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Flowers and U. S. Landscape Dynamic Themes Updates for 09 February 2012

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Here are the new photos which have arrived for two of the community supported dynamic themes for Windows 7 this week. 

I am confused though by a picture from Sydney Harbour being added to the US Landscape theme – but then again it looks like a small boat is at the . . .

Read More: Flowers and U. S. Landscape Dynamic Themes Updates for 09 February 2012

Bing Maps Aerial US and Bing Desktop Dynamic Theme Updates for 08 February 2012

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Our updates this week for these two themes have flip-flopped from last week in that the Bing Maps Aerial theme has six new images compared to only two last week and the Bing Desktop theme only gets two updates this week instead of the six new images last week.

Never is any . . .

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Insects, Flora and Terra Windows 7 Dynamic Theme Updates for 27 January 2012

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I am especially excited about this set of updates to the three newest community based dynamic Windows 7 themes.  These themes are taking photos submitted for Microsoft’s open call for images and using them to populate the themes.

The reason I am personally excited about this set of updates is because . . .

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A Smorgasbord of Windows 7 Themes from Microsoft

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To wrap up a week of high speed tech events Microsoft has let us know about five new Windows 7 themes to refresh our desktops and maybe even our outlooks.

In the collection there are two new dynamically fed RSS themes which get updated on a fairly regular basis when new photos . . .

Read More: A Smorgasbord of Windows 7 Themes from Microsoft

You Can Play Cut The Rope For Free But Only If You Choose To Do It on IE (Chrome Too!)

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Yes – that title rhymes – on purpose.

Yesterday Microsoft released a version of Cut The Rope to highlight the capabilities of Internet Explorer.

To do this, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team partnered with ZeptoLab (the creators of the game) and the specialists at Pixel Lab to bring Cut the Rope to life . . .

Read More: You Can Play Cut The Rope For Free But Only If You Choose To Do It on IE (Chrome Too!)

Windows 7 Dynamic RSS Theme Updates for 05 January 2012

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It has been a few weeks since we received any updates to Microsoft’s collection of dynamically updated themes and I am sure that was related to the holidays. However, have no fear for we now have the first set of additions for the new year and there are some terrific images to . . .

Read More: Windows 7 Dynamic RSS Theme Updates for 05 January 2012