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Last year we posted you some gorgeous Windows 7 wallpapers; as the Operating System has been out for some time now we thought we’d showcase some of the new themes you can download for your Windows 7 absolutely free.

Of course there are many websites out there offering you “free” Windows 7 theme downloads, the problem with most is that you’ll almost always be directed to another site where they want you to complete a survey, take an IQ test or something else that will end up wasting much of your time. For this reason I’ve decided to direct you to one site where you can get all of the themes and wallpapers I’m about to show you and that is: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/personalize ; as the URL would imply, this is the official Microsoft page where you can download free Windows 7 themes for your licensed copy of Windows 7.

Most Windows 7 themes you download will automatically change your background in line with the current theme. For example the Porsche theme shown below switches between a large variety of different Porsche models, keeping your desktop looking fresh, new and interesting at all times.

I’ll start off with something you can’t get directly from the above site, it’s my desktop with a customised background and theme, so if customisation is your thing you can get creative and work on something a bit more you.

yes yes, I'm a Final Fantasy fan

The Coca-Cola “open up happiness” theme

The Porsche theme

The Ferrari theme

Some Ducati for the bike lovers

Interestingly enough, there was a theme named “South Africa” too, the backgrounds it switches to are quite breathtaking

If you’ve ever played a game in the Final Fantasy franchise there’s a very good chance you’ll want to get your hands on Square Enix’s latest Final Fantasy title, Final Fantasy XIII; and if you’ve never played a Final Fantasy game before now is as good a time as ever to start.

As usual the latest Final Fantasy has its own unique story totally independent from previous Final Fantasy storylines with the exception of a few familiar names and of course Chocobos! The main character is a woman who goes by the name Lightning; Lightning will be the first female who is the main protagonist in a Final Fantasy game (with exception to Luna in FFX-2, but we’re not counting that).  Square Enix have always created totally unique Worlds set in complete fantasy and the land known as “Cocoon” looks as if though it will be no exception.

Square Enix have also created a completely new fighting system which looks quite interesting indeed (check it out: http://www.finalfantasy13game.com/#/uk/news/15 ). From what can be seen in the game play videos Final Fantasy XIII’s combat is quite a bit faster than its predecessors and incorporates a new form of summoning which looks incredible visually. Also check out the launch trailer:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-mCRvtX8g .

Final Fantasy 13 is set for release during this month of March 2010 for the PS3 and Xbox360. Sony will be releasing a special limited edition Final Fantasy 13 PS 3 slim console bundle (pictured below); this was already released in the East as it has been out there for some time now.

I can carry on yapping for hours on why you should buy this game when it comes out, suffice it to say that Final Fantasy 13 will push your consoles graphic capabilities to the boundary of its known limits and this is definitely going to be a totally awesome and inspiring game. Check out the official website (link posted above) and witness the beauty that is Final Fantasy 13.

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The first thing that stood out to me about this phone was that it used an operating system named “Bada” note that it struck my interest and sparked a thought more along the lines of “what on earth is Bada” and not “oh cool, they’re finally using the Bada OS on phones!”. I did what comes naturally when stumbling across anything I don’t comprehend or know of and went over to Wikipedia where I soon learnt that “Bada is a mobile operating system being developed by Samsung Electronics”.

The Bada operating system seems to be quite intensely focused on multimedia and specifically mobile gaming. When viewing the planned specs and stats for the smart phone you’ll realise that this phone will be quite a heavyweight amongst the smart phone line up for this year.

I managed to score some pics on how the phone will look from the dailymobile.se website. The smart phone will have the following features:

• 3.3 inch AMOLED touch screen display
• Bada OS with TouchWiz 3.0
• HSDPA & Wi-Fi
• DivX playback
• 5MP autofocus camera with flash
• 720p High definition video recording
• 1GHz CPU with 2GB of internal memory
• MicroSD card slot

No speculation yet as to the price tag and release date of the S8500 as yet but we’ll keep you posted.

I’m sure that by now you no doubt have heard at least something about Apple’s Tablet device. Something quite similar and yet also innovative is the Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid. Hybrid how? Well the IdeaPad can be used as a standalone tablet device for viewing media and/or e-books and listening to music using. When in its tablet form the IDeaPad makes use of Linux as an operating system. The IdeaPad will be a multi-touch tablet and boasts some very eye pleasing aesthetics.

The standalone Ideapad as a tablet like device

Now here’s where the hybrid and impressive part comes into play. The IdeaPad can slot into a its notebook shell and be used as a fully functional notebook too, once you’ve “docked” the tablet into its notebook bay the operating system switches to Windows 7!

The IdeaPad U1 looks like any other notebook when closed

The slate (or tablet like device) when removed from the docking bay has 16gb of storage space which should sufficient for all the multimedia you’d want on the run. The standalone tablet will also have around 8 hours of battery life.

Have a look at some of the demo videos on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSen-_2scIA , this will link you up to some more to get a better idea regarding this handy and innovative piece of hardware.

The U1 Hybrid is set to be available towards the second half of this year and was one of the most impressive showcases at the 2010 CES.