How to change icon size in Vista
Posted on July 8, 2008 at 5:34 am
Do you find the size of desktop icons in Vista too large? For some strange reason, all of the icons are huge! I like things small, so I quickly found a way to make the icons much smaller.
There are actually two ways you can go about reducing the size of the desktop icons, either via the desktop or by using your mouse, if it has a scroll wheel. I found the second method to be the fastest and easiest.
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Photo wiredness - Online photo editing and effects
Posted on July 8, 2008 at 5:15 am
Looking for a free online photo editor? One of the coolest things about digital photography is that the photos can be fixed up, dolled up, and captioned if you have the right tools. Of course you can buy photo editing packages, and some are worth the money. But free tools are available online, each with a different set of strengths and weaknesses.
Several digital photo special effects online tools have been reviewed in these pages such as flauntR, Dumpr and Graphita. Now, beta website wiredness offers a (so far) advertising and distraction-free online environment for photo editing and some special effects - without charge, registration or creating an account.
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7 Adobe AIR applications you should try
Posted on July 7, 2008 at 5:43 am
Why should you care about Adobe AIR?
Well AIR applications are more then just fancy widgets, and more even then just web services outside of the browser. Instead they give developers the opportunity to provide the traditional power and flexibility of desktop applications to web services.
The advantages are attractive, cross-browser applications which have low system resources requirements and are quick to develop. The biggest issue seems to be the ease in which developers can push out low quality and unfinished products, however here are some of the best ones I have found:
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Make your own AJAX progress bar
Posted on July 7, 2008 at 5:28 am
Asynchronous Javascript with XML, commonly called AJAX, drives an increasing number of Web 2.0 applications and sites such as Gmail, Google Maps and many others. Its popularity has to do with several factors, an important one of which is the ability to update a page without a complete refresh.
When a user refreshes a non-AJAX page, though, they know what’s going on and will wait for the refresh to occur. With AJAX, a click on a widget can cause an update to begin but the user won’t know that it’s in progress, or complete, unless the programming behind the widget gives the user an indicator such as a progress bar or spinning ball, or even GMAIL’s unpretentious Loading…. red text indicator.
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How to increase computer speed
Posted on July 6, 2008 at 5:32 am
Have you noticed your computer getting more and more slow recently? Is it slowing down to a point where it’s hard to do your work? Well I’ll show you how to solve this ever annoying problem.
Computers don’t get worse with time. They remain the same speed you bought them at until the day you throw them out. It usually problems with the software that interferes with the speed, not the computer’s age. That’s just a myth.
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Search any website or program in Windows
Posted on July 6, 2008 at 5:23 am
Have you ever stopped and wondered what the Internet would be like if we didn’t have search engines? Complete chaos and thousands of sites going completely undiscovered. Searching, in effect, decides what your web experience is going to be like.
So isn’t it kind of weird that every time you need to fish something out of the ocean that is the Internet, you need to start up your web browser and head over to your favorite search engine just to do said fishing? Fear no longer, for Transfz is here.
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