Tomorrow is the “World No Tobacco Day” 2009.

The World Health Organization is hosting this event. They even have flyer, brochures and posters on their website: http://www.who.int/tobacco/

According to MedIndia.net there are currently more than 1.1 billion smokers in the world and the number could increase to 1.6 billion by 2025.

It might be a bit late for printing posters, but if you want to support this global event, then put one of the following wallpapers on the desktop of a smoker.

He/She will be surprised and think about quitting (again). Personally, I think you can’t convince people to quit, they have to make that decision themselves. It still might be a good idea to do that to kick-start a discussion.

Anyway, here we go:

TrueWhisper

If you want to discuss it, join our forums here

More Wallpapers “Click Read More”.

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The UEFA Informer Gadget tracks football matches scores, fixtures and teams standing in real time for all UEFA Competitions and major domestic leagues from UEFA zone like English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, and more (35 countries).

The new version of the Gadget with the possibility to create user menu from any quantity of preferred competitions.

There are plenty of great football gadgets for vista, but only some of them really provide useful info.The UEFA Informer Gadget is one of them. To keep track of international leagues this is the best tool.

Another very useful gadget has been submitted by flywork.

NewsReader is a simplest and easy-to-use Vista gadget to read RSS feeds subscribed with Internet Explorer

You can download it in our “user-submitted gadgets section” here.

Do you know any other great Vista Gadget we should know of? Submit them!

Using Vista? Ever found the perfect icon set to theme your desktop, but discovered it was Mac only?
iConvert solves the problem, allowing you to freely convert icons from any platform to any other platform.

http://iconverticons.com/

This was a user-submission by “kingrobot” (thank you).

I thought I would feature this on our frontpage. This online tool might come in handy. If you ever have to convert any icons, this is the page where you should go to. Their site layout is very clean and minimalistic and gets the job done quickly. One of the best web 2.0 sites I’ve seen lately. Thumbs up!

If you want to give Mathew Eis (the creator of this tool) any feedback, simply follow this link.

Do you know any other great web 2.0 sites? Feel free to submit them to our site.

Freebies from Iconshock

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Are you still using Windows Vista? Microsoft will soon release a major update that will improve security and performance. Read the full story here.

On the other hand Microsoft is giving away a copy of Windows 7 RC1 that will run for 13 months (yep, more than a year!). If you need a download link you can either wait 2 days or get the link here.

Microsoft earned $13.65 billion this quarter, which is an overall decline of 6% compared with last year.

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Happy Earth Day 2009!

10 things you should know about Earth Day.

The Earth Day has been celebrated since 1970 in many countries. The “official” Earth Day site is http://earthday.net – you can signup for the Earth Day network here. Start being eco-friendly!

In 1970 smog choked major U.S. cities and toxic waste flooded rivers. That same year nearly 20 million Americans participated in events on April 22, spearheaded by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, to draw attention to the environmental issues plaguing the planet and human health. Named Earth Day, April 22 has remained a time to celebrate restoration and stand up for the planet. thegreenguide.com

Here are a couple fresh “Earth Day Wallpaper”…

Moguviel DeviantArt

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The registration link is fixed now. You can access it here, directly.

Our submission system can be accessed with out registering, in case you wondered.

If you want to try out Vista for 30 days, you can get a Vista VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) from Microsoft.

Microsoft also released a Vista VHD for Web Developers and that one will be running for 120 days!
Grab it here. You will need Microsoft’s Virtual PC.

So, you may wonder why the hell would I want a Vista VHD? Well, it might come in handy to try out stuff! If you don’t need it, you can still download a Windows 7 VHD over at http://windows7themes.net

Have you read the post “Microsoft’s Vision of the future“? Do you want to find out more about the latest developments? Read on.

“Microsoft Surface” is one of the latest breakthrough technologies. It’s taking touch-screens to the next level. You can place any digital device on your “Microsoft Surface Table” and it will automatically recognize it and will make data, such as photos and videos, viewable. You can then drag it everywhere, resize it, transfer it to another device or do whatever you feel like. Of course, it’s not transferring instantly (yet), but we’re getting closer, thanks to Microsoft.
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