Why settle for the standard home icon on your browser? If your home button brings you to hackaday.com, why not make the icon reflect that destination? This hack is quick and simple. We’ll take you through it using Firefox 3 and the default theme with standard sized icons.
We start by using our favorite graphics program to make an icon that is 24×24 pixels, and then saved is as a PNG file without compression.
To use the new image as a home icon, we edited a Cascading Style Sheet which is stored in the file classic.jar. On Ubuntu 9.04,…
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Firefox CSS hack: change navigation icons
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Vanilla : Forum Platform
Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web. Anyone who has web-space that meets the requirements can download and use Vanilla for free!
Vanilla runs on MySQL and PHP. It is a very weight (386 KB only!) and compact yet powerful forum creating and managing platform. It is easy to use and maintain once installed.
Its features include RSS 2.0/ATOM feeds of Discussions, Categories and the whole forum. It has an inbuilt WYSIWYG editor for comments and discussions. Various different add-ons and themes are also available for it.
Vanilla : Download | Demo
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Foxit PDF Editor v2.1.0.0702 + KeyGen & Patch
With Foxit PDF Editor you can open a PDF file create a brand new file add or remove pages change anything and save All graphic details will be retained with no quality loss You can select modify delete and insert text images or graphic objects Like any real editor Foxit PDF Editor supports features such as single or group selection copy and paste and undo and redo You can see your changes immediately Foxit PDF Editor is an independent application so you don 39 t need to install any other software not even Acrobat Reader It 39 s compact and…
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TuneUp Utilities 2009 8.0.3300.1
TuneUp Utilities 2009 optimizes the performance of your computer corrects problems and helps you to customize your system to suit your needs It combines important aspects of system configuration security cleaning and maintenance under a modern interface You can remove unnecessary files from your hard disk s clean and optimize the registry tweak your internet connection settings recover deleted files optimize memory and view hardware information and tips TuneUp Utilities also includes an Uninstaller registry Editor Task Manager and even an Undelete tool to recover files that have been deleted from the recycle bin A very nice tool with many…
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Winamp 5.56 Full / Pro / Lite Final
Winamp is an audio player that can handle audio CDs MP3 audio files and streaming audio broadcasts It combines extensive functionality with an intuitive interface Winamp features a playlist editor and a 10 band graphic equalizer with user definable presets that can automatically load specific files It also includes Windows Media Technology 4 0 input output support and the industry standard Fraunhofer MP3 decoder This download no longer includes VIS DSP plug ins you can download them separately
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Somthing about hard drives & partition
Do you have data on a partition or hard drive that you don’t want tampered with or easily accessible to other users? Well, you can hide any drive/partition in Windows XP, NT, and 2000. That means that they won’t show up in Explorer or My Computer.If you want access to that drive from your user account you should create a desktop shortcut before proceeding. Once hidden, you can still access by typing the drive letter and a colon in Start/Runfor example, “D:” will bring up a folder of the contents on your D drive.The easiest way with Win XP…
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Ashampoo Burning Studio 9 v9.04 + Crack
Ashampoo Burning Studio 9 is a major update that improves almost every aspect of the program adding many new features and capabilities in every part of the program It also introduces a new Movie Editor for editing and combining your videos before burning them to DVD The Movie Editor has functions for cutting transitions fades subtitles titles and more plus a point and click DVD menu editor with animated themes for creating great looking interfaces for your DVD movies The new version also packed with improvements new features and fine tuning that make all Burning Studio rsquo s functions more…
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Removing Startup Items located in the registry
The System Configuration Utility displays items that start with your PC. These items are generally located in one of two areas. The registry or in Common Startup. Should you decide to prevent specific items from starting up you can uncheck them in the System Configuration Utility. Though this method is fine it is ultimately best to remove them from the source. To access the common registry locations of these items take a look in the following areas: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce If you have disabled items in the System Configuration Utility and would like to remove them from the registry…
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Right-click
Lets say you have a bout 4-5 very useful applications which you use always. By placing them all on the first level menu will eventually crowd your start menu. Now why not utilize the right-click option instead? The right-click option gives you the ability to Open, Explore and Find. If you can add a shortcut to your application to that menu, it would be great. To do this, crank up your registry editor and go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Shell. Right-click on Shell and create a new key. Type in an appropriate name for the key. On the right pane, double-click on the…
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DailyPerfect Examines Your Facebook Account To Find The Most Relevant News
Want to get the most relevant news to you based on your network and not based on what some editor thought would be most interesting to you? DailyPerfect is a new site which crawls through your feed and picks out the most relevant news categories that it thinks you’d like to follow. It’s a pretty interesting model and so far it has been relatively effective at picking out the most relevant articles for me. The top articles for me have been related to Facebook and blogging which is pretty spot on.
The aggregated news content space is still evolving. While…
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Finding Volunteers For Your Charity by: Nigel Tailyour
Advertising for volunteers in local papers for instance need not be expensive. Here is a great cheap way to get coverage with almost no cost. It is called Distressed Space.Distressed space is easy to find and very effective. All you do is buy space very cheaply, in advance so that when an editor has room to fill and no advertisers, your advertising for volunteers goes in the space available at the lowest possible cost. The great news is that you set the price.Here is what you do:Ask your Treasurer to make out 4 cheques to the local paper or magazine.Make…
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Open Directory : DMoz
The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.The Definitive Catalog of the Web The Open Directory follows in the footsteps of some of the most important editor/contributor projects of the 20th century. Just as the Oxford English Dictionary became the definitive word on words through the efforts of volunteers, the Open Directory follows in its footsteps to become the definitive catalog of the Web. The Open Directory was founded in the spirit of the Open Source movement, and is the only…
