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Ribbon Icons Customizer-Change Windows 8 Ribbon's Icons Quickly

Posted by David Wednesday, December 5, 2012 0 comments
Today, we are going to share a new application named Ribbon Icons Customizer. Most of Windows users like the new ribbon in Windows Explorer. This application has been created for the people who love the new Ribbon UI. It will let you change the default icons of the Ribbon. For example, if you want to change the icon of copy, you can do so by this application.



How To Use:-

1. Download the application.

2. Run the 'Resource.reg' file as administrator through the ribbon tab 'Application'.

3. Run the application as admin. 

4. The first tab appears will change the icons of Home, Share and View tabs and second tab will restore them.

5. In the first tab, click the respective button of icon which you want to change. For example, if you want to change the icon of copy, click “Change ‘Copy’ Icon”. Select the desired icon from the dialog box and click ‘Open’ to change the icon.

6. In the second tab, for example, if you want to restore the copy icon, click “Restore ‘Copy’ Icon”.

7. Third and fourth tabs have been created to change and restore icons of other tabs. 




It has been tested on Windows 8 Consumer Preview x32. But this should work with 64-bit edition also.


HotShut: Easily Shutdown, Restart, Log Off, Lock and Hibernate Windows 8

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HotShut is a very useful app for Windows 8 users which will allow the users to Shutdown, Restart, Log Off, Lock and Hibernate the PC from the system notification area. In Windows 8, controlling these options is a bit complicated process. This application will allow the users to easily shutdown, restart etc. If you have Windows 7, you can test it. It doesn't have UI. When run, it sits in tray.


HotShut is featured on CNET : CNET Review

HotShut is featured on Chip Online : CHIP Online Review

 HotShut is developed by Paras Sidhu For The Windows Club

Download HotShut

5 tools to create stunning Facebook Timeline Cover photos

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5 best tools to create stunning Facebook cover photos
With Facebook announcing Timeline feature available for all users quite sometime ago, we have shared some ideas and creative designs for Facebook cover photos.
But based on the feedback and request of one of our users, today let us take a look at some tools to create stunning Facebook timeline cover photos – we have shortlisted 5 best tools here.
Registration : Requires Facebook login
Pic scatter is a website which helps create really interesting facebook timeline cover photos from a slew of options. There are options to generate a collage of photos from your friends / Likes / your own albums. From the collage, you can select a color scheme – Grey / pink / blurred version (some need premium version of the app). However a watermark of the website is created in the cover photos for the free version as shown below : (Some photos have been covered for privacy concerns).
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If you think the right combination of your pics did not turn up, just click on Friends / album / likes buttons again to change the pics.
Registration : Not required.
This is a website which offers a free online image editing utility with the feel and look of the original cover photo size as shown below :
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There are options to upload new images and use them as background for the Timeline cover photo – add new text – and finally save the cover photo which has to be uploaded to Facebook to be used as the cover photo.
Registration : Requires Facebook login.
Cover Canvas is another really good tool which helps us design our Facebook cover photo based on a set of templates available on the site and also from our own albums.
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The interface is pretty simple and can be easily understood.
Registration: Requires Facebook login
This is infact a photo editing tool for Facebook. But after the introduction of timeline, it has added support for cropping the images to fit the exact cover photo size.
Click on Crop > Cover Photo to crop your photo to match the exact dimensions of cover photo.
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There are also other options to add effects to our photos like brightness adjust , effects, sharpness , saturation etc.
Registration: Not required
This is also quite a good site to edit your photos and crop them to suit the cover photo layout. It is infact a good photo editor rather than a tool which helps giving ideas. You will have to upload an image from your desktop and then edit it based on the options given :
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I personally liked the editing options presented here – emboss / sketch / panoramic view adjustments which can make the photo look really stunning when put as the cover photo. When your done click "Create Cover".
So, that is about the five good tools to create awesome and stunning Facebook timeline cover photos.
Do share with us if you find another interesting cover photos or tools to create cover photos.

Taskbar Pinner: Pin Any File On Windows 8 Taskbar

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Taskbar Pinner is a free tool to pin any file (e.g. any EXE, any Folder) on Windows 8 Taskbar. This useful tool has been created by my friend Happy Bulldozer with his friend Gaurav Kale. You can pin any file, folder, virtual folder (e.g. Personalization) and Library on Windows 8 Taskbar using this awesome tool.



Some of the features listed by the author are:

 You will able:
  • to pin ANY file regardless to its type;
  • to pin ANY folder;
  • to pin drive;
  • to pin Control Panel items, all them including some hidden like God Mode/All Tasks, Network Connections;
  • to pin Libraries;
  • to pin Shell Objects like Run command, "Miminze All", Window Switcher;
  • to pin any drive,all folders and all files via Explorer Context Menu;
  • to pin any folders or files with drag and drop. Drop them on application window.
  • to pin any folders or files via command line:
taskbarpinner.exe "path\to\desired\location"

Delete undeletable files in XP

Posted by David Tuesday, December 4, 2012 0 comments
delete an undeletable file in XP

Sometimes when you try to delete a file in XP, you get an error message saying CAnnot delete Access denied. IN such case, follow the procedure:

* Locate the file you area about to delete

* Click on Start, Run, and type CMD and Press Enter to open a Command Prompt window

* Leave the Command Prompt window open, but proceed to close all other open programs

* Open the Task Manager window by pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL or by clicking on Start, Run and type TASKMGR.EXE and press Enter to start Task Manager

* Click on the Processes tab, click on the process named Explorer.exe and click on End Process.

* Minimize Task Manager but leave it open

* Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory where the file is located. To do this, use the CD command.
Example: to change to the Windows\System32 directory you would enter the following command and Press Enter c:\cd \windows\system32

* Now use the DEL command to delete the offending file. Type DEL where is the file you wish to delete. Example: c:\del undeletableFile.exe

* Go back to Task Manager

* In Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the Windows shell.

* Close Task Manager

Or try this: (simple method)
* Open Notepad

* Click File then Save As…

* Locate the folder where your undeletable file is

* Choose ‘All files’ from the file type box

* Click once on the file you wanna delete so its name appears in the ‘filename’ box

* Put a ” at the start and end of the filename (the filename should have the extension of the undeletable file so it will overwrite it) Example: save as : "UndeletableFile.exe"where UNdeletableFile.exe is the file which cannot be deleted.

* Click save

* It should ask you to overwrite the existing file, choose yes and you can delete it as normal

Thats all

How to enable Facebook Timeline ?

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How to enable Facebook Timeline ?
Facebook timeline is the recent major announcement from Facebook revamping the way a user profile on it looks like. It is a visual chronological order of how a user profile looks like.
So now how do you enable the Facebook timeline right now while there is still weeks time for it to officially roll out to all your profiles?
Simple 8 steps explained to get it right now !
If you’re willing to go through a series of eight steps, you can get into the brand-new Facebook Timeline right now.
Simply follow the instructions in our gallery below, and suddenly you’ll be basking in a new world of Facebook goodness, just like the developers are. Follow the instructions carefully, and good luck.
Please note: If you haven’t already verified your Facebook account with either a mobile phone number or credit card number, you’ll be asked to do so before you can try the new features. If you need more help with that,here’s a helpful link.
Click here for a slideshow of these 8 steps. [via Mashable]

List of Google Search Easter Eggs

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We, the regular users of Google Search, must be familiar with some of the easter eggs found on Google Search. Let us take a look into each one of them – you can try them after the break !
1. Zerg Rush
Type in “zerg rush” (without quotes) in Google search and you find the 'O's eat up all your 'Zerg Rush' search results.
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You can as well destroy the O falling by double clicking on each of them. This is inspired from the famous game StarCraft.
2. Kwanzaa
Type kwanzaa in Google Search and we find series of candles below the Google search bar. Inspired from the "Kwanzaa" festival in United States.
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3. Recursion
Type in Recursion in Google Search and it clearly shows us the meaning of Recursion by saying “Did you mean Recursion?” and clicking on it again shows the same result.
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4. Christmas
Type Christmas (will work during Christmas time) and you find the result page decorated.
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5. Let It Snow
Type Let it snow and the results page gradually gets frosted with the search button showing us to Defrost.
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6. Askew
Typing askew  or tilt  slightly tilts the google search result page.
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7. Do a Barrel Roll
Type in "Do a Barrel Roll" or "Z or R Twice" and the screen rotates !!
This is inspired from the video game "Star Fox" developed by Nintendo in which a rabbit asks to do a barrel roll.
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These are some of the Google Easter Eggs observed. Do let us know if you have observed any others.

Facebook programming challenge to get a phone interview

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Solve the programming challenge being conducted by Facebook and get a phone interview.
Facebook is now hiring engineers by conducting an online programming challenge which is the first step to move to the next round i.e, phone interview.
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PROCEDURE:
The first round is a timed event where question is given and code has to be written for it as soon as possible in one of the following languages - C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, C#, PHP. It is reported that the test could be of 1-2 hours duration.
There is also an option to download sample test cases and test if the code written is working fine or not.
To attempt the test, you need to login with your Facebook account.
But before giving the test, it is natural for us to wonder what kind of questions might be asked. Fortunately there is also a Sample Test (of 45 minutes duration) which contains one question.

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