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Windows Vista logs into India

January 31, 2007

Windows Vista is being officially released for home users in many countries.
In New York, they hired acrobats to display the Windows logo, In Australia, they had skywriters grab attention, while in Agra they had dancers perform in front of the Taj Mahal, and all this to try and get PC users the world over [...]

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FlyakiteOSX – Get a Mac Look and feel on XP

January 31, 2007

Some time back I patched the Windows Uxtheme.dll and installed a nice looking theme called BlackMesa.
I got bored with that theme and decided to install a Mac theme. A search for the same lead me to a software called FlyakiteOSX.
FlyakiteOSX is not just a theme, its a complete transformation pack (30 MB download) which converts [...]

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Windows XP Themes

January 5, 2007

Windows XP has the ability to use “Visual Styles” to change the user interface. However, visual styles must be cryptographically signed by Microsoft to run. Many people are stuck with the default Luna theme that ships with Windows XP. Energy Blue was another theme officially approved by Microsoft and was a welcome change.
The only [...]

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Dexpot – Virtual Desktop Manager

January 3, 2007

Dexpot is a free (non-commercial use) software that allows you to create multiple, virtual desktops to increase the work area of your screen by up to 20 times.
Till now I was using ATI MultiDesk as the virtual desktop manager. Dexpot is much more powerful and faster than MultiDesk.
Also it has a rich set of [...]

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Linux vs Windows

December 15, 2006

Sorry if you are mislead by the title. Check this image. (Click for the enlarged image)

Also this happens to be my new wallpaper on SuSE. I found this image in one of the Novell’s CoolSolution Article.
I just couldn’t stop laughing for some time Notice that stare given by the Penguin [...]

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Video Converter

December 1, 2006

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Any Video Converter is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files between [...]

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More Vista Wallpapers

November 26, 2006

In one of my previous post I had linked to Windows Vista Wallpapers shared by Stephen Silber.

Haklabs has shared another set of 54 photos from Vista RTM build. Download it here !
Its hosted on Rapidshare;Wonder why people use this sharing service, I would recommend using AMD’s Streamload for sharing big files !
Brajeshwar has [...]

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I want Windows XP SP3

November 26, 2006

This might sound crazy; but I make it a point to reinstall Windows every 6-8 months. I install a lot of tools/applications and over the period of time the PC becomes very slow. Even if I do DiskCleanup and Registry cleanup, its not of much use !
Some of the steps I take before reinstalling Windows
1. [...]

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Ethereal User Guide

November 17, 2006

Ethereal is one of the best open source packet sniffer available today. It is available on both Windows and Unix Platform.
Detailed list of Ethereal features can be found here !
Richard Sharpe and Ed Warnicke have written an extensive user guide(450 pages) on Ethereal. The intent of the document was to improve the accessibility [...]

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Adobe Digital Editions

October 31, 2006

Adobe labs has come out with Digital Editions which is supposed to be a completely new way of reading and managing e-books.
Digital Editions is built from the ground up as a lightweight, rich Internet application (RIA). Digital Editions works online and offline, and supports both PDF and XHTML-based content.

This is an early Windows only [...]

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