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 are dropped in their respective RSS feeds.
Bing Maps Aerial Images of Europe
Here is a sampling from the initial 30 pictures of the collection – all the shots from Italy where I lived for 18 years! There are three shots from the Naples area – two of Mt. Vesuvius and one of San Paulo the Naples Soccer Stadium.
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You can also just get all the pictures by subscribing to the RSS feed – http://themeserver.microsoft.com/default.aspx?p=Bing&c=Aerial_Imagery_of_Europe&m=en-gb
The second dynamic theme in this group is just for all those little folks that creep, crawl and fly around the garden.
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Here is the RSS link if you want to subscribe to it seperately – http://themeserver.microsoft.com/default.aspx?p=Windows&c=Insects&m=en-US
The other three themes are static and do not get additional pictures added to them routinely.
Here are eight of the included images.
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Garden Life by Hayley Elizabeth
These photos are a collection by Hayley Elizabeth who responded to the open call for theme photography and was asked to put together an entire theme.
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The Chinese Year of the Dragon begins on 23 January and this theme celebrates that with some superb dragon imagery.
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The last two themes are the Mission- Impossible – Ghost Protocol and The Great Happification (remember the Coke commercial?).
