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Because the internet is more than just Windows Guides, we have prepared a selection of the best technology posts of this week.

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UPDATE - A massive thank you to all who took part in this amazing Giveaway. As much as i’d love to give you all a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate for the new year, unfortunately there can only be one winner.
The winner has been notified via. their Facebook account. Please get in contact with me at rsvr85 at mintywhite dot com to arrange shipping.
Again, a huge thanks to all who participated, congratulations to the winner and a happy new year!

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We love our readers at Windows Guides.  So much so, we’re delighted to announce our Windows Guides Christmas Giveaway, which is…(drum roll please)….Windows 7 Ultimate, just in case you missed the post title!

The competition will run from now until 1st January 2011 (3 weeks) where the winner will be announced shortly after.

Here’s how to get your hands on this amazing prize:

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I’ve stopped buying music.

Now hold on, before you jump to any wrong conclusions – I don’t illegally download it either. I rent it … sort of.

These day it seems, the music industry are doing what they can to make it harder for honest people to get the music they want (and according to some, encouraging them to “steal”). Some smart people have come up with a great solution: Legal Streaming. Almost with the industry’s blessing.

There are several online solutions for streaming music legally – but in my book there are only two worth checking out: Spotify and Grooveshark. Both of which give you all the music you can ever listen too, free (ad-supported) and legal. Both also provides a paid service without ads and commercial breaks.

Mini Review.

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Over the last 18 weeks, we’ve released 16 wallpaper packs—each with 50 wallpapers*. In this post, we recap these collections and provide links to them all. Have fun finding a new desktop wallpaper!

Update: Check out the second and third collection of 800 wallpapers.

*One of the wallpaper sites we usually link to has changed its design and is now riddled with ads. Because of this, I’ve removed all links to this site, which takes the number slightly lower than 800.

Desktop Wallpaper: 50 High-resolution Wallpapers for Windows, Linux, Mac [Set 1]

50 High-resolution Wallpapers [Set 2]

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We love the holiday season, we also love customising our desktops.

That’s why we’ve teamed up with mlewallpapers.com to bring you 5 festive Windows 7 Themepacks for your PC this Christmas!

Each pack contains 5 unique, hand-picked wallpapers and are totally free.

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: December 9, 2010
Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: December 14, 2010

This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on December 14, 2010.

This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the December bulletin summary on December 14, 2010. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification.

To receive automatic notifications whenever Microsoft Security Bulletins are issued, subscribe to Microsoft Technical Security Notifications.

Microsoft will host a webcast to address customer questions on the security bulletins on December 15, 2010, at 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada). Register now for the December Security Bulletin Webcast. After this date, this webcast is available on-demand. For more information, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Summaries and Webcasts.

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