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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 26th, 2008
  • Comments: 5

High Quality Visual Styles, Wallpapers and Icons

Studio Twenty Eight is the homepage of designer Javier Ocasio who is offering his services and also some of his visual styles, wallpapers and icons on that site. Each category contains a list of free downloads. You naturally can’t expect to find hundreds of different wallpapers, styles or icons on the website but you do [...]

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Categories: Cool, Operating Systems, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 2nd, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Summerboard iPhone Themes

If you want to be different than the rest of the iPhone pack you could install Summerboard and one of the themes that make your iPhone stick out from the crowd. It is possible to download themes for Summerboard or even create one yourself, the article will concentrate on premade themes that can be downloaded.

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Categories: Mobiles, iPhone

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 22nd, 2008
  • Comments: 1

Popular Windows XP TV Themes

My article yesterday explained how to patch the file uxtheme.dll in Windows to be able to add custom themes to Windows. Today I’m going to introduce popular TV Themes for Windows XP that you can use if you have patched the file. You will see some wonderful creative themes centering around a tv show or character, wonderful if you are a fan and would like to use a theme that brings you closer to the show or the character.

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Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 21st, 2008
  • Comments: 13

uxtheme.dll Patcher for Windows XP and Vista

The file uxtheme.dll is a digitally signed file that validates themes during boot and theme installation. It is restricted and usually means that you can only install a handful of Microsoft certified themes. If you want to add and use custom themes in Windows XP or Windows Vista you have to update the file uxtheme.dll. Once the file is patched you can install and use custom themes.

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Categories: Operating Systems, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 12th, 2007
  • Comments: 4

Wordpress one click installation of plugins and themes

One Click Installer is a Firefox extension and Wordpress plugin combination for Wordpress blog owners replacing the need to upload themes and plugins by ftp with a one click installation in Firefox. The extension will take any link pointing to a plugin or theme and upload it to the right folder of your Wordpress installation without the need to do that manually.

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Categories: Browsing, The Web, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 11th, 2007
  • Comments: 5

5 beautiful visual styles for Windows XP

The feature to add your own visual styles to Windows XP is locked by default and you need to replace the original uxtheme.dll with a patched unlocked one to be able to add visual styles to the operating system. Download the patched uxtheme.dll from Softpedia and do the following. Rename the original file which can be found in the system32 folder of your Windows XP installation to uxtheme.dll.old and move the downloaded version into system32. You will have to restart your computer afterwards before the changes are recognized.

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Categories: Cool, Operating Systems, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 3rd, 2006
  • Comments: 5

Enhance your desktop with Samurize

The classic Windows desktop looks really boring, you can set a background image, edit some icons and enable some effects. Samurize has actually two benefits. First it is a system monitor, it displays information about your system, information that you specify like free disk space, your current IP address or a weather forecast. Besides that it enhances the desktop by applying a skin to the windows system. Take a look at the two examples below.

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