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Customize looks & styles of Dock on Snow Leopard & Manage them with ease

Posted by on November 23, 2009 1 comment

In Snow Leopard, Apple has added a few new features that may be useful to some people, but which can easily be overlooked if you use the Dock in the same way as you did with Leopard. So, The Dock is one of the signature features in Mac OS X and for those who think it can’t be customized in appearance, they need to checkout this new application called Dock Library.

So, if you love using Dock that matches your own tastes & preferences so can go through these steps to add new skins & customize your Leopard Dock & Manage Leopard dock styles using Dock Library application.

Add new skins & Customize your Leopard Dock

New skins and themes can easily be applied to the Dock in Snow Leopard which makes it more visually attractive and adds more to the OS X eye-candy.

You can download custom dock designs for Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard operating system from LeopardDocks.com. To add these styles to your Dock simply click Import from within the application to add it to Dock Library if you are using Dock Library.

Manage Leopard dock styles

Dock Library is a free application that takes the headache out of managing styles for your Leopard dock.

Once a style is added to Dock Library, simply select it and click Activate to see it live. Click here to download the application, it works on both Leopard and Snow Leopard.

Questions? Comments? Post them below!!!

Restart Windows without Restarting your Computer

Posted by on October 12, 2009 8 comments

Sometimes you may need to restart Windows (e.g., when installing new software), but there is no need to restart BIOS. The default restart option do both (Windows and BIOS) restart. That is called doing a “cold boot” rather than “warm boot”.

Here I am going to explain the trick of how to do the “warm boot”. It works on both Windows XP and Vista. I tested it on Windows 7 and it works perfectly on Windows 7 also.

The trick is to hold down the Shift key when invoking restart.

For Windows XP

Click on Start button. Click on Turn off Computer button. The Turn off computer dialog box opens. Now hold down the Shift key and click on Restart button.

For Windows Vista and Windows 7

Click on Start button. Click on Right Arrow. Now hold down the Shift key and click on Restart.

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Download Wave 3 Suite of Applications from Microsoft Now

Posted by on October 4, 2009 2 comments

Windows Live, which is a suite of Microsoft applications including Messenger, Mail with Calendar sync, Live Writer, Photo Gallery, Family Safety, and the Outlook Connector is now rolling out a new beta in what is called Wave 3. Wave 3 now also includes Windows Movie Maker, which used to be found in Windows Vista.

Wave 3 suite of applications is the newest release of the core Windows Live suite of software and services.

Wave 3 suite of applications from Microsoft comprises:

  • Messenger v9
  • Windows Live Movie Maker
  • Mail with Calendar synchronisation
  • Writer
  • Photo Gallery
  • Family Safety
  • Outlook Connector

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Turn Off (Disable) Autorun Feature of All Drives in Windows without Any Tool

Posted by on September 16, 2009 9 comments

CDs, DVDs & PenDrives containing viruses or malwares make use of the AutoRun feature in Windows to infect your computer as soon as they were loaded. AutoRun was introduced with Windows 95 so a CD or DVD that contained a file called autorun.inf would start up when it was loaded in the CD drive.

AutoPlay was added in Windows XP and is also in Windows Vista. AutoPlay brings up a dialog box when any removable media like CDs, external hard drives or USB memory sticks are attached to the computer. The dialog box gives the user a list of possible actions like open as a folder, cancel, autorun a file, and more.

For the computer user who wants to avoid all possible means of having his or her computer infected the safest thing is to turn off autorun or autoplay.

Go with the following simple steps to turn off Autorun in Windows:

1. Go to Start, Click Run & type gpedit.msc and click OK.

2. It will open the Windows Group Policy. Now in the Group Policy, Click Administrative Templates,

  • For Windows XP click on System
  • For Windows Vista, click on System Components, then Autoplay Policies.

Then Double click on Turn Off Autoplay.

3. Now In the Autorun Properties just popped, select Enabled & then select All Drives in the drop down.

Thats it. Now your windows is safe from unexpected viruses & malwares that infect the windows services using the Autorun feature.

Read 20+ Most Popular Magazines Online for Free in your Favorite Browser

Posted by on July 27, 2009 2 comments

Reading Magazines is always interesting & a good source of knowledge. You can read latest issue of popular magazines like PC Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Mac World, Reader’s Digest, Popular Photography, etc up to 23 magazines for free.

Zinio offers free access to the digital prints of popular magazines only to the iPhone users, however you can read and download these high resolution magazines for free from your browser. What you actually have to do is trick the website that you are using iPhone browser. If you are Firefox user you can do this by using User Agent addon. Lets see how it is done in Firefox.

Step1: Download User Agent addon from Firefox addon site.

Step2: After installing restart your brower, goto Tools > Default User Agent > User Agent Switcher > Options.

Step3: In the Options window, select New>New User Agent.

Step4: In the Description: field add “iPhone Win XP” without quotations.

Step5: Add the following text In the User Agent: field

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543 Safari/419.3

and click OK to close the User Agent Switcher Options window.

Step6: Now switch user agent from default to iPhone via Tools > User Agent Switcher > iPhone Win XP to activate it.

Step7: Just go to the link http://imgs.zinio.com/iphone/ to read 23 popular magazines. Enjoy.

When you click on any magazine you will be asked to enter email address to get latest iPhone updates from Zinio, if you don’t want to give email id, just type any letters that are in email address format like abc@abc.abc to bypass. You have to confirm your age if you want to access PlayBoy and PentHouse magazines.

Other Browsers:

Apple Safari has built in User Agent switcher in the Develop menu, for more info see How to read popular magazines on your desktop for free – by Amit agarwal.

Chrome users has to do some work around see this article Change Google Chrome User-Agent String, Read popular Magazines for free – by Andrew.

How to Remove Autorun.inf virus Completly from System & Flash Drives using CMD

Posted by on July 20, 2009 80 comments

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Is your PC a victim of the Autorun.inf virus? How to Remove Autorun.inf completely explains the simple way of removing Autorun.inf virus by using Autorun.inf Eater software.  Deleting autorun.inf is effective only if the computer you are using is clean otherwise the autorun.inf will simply bounce back.

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