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• Top Secret XBMC Developments

• NVIDIA ION and LinuxTag (by blittan)

• 2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets

• Use hot screen corners with modifier keys
• Intel, Nokia team on Linux-based phone OS

• 12 Useful Techniques For Good User Interface Design
• Font Picker: Visual Font Picker
• Six Best DVR Applications [Hive Five]
• Geek.Menu Organizes Your USB Applications [Featured Windows Download]
• VisualWikipedia Adds Interactive Context to Wikipedia [Wikipedia]
• Speedier Ext4 Filesystem Available in Ubuntu 9.04 [Linux]

• 10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques
• Web Design Trends For 2009
• Smashing Magazine Comic Strip: Episode 1
• Calibrate laptop battery
• Windows 7 Beta, fishing for clues

• Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: January 2009
• Facebook Reaches 150 Million Users; Are You One of Them? [Reader Poll]
• Windows 7 System Requirements Less Hungry than Vista’s Were [Windows 7]
• Boxee Goes Public, Adds MTV, Joost, and iPlayer Support [Media Center]
• Extensive Walkthrough of Windows 7’s Changes and Features [Windows 7]

• Windows 7 Beta 1 Out in the Wild [Windows 7]
• Improved course on building Flex & AIR clients for various service types available online
• Learning Flex in a week using video tutorials
• Firefox and Chrome Run Gmail Twice as Fast as IE, Says Google [Google]
• Picasa for Macs Might Launch at Macworld 2009 [Picasa]
• Majority of Lifehacker readers say XBMC is the best!

Well I thought I’d better start the year with a new theme for my blog. The theme is called Pixeled and I found it on the Wordpress theme site. One day when I get my a into g I will design my own them.

This year I hope to actively add blog posts. I know it seems to be every year or so I seem to say this but this year I am going to make the effort.

I think after all the video tutorials I’ll be all Flex’ed out but I’ve found another place to learn some more tricks to do with Flex. The Flex in a week video tutorial site.

They also have an RSS feed for the videos so you can get Miro to download them,