Completely off topic and random, but I like it.

Windows 7 Aero Peek

Windows 7 Media Player

Windows 7 Touch Maps

Windows 7 Taskbar Colour Hovering

Windows 7 Touch Application

Windows Live Messenger Wave 3 UI

Windows 7 Desktop Preview Button

Windows 7 System Tray

Windows 7 Touch and Gestures

Windows 7 Taskbar and Jump Lists

The video show a walkthrough of the complete install. However, a pre-configured iso is now available for the MSI Wind/Advent 4211

1. Download, burn  and install the MSIWindosx86.iso.  Sourced from the ‘usual’ sources. NB. The build is the release up to 10.5.4
2. Install Paul’s MSI Wind Driver Utility Pack and install the fixes and unpack all Kexts, you will need to reinstall all of these shortly
3. Install 10.5.5, from a working system on 10.5.4
   1. Download 10.5.5 from here
   2. Mount DMG
   3. Run Terminal
   4. Type ’sudo passwd’ and enter your password
   5. Set your root password (and confirm)
   6. Type ’su root’ and enter your password
   7. Type ‘while sleep 1 ; do rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext ; done’ (the terminal window should just ‘freeze’ (it’s processing a loop))
   8. Run the updater (MacOSXUpd10.5.5.pkg) from the volume you mounted earlier. When it completes do NOT restart
   9. Switch back to the Terminal window
   10. Press Ctrl-C
   11. Type ‘exit’ (and then again) to close terminal window
   12. Switch back to updater and press restart

NOTE: When the system boots, you’ll need to reinstall the video drivers, just drop the kexts back onto the kext helper and reboot when prompted. If you experience problems, reboot into safe mode and reinstall ALL the kexts. (Press Shift on startup to enter Darwin, then –x, for Safe Mode)

Also, always ensure you have the latest BIOS

You can view the BIOS version by entering the BIOS setup (press ‘del’ at startup).
- MSI machines: download your BIOS update here
- Advent machines: download your BIOS update here

After updating your BIOS, enter BIOS setup and press F9 to ‘restore best performance defaults’. This step is VITAL!

GeekBench - check out the score of your machine! It should be around 900.

Hat tip to Read Write Web

Social Submission and Aggregation Yahoo Pipes

Social Site Submission Watch Dog
The Social Site Submission pipe allows you to keep track of all of your articles that are submitted to either Digg or Reddit. Just enter in your site url without the ‘http://’ (www.domain.com) and you’ll receive a list of links of your site submissions along with the current number of Diggs your article has received. Grab the RSS feed to keep track of your site submissions.

Social Media Firehose
Search some of the most popular social media sites for brand, product, or keyword mentions with Social Media Firehose.

Digg, del.icio.us, Reddit, Slashdot mashup v2
Grab a filtered mashup of news from popular submission sites like Digg, Reddit, Slashdot and del.icio.us.

Super Digg Feed v2.0
Receive configurable alerts for stories on Digg in specific categories or with a specified number of minimum diggs along with a host of information to help you decide what’s hot and what’s not in the Digg community.

Meta Search Alerts
Aggregate search results from Del.icio.us, Flickr, Google Blog Search, Google News, Icerocket, Live Search, Technorati, Yahoo News and more with Meta Search Alerts.

Content Keyword RSS
This pipe will search news sources from multiple sites such as Digg, Technorati, Yahoo News, PRWeb, and Google News, compare content to remove duplicates and output a unique RSS feed full of content related to your keywords.

FriendFeed Minus Twitter
Get the latest from your FriendFeed stream, without the noise from Twitter.

Twitter Feed without Replies
Grab this feed to import your Twitter stream into social aggregation sites such as FriendFeed without your replies to users.

Twitter Link Moniter
Want to keep track of all those great links that your followers on Twitter send out? The Twitter Link Monitor pipe does that for you. Simply enter your username and the pipe will instantly grab all that great content you just don’t want to miss out on.

Friends Name Alphabetical
Interested in knowing how large the followings of your followers are on Twitter? This is just the pipe for you. Friends Name Alphabetical provides a list of who your following and how many people are following them. Just in case you ever want to be nosy.

RSSmeme’s Filters
The best and only filter out there for Google Reader Shared Items aggregator RSSmeme. Keep track of how popular your favorite sources are or find some of the most popular stories on RSSmeme with this Yahoo Pipe creation.

Pricing Alert Yahoo Pipes - Catch That Deal!

eBay Simple Price Search
This Pipe was designed to search with a specified price range in eBay.com. Add your search terms along with your minimum amount and maximum amounts to keep up with the best deals on eBay.

Amazon, Craigslist and eBay price watcher
Save time tracking the best prices for an item on Amazon, Craigslist, and eBay with this pipe creation.

Amazon Item Search
Searches for items by keyword on amazon.com Get the title, price and in the description you get the average rating. When you link some product just click on its link and you will be on this Amazon’s product page.
Netflix To Amazon
Takes your Netflix feed for movies at home and replace each item with the most relevant results found on Amazon. Description include an image, pricing, and more. Grab your Netflix userid by looking at your personalized feeds on Netflix.

Bestselling Books
Keep up with the Amazons bestselling booklist. This Yahoo Pipe creation is updated hourly to include the most popular books on Amazon.

Amazon Books: Movers and Shakers
Find out what books are hot and what’s going out of style on Amazon with this Yahoo Pipe.

Amazon Books: Most Wished For
I could never find that perfect book for a family member or friend. If you’re in the same boat, keep up with Amazon’s most wished for books and opt to go with the crowd. At least if they don’t like the book you can blame it on the majority of Amazon’s customers.

Media Yahoo Pipes

New York Times through Flickr
Here’s a unique way of looking at the New York Times via Flickr photos. Keywords for NYT’s homepage are passed through various filters to find matching photos on Flickr.

Last.fm Recent Tracks + Youtube: Last.fm meets YouTube
Find the Youtube videos for your Last.fm playlist.

Favourite Artists News
Keep up with the latest news on the artists from your Last.fm favorite artists.

Recently Played Streamable Songs (Last.FM)
A list of recently played songs filtered to only include songs that are streamable on Last.FM

Muxtape Recommendations
Enter your Last.fm user name and this Pipe will find featured Muxtapes that include at least one track from a favorite artist of yours. The Pipe is a little buggy so you may need to run it a few times.

Free iTunes Downloads - Videos
Keep up-to-date with the latest free TV and video downloads available from the iTunes US Store.

Free iTunes Downloads - Songs
Want to know about the latest free song download available from the iTunes US Store? Grab the RSS feed of this pipe to keep up.

New Movie Trailers
Grab the latest movie trailers from iTunes mashed with their video counterparts on Youtube.

YouTunes Top 100
A clone of the popular YouTunes pipe, find the music videos of the top 100 songs on iTunes.

YouTube tags to RSS
Be alerted when videos on Youtube are tagged with specific keywords that you may be interested in watching.

Hat tip to Steve. Speed Launch from the Office Labs team, is an application launcher that extends the functionality and usability of Windows by giving users quick access to the documents, files, and websites they use most often.  Reminds me of the excellent Quicksilver launcher for the Apple Mac.  I’ve often wondered why no one has written a good extendible launcher for Windows?

“People of Berlin – and people of the world – the scale of our challenge is great. The road ahead will be long. But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of improbable hope. With an eye toward the future, with resolve in our hearts, let us remember this history, and answer our destiny, and remake the world once again…”

Fantastic speech by Obama

Type “about:config” in your firefox address bar.

Search for the following settings:

1. network.http.pipelining  -  Set to TRUE
2. network.http.pipelining.firstrequest  -  Set to TRUE
3. network.http.pipelining.maxrequests -  Set to 32
4. network.http.proxy.pipelining  -  Set to TRUE
5. nglayout.initialpaint.delay  -  Set to 0

Its very likely that you won’t have an entry for network.http.pipelining.firstrequest. Thats ok. Just add one.

Right-click on the preferences list, select ‘New’ then select ‘Boolean’

On the first prompt, type:
network.http.pipelining.firstrequest

On the second prompt, set it to TRUE

Its also likely that you won’t have an entry for nglayout.initialpaint.delay

Right-click on the preferences list, select ‘New’ then select ‘Integer’

On the first prompt, type:
nglayout.initialpaint.delay

On the second prompt, set it to ‘0?