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Top 7 Most Downloaded Free Apps for Windows Phone 7.5

Are you curios to learn what apps Windows Phone users download? The list is pretty eye-opening and contains some very unexpected entries, at least for me.
In this article I will share a list with the most downloaded free Windows Phone apps, as compiled by AppFlow App Discovery, previously featured in our article Stay Up-to-Date on Windows Phone Apps with AppFlow App Discovery.

Get Awesome DRM-free eBooks About Windows 7 at 50% Off

Until May 9th, the good folks from O’Reilly Media and Microsoft Press have a great offer on eBooks. You can buy any Windows 7 title, including the book published by our team, at very good prices. When you purchase a title, you get it in all eBook formats, without any pesky DRM included. Don’t wait... there are only a few days left.

+1 Your Top 3 Favorite Articles & Win Kaspersky Internet Security 2012

We haven’t organized a giveaway in quite some time and we would like to reward our readers, with a few awesome prizes: 5 one-year licenses of Kaspersky Internet Security 2012, shared by the kind folks at Kaspersky Lab. To learn what you have to do, in order to be eligible to win one of the licenses, read this article.

Update: Do not forget to enter the giveaway. It will end soon, on April 17.

Launching the "Best of 7 Tutorials" Category

Since we started our website, we published lots of articles, some better and more useful than others. We arrived at a point where we have plenty of unique high-quality content, which you don’t find on other websites. In order to highlight it and make it easier to find, we decided to create a category called Best of 7 Tutorials, which contains only great articles everyone should read. What exactly will you find there? Let’s find out together.

Test Comparison: Which Browser Will Make Your Laptop's Battery Last Longer?

Do you have a laptop or netbook with average or poor battery lifetime? If that’s the case, you might want to use an Internet browser that’s able to take advantage of the power saving features included with Windows 7 or Windows 8. We tested all the major browsers and had some very surprising results. Read on to learn which browser is best at squeezing more time out of your laptop’s battery. Is it Google Chrome? Is it Internet Explorer? Or is it Firefox?

How Security Products Are Made - A Discussion with Bitdefender

One of the topics of interest at 7 Tutorials is security. Not only we write articles and tutorials about how to have a safe computing experience but we also review security products on a regular basis. One of the things we wanted to learn more about, is how security products are made: what are the steps involved? the most important challenges? etc. Luck has it that we got the chance to meet with Alexandru Constantinescu - Social Media Manager at Bitdefender, who immediately said: "Hey! Why don’t you pay us a visit and learn more from our team? We accepted the invite and today we can share with you an extensive discussion about how security products are made."

Ask the Readers: What Do You Want to Know About How Security Products Are Made?

Very soon, we will be going to the offices of a major developer of security products. They develop and sell all the types of security products you can think of: from standard antivirus and security suites for consumers to security products for servers and enterprises. We will spend a few hours in their offices, discuss with some of their top experts about the process involved in creating a security product, detecting viruses and updating their database of malware, etc. We would like you to share some questions you would like answered during our visit. What would you like to know about how security products are developed and maintained?

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