called Metro, the shortcut to program is like tiles, as they were actually  called ‘live tiles’ with 1 or 2 ’tiles’ at each row.

Well, you know, photo is always the best way to describe the beauty, so here is the Windows Phone 7 series Start Screen. It’s almost similar as Zune, but as most non-US folks never had chance to use Zune,  consider this is new, at least to us in other part of the world.

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Hub is what they called each section in this phone have. Among the hubs are

  • Music & Video Hub for music, videos, podcast and live streaming.
  • People Hub which keep the relevant contact detail along side integration with their social networking feeds.
  • Pictures Hub
  • Marketplace Hub – Like app store
  • Games Hub – For Xbox LIVE integration
  • Office Hub – Office, OneNote and SharePoint Workspace and Outlook Mobile

Some features that each Windows Phone 7 Series going to or might have. This is by far that I have read on.

  • Every Windows Phone 7 Series will have 3 button – Home, Back and Search
  • No UI customization is allowed, which means all Windows Phone 7 series will have same looks regardless the manufacturer.
  • Xbox LIVE Integration
  • Zune Integration
  • Office Integration
  • Windows Mobile 6.X applications will not compatible with Windows Phone 7 series
  • Capacitive and multi touch is a mandatory on each phone.
  • Microsoft will not manufacture and sell it’s own Windows Phone 7 Series.

Again, it’s best to let official videos from Microsoft to tell the features and demo the new mobile OS.

Windows Phone 7 Series Feature Videos

Windows Phone 7 Series Demos

Windows Phone 7 Series Promo Videos

Microsoft is not alone in bringing Windows Phone 7 Series to the world. AT&T has been chosen as be US’s premier partners. Other carries include Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange, SFR, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telstra, T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone. Manufacturers likes Dell, Garmin-Asus, HTC Corp., HP, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Qualcomm Inc are among that Microsoft has team up to manufacture the phone.

The first phones will be available by holiday 2010, which means by December 2010. So until then, stay still with your current phone. Hopefully the final product will deliver the same or higher excitement than what was demoed today. Microsoft can’t afford to fail again this time.

Other Links

WindowsPhone7series.com – Windoes Phone 7 Series Official Website

Engadget’ live blog on Windows Phone 7 Series release event

Channel 9′s Windows Phone 7 Series Hands-on Demo

Windows Phone 7 Series Press Release

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10 Windows 7 Accessories Program For Beginners

Windows 7 has been around for couple of months now. The respond from customers so far favors this operating software compared to it’s predecessor. If you just started using Windows 7 like me, here are some Windows 7 accessories program that you may interested to use. Some of them does help making the OS more fun to use as well.

1. Snipping Tool

Simple yet useful screen capture software suitable for all level of users. One of the best screen capture software I ever used. Warning: Not for advance users looking for advance feature. I’ve written once about it before.

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2. Sticky Note

Sticky note help you to remember anything that you deem important, but you’re going to do it later. Not meant as procrastination tool, but more toward as reminder. Stick to the desktop, it is easily viewable when you’re switching between the app in the desktop. Available in different color as well.

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3. Connect To Projector

No more guessing the sequence key (usually combination of ‘fn’ + ‘projector’ key) to expand your screen to other monitor or projector. This shortcut let you choose which mode conveniently.  This menu is also viewable if your press ‘fn’ + ‘projector’ key.

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4. Sync Center

Sync Center let you sync any folder in your computer with folder in external drive plugged to the computers or network drive.

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5. Paint

Paint, basic image editor software which has been shipped with Windows since Windows 95 day. From that version until Window XP, it have not received much changes or probably not at all. The new Paint shipped with Windows 7 is totally a new Paint. Having the new UI as other product under Microsoft Office 2007, it still pretty much basic image editor but with more new features such as ‘Undo and Redo’, image rotation compared tot he earlier version.

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6. Calculator

Gone are the days when calculator can only perform basic mathematics function such as add, subtract, device and etc. The new calculator capable of doing complex mathematics function with addition of Scientific, Programmer and Statistic calculator on top of the standard calculator.

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7. Windows Easy Transfer

Windows Easy Transfer made the process of migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 easier. It helps you to transfer all files to Windows 7 in exception of application installed in your older machine. Windows Easy transfer allow you to transfer the files directly from computer to computer using Belkin’s Easy Transfer cable, or use external hard rive as the temporary storage from your older machine before transferred permanently to the Windows 7 machine.

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8. Resource Monitor

Just in case you want to monitor your computer perfomance, Resource Monitor is what you need. It provide more comprehensive monitoring than Windows Task Manager, where if you select any program currently running, the breakdown of module currently running will be shown as well. If you computer is powered by multicore processor, you have option to view only at certain core.

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9. Windows Mobility Center

All in one menu to control your computer setting. It let you control the volume, Wifi, Bluetooth, sound, display and etc The setting may vary from one computer vendor to another.

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10. Wordpad

Notepad is just too basic for certain people, and Microsoft Office is way to expensive. The new Wordpad fits the bill as basic word editing software. Now comes with standard UI just like other Office suites, it offer variety of new options to help you build the document you need in a very simple way.

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What Made Windows 7 To Start Fast?

Everyday, we rely on technology in many aspect of our life. That’s includes to get things done properly,  entertaining us or even making us looks fair. It is not a secret that we have some kind of favoritism toward any product that produce highly satisfaction to us in any kind of form, such as design, color, the ecosystem, coolness, usefulness or simpleness.

We used to memorize the favorite brand, but we tend to forgot the technology behind that product. To some extent we don’t even want to know or come to our mind, who contribute or create the technology behind it? Haven’t you? Don’t feel bad though, that is just too normal for us as human.

Ever head of this guys called, Aaron Dietrich? Nope, some to you I guess. Ever heard of Microsoft? Yes. Ever heard of Windows 7? Yes, I use them, but why, does he invent it? Nope, this is not the guys that single handed creating Windows 7.  But the works from Aaron and his team has leads to faster Windows 7 start or ‘boot’ as some of us more familiar with. He is the team lead that tasked to give Windows 7 start a boost.

Usually, the first things comes to mind about Windows operating system is sluggish, especially the start up time.  Yes, damn slow to start after install it with may app or running for 2-4 years. There is joke that the first thing, you should do once come to the office, is turn on the Windows running computer and only then make some coffee, because making coffee is faster than Windows.

Aaronn Dietrich is featuring in Microsoft’s story titled The Man Behind the Windows 7′s Fast Start. I stumbled that story recently and found it quite interesting. It is an interview with this guy that cover variety of topic which included the roles, team work and Windows 7 itself.

So what made Windows 7 to start fast? According to Aaron “There were a couple of key features that allowed us to get better boot times. The first was we introduced what we call the fast boot feature, which allows some parts of boot to happen in the background while Windows is discovering and initializing devices. That helped us gain up to 25 percent of our boot time over Windows Vista, depending on the hardware.The other big one was that we significantly reduced the size of the operating system required to be read from disk in order to boot. Whereas Windows Vista required somewhere on the order of 220 to 240 megabytes of operating system code to boot, Windows 7 requires anywhere from 140 to 180 megabytes, depending on the configuration of the system”

The explanation made the feature sound simple but I believe it is hard to be implemented. Otherwise Vista is not such a disaster to Microsoft. You see, even the boot require 140 to 180 Mb amount of code, which is equivalent to 28-36 songs. Now I start to wonder, do they test Vista’s startup time before it was released? For Windows 7, what happen after additional software and hardware were added, does that grows the amount of code as well?

Need sometime to figure that out. At the mean time, please read the full interview.

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Year 2010 Windows 7 Themes

We’re on the third day of the year 2010 today, and the holiday mood atmosphere still going strong!! It’s going to be another year before you could enjoy another long holiday, so enjoy the rest of the time before the workloads, school and study coming your way in the next few days.

New year comes with new wish/vision/target and etc. But how about giving your Windows 7 machines some facelift as well with new theme that reflect year 2010? There are 2 awesome Windows 7 themes that I came across this morning, that I think you’ll be pleased to have in your machine.

Smashing Magazine January 2010 Wallpaper Windows 7 Theme – This theme contains 32 wallpapers originated from Smashing Magazine, and turned to Windows 7 theme by Tim Heuer. Click here to download. And yes, the wallpaper contain only January 2010 calendar.

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New Year 2010 Windows 7 Theme – This theme was created by Yonited contains 12 beautiful wallpapers with 2010 as the main object. Click here to download.

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You can create your own theme as well by following this instruction.

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Snipping Tool : Free Screen Capture Software Inside Windows 7

snipping tool Snipping Tool : Free Screen Capture Software Inside Windows 7

Snipping Tool is free screen capture inside Windows 7 Home Premium that very easy and useful for daily use. It capable of capture the screen shot in rectangular form which is common, free-form, windows and the full screen capture.

Simple editing can be done on the captured image such as putting some colour highlight or free style drawing. Finally save the capture image or share the image through email (require email program such as Outlook).

Snipping Tool is obviously much better option than default print screen function on your computer. It is available on Windows 7 Home Premium and higher version.

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