I am Microsoftie 4 ever (18+ years) working in Windows Services and Content team in the UK, my blog is mainly focused on the Windows family of products and trying to provide help pointers and resources for customers on our products.
Well the NORAD one
“The official page of NORAD Tracks Santa, providing up-to-the-minute information on Santa's journey”
Thanks to Danny on searchengineland for the tip and more than comprehensive article on the Tracking Santa topic
Rob
These are too funny to pass up.
“Windows 7 is designed to simplify your everyday tasks, work the way you want, and make new things possible.”
This one is my favourite :)
Thanks to Alessa (my boss) for the spot
Just wanted to point out these 2 great articles about Windows Live Movie Maker which I am guessing will be something that you might be using over the holiday period.
Turn your old video into digital memories using Windows Live Movie Maker
“Do you have a lot of old home movies stuck on old analog videotapes? If you want to bring that old analog footage into the digital age, you can do it by using Windows Live Photo Gallery. After the video is on your computer, you can edit it in Windows Live Movie Maker to make and save new movies to share with friends and family”
Use custom settings to save a movie in Windows Live Movie Maker
“Windows Live Movie Maker already has many built-in settings that you can choose from when you're ready to save your movie. But you can also save your movie with a custom setting you create. This lets you save your movie at a quality level and size that meets your specific needs. “
You can download Windows Live Movie Maker here
Then use this latest Microsoft Fix-it to…
“Automatically detect system settings that can affect power usage, such as timeout and sleep settings, display settings, and screensavers, and restore them to their default settings. “
it fixes such things as:
Problems with power consumption and battery life
Back in June I pointed out the great work by Vincenzo who had plotted a visualisation of the Favourite Social Network by Country, well he has now updated it.
(Click for larger map)
Interesting to see the ‘colonization of the world’ by Facebook as compared to June.
One film I want to see over Christmas / new year is Avatar which looks superb
However if you want to get some Avatar on your Windows 7 PC you can download the Avatar Windows 7 Theme from the personalization gallery.
Just wanted to point out this great new language tool from Microsoft India - Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool
“Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool helps you enter Indian language text easily into any application in Microsoft Windows or on any page on the Web. The primary input mechanism is transliteration. Additionally, it provides a visual keyboard to assist with editing words that do not transliterate properly”
and below is the phrase ‘I’m a PC in each language:
thanks to @manan for the spot and read more on the official blog
Don’t forget we do have a Windows 7 LIP for Hindi and Windows Vista and Windows 7 LIPs for many other languages
A Day in the Internet – thoughtstream
Via @kcarruthers
Hot on the heels of the Tesco customised IE8 news from earlier this month is play.com customised Internet Explorer 8
Download Internet Explorer 8 for Play.com
Nice job with features such as search suggestions, visual top sellers and an accelerator.
http://www.axiis.org/examples/BrowserMarketShare.html
Love the way where if you hover over a section you see the data.
I am guessing this is just for the web site highlighted on the page.
Thanks to Andrei for the link.