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Best Windows 7 Christmas Desktop Themes

Christmas is nearly upon us and maybe its time to change your desktop theme to be a little more festive. Here are the best Windows 7 Christmas themes.

Christmas Theme for Windows 7:

This theme includes

  • 11 HD Christmas wallpaper
  • 5 Christmas Icons
  • Soft Cursor.

Christmas Kitten

Multiple Uploads to Hosting Sites with MirrorCreator

MirrorCreator provides a simple way to upload the same file you would like to share to 30 different hosting sites: RapidShare, Megaupload, Hotfile, DepositFiles, EasyShare, etc.

If you usually share files in the web, then there’s no way you’ve never used some of the most popular sites:  RapidShare, Megaupload, Hotfile, DepositFiles, EasyShare, etc. But you should know also that sometimes the availability and speed of those hosting sites do not offer any guarantees; so why not upload the file to all hosting sites in one step and receive all the possibilities?

MirrorCreator simplifies the task and provides with one step to upload the file to all the hosting sites you would like. The site also gives us the limit upload on each site, so we can avoid any problem within the process.

After selecting the hosting sites and uploading your file, you’ll receive an e-mail (previously set) with all the proper links.

TinEye: Reverse Image Search

TinEye represents a very interesting web app which allows us to use reverse image search in the web: Upload the image and TinyEye searches around the web to find the same image source, modified versions or finding higher resolutions.

I’m pretty sure that there’s nothing similar in the web right now, and can help a lot of webmasters and bloggers to find if some images they’ve uploaded are being re-used by other people. Most certainly web and graphic designers can use it to protect their work.

TinEye has indexed almost 2 billion images from which they run the comparison every time we upload an image (this web app also can use the URL of the image as well).

TinEye is also available as a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

Easy File Sharing with Ge.tt

Ge.tt it is a simple web app, which provides one of the easiest way to share files over the web and is completely free with no registration required.

“Step 1: Select files”; “Step 2: Share” and “Step 3: Move on” says Ge.tt to explain the simple procedure for you to use this web app. No registration required, once you’ve selected the file, you’ll receive the public URL to share it. This one is already a short URL, so you can use it directly in Twitter.

Includes the option for registered users (registration is free of course) which includes a few more features: Files are not removed until inactivity for three months; you can add/remove the files you’ve uploaded; and you’ll get live statistics.

Generate your Twitter-like Logo for Free

Twitlogo lets you generate in a simple way, with any text, a logo with all the similarity as in Twitter logo.

It also has some options for you to customize the text you are using: Font size, color and the outline color. After you’ve created the image, you’ll get the link to download the file as a PNG, simple as that.

Even though there is nothing magical about this web app, can be very helpful to create the logo with your Twitter username and placing it in your site.

Microsoft offers Free Harry Potter Theme

Microsoft released recently a Harry Potter theme for Windows 7 and is completely free for download; take a look in this link.

The end of the incredibly popular Harry Potter saga is coming to the end with the first part of the final movies: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1. And Microsoft is offering for all those fans the complete theme pack of the movie with wallpapers, sounds, icons, pointers, etc.

Download it directly from here (4.6 MB).

LeanBack HTML5 Player supporting Subtitles

LeanBack it’s an open source project for a HTML5 video player which you can use, completely free of course, in any of your websites and with the characteristic that supports subtitles.

This is definitely not the first open source project for HTML5, but is the first which includes the support for subtitles in their videos. This is a nice feature for HTML5 videos, which are taking large steps to replace Adobe Flash as the preferred platform in websites.

LeanBack has several interesting features as weel, take a look:

  • Supports widely used desktop browsers and mobile devices
  • Supports also Microsoft Internet Explorer (≤8) and Safari (without Quicktime on Windows) by fallback to flash
  • Ability to handle more than one HTML5 video element on a single page
  • Javascript library independent
  • 100% skinnable using CSS; consistent look between browsers
  • Multi-language support
  • Browser fullscreen mode; window fullscreen mode
  • Volume controls
  • Keyboard shortcuts on focused video (desktop browsers)
  • Different playback rates (currently in desktop browsers Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer 9 beta)
  • Supports subtitles through HTML5 track element; language-selection by label attribute of track
  • Supports preload attribute in desktop browsers to save traffic (using a fix)

A Bunch of WTF Art

Raju Paliwal, 21 years-old blogger, created some interesting WTF art. 11 images which totally explain the WTF expression, one of the most used in Twitter.

Take a look to the complete work in this site.


Create a Screencast and Share it in Twitter

Screenr is a simple web app which allows creating screencasts from your computer and we can share those in a Twitter friendly link for all of our followers.

Screenr does not install any software in your machine, works directly online using Java as the engine to record the video. The quality of the recording is quite good, and includes also HD support. The videos will be also available to run on iPhones and iPads.

Using this web app is also pretty straightforward; we only have to select the area of the screen and click on “REC”.

Save your Photos, Videos and Documents in one Place with PhotoRem

PhotoRem represents a very interesting alternative for services like Flickr, YouTube or Picassa; providing a central place for us to store photos, videos and documents completely free.

PhotoRem also includes an application to edit your photos directly online, avoiding installing special software locally, editing it and then uploading it again. Other feature included is the possibility to create a slideshow with your images.

The files supported for video are: Flv, Mov and MP4; and the type of documents supported: PDF, DOC and XLS. Also PhotoRem is social network friendly, uploaded files can easily be shared via Facebook, Twitter, etc.