Many of us – in fact the majority of the developed world – depend on computers for a large portion of our day-to-day tasks. From word processing to video editing, there’s always a task for which we are indebted to our desktops in helping us complete.

When one considers Facebook’s colossal billion-approaching army of regular e-socializers, the fact its chat feature hasn’t really taken off has left many analysts scratching their heads in confusion.

Flash, developed by Macromedia in 1996 before being acquired by Adobe, has been a mainstay in the commercial evolution of the internet. Catering for video, animation and interaction on a majority of websites, it has been part of the nucleus of phenomenon such as YouTube as well as the many flash games websites for the last fifteen years.

Are you a Windows 7 user aching for some roaring action on your PC? Well, installing OS X Lion on a non-Mac machine (i.e. a “PC”) takes a lot of work. But you can try out some of Lion’s features on Windows 7 for example: “Full Screen” on Windows can be replicated by simply maximizing a window/pressing F11. Quite innovative, no?

Rovio Mobile’s super popular Angry Birds series of games, which are available on just about every platform from Windows to the Nokia’s defunct Maemo OS, has received its own theme for Windows 7.

We’re all excited about the prospect of a shiny new operating system from the wizards at Microsoft with its shiny user interface. If you just can’t wait to have that Windows 8 feel though, you’re in luck, thanks to a handy skin pack courtesy of one clever DeviantArt user.

After the debacle of Windows Vista, it seems Microsoft is onto a winner with Windows 7 with the OS selling over 350m licenses since its release in October 2009.

Kinect sure has been to places it wasn’t designed for. Such is the power of hacking the devices and using them to your benefit. We have previously seen Kinect hacked to work with PlayStation 3. Not just that, some clever folks took just 24 hours to turn GMail’s April fools joke into a working reality using Kinect, and much more.

After-Mouse.com is the first company to unveil a retail application based on Microsoft’s Kinect hardware and Windows 7.

When Microsoft made Windows 7 SP1 available last month, users the world over set off downloading the update, but what if you want the files on a good old piece of plastic? Now you can order SP1 for free from Microsoft’s Online Store.

As promised, Microsoft today has released Windows 7 SP1 (Service Pack 1) and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (Service Pack 1) to public as a free download.

The very final RTM bits of both Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 have managed to slip through and has landed into the wild just like the previous builds 7601.16537, 7601.16543 and 7601.16562. Build number for Windows 7 SP1 RTM is 7601.17514.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850 which means that it was compiled on 19th November 2010.