If you’re the type that quickly and easily gets tired of the at times boring, and “normal” drab that ships as the Windows 7 UI, Rainmeter has something for you — A Windows Phone 7 complete UI skin for Windows on the desktop. The skin is quite complete with over 30 different panels to interact with, giving the normal desktop Windows a complete overhaul. How well will a mostly finger-based UI handle your standard keyboard and mouse? That I will...

WinMo and Windows Phone users hoping for a little mobile Firefox love thanks to the exceptionally good looking (and performing) “Fennec” will be utterly depressed to the point of no return this morning to learn that the mobile Firefox team has canceled any and all work on the mobile Microsoft build. They chalk it up to Microsoft’s new development rules going into Windows Phone 7, namely the restriction on apps running in native code, instead requiring...

Well, it seems that the Windows Web Browser Choice Screen mandated by the European Union to splash on all versions of Windows is working great! According to the latest data from Opera, one of the options given on the main choice screen, their downloads across European Countries has skyrocketed! Opera says it’s “dramatic uptake on downloads.” They are telling us that their download rates have doubled since this browser download and activation pop-up was...

Soon, all of us 360 owners will be shoved an update that will now allow for USB Storage compatibility! This is actually exciting news, we no longer will be only left with the option to fork out a small fortune for Microsoft’s drives, we can use our own HDD for game saves, downloadable games and DLC. For me this is huge, because when I first purchased my 360, years ago, I had a 20g harddrive option. That is all I have, which is actually left with around 4 or so gigs. My...

Let it be known, the last few days have been a roller coaster ride for Windows Mobile/Windows Phone users (and hopefuls). The announcement that copy&paste wasn’t going to be available at launch has filled the interwebs the last couple of days. For good reason though. Regardless of how “smart” an OS is at determining types of data and what to do with them, good ‘ol fashioned cut/copy/paste always has it’s place. There may be hope however...