Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3: 6000 Copies Stolen Before Official Release

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 just became available. The video is part of the buildup to the much-heralded U.S. release of the game on Tuesday, Nov. 8 for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Game creator Activision adding a free social network that lets you track your game play stats across all platforms, and it works on this new game, Call of Duty Black Ops from last year and any Call Of Duty games coming in the future. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 is available for preorder now, retailing for $59.99 for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

French site TFI News reports that on Saturday morning, a van containing approximately €400,000 worth of video games was attacked by criminals, who crashed their car into the truck and then used tear gas and knives to subdue the drivers. These thieves targeted and then crashed a car into a van loaded with thousands of copies of the game, driving in southern Paris. A separate report indicates that the shipment was made up of over 6,000 copies of Modern Warfare 3 on their way to retailers in preparation for tomorrow's launch. 

 

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Nokia Mobile Use Windows OS - Lumia

Nokia has officially unveiled Lumia 800, the first Windows Phone-based device from the mobile giant at the Nokia World conference 2011 in London."It's a new dawn for Nokia, And we think we can break through." CEO Stephen Elop said at Nokia World Conference 2011 in London.

Microsoft has also packed the device with free software. Lumia 800 will be the only Windows Phone with Nokia Drive, which offers full, turn-by-turn voice navigation. Nokia is taking the right steps to diversify their phones by offering three apps you won't find with other carriers are the ESPN hub, Nokia Drive for turn-by-turn directions, and a music app that will do music mixes and streaming radio. Nokia Drive was the only one we were able to see, and the voice read-out. It's a great addition that will help match Android's turn-by-turn Google Maps navigation.

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Microsoft TV Coming Soon

A report from the Seattle Times claims that Microsoft plans to unveil a version of Windows created specifically for internet connected TVS and set top boxes at CES.

Believed to be a direct competitor with the Apple TV and Google TV, Brier Dudley reports the company plans to show off a stripped down version of Windows tailored for internet connected TVs and set top boxes. Of course we expect Microsoft to partner with hardware manufacturers and provide only the OS for the devices in question.

 

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Angry Bird For Windows PC

Angry Birds is a phenomenal game in mobile devices like iPhone, iPad, and Android phones, a simple game with simple rules as well. But the challenges given by the Angry Birds are very attractive. This game has a story of the struggle against the pigs who steal the eggs of birds. And the challenge is, the birds must be thrown by a slingshot to destroy the pigs. Very exciting!. Angry Birds have 5 characters of different birds, each bird species has a special ability to destroy the pigs.

 

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Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcut's Tricks

Anyone working professionally with a computer has their hands on the keyboard most of the time. Reaching for the mouse can be an annoying disturbance and personally I often turn over my mouse in such situations. An easy solution is to simply keep the hands on the keyboard and complete as many tasks as possible with keyboard shortcuts only.

Aero Shortcuts :
•[Windows] + [Spacebar] (Aero Peek)
Make all open windows transparent to view gadgets and icons on desktop.
•[Windows] + [D] (Aero Peek)
Show or hide the desktop.
•[Windows] + [Home] (Aero Shake)
Minimize all but selected window. Reverse by clicking the key combination again.

•[Windows] + left arrow OR [Windows] + right arrow (Aero Snap)
Dock selected window to the left or right half of your screen.
•[Windows] + up arrow OR [Windows] + down arrow (Aero Snap)
Maximized and restores the selected window.
•[Windows] + [SHIFT] + up arrow OR [Windows] + [SHIFT] + down arrow (Aero Snap)
Maximizes and restores selected window in vertical dimension only.
•[Windows] + [Tab] (Aero Flip)
Launch 3D representation of open windows and click [Tab] key again to flip through them.

Windows & Taskbar Shortcuts :
•[Alt] + [Ctrl] + [Tag] + left/right/up/down arrow
Flip window.

 

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Evolution of Microsoft Windows OS

It all began in Plaza Hotel, New York City on the 10th of November 1983. Two Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates officially announced their corporation’s first and next-generation graphical user interface operating system – Microsoft Windows.

Despite the criticism on stability and constantly being compared to their rivals Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows is still the most widely used operating systems in the world. In this article, we’ll bring you back to 1985 where the very first official Microsoft Windows 1.0 was announced, and then we take a trip down memory lane to see all boot screens and desktop interface of all Windows operating system possible.

Windows 1.01 (1985) :
Officially released on November 20, 1985, this 16-bit OS that cost less than 1MB in overall is Microsoft’s very first operating system that allows multi tasking with graphical user interface on PC platform that runs on MS-DOS 5.0.

Windows 1.03 (1986) :
Introduced in 1986, Windows 1.03 is an upgrade to its previous predecessor Windows 1.01. Entire operating system cost about 2.2Mb hard disk space.

 

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Features Of Windows 8

Here is what we think the new OS should offer -
 1. Touch Screens: We have already saw Touch Screen version of OS ie Windows 7, so it is sure that there must be a lot of improvements in it, may be like multi-touch capability and lot more.

 2. Biometrics Support: New Windows 8 would have inbuilt Biometric password login support, now who need to type a password when you have your face or eye or finger print to do your work. Having said that it automatically enhances the security feature manifolds.

 

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