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.
Great demo of using FilterKeys in Windows XP to help accessibility and is really useful for people who press keys unintentionally due to involuntary hand movements
thanks to @daveBanesAccess for the tip
read more about the Accessibility features and options in Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP
Rob
Really nice new Windows 7 theme from Akropovic who make exhaust systems for monocycles and sports cars.
download the theme now
If you like your Windows 7 in Oriya, one of the official languages of India mainly spoken in the Orrisa state in the east of India. Then download the latest Language Interface Pack (LIP) now.
Click here to download the Oriya Windows 7 LIP via the Microsoft.com Download Center.
Please note that the Oriya Windows 7 LIP can only be installed on a system that runs an English client version of Windows 7. It is only available for 32-bit systems.
If you are looking for the Windows Vista Oriya LIP try here.
Is your surfing the internet slowing down or grinding to a halt? If so try our latest help article:
Is Internet Explorer slow? 5 things to try - Help & How-to- Microsoft Windows
Which covers:
Hope you find it useful
Remember those great Windows 7 Videos from Switzerland and especially the Fling King, well the campaign won the Silver at the prestigious Silberne Klappe awards
“The award honours the best works for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. in 2010, 327 submitted works, 35 have received an award… Switzerland it won a silver award in the Internet for their Windows 7 campaign. “
Well the Swiss team have gone a step further and created a cool little game in honour of the Fling King at http://www.flingking.ch
(click on the image to go to the game)
Thanks and congrats to my Swiss colleague Daniel Furger for the King Fling.
Let me know your high scores, got to be higher than my poor effort
Ok so not my cup of tea but if you want to be at the premier to see Sex and the City 2 then you have a chance with bing UK as they 24 hour promotion from 6pm this evening to 6pm tomorrow to win tickets at the Odeon Leicester Square on 27th May..
“Join other fashionistas as they line up on the red carpet for the premiere of the second Sex And The City film. Bing is offering lucky winners the chance to mingle with the stars in a one-day-only free prize draw. All you need to do is register here for a chance to win this once in a lifetime experience.”
Win a pair of Premiere Tickets to Sex and the City 2
So this is really cool news that you soon can use Windows Live Messenger from within iPlayer
“A partnership with Microsoft allows Windows Live Messenger users to log in to their messaging service through BBC iPlayer, enabling them to invite other contacts to watch programmes at the same time and chat live. This is an experimental feature, which will be available in beta later in the Summer; if it proves successful, the BBC plans to extend it to other instant messaging services.”
BBC - Press Office - New BBC iPlayer to be more simple, personal, and connected
spotted from a tweet from @ashleyhi
PS if you are having problems with iPlayer on Windows try our quick help quide
Then check out this video I was sent by my colleague Abid
Via Great Media Centre Remote for Windows Phone 7
If you like your Windows 7 in Indonesian then download the latest Language Interface Pack (LIP) now.
Click here to download the Indonesian Windows 7 LIP.
The Indonesian Windows 7 LIP is available for both 32 or 64-bit systems.
Now this is a really great competition worth entering from the team at My Kind of Phone.
all you have to do is enter your ultimate list of 7 songs that would be on your mobile playlist at the web site below Share your ultimate mobile playlist and win a luxury Glastonbury weekend and retweet the competition and then after a public vote of the top ten a lucky winner will get Glastonbury weekend tickets.
Of course always read the fine print. and be quick as the competition ends on midnight 26th May.