February 28, 2012

Customize your Windows 7 Start Orb

After the Windows 7 3rd themes post...
... another way to graphically customize your Windows 7 is changing the Start Orb, the graphic of the Start Button (dropped in Win8, but still there in Seven).



You can do this using this tool:

Windows 7 Start Orb Changer:
http://kishan-bagaria.deviantart.com/art/Windows-7-Start-Orb-Changer-v4-153001999


  • download (it's a .zip with a link)
  • follow the link and download the software
  • start the software (run as Administrator!!)
  • I set "replace by editing resources" in the advanced options (> button)
  • select your "orb graphic file" (look below) and patch
  • explorer.exe  restarts and et-voilĂ , your new Start Orb!


Choose your favorite, directly from DeviantArt:

http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/skins/windows7/startorbs/

I like Win 8 orb "big arrow", "Win8 orb square" and the minimal "Little square"

February 27, 2012

From 1993: NeXTstep OS


In the 1995 the NeXTstep was in the 3.3 version.
What is NeXTstep?
When Jobs left Apple he made a pc called NeXT and a new operating system.

I installed it.
The UI graphic is very nice and polish, I love big icons, but I hate the movable menu bar and the windows managing is a bit inconsistent ("hide" menu button to hide a window, menu bar occupies a lot of screen, etc...).

Some screens!

February 26, 2012

Weird analogies - Silent Hill and...

... and that movie!

What a f....

When you see it...

February 23, 2012

Kompose: make your mosaic

I used this simply tool for make the screenshots mosaic for Return to Castle Wolfenstein...


Very useful if you want to create one image using multiple images!

Download: Kompose (80 KB)



February 20, 2012

Simply multi-desktop in 60KB

In the web there are a bunch of software that add multi-desktop feature in your Windows.


With "Desktops" you have a 60 kilobytes software that allow you to use 4 virtual desktops, easy and simply.

Download: Desktops

February 19, 2012

February 18, 2012

Oh, new Windows logo...


Uhm... not bad.

It's clean.

It's new.

It isn't the logo what worries me ...  Yeah, you know... 
I have very little trust in Redmond in recent times in the Win8 development....

February 17, 2012

Notificationsss

Some comments from a tech-blog:

 
I use both iOS and Android and I really don’t think the notifications experience is better on iOS than on Android..
    
Apple’s implementation is not as good as Android’s.
Tell me one thing it does better than Android’s. One.
 
You won’t find one (against ICS).


Dat answer:
   
The ability to view notification center within a full screen app
.


And I agree. Can't be that Android-ICS developers have not thought about that and iOS 5 was shipped with a better "Notifications"  feature.

So...


Time for a new OS war!


Apple shows the first screens of its new OS called "Mountain Lion" (feline names are finished :P ) and Microsoft will releases soon (29 February) the Consumer Preview (Beta) of Windows 8.

Improvements, new features and so much on.

It gets interesting.

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