How To Easily Install/Apply Third Party Themes In Windows 7

There are several cool and beautiful themes available for the latest version of Windows. But Windows 7 doesn’t allow you install or apply third-party themes by default. You need to patch Windows files (system files) to install third-party themes in Windows 7.

As most of the Windows users hesitate to play with system files, here is an easier way to install third-party themes in Windows 7.

1. Download UxStyle Core from here.

2. Run the program, accept the agreement and simply click install button to complete the installation.

3. Reboot your computer.

4. Download your favorite Windows 7 theme and then move all the files to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes, where “C” is your Windows 7 drive.

5. Double-click on the Windows Theme File to apply the theme.

6. Enjoy with the new Windows 7 theme.

Download Windows Live Wave 4 Theme (Visual Style) For Windows 7

Hello Readers:

Microsoft Windows 7 is the most popular and latest Operating System created by Microsoft. Microsoft is regularly updating its theme gallery with latest themes for the Windows 7. For those users, who love the Live Wave UI, here is a visual style that gives the wave 4 touch to your Windows 7. The visual styles changes start orb, explorer details pane, aero peek style, system panel backgrounds, jump list and more.

Download Theme
Download More Windows-7 Themes

You also can Use these awesome wallpapers only. If you only want to get the Wallpapers of the theme pack. 

Click here to Extract The Wallpapers from Windows-7 Theme

How to Change The Start Orb (Button) 

After downloading the file extract it using WinRar. According to your system specification copy the EXPLORER folder from the 32/64 bit folder and paste it in C:\Windows.

Remember to rename the already existing folder in C:\Windows.

To rename the existing folder you'll have to take the administrator rights. Follow the instructions 9 to last to rename the existing EXPLORER folder in C:\Windows

Easy way: Conduct a Solid PowerPoint Presentation

Delivering business presentations has sneaked up to become part of many people’s lives. Besides the need to speak eloquently, the quality of our PowerPoint slides matters a great deal too.

Cut the trouble of reading tons of text provided by websites on giving convincing presentations, we have spotted three interesting videos that can help you gain several insights; with enjoyment guaranteed.

Keeping it precise and effortless is the key to a great presentation.

Eight Powerpoint Presentation Tips

Guy Kawasaki 10-20-30 Presentation Rule

Add a Styling Three Cloumn Footer to Your Blog

It is pretty common that you might have seen all the professional blogger templates would possess a three column footer where in, they add details about their site or an about me widget and lots more. I recommend you to add this feature in your blog to make it more professional. You may scroll down the page to have a look at the bottom of the page to have a look at this widget which contains Popular Posts, Useful Resources, Blog Archive and Recent Comments.

Hope, you got an idea about what a three column footer is.

Adding Three Column Footer

To add this stylish three column footer to your blog, just follow these simple steps. As we always ensure safety, the first step would be to back up your template. To do this, simply navigate to "Design->Edit HTML and make a backup of your template clicking on the "Download full template" link at the top of the page. Once the back up is over, follow these simple steps.

1. Search for the following text in your blogger template. To fasten your search, use "CTRL+F".
]]></b:skin>
2. Download the following text document : Three Column Footer One. Just paste the code in the document above the line mentioned in step 2.
3. Search your template for the following text.

</body>

4. Paste the following piece of code above it.

<div id='footer-wrapper'>
<div id='lower-wrapper'>
<div id='lowerbar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='lowerbar' id='lowerbar1' preferred='yes'>
</b:section>
</div>
<div id='lowerbar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='lowerbar' id='lowerbar2' preferred='yes'>
</b:section>
</div>
<div id='lowerbar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='lowerbar' id='lowerbar3' preferred='yes'>
</b:section>
</div>
<div style='clear: both;'/>
</div> </div>

(Note: You may paste the above code in the place where you want the footer to appear. It is ideal to place this section before the credits section in your blog.)
5. Now, save your template and your ready with the footer section. Add any widget you want. Feel free to comment or contact me  for any assistance that you need to install this feature. I would be happy to help you!! See you soon in my next post!!!

Thanks to EAB

Top 10 Free Web Applications For Business

In this collection, you will find excellent and free web business tools that will surely make your business work better. They are especially useful if you own a company and want to make it work faster, better and more secure. You may also find them useful if you’re freelancer that needs professional tools in order to work! Check them out and I hope that you’ll find here something for you!

Deferred Sender

Very simple and sometimes useful tool. It allows you to schedule emails to be sent in the future.

PDF to Excel Online

If you can’t afford expensive applications to convert your PDF files then there’s a great solution for you. This online tool enables you to convert PDF files to Excel or Word

Appointy

This tool is similar to calendars available in professional applications. It allows you to manage your clients by speeding up your word-of-mouth publicity.

Team Spinner

Another tool that may speed up your work free of charge. It’s online collaboration tool with lots of custom options like groups, discussions, lists and custom structures for each of your projects!

Lovely Charts

That’s something you should definitely check out even if you’re not a business owner. It enables you to create lovely charts. You can choose from many different types of charts and once you create anything you can

Show Document

Useful tool that enables you to share your documents online. It has variety of options for different types of documents. It a good alternative to Google Docs.

Insta Calc

Instacalc is a very useful calculator that will help you to convert pretty much any type of data! Check it out!

Get Harvest

Excellent time tracking application. It’s very simple but at the same time quite powerful. Besides tracking time it enables you to track your expenses and keep an eye on your accounts.

Wesabe

Another well-built finance tool. It will help you to keep an eye on your money. With its help you’ll get to know where your money goes and how to save more!

XE

Xe is a simple currency converter. It allows you instantly convert nearly all the currencies. It also enables you to check past conversion rates.

See Lyrics of any Song in WMP

Today While surfing the internet i came across a useful WMP plugin named Lyrics Plugin. It is a piece of software tailored for music fans. To put it simply – it is an add-on to view lyrics in Windows Media Player or WinAmp.

Just start listening to your favourite songs and lyrics will be displayed automatically.

If lyrics is not found, you can add it yourself!

The lyrics of the song shown in Windows media player is fetched from the Internet and thus won’t work if you are offline.

Get it Here HomePage.

AbiWord 2.8.5: Word Processesing Software Like MS-Word

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.

Features:

Multi PlatformEnjoy your favorite Word Processor on the operating system you like to use - be it Windows, Linux, QNX, FreeBSD or Solaris.

                InteroperabilityAbiWord is able to read and write all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages. Advanced Document LayoutGive your document that professional, scientific or fun-to-read look using AbiWord's advanced document layout options. Use tables, bullets, lists, images, footnotes, endnotes and styles to enhance the way your document looks.
InternationalizationSince not everyone in the world speaks the same language, AbiWord comes in many different languages. AbiWord is available in most common and many not-so-common languages.
Mail MergeWith AbiWord's Mail Merge capabilities, you can let AbiWord automate that job for you. Special fields inserted into a template document can automatically be replaced with data coming from a variety of sources, such as Relational Databases, Comma Separated Text files or Tabbed Text files.
Extensible Plugin ArchitectureThe main AbiWord program is very small and requires very little resources to run. This allows AbiWord to be used on systems that are not considered "State of the Art" anymore, which comes all too quickly in the IT world.

What's New:
· Editing/Layout
· Fix German smart-quotes (Patrik Fimml)
· Bug 12552: fp_TextRun::itemize() leaks memory (Obin Hickory)
· Bug 12508: Prevent some crashes in recent-files code (Paul Bolle)
· Bug 12346: Pressing TAB removes text in the Windows version (Martin Sevior)
· Collaboration
· Support non-TLS connections for the abicollab service backend (Marc Maurer)
· GUI
· Bump the copyright date to 2010 (sum1)
· Bug 12551: Fix a memory leak in the menu code (Patrik Fimml)
· Windows
· Fix a potential crash in the Windows menu code (Marc Maurer)
· GTK+
· Bug 10377: Fix GTK+ landscape printing (again) (Patrik Fimml)
· Bug 12501: Fix GTK+ build to work without PATH_MAX (e.g. Hurd) (Patrik Fimml, sum1)
· Fix paths to the offline documentation (Patrik Fimml)
· Add an abiword(1) manpage and install it (Patrik Fimml)
· Restore/fix the AbiWidget focus grabbing behaviour (Daniel Drake)
· Prevent selection events to be emitted by the AbiWidget during smart quote operation (Martin Sevior)
· Maemo

Licence: Freeware

Download: AbiWord 2.8.5 (8 MB) | Portable AbiWord 2.8.2 (6.5 MB) |

Windows Live Messenger 15.3.2804.607 Beta/ 2009 Build 14.0.8117.416

Windows Live Messenger is the next-generation MSN Messenger. It has everything you already love about Messenger - your contact list, emoticons, and instant access to your friends via text, voice, and video - plus new ways to connect and share photos and documents effortlessly. It's faster than e-mail and is a great choice for conversations and the perfect alternative when you can't be there in person. As always, it's free to download Messenger and use most of its features.
 Windows Live Messenger (WLM), still commonly referred to by the previous name of MSN Messenger (MSN for short), is an instant messaging client for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Mobile, first released on December 13, 2005 by Microsoft. It is part of Microsoft's Windows Live set of online services.  

Windows Live Messenger Features:
• Sharing folders
The Sharing Folder feature of Windows Live Messenger is an alternative to the "direct transfer" method of file distribution. When a user wants to deliver a file to another person on his or her contact list, the "sharing folder" window appears, which is an individualized representation of all previously shared items.
• PC-to-phone calls
In addition to PC-to-PC calls that have been supported in previous versions, Windows Live Messenger now supports PC-to-phone calls with Windows Live Call. In the US, this feature is supported by Verizon, branded as "Verizon Web Calling". Orange France also has a similar service. This feature is only available in selected countries, including the US, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Ireland, Finland, Belgium, Spain, and Italy.
• Windows Live Messenger to Yahoo!
This allows Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger users to chat (using text or voice) to each other without the need to create an account on the other service, provided both contacts use the latest versions of the clients. However, if a user uses an older or third-party client, they will appear offline to the users on the other network.
• Offline messaging
Unlike previous versions, one can start conversations even when his or her status is set to Appear Offline, similar to behaviour in Yahoo! Messenger. If talking to someone who has an older MSN Messenger client, they will lose the ability to talk to you after a short period of no activity, due to their client thinking you are offline. As Windows Live Messenger has now been made available on several phones, a new trend has appeared where people send messages over Windows Live Messenger to each other as a way to have free SMS text messages.
• Games and applications
There are various games and applications available in Windows Live Messenger that can be accessed via the conversation window by clicking the games icon and challenging your "buddy".
• i’m initiative
The i’m initiative is a new program Microsoft launched in March 2007, that connects the user with nine organizations dedicated to social causes through Windows Live Messenger. Every time someone has a conversation using i’m, Microsoft Corp. shares a portion of the program's advertising revenue with the organization of the user's choice. There is no set cap on the amount donated to each organization. The more i’m conversations the user has; the more money goes to one of the nine causes. Each participating organization is guaranteed a minimum donation of $100,000 during the first year of the program. There is currently no end date for the program. The i’m initiative only works with the most recent WLM version 8.1 and 8.5 beta. The i’m initiative is currently only available to those in the United States.
• Xbox 360
Windows Live Messenger support was included in the Xbox 360 Spring 2007 dashboard update released on May 9, 2007. Unofficially, it is known as Windows Live Messenger 360.
Those using Windows Live Messenger are able to see the Gamertags of friends logged into Xbox Live, including the game they are playing. Xbox 360 users can chat in-game (or while watching a movie). Although only text chat is supported, Microsoft has suggested that voice and video chatting may come in a future update.

Supported Operating Systems:
* Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit editions)
* Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (32-bit edition only)
* Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit editions)
* Windows Server 2008
Size: 24.0 MB

Download Beta

Download Windows Live Messenger Online Setup

Download Windows Live Messenger Full Installation Package

Download Windows Live Messenger 8.5 Final setup

Blogger Update: Ned Default Sharing Buttons

Hello Readers:
Now a days blogging is no more unknown to anyone. Keeping this in mind blogger has recently introduced the new option of sharing the post on other platforms. These blogger sharing buttons include Google buzz, Twitter and Facebook and the most important an email button also. Now you'll not hvae to go and edit the complex code of your templates to add these sharing buttons to your blog posts. 

Adding The New Sharing Buttons

These new sharing buttons can now be installed by going to the Design > Page Elements page of your blogger account. Click "edit" under Blog Posts widgets

check "show share buttons" to enable the buttons.

Buttons will be appeared under each post your blog readers will find it easy to share your post via email, Blogger, and popular social networks—Blogger currently supports Google Buzz, Twitter, and Facebook, and planning to add more services in the future.

I recommend you to add these social sharing buttons by your self, because this option would be lot more better if more sharing options were offered.However for new bloggers, who are reluctant to edit HTML codes of their blogger templates this option is quite helpful and easy.

20 High Quality Mac OS X Like Firefox Themes

Firefox is the most popular and powerful browser for internet users. Like Opera, Firefox also have an extensive library of themes, add-ons and support. Today I'll let you know about MAC OS X-style Firefox themes. There is a small list of some beautiful themes , but only for Mac users. Rest of themes can be used on all platforms.
Here are 20 High Quality Mac OS X Like Firefox Themes
Thanks to Softhelp 

Bejeweled

Devious Firefox theme

iTunesFox

GrApple

Native-mac-theme

MonoChrome

Vfox3

iFox 

Proto-MacOSX 

Firefox Safari Theme

iAqua 

Safari Blue | Mac only

 JetFox Aqua

 Foxdie Turns Firefox into a Safari

MacfoxIII

MacOSX Theme

ACE Foxdie (Graphite)

 MacOSX theme for Firefox 3.6
 

 Proto for Windows and Linux 

Chat to Facebook friends without Facebook

Hello Readers:

Today I found some interesting tools to chat with your face book friends without going to facebook.com. You'll not have to open to your facebook account.

let me share with you, how you can chat without opening Facebook. I found the awesome free websites for chatting. There are three Web Based Tools for Chatting without Opening Facebook.
1. Chat on Facebook inside the browser

• If you use the Google Chrome , you can open the Facebook chat from this link : Click here
• In case of IE users try Gabtastik. this is a minimal desktop client that used for Facebook and send you notifications of new chats.

2.Meebo

Meebo is another tool for chatting and offered the web based instant messaging servies, It is supported Facebook Yahoo, Msn, Orkut etc In case of Facebook, you can sign in without opening the facebook.com and chat with your friends. In my university , facebook, Irkut, Yahoo or Msn messengers are blocked. So, this Meebo helps you to keep chat from website.

3.ChitChat

ChitChat is another web based IM. It's tabbed window to make it easy for you to talk. it's will show notifications in the tray. It's look like same yahoo, Msn or Gtalk.

Repair Dead Pixels of LCD Sereens

Sometimes, you may fail to identify the exact problem in LCS screen. It is common problem all of users of LCS like Pixcels on might be dead. Rizon Pixel Repair is a freeware app that easily help you for detecting dead pixels on your LCD.

      Courtesy The Soft Help

You can use the ‘Dead pixel locator’ section on ‘Rizone Pixel Repair’ to look for dead or stuck pixels. You can also use this section to help you find dirty little spots and dust when you clean your screen (Because dust doesn’t show on all colours). Now, after you’ve located stuck pixels, try to repair them with this tool. Set the colour mode, press go and place the flashy window thingy under the stuck pixel. Sometimes this unsticks that pixel, but as stated before, not always.

Note : Although, it is free , you can save your money and work effectively but sometimes it fails to repair the dead spots on your screen. 

Sned Tweets to Email IDs

Hello Readers:

Twitter is one of the most growing networking site of recent era. It is on of the most feasible place to get traffic to your blog or website. But if you have a very low number of followers it might be difficult for you to attract traffic to your blog. If you want to send your tweets to more users, it is problem No More.

Tweet to Email is an online service using which you can send your tweets email IDs of several users even if they are following you on Twitter or not. 

You can send your tweets directly from twitter to your contacts e-mails who use or don't use twitter.

Tweet Right into E-maiils

1:  Logon to Tweet to E-mail 

2:  Create Group It's easy! Simply create new group and select hash tag for group from the drop down box

3:  Add Contacts  Add or import the emails of your contacts who you wish to send your Twitter updates to their emails

4:  Tweet to Emails Add Group's hash tag to your tweet to send your tweet automatically into the email inbox of your contacts in the group

Turn 2D Windows desktop into a 3D Real Desk

Hello Readers:

Are you bored using your 2D desktop?? Now use 3D real desktop. Here is a new freeware, Real Desk; for you using which any ordinary 2D desktop will be given a new life and will be turned into a 3D real looking desktop.

Real Desk lets your desktop to enter in a new fantasy 3dimensional world. your icons will behave like real objects that you can touch and move as if on a real desk.  

Minimum system requirements

• Operating system Windows® 7/Vista/XP
• Windows® DirectX 9.0c
• Intel® Pentium IV 1500 MHz
• 256 MB main memory
• DirectX capable graphic card: 64 MB NVIDIA® Geforce™ 3 or better,
  ATI® Radeon™ 8500 or better
• Screen resolution 800x600 at True Color (16 million colours)
• Internet connection

Recommended system requirements

• Operating system Windows® 7/Vista/XP
• Windows® DirectX 9.0c
• AMD ATHLON™ XP 2400+ or higher (alternatively Intel® Pentium® 4)
• 512 MB main memory
• DirectX able graphic card: 128 MB NVIDIA® Geforce™ 6 or better,
  ATI® Radeon™ 9700 or better
• Screen resolution 1280 x 1024 at True Color (16 million colours)
• Internet connection

Complete Log-on Sotware for Windows 7: Logon Workshop

Courtesy: Intowindows

We have seen several free Windows 7 logon screen changers in the days gone by. But all these tools let you only change logon screen background and a few them let you change the text shadow effect. Here is a serious logon screen customization tool for power users to tweak almost everything that you can see in the logon screen.

Logon WorkShop is a serious logon screen customizable tool for Windows 7 to customize every part of logon screen. That is, you can change button size, accessibility button location, other button placement, margins, user tile width & height, background overlay, text color, shadow and more.

This is a perfect logon customization tool for advanced Windows 7 users as one can personalize almost everything related to Windows 7 logon. Please run this tool as administrator. Thanks to Dejco for creating this wonderful tool for Windows 7.

Please read the guide provided in the pack before using this tool.

Download Logon WorkShop