Microsoft has released five new official themes for windows 7 - City Lights, Taiwan Sketches, Behind the Masks, Calligraphy and Naruto Shippuden 5.

The theme City Lights contains 11 awesome photographs taken by Talha Tariq and the other two themes – Taiwan sketches and Behind the Masks - are the sketches and drawings of Chinese artist Cheng Ling – depicting the everyday life in Taiwan and mask drawings respectively. Also, the theme Calligraphy has calligraphic ink sketches while the theme Naruto Shippuden 5 consists of a series of wallpapers from the movie.

You can read here more on the photographer Talha Tariq and the Chinese artist Cheng Ling.

City Lights theme

Gorgeous time-lapse photographs by Talha Tariq capture the twilit glamour of two great Pacific Northwest cities, Vancouver and Seattle. A free theme for Windows 7.

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Taiwan Sketches theme

Train stations, boat docks, road-side markets, and other scenes of everyday life in Taiwan are affectionately captured by artist Cheng Ling in this free theme for Windows 7 desktops.

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Behind the Masks theme

The witty and whimsical pen-and-ink drawings by artist Cheng Ling in this free Windows 7 theme evoke a world of masquerades, fancy ladies, and fanciful beasts.

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Calligraphy theme

"Grace," "beauty," "journey," and other kanji boldly rendered in ink on delicately textured surfaces. A free Windows 7 theme to add serenity and inspiration to your desktop.

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Naruto Shippuden 5 theme

Naruto in prison? The manga and anime star finds himself incarcerated and at the mercy of the master criminal Mui in Naruto Shippūden 5: Blood Prison. This free theme for Windows 7 features a series of wallpapers from the movie. A must for the discerning Naruto superfan!

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Note: Windows 7 themes can only be used in Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate editions.

Google Public DNS opened few days before and Open DNS was there, your ISP DNS will be there and there are many others too. now are you confused which one will be the best option for you?

here are some Utilities that will help you to find the best choice for you.

1.  GRC Domain Name Speed Benchmark

You can add or remove the Domain Name Servers. Sort in the order of the speed. Can check the Cached, Uncached speeds separately etc.

GRC's DNS Benchmark performs a detailed analysis and comparison of the operational performance and reliability of any set of up to 200 DNS nameservers (sometimes also called resolvers) at once.

Once the benchmark finishes, the results are heuristically and statistically analyzed to present a comprehensive yet simplified and understandable English-language summary of all important findings and conclusions. Based upon these results, users may choose to change the usage order of their system's own resolvers, or, if alternative public nameservers offer superior performance compared with the nameservers currently being used, to switch to one or more alternative nameservers.

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2.  Namebench

Namebench runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and UNIX, and is available with a graphical user interface as well as a command-line interface.

Namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way

3. Dns Tester

You can compare two DNS ips here to see which is faster. you need to enter them manually.