gHacks technology news » background http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:43:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Flickr Wallpaper Slideshow http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/01/flickr-wallpaper-slideshow/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/01/flickr-wallpaper-slideshow/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:50:31 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3688 You all know that I like to search for new wallpaper repositories and one that I found recently is hosted at Flickr. What’s even more interesting is the fact that you can view all 25581 photos in a slideshow with the option to load a photo page if you spot a wallpaper that you like to download.

The Photo Pools name is Wallpapers (1024×768 minimum) which should give you a good understanding of what you can expect. The minimum size of every picture of the group is 1024×768 although photos with a size of 1600×1200 are preferred.

You can start the wallpaper slideshow right here which loads a new tab in your browser starting with the first picture. Some options are available that influence the speed of the slideshow and the information that are shown on screen.

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The tiny thumbnails at the bottom let you skip images. Remember you find more than 25000 images in the photo pool, this could take a while to see them all even on the fastest slideshow speed.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/01/flickr-wallpaper-slideshow/feed/ 0 1000 Wallpapers on a single page http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/24/1000-wallpapers-on-a-single-page/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/24/1000-wallpapers-on-a-single-page/#comments Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:12:38 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/24/1000-wallpapers-on-a-single-page/ Many wallpaper websites can be classified as spammy. They have to many ads, some use popups and other means of making a quick buck. Good wallpaper sites are therefor rare and deserve to be mentioned in an article. The over 1000 abstract wallpapers on a single page website offers what its page title suggests, a good way of viewing and downloading some or even all of the wallpapers offered on that page.

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Width and height of the images vary between 1280*1024 and 1600*1200, there is however no way to find out about the original image size without clicking on the thumbnail which loads the full sized image.

The page could take some time to load if you are using a low speed connection, all thumbnails on that single page are about 2K which means that you will have to download about 2 megabytes before all thumbnails are displayed.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/24/1000-wallpapers-on-a-single-page/feed/ 7 Beautify your desktop icons http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/16/beautify-your-desktop-icons/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/16/beautify-your-desktop-icons/#comments Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:15:57 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/16/beautify-your-desktop-icons/ It does not make much sense to have the prettiest background image if it is cluttered with shortcuts and other icons, especially the way windows handles them. Shortcuts come with an arrow in the icons and the background text that is displayed beneath the icons is not transparent. We are going to change this with a few short fixes.

We are going to remove the arrow of the shortcuts icons first. Hit Windows + R and type regedit. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\LNKFILE and delete the entry IsShortcut in the left pane. Next do the same at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PIFFILE, et voila the arrow is gone.

Making the desktop icons transparent is far easier. We are going to use the freeware Iconoid to do this. Start Iconoid after installation and click on disable drop shadows in the color tab if that button is available. The default setting is that the icon background is transparent which is exactly what we want. You might need to change the default text color as well if you are using backgrounds that have a similar color than the default font color.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/16/beautify-your-desktop-icons/feed/ 10 Transparent Backgrounds with Chaos Crystal http://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/28/transparent-backgrounds-with-chaos-crystal/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/28/transparent-backgrounds-with-chaos-crystal/#comments Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:51:01 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/28/transparent-backgrounds-with-chaos-crystal/ Chaos Crystal, strange name for a freeware that makes it possible to set a transparency level of every window that is open on your windows system – to be preciser, on your windows 2000 or xp system. Chaos Crystal can be run from everywhere without problems because it does not install itself but simply becomes active when executed.

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Apply transparency by pressing and dragging the target (Dot next to Window Title field) crosshairs over the target window. You can also apply transparency by selecting the application from the dropdown menu.”

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