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See what chickens are capable of! Redecorate your desktop with this free Windows 7 theme, featuring wacky images—full of deadly obstacles and delicious corn—from the Xbox LIVE game.

Via webtrickz.com:

[snip]… now available for iOS devices, thus providing the Non-iPhone 4S owners an opportunity to try out a Siri like efficient service. Besides being a Siri alternative, Speaktoit offers newer capabilities and supports all iPhones, iPod touch and iPad running iOS 4.0 or later.

Speaktoit Assistant is a virtual buddy for your iPhone or iPod that uses natural language technology to answer questions, find information, and connect you with various web services, such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Evernote, and many others.

The Assistant works with your device to get maps, search for news and images, look up weather reports, convert currency and measurements, send email, and much more.

No need to memorize special commands or complex interfaces – simply speak or type in everyday language and the Assistant will understand and respond with what you need.

Speaktoit is still free for Android but the iOS version of the same is available for $1.99 on the App Store. However, you’ve the chance to get it free as the developers are offering it for Free to the first 100,000 people on Valentine’s Day.

From iTunes:

Dear friends, you hold a special place in our hearts! We can’t send you all a card, so here are 100,000 Assistants for free, and half price for the rest of the day!!! Happy Valentine’s Day! PLEASE NOTE – we are aware of temporary problems with voice recognition, they are being fixed now.

Get Speaktoit from iTunes.

From Microsoft…

The rosy light of dawn creeping over a mountain range as the world wakes up. The twinkling lights of a big city over a descending sun. The early morning silence of a tree-lined canal. This free theme for Windows 7 desktop invites you to enjoy those hushed moments when day gives way to night and night gives way to day.

Download for free (you’ll need a Dropbox account)…

Google releases Chrome beta for Android phones…

Download Chrome beta

I’m ready for winter to be over…

Here’s a simple website that claims you can test whether your own site is visible in China…

Click to test your site.

-Chrome only-

Enlarge thumbnails on mouse over. Works on many sites (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Reddit, Amazon, Tumblr, etc).

Browse images galleries with ease: move the mouse cursor over thumbnails to view images in their full size without loading a new page. Pictures are automatically resized if they don’t fit the window.

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