7 Steps to gift your mom the best on Mother’s Day
Wondering what to gift your mother this Mother’s Day? Greeting cards, flowers, jewellery and chocolates are all passé; it’s the new age mom we are talking about so the gift should also match her persona. This Mother’s Day make your mom feel special by gifting her a fabulous holiday for her to unwind and get away from the regular boring chores. Forget about holiday planning, booking etc. Just focus on packing your & your mom’s best clothes because Microsoft gives you a never before opportunity to win an all expenses paid trip to Thailand for your mom and you! All you need to do, to participate is create a 2 minute video that captures your most treasured moments with your mom & lets her know how much she really means to you. So, there is no better day than Mother’s Day to let your mom know how special she is in your life.
You can participate in the “Windows Mom & Me” contest on Windows & Me Face book Community page and stand a chance to win this holiday for your mom.
The 7 step process:
- Firstly log on to “Windows & Me” Facebook community page
- Select photos that represent all that your mother means to you, it’s how you want to salute your mother
- Create a video of less than 2 minutes using these photos
- You may create this video using the Windows Movie Maker (In XP, Vista, search for moviemk.exe in the Run command; for Windows 7, download Live Essentials)
- Upload this video on the Windows and Me page and give a caption to your video
- Do tag yourself to the video and add the tag for the Windows And Me page (@Windows And Me) to the caption
- Encourage your friends and family to like and comment on the video
The participant, whose video will get the maximum number of “Likes” will win an all expense paid trip to Thailand. The contest will be running from April 27 till May 7, 2011 while the winner will be announced on the Windows & Me page on Mother’s day – May 8.
So, what are you waiting for! Log on and make this Mother’s day the best ever with Microsoft!
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Microsoft Drops Courier Tablet Project
At technology’s impressive pace, we reach breakthrough every day. Handheld devices are evolving at an exponential rate. The Courier Tablet was a pristine example of this. Sadly, I use the word “WAS” because Microsoft no longer plans to carry on with their amazing vision of the innovative tablet device.
In case you are unfamiliar with what the Courier Tablet is (was), take a look at this picture:
Courier Tablet was to be a dual display tablet device. Both the screens were touchscreens. The tablet’s uniqueness was in the fact that it could be closed like a physical diary or journal. Users could simply open it up, use the supplied ‘pen’ to write on it and store notes. It was also supposed to come with a camera and Wi-Fi capabilities.
In my opinion, the tablet would have been an excellent competitor to Apple’s iPad and perhaps even netbooks.
But Microsoft has recently announced that it has dropped the entire Courier Tablet project. No solid reason was given by Microsoft as to why this decision was made. Frank Show, Microsoft’s Corporate VP of Communications, said this in a statement: “At any given time, we’re looking at new ideas, investigating, testing, incubating them. It’s in our DNA to develop new form factors and natural user interfaces to foster productivity and creativity. The Courier project is an example of this type of effort. It will be evaluated for use in future offerings, but we have no plans to build such a device at this time.”
While I and fellow technology enthusiasts are disappointed over Microsoft’s decision, perhaps the Courier Tablet idea will not be completely scrapped. Its concepts might be incorporated into future devices by Microsoft or maybe some other company will act quickly and create their own dual display tablet.
About Umar
Umar is a professional content writer all the way from Pakistan. He loves discovering and reviewing new websites. He blogs at http://www.techcityinc.com
Microsoft Releases Icons Pack For Windows Phone 7 OS
There is still a lot of hype circulating the operating system of Windows Phone 7 series. Third party developers are eager to get their hands on any bit of detail about the Windows Phone 7 OS so that they can prepare themselves for better application creation.
At the MIX 2010, Microsoft had explained that the OS will be heavily driven by the user interface; they also said that minute details had been paid attention, all to enhance the user interface and the user’s experience.
Now Microsoft has released the icons that will be used in the OS. It is precisely what developers had been looking for – a bit of detail to assist them in creating application for the OS.
The icons’ pack contains 64 icons: 32 light and 32 dark, in *PNG format, with a vector-graphics option for importing to Microsoft Blend.
The icons have a clear sans serif font designed Microsoft itself. By considering that they decided to create their own font, one can calculate the extreme attention being paid to detail by Microsoft. A better, clearer icons’ font will surely complement the overall user interface.
The icons pack is nearly 260KB in size and can be downloaded here. Take a look at them and decide for yourself if they will be a valuable addition to the Windows Phone 7 OS.
Remember to use the comments to let me know what you think.
About Umar
Umar is a professional content writer all the way from Pakistan. He loves discovering and reviewing new websites. He blogs at http://www.techcityinc.com
Yahoo! publicizing the Internet Explorer
I’ve seen a lot of “ads” on websites asking you to shift to Firefox. But, it isn’t often that you see an ad asking you to shift to IE.
But, today while checking my Yahoo! Mail on the Classic interface, I saw this. (Check the text I circled)
It leads you to a download page where Yahoo! is distributing a customised version of Internet Explorer 8, optimized for Yahoo!
The browser has a built in Yahoo! Homepage, Yahoo! Toolbar and Yahoo! Search for quick access to Yahoo!
Download Internet Explorer 8, optimized for Yahoo!
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Search both Bing and Google at the same time
I’ve been using Bing quite a bit since its release and it has turned out to be one of the better search engines. I still prefer Google’s search results and usually switch between the two.
But, if you want to search both, you can choose to switch between windows, or even better save yourself some time and search using Bing vs. Google.
It is not a new concept, but rather quite an old one right from several years back when you had Google, Yahoo! and the erstwhile MSN.
There are still quite a few features that I would like to see added in Bing, the most common one being the use of “define:” for quickly hunting the meaning of words/phrases.
Visit Bing vs. Google.
Via: Technospot
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