Quality collection of widescreen Vista Wallpapers. Site also contains the full collection of standard sized wallpapers.

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Sim AQUARIUM screensaver brings the most realistic coral reef aquarium to your computer screen. Its stunning, photo-realistic graphics recreate the beauty of 3D fish swimming freely in a 3D environment, including a reef, with live clams and swaying sea life.

Sim AQUARIUM lets you choose among 41 species of fish, bringing you as close to a living, growing reef as you can get on your computer.

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Amazing Firefox skin inspired by Windows Vista! It had to happen eventually…good job

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Very nice collection of Vista Themes. For applying these themes to your computer you will need mainly the free Theme Manager

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Microsoft Corp. has failed to deliver on its promise of downloadable extras for the highest-priced version of Windows Vista, critics claim.

Dubbed “Extras” and exclusive to Vista Ultimate, the downloads were touted before, at and after the launch as one of a handful of features that separated the $399 operating system from the $239 Home Premium. On Ultimate’s marketing site, Microsoft currently says of Extras: “These cutting-edge programs, innovative services, and unique publications provide a richer computing experience for Windows Vista Ultimate users.”

Trouble is, according to critics like Scott Dunn, an editor with the popular “Windows Secrets” newsletter, Microsoft hasn’t followed through. Since January, when Vista was released to consumers, no new finished Extra have been offered to Ultimate users.

“Extras is not a minor feature of Ultimate,” Dunn argued. “It’s one of the things that sets it apart from Home Premium, and one of the few unique things that has been promised Ultimate users.”

Microsoft issued three Extras when Vista debuted, including a poker game; an add-on to BitLocker, Vista’s whole-disk encryption tool; and language packs for the operating system’s Multilingual User Interface. The next month, Microsoft posted DreamScene, a video screensaver, in beta form; DreamScene has not shifted out of beta since then.

“Some of these so-called extras should have been included with Ultimate,” Dunn said, citing the BitLocker add-on. “Without that, it’s very difficult to even use BitLocker.”…

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Sweet set of icons by Louie Mantia. Check them out here.

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On the surface, this may seem like any Longhorn theme, but there is scarcely one Microsoft element used unedited, and all glass elements and main theme elements are redesigned from scratch.

Menus, Address Bar and Slider graphics to be replaced in 1.0. Current versions are taken from Percept. Version 1.0 will be released once bugs are ironed out and will include .PSD’s of all theme elements and be released under a creative commons licence.

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