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September 30 Jaago Re - A Tata Tea Campaign on CorruptionTata tea's campaign against corruption is beautifully done.
YouTube - Tata Tea Jaago Re on Corruption The campaign website is http://www.jaagore.com/ shares some eyeopening stats on corruption in India
  August 15 The state of economyA friend sent me this cartoon by R K Laxman, who is known for his The Common Man cartoon. I used to love his cartoon in The Times of India. Here is another one from the great cartoonist.
Sponsored listing August 12 Seven months, one billion - Way to go Windows Live PhotosWindows Live Photos a new service (more or less a natural extension of Windows Live Skydrive) reached 1 billion photos within seven months of launch according to the Windows Live Wire .
This is a commendable start. While the number 1 billion is really big, its not so big in the world of photos if you compare it to say, Facebook, which sees about same number of uploads every month. None the less, its a good start for Windows Live Photos.
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 July 31 Fun Keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7Life without Windows 7 seems un-imaginable. It does small things in a great way and some big things as well. A couple days back I discovered some shortcut keys which are not only extremely useful but fun to use. Here is the list of my favorite ones. Aero Shake: Win + Home (Minimizes all but the focused window) Dock Left: Win + Left Arrow Key Dock Right Win + Right Arrow Key Maximize Win + Up Arrow Key Restore from Maximize Win + Down Arrow Key Minimize from Restore Win + Down Arrow Key Aero Peek Win + Space Navigating the Taskbar Win + T (And use the arrow keys) Sponsored Listing July 28 Bing Travel - Price PredictorI been a big fan of Farecast aka Bing Travel. For the past 3-4 months, I have not had to use anything but Farecast when shopping for air tickets. I do sanity-check the tickets I buy with Kayak.com/Southwest. Farecast has been a really good buy for Microsoft! I saw this Ad yesterday on TV. Nothing extra-ordinary about it. A decent Ad that gets the point across. YouTube - Bing Travel - Price Predictor
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Click Here! February 18 Multnomah FallsOver the last few months, I have really started to enjoy the www.live.com homepage backgrounds.
Todays' background image was about Multnomah falls, something I did not know existed.
A cool feature Live.com guys can do is archival of the Live.com homepages. Something that lets you revisit a picture you liked February 17 Really Funny Windows Live Ad in IndiaCame across this really funny Ad on LiveSide . Now here is an Ad the target audience can identify with. The ad truly demostrates the concept of "Life without walls" with Windows.
February 13 Outlook Live - For EducationExchange labs announced "Outlook Live" as the new Microsoft Hosted Webased email service for Universities and educational institutions aka Live@Edu. The solution has some really neat features such as integrated IM, threading view for email (which I presonally prefer over the threading view supported by Gmail). Check out the video or check out the details @ source
January 14 “It’s Everybody’s Business” - The new Ads get itDecember 05 Windows Mobile facing tough competitionSeattle PI's Microsoft blog is reporting that Windows Mobile market share shrunk as iPhone sales surpassed Windows Mobile phones for the first time.
September 11 New Family – Seinfeld and Bill Gates - Ad number 2
The second Ad is much better than the first one. This is quiet funny actually and has some association with Windows. Though I doubt if the regular windows user will be able to make any association out of it. Hopefully they will get it right on the third try ;-)  August 09 Beautiful live.comLive.com homepage has generated some buzz lately with some very tastefully done backgrounds. I have been saving each of them and I love them. Scroll to the bottom of this entry for link to all the images from the public skydrive location.       August 08 Next.my.msn.comJuly 04 Themed Live Search HomepageI had read stories about it. I had heard rumors about it. I had heard village people whisper about the it. Today I saw it :). Here is a screen shot. It looks like the themed page is still in testing. As I can see it, only on one of my machines. This should allow the Live Search team to enable the scenario to theme the homepage by occasion going forward. Hopefully, on the next 4th of July we will see www.live.com themed for American Independence day!
Get quick access to maps, driving directions, and aerial views through Windows Live Toolbar. June 01 Live Search Cashback - Showing up in sponsored linksLive Search team recently added another service to their portfolio - Live Search Cashback. While this is old news, cashback links have started appearing in the "Sponsored links" for live search. Have a look For those who have not heard of Live Search Cashback, its a new service coming from Microsoft's acquisition of JellyFish. Here's a quick summary from the FAQ page.
Here is a screenshot of the landing page.
 SkyDrive gets hot new updatesWindows Live SkyDrive, added some minor but very useful updates making the service even more desirable! Here is the summary from Windows Live Wire:
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