Fully transform your Windows XP into a Vista look-alike

Intro..Please watch this video first...hehe

Yeahh..I know..people is talking about Windows Vista right now...Vista..Vista..and Vista..Well, there is no more Windows XP in 2008 and Microsoft will stop selling them to PC. Ok, stop talking about that. Now, I'll show you how to transform your XP into a Vista look-alike.

1. Get the tools

- Vista Transformation Pack Final
- Top Desk for Flip 3-D
- Boot Skin to change Windows boot screen (optional)

2. Installation

Ok, install all of the options offered in the Vista Transformation Pack. And one more thing, you may skip the Vista boot screen because it looks quite..hmm..how to say..not really cool. You can use Boot Skin program to apply for your almost stylish looking Vista screens are found on Devianart.

3. Customization


- After step 2, you'll need to enable a few things to get the Vista explorer bar (as shown above). First, open up my computer, and click on the 'view' menu. Under View > Toolbars uncheck all the view options, but enable 'styler toolbar'.

- To get rid of the file menu bar, go to your the task tray and right click on the icon for "styler". Choose the toolbar tab, and check 'hide menubar explorer'.

- Also while in the options for 'styler' choose the desktop tab. Here you'll want to enable drop shadow (use default). This gives the windows a nice shadow as found in Vista. Feel free to enable other options which pertain to your particular taste.

- Right-click on your desktop and choose properties and select the 'appearance' tab and then select 'effects'. Make sure that 'cleartype' is enabled, as well as the 'use large icons' box. This will give you the large icon set now used in Vista.

- Complete your new makeover with a complimenting Vista Firefox theme

- I assume that you already watch the video, then you've seen Flip 3D in action. If you want it, simply download Top Desk.

I think that's all right now. By installing this software, it might be slow down your system. But, it's worth enough to get a Vista look-alike. So, what do you think?

Credits: Vistaonmac

Firefox Addons - StumbleUpon lets you surf the best websites

Name : StumbleUpon
Type : Extensions

Totally awesome add-ons for Firefox. StumbleUpon is a collaborative surfing tool for finding and sharing great sites. Yeah..it's true. There're billions of websites out there. Don't know which one is the best? Tired of googling? Come on, just download this one. You will not regret at all!!

StumbleUpon toolbar preview:-


It's really cool!!! Yeahhh!!!

Blogger - Add Digg vote button

Ok, after adding Technorati tags, maybe you want to add the Digg button on your blog so that easy for your readers to "digg" your entry.

Open you HTML page on template tab, expand widget templates and then find this code:-

<p><data:post.body/></p>

and replace with this code:

<p>
<!-- DIGG -->
<div style='float:right; margin-left:10px;'>
<script type='text/javascript'>
digg_url = '<data:post.url/>';
</script>
<script src='http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js' type='text/javascript'/>
</div>
<data:post.body/>
</p>

Simple right? I'm not using it right now because I've no fresh content. Just a lot of useful information I got from Internet and my experience. Go to dX-Demo if you would like to see how it works. Try it now!!

Update : I have created a new blog, dX-Demo to demonstrate all the codes/tips.

Credits : Ayaxcold

Windows XP Registry - Don't afraid with it

If you're XP user, don't tell me that you are no nothing about Windows Registry. Windows Registry is a central database to store all information about your PC (hardware and software). No need to worry about editing your registry. Besides, it'll increase your PC's performance and constancy.

To open/view your Registry Editor, simply go to Start > Run and type "regedit" and then press ENTER or press Windows+R on your keyboard, type "regedit" and press ENTER.

It would be something like this:-


From now on, I'll focus more deeply on editing registry. So, don't forget to subscribe to my feed. Hehe...

DivX - Video player, codec and converter

DivX software is the world's most famous video compression. It's used to create and watch high-quality DivX movies or videos.

Just download the DivX codec and open any files in any standard media player. The free DivX Player is also included with the codec bundle.

DivX Player preview:-

Blogger - How to add Technorati tags?

I never know it's really easy to add Technorati tags on blogger. While googling on this, I just found a great post on how to do it step by step. Just read this tutorial. Easy to follow. I'm sure in less than 15 minutes you'll get it.

Tools you need:-

Mozilla Firefox
Greasemonkey

Update : You can see how it works on my demo blog, dX-Demo.

Google search links that you must know

With the third traffic ranking in Alexa, I'm pretty sure that Google was widely used around the world of internet technology. And me, myself, using Google.com everyday. Why? Haha..I don't want to discuss about this right now..I'll talk about it later...ok..let's go through the Google search links that that you should know.

1. http://www.google.com/ie

- just another Google search and they only show the titles rather than all description and information that you always see in SERP (Search Engine Result Page)

2. http://www.google.com/pda

- search more specific on PDA stuff

3. http://www.google.com/bsd

- search more specific on Unix-like computer OS (Operating System) descended from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

4. http://www.google.com/linux

- search more specific on Linux OS

5. http://www.google.com/mac.html

- search more specific on Mac OS

6. http://www.google.com/microsoft

- search more specific on Microsoft

7. http://www.google.com/ig/usgov

- search more specific on U.S Government

Winamp - The ultimate media player

Winamp is one of my favorite media player. It's easy to manage all my mp3 files. With the newest modern skin, it's more powerful than ever.

Get the latest version of Winamp and don't forget to customize your player with the skins.

Some preview of Winamp layout:-

Firefox - my keyboard shortcuts collection

There are a lot of internet users is talking about Firefox. After Firefox 2.0, Mozilla will be releasing the newest and coolest version of Firefox 3.0. Ok, lets focus on my topic today, my Firefox's keyboard shortcuts collection.

I don't like to talk so much, check this out:-

1. Ctrl + T (Open new tab)

2. Ctrl + N (Open new window)

3. Ctrl + W (Close tab)

4. Ctrl + 1 to 9 (Select tab 1 to 9)

5. Ctrl + Shift + T (Reopen closed tab)

6. Ctrl + Tab (Next tab)

7. Ctrl + Shift + Tab (Previous tab)

8. Ctrl + F (Find text)

9. Ctrl + Enter (Complete .com)

10. Shift + Enter (Complete .net)

11. Ctrl + Shift + Enter (Complete .org)

12. Ctrl + + (Increase text size)

13. Ctrl + - (Decrease text size)

14. Ctrl + 0 (Restore text size)

15. Ctrl + H (History)

16. Alt + <- (Go back one page)

17. Alt + -> (Go forward one page)

18. F5 (Reload)

19. F6 (Select location/address bar)

How about yours? If you have any cool shortcuts to share, feel free to drop a comments.

Related :- Basic Firefox tips

Real Alternative and QuickTime Alternative

Yeah...it's a very high recommended alternative's software. Simple, quick and easy to install. No more worry about advertising, pop up messages and any annoying registrations.

Simply using our Media Player Classic to open the .rm, .rmvb files for Real Alternative and .mov, .3gp files for QuickTime Alternative.

Features of Real Alternative :

- Media Player Classic
- RealMedia Codecs
- RealMedia plugin for Internet Explorer
- RealMedia plugin for Opera/Mozilla/Netscape
- RealMedia DirectShow splitter

Features of QuickTime Alternative :

- QuickTime Codecs
- QuickTime plugin for Internet Explorer
- QuickTime plugin for Opera/Mozilla/Netscape
- Extra plugins for QuickTime
- DirectShow MOV parser
- DirectShow QuickTime decoder wrapper
- CoreAVC
- CoreAAC