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Change Windows XP file type icons 2008-08-29 07:18:14 Yes, Windows
XP was introduced with certain pleasing eyecandy and whole new bunch of cool default icons. But, people want change overtime. So, if you are also jaded with the default Windows XP file type icons, here is a small trick for you to change them.Follow these steps to begin:Open My Computer.Select Tools from menubar.Select Folder Options.In a Folder Options dialog box, click File Types tab Read more:Change
Change User Account picture in Windows XP 2008-08-28 05:11:52 Windows XP gives its users a facility to change their User Account
pictures. There are some default pictures, from which you can select the desired one. But there is a way to add your beloved images as a User Account picture. Here is a technique to do that.For your information, The User Account pictures are 48x48 bitmap images. You have to convert your favourite image to match with this pattern. T Read more:Change
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Skinning uTorrent 2008-08-27 05:28:15 If you are a downloading freak, you must be aware of uTorrent
. It is a free torrent client, quite easy to use and lightweight application. It is skinnable also. You can change its entire look n' feel from tab icons to tray icon. It's not a geek thing at all, it may first seems.Just go to skins page of uTorrent site. Download the type of icon you want. Store it to a convenient location of your hard
Wubi-The easiest Ubuntu installer 2008-08-22 10:08:15 Installing a Linux with Windows was never been so trouble-free. With Wubi, anyone can install Ubuntu
alongside Windows just like any other application. No more GRUBing, no more messing around your partitions and no more Live CDs. Wubi will do it for you in just one click. It's free, open source and safe.Any Windows user willing to experience Linux get-go, but afraid of end up everything rotten sh
TaskSwitchXP-Task Switcher for Windows XP. 2008-08-20 12:50:24 One of my friends was once stuck up with too many windows while working on his way. Situation got worsen while he was left with too much clutter to be handled by default Alt+Tab utility. He then went on saying-exhausted-"Damn!! I need a replacement". Later i did a search for "replacement", and voila!!this is what i got.TaskSwitchXP-A highly customizable and fully functional task switcher, with som Read more:Windows
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Transparency effect in Windows XP. 2008-08-20 10:08:36 Many of you surely have been awestrucked by the eyecandy Windows
Vista offers to the users. So, you might be wondering isnt’t it a good if we get those similar look n’ feel in good old XP? At least you can imitate some part of Vista’s wonderful GUI. One of them is Aero interface, which provides glass and trasparency effect
s. You can add the similar transparency effect in Windows XP by a prog Read more:Transparency
Change Windows XP bootscreen. 2008-08-20 10:08:10 One of the simplest ways to change the windows XP bootscreen is to use a software called "Bootskin". You can download it from here. You have to now select the bootscreen, which you can download from the Wincustomize site. You can find lot many bootscreens there. Just click on the following link. Download your favourite bootscreen. Now install the application. Open from the start menu by naviga Read more:Change
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Run commands in Windows. 2008-08-19 13:45:43 Run commands in Windows
lets users open a Control Panel item, certain utilities, some tools and perform some tasks. Most of us don't use this handy method of faster operation, because it seems somewhat geeky. But, it is quite easy to use. All you have to do is to remember the commands associated with the task you want to perform. Here is some of the most useful commands available with Run.To star
VLC Media Player-Play almost any media format. 2008-08-19 13:35:03 VLC media
player is a free software media player written by the VideoLAN project. It is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file format
s as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various different formats.Many of VLC's codecs are provided
Free up disk space in Windows XP. 2008-08-19 13:25:08 I know many of us are fond of Movies, Videos and Games. We always go on storing these stuffs on our limited space HDD. Result?? At some day it will reach its limit and no more space left. However, you can go through these easy steps to reclaim the disk space.Run Disk Cleanup.There are many files on your hard disk, which you can remove without worrying about your system stability. These are the tem Read more:Windows
NRG(Nero) to ISO converter. 2008-08-18 12:43:31 NRG is a proprietary format used by Nero Burning ROM to burn ISO 9660 onto CD. This format may not be compatible with all CD burning and image mounting software. So, wouldn't it be nice if we can convert it into conventional ISO(International Organization for Standardization) format? You can perform this task by a free and simple utility called nrg2iso. Download it from here. Upon opening the Read more:converter
Free docks for Windows users. 2008-08-18 11:40:42 Ever wonder how you can bring that Mac OS X eyecandy on your Windows
? One of the Mac's unique feature is its dock. It acts as an appication launcher-like Taskbar in Windows- and is quite pleasing to your eyes. You can have a similar dock for your Windows also. Download the free application from the link below. Install it to your system and start it from your Start Menu. You can place the dock at Read more:users
Foxit Reader-An alternative to Adobe Reader. 2008-08-15 06:47:30 Foxit Reader
is a nice alternative to your favourite Adobe
Reader. Yep, it's free. It's small in download size(approx. 2-4 MB). It don't require a hack to load faster and it's not a resource hungry chap to bog down your computer. It has a facility of a text converter, which converts PDF into a text file. It is safe and secure also. A new version(v2.3) also let its users watch multimedia content co Read more:Foxit
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Recover Wand Passwords in Opera 2008-09-21 08:21:14 Opera is an internet browser just like IE or Mozilla. It is freely available and has some unique features. The Wand is a password management feature, which can 'remember' your authentication details for different. Later, when you get to that site again, you just have to click the Wand button or press Ctrl+Enter from your keybord to login. So, this can save you from some typing work. This little tr
Use Mouse Gesture in Mozilla 2008-09-19 15:14:40 First of all, let me tell you that i am an Opera user. Its my favourite browser because of some of its unique features such as Speed dial, MouseGesture
s etc. I tried Mozilla
one day and delighted by the experience, but i really miss the Mouse Gesture of Opera. To those who don't know about Mouse Gesture, it is a cool way to deal with your browser. You have to perform simple mouse movements to car
Serial Key Revealers 2008-09-18 14:39:32 Here is two cool utilities to find out serial numbers of your installed applications and games. They are designed to make serial key management easy. These tools are simple to use and available for free. These two utilities are "Game Key Revealer" and "SoftKey Revealer". I found them here.Game Key Revealer:As the name suggests, this small toy reveals the serials and CD-keys of installed games in P Read more:Serial
Skinning WinRAR 2008-09-17 14:07:49 Everybody likes sensuousness, maybe you too. Specifically speaking for me, i am quite leaned to apply some pretty things to my favourite applications. So, there comes WinRAR
, one of my favourite archivers.If you have WinRAR version 3.50 or above, you can apply themes to it. Here are the steps to follow.Download a theme from here. There you will find some good themes to choose from. Select as per y
change Google Chrome theme 2008-09-17 11:55:46 Google Chrome
is a newly released and much talked browser from Google. It's an Open source browser built on top of its other counterparts engine for Windows. You can read my article on Google Chrome here.This is a simple way to change its default theme to an eye-popping new-one. Navigate to Free Chrome Themes. There you will find links to some really cool themes to choose from, although limited. S Read more:Google
Free partition managers 2008-09-15 15:01:31 Yes, i do say that there are many partition managers available, which can cater the needs of a person ceremonial to the pertaining business. They use these software for the professional purposes. Therefore they go for such commercial products such as Partition Magic. People who do this casually doesn't like to manage to pay for such software. Here are two such software available which are free for
Ubuntu like badges in Windows 2008-09-13 06:34:50 If you've used Ubuntu
before, you might have noticed its cool GUI mods. One of them is Badges, which acts as an emblem for a particular item. It looks nice and proves useful also,cause it helps users to identify their marked items. You can bring this similar effect in your Windows
also. Just navigate here and grab a copy of Shedko Badges. Its a small and free utility which places an emblem to your
360Desktop-Revolve your desktop 2008-09-10 14:43:14 Here is a cool utility i found on the net while usual surfing. It's basically a window manager and its aesthetically downright gratifying. The utility is called 360Desktop. This is what its site is citing about it.360desktop™ is the convergence of the web and the desktop. If you "get" what they mean by Web 2.0, you can think of us as Desktop 2.0.To sum up about this freeware(Yes, its free!!), It
Set video as wallpaper with VLC media player 2008-09-07 07:39:40 Windows Vista Ultimate Edition introduced a wonderful feature that allows its users to set a video
clip on their desktop. It is called Dreamscene and its not limited to Windows Vista Ultimate Edition users. So, what about other editions and good old Windows XP? Can't we have this feature on our rig? Yes, you can and a next few steps will do it for you.First of all, You need to have a VLC media
pla Read more:wallpaper
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System properties tweaks for Windows XP 2008-09-04 13:26:51 Brand name your Windows
with your name. Apply this little tweak and flaunt your Windows branded by you to your pals.To accomplish this job, follow these simple steps:Open Notepad and write following lines into it. [General]Manufacturer=Your nameModel=Your Motherboard name[Support Information]Line1=Your nameLine2=Your addressLine3=Your E-mail.You can add more option as you please with Line4, Li Read more:System
Chrome-Google's new browser for Windows 2008-09-03 14:24:26 Google does it again. Guys are out with their newest toy to bang on their counterparts. This time it's a browser
-open source, free, faster and reliable-Google Chrome
. It is specifically designed to meet the requirements of today's multimedia-based web content. Here are some cool features it offers to its users and some of its drawbacks also.Speed:It has a faster JavaScript rendering. Built on mult Read more:Google
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Wallpaper and Screensaver tweaks for Windows XP 2008-09-02 14:07:37 Here are some tweaks for wallpapers and screensavers for Windows
XP. It's all about removing default (and crappy) Windows screensavers, enable moving wallpaper and etc...Read on.Remove default screensavers:Navigate to X:/WINDOWS (x is your Windows XP drive.)Find System32 folder. Right click on it and click Search. The Search Results dialog box will openType "*.scr" as search text without quotes.Th Read more:Screensaver
Refine Google search 2008-08-30 08:58:08 Google is a name familiar with every internet junkie. A most used search engine by internet users worldwide. Obviously it provides the things you are looking for, but you can refine your search queries by using different keywords. Here are some of them.Keywords:Type text enclosed in quotation marks and Google will search for the pages with that exact phrase. So, if you type "I like Google", Google Read more:Google
About Me and This Blog 2008-10-08 15:04:05 Hello out there, Thanks for visiting my blog. I am Maharshi Shah from Vadodara(Baroda), a city in Gujarat state of India. I love to explore new things about technology and play games till wee hours. I am an internet addict and the blog you are currently in is result of this addiction.This is mainly a technology blog. Find some cool information about various software. Also there are some tips and t
Opera 9.60 Released 2008-10-08 14:54:43 Opera Software ASA has rolled out a new version of its Opera web browser, Opera 9.6. Preveiously the browser was in 9.6 Beta 1 build. They have now released a final 9.6 version of this browser. The new version is available for download for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux as well as other operating systems like Solaris and FreeBSD.Opera 9.6 has many changes from previous ones. Many of the features for whi
Remove "Show Hidden Files" Problems 2008-10-06 12:26:38 If you are encountering some strange problems with your computer like disabled Task Manager, disabled Registry Editor etc, then this could be due to infection of certain viruses. These viruses are spread mostly by the USB drives.When you open a USB drive from Autorun menu, the autorun.inf file causes some DLL and EXE files to be copied in your system. The program also assigns some files as your st Read more:Hidden
Search Videos With Google 2008-10-05 06:41:54 As all of you know, Google
is a search engine we all deal with-almost everyday- for our hunt for content on the internet. It's not the only search engine, but a leading one among others, capturing more than 60% of the search engine market share. It is also in the Time Magazine's "25 Sites We Can't Live Without" in 2006. Read about it here.So, more or less you also depend on Google to find some stu Read more:Search
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