Some cool windows vista wallpapers to enhance your desktop. Hope you will enjoy it.
Keynote Grass Wallpaper
Download link: http://rapidshare.com/files/143944849/windows_vista_wallpapers.zip
The Open Source Circular and Spiral Dock for Windows
•September 10, 2008 • Comments OffProgram docks organize your desktop and look appealing, but they’re not always convenient to use. Circle Dock changes this with its large size, intuitive shapes, and ability to appear with a keystroke.
This attractive freebie turns the usual ribbon-like dock inside out. Its default shape is a set of concentric circles, but it can also take the form of a spiral. You can further personalize the look with included skins and your own icons. The settings window offers useful tweaks as well, such as conditions for hiding the dock and a Portability Mode that lets you tote Circle Dock on a USB drive.
Download Circle Dock 0.9.2 Alpha 7.6
Screenshot of Circle Dock
What Circle Dock 0.9.2 Alpha 7.6 Allows You to Do:
- Launch your programs from a circular dock.
- Drag and drop your files, folders, and shortcuts onto a circular dock that you can resize.
- Rotate the dock with either your mouse wheel or the keyboard arrow keys.
- Change the image shown for the icons and change the skins (compatible with icons and skins for Rocket Dock, Object Dock, etc.)
- The dock appears where your mouse is by pressing a hotkey (default is F1) or your middle mouse button.
- Tested on computers with multiple monitors, Windows XP/Vista, 32-bit & 64-bit, and requires only .Net Framework 2.0.
- Automatically works on all Windows Vista computers and most Windows XP computers.
- A new settings panel that allows you to customize many options. It updates your dock as you make changes. See it change in real time! No need to press an OK button.
- Multi-language capable. Just translate the English.ini file to the language of your choice.
- Change the image used for the dock icons with the easiest method out there: Just set the program to “Icon Replacement Mode” in the right-click menu of the centre icon and you can change all the icon images by just dragging and dropping new PNG images onto them! Huge time saver when you are customizing your dock!
- You can now toggle the visibility of the dock by moving your mouse to any edge of your screen. By default, the left and right edges are used for toggling. No need to press a button!
- Rotate the dock with your mouse wheel or arrow keys (customizable).
- Click sensitivity adjustment for tablet users.
- Reorder the dock items by draging and dropping them over each other.
- Organize the dock items using dock folders.
- By default, clicking on the centre button does not open the start menu. You can enable this in the settings panel.
- Includes French, English, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, and Dutch language files. (New & Updated for Alpha 7.6)
- Uses the default high resolution icons in Windows Vista.
- New easy method of upgrading from older versions.
- More shape options and a properties panel for each dock icon will be added for Alpha 8.
- More animation and smoother performance are being looked at.
- Ability to run from a USB key, docklets, live synchronization of the dock icons, and more will be added later on.
Apress Beginning PHP and MySQL 3rd Edition March 2008
•September 10, 2008 • Comments Off
Apress Beginning PHP and MySQL
Download link: http://rapidshare.com/files/144210345/Apress.Beginning.PHP.and.MySQL.3rd.Edition.Mar.2008.pdf
CONTENT OF THE BOOK:
CHAPTER 1 Introducing PHP
CHAPTER 2 Configuring Your Environment
CHAPTER 3 PHP Basics
CHAPTER 4 Functions
CHAPTER 5 Arrays
CHAPTER 6 Object-Oriented PHP
CHAPTER 7 Advanced OOP Features
CHAPTER 8 Error and Exception Handling
CHAPTER 9 Strings and Regular Expressions
CHAPTER 10 Working with the File and Operating System
CHAPTER 11 PEAR
CHAPTER 12 Date and Time
CHAPTER 13 Forms
CHAPTER 14 Authenticating Your Users
CHAPTER 15 Handling File Uploads
CHAPTER 16 Networking
CHAPTER 17 PHP and LDAP
CHAPTER 18 Session Handlers
CHAPTER 19 Templating with Smarty
CHAPTER 20 Web Services
CHAPTER 21 Secure PHP Programming
CHAPTER 22 SQLite
CHAPTER 23 Building Web Sites for the World
CHAPTER 24 MVC and the Zend Framework
CHAPTER 25 Introducing MySQL
CHAPTER 26 Installing and Configuring MySQL
CHAPTER 27 The Many MySQL Clients
CHAPTER 28 MySQL Storage Engines and Datatypes
CHAPTER 29 Securing MySQL
CHAPTER 30 Using PHP with MySQL
CHAPTER 31 Introducing PDO
CHAPTER 32 Stored Routines
CHAPTER 33 MySQL Triggers
CHAPTER 34 MySQL Views
CHAPTER 35 Practical Database Queries
CHAPTER 36 Indexes and Searching
CHAPTER 37 Transactions
CHAPTER 38 Importing and Exporting Data
Using Multiple Internet Explorer Versions Simultaneously
•September 11, 2008 • Leave a CommentFoof!!! Yesterday I became mad with the versions of Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 beta. Actually I installed IE beta 8. I was just about to try the beta version. Its perfect. In fact, I’m used to run VRML files on the IE browser and it was working perfectly with IE6 and IE7. But with IE beta 7, the VRML plugin for IE did not worked. I badly needed to developed some VRML world applications. I uninstalled the IE beta 8, reinstall IE 7, uninstall the VRML plugin and vice versa. It did not worked. I spent 3 hours on this petty thing.
Then I took a break to relax away from my screen. I was just thinking that why I install IE beta 8. The answer was just to try it and testing some stuffs and some websites with it. Well I got the idea if its possible to install different versions of IE on windows likewise Firefox or Opera. In fact, its possible to install mulitple IE versions simultaneously on windows and of course can on linux by using WINE.
I think this will be a great stuff for web developers for testing websites on different versions of browsers before delivering to their clients. Well the solution is very simple and easy; the INTERNET EXPLORER COLLECTION is here for you. It is simply a collection IE versions built in only one package and its free.
The best part is that you can pick the IE versions that you want and install them on your system separately which in turn means that it is possible to test a website in each version of IE independently.
After downloading Internet Explorer Collection the user is presented with several check boxes during installation which when selected install the specific version of Internet Explorer.
It does not make much sense to install the early versions, at least when website testing is the main consideration for installing the different versions.
Each version of Internet Explorer that has been installed on the system because accessible through the Windows Start Menu. A click on the Internet Explorer icon will launch that version, it is even possible to launch and run several versions of Internet Explorer simultaneously.
Just search the software in www.softpedia.com and have fun!!!
ICONS for web development
•September 12, 2008 • Leave a CommentSome cool icons in PNG and GIF format for web developers and people who wanna tweak their OS.
Download Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/144720750/icons_in_png_n_gif.zip
enjoy!!!
Multiple computers on your desktop form a single virtual screen
•September 13, 2008 • Leave a CommentSynergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).
Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all. Learn more about how it works.
Synergy is open source and released under the GNU Public License (GPL).
Synergy
Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2008
•September 18, 2008 • Leave a Comment
Download Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/146258991/Sybex.Mastering.Microsoft.Visual.Basic.2008.Mar.2008.pdf
CONTENT
Chapter 1 • Getting Started with Visual Basic 2008 Chapter 2 • Variables and Data Types Chapter 3 • Programming Fundamentals Chapter 4 • GUI Design and Event-Driven Programming Chapter 5 • The Vista Interface Chapter 6 • Basic Windows Controls Chapter 7 • Working with Forms Chapter 8 • More Windows Controls Chapter 9 • The TreeView and ListView Controls Chapter 10 • Building Custom Classes Chapter 11 • Working with Objects Chapter 12 • Building Custom Windows Controls Chapter 13 • Handling Strings, Characters, and Dates Chapter 14 • Storing Data in Collections Chapter 15 • Accessing Folders and Files Chapter 16 • Serialization and XML Chapter 17 • Querying Collections and XML with LINQ Chapter 18 • Drawing and Painting with Visual Basic 2008 Chapter 19 • Manipulating Images and Bitmaps Chapter 20 • Printing with Visual Basic 2008 Chapter 21 • Basic Concepts of Relational Databases Chapter 22 • Programming with ADO.NET Chapter 23 • Building Data-Bound Applications Chapter 24 • Advanced DataSet Operations Chapter 25 • Building Web Applications Chapter 26 • ASP.NET 3.5 Chapter 27 • ASP.NET Web Services
Learn ASP.NET AJAX in 24 hours with SAMS
•September 18, 2008 • Leave a Comment
Download link: http://rapidshare.com/files/146253604/Sams.Teach.Yourself.ASP.NET.Ajax.in.24.Hours.Jul.2008.pdf
Object Oriented JavaScript Jul 2008
•September 20, 2008 • Leave a Comment
Download Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/146632888/Packt.Publishing.Object.Oriented.JavaScript.Jul.2008.pdf
This book explores JavaScript for what it is: a highly expressive and flexible prototype-based object-oriented programming language. Once dismissed as a toy for designers to make things such as rollover buttons, today this interesting and unique language is back, stronger than ever. Today’s Web 2.0 world of AJAX, fat-client programming, desktop-like rich Internet applications, drag-and-drop maps and web mail clients, rely heavily on JavaScript to provide a highly interactive user experience. And if we never had the chance to properly explore JavaScript before, now is the time to sit down and (re-)learn it. This book doesn’t assume any prior knowledge of JavaScript and works from the ground up to give you a thorough understanding of the language.
Chapter 1 talks briefly about the history, present, and future of JavaScript, and then moves on to explore the basics of object-oriented programming (OOP) in general. You then learn how to set up your training environment (Firebug) in order to dive into the language on your own, using the book examples as a base.
Chapter 2 discuses the language basics: variables, data types, arrays, loops, and conditionals.
Chapter 3 covers functions. JavaScript has many uses for functions and here you learn to master them all. You also learn about the scope of variables and JavaScript’s built-in functions. An interesting, but often misunderstood feature of the language—closures—is demystified at the end of the chapter.
Chapter 4 introduces objects: how to work with properties and methods, and the various ways to create your objects. There’s also an overview of the built-in objects in JavaScript, such as Math and Date (just an overview, Appendix C has all the details).
Chapter 5 is dedicated to the all-important concept of prototypes in JavaScript.
Chapter 6 expands your “thinking in JavaScript” horizon, discussing a dozen ways to implement inheritance in JavaScript.
Chapter 7 is the browser chapter. In this chapter, you learn about BOM (Browser Object Model), DOM (W3C’s Document Object Model), browser events, and AJAX.
Chapter 8 dives into various unique JavaScript coding patterns, as well as several language-independent design patterns, translated to JavaScript from the Book of Four, the most influential work of software design patterns.
Appendix A lists the reserved words in JavaScript.
Appendix B is a reference to the built-in JavaScript functions, together with sample uses.
Appendix C is a reference that provides detail and provides examples of the use of every method and property of every built-in object in JavaScript.
Appendix D is a regular expressions pattern reference.
Visual QuickStart Guide JavaScript & Ajax for the Web, 6th Edition
•September 21, 2008 • Leave a Comment
Need to learn JavaScript fast? This book is step-by-step and task-based instructions. Visual QuickStart Guide–the quick and easy way to learn!
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Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through JavaScript and show you what to do.
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Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.
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Page for page, the best content and value around.
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Companion Web site at www.javascriptworld.com offers sample scripts, updates, and more!
How to install Win XP on SATA
•October 26, 2008 • Leave a CommentMost of the laptops now are configured for Vista but according to me Vista sucks and many of you may or not agree with me. However, if you want to remove the Vista from the laptop and install XP, even though you are expert in XP, you will find this step sucking because after the XP has already loaded the drivers and that you will press enter to continue, the installation will not start and you will get a message telling you that there is no hard drive or plug the hard drive in the system. Well the problem is not that there is a problem with the laptop or with the hard drive but with the XP. Win XP does not contain driver for SATA and Microsoft will never put it and release another version of XP because MS is money minded.
There are some solutions for this situation. Firstly you can press F6 when the XP is booting and before XP loads the driver, you will find a message at the bottom that press F6 to load third party drivers. For this solution you will a USD FLOPPY DRIVE but not a USB pen drive. Get this point clear; USB floppy drive or a floppy drive. But in most cases you can’t invest to buy a USB floppy drive just for this situation and then through the USB floppy drive and most laptops these days don’t have a floppy drive. So, you can borrow a USB floppy drive from someone and copy the driver of the SATA hard drive into it and plug the USB floppy drive to the USB before booting the XP. Then you press F6 to load this third party driver. I think this solution is the easiest but you will need a hardware that is a USB floppy drive. I got this problem with a DELL INSPIRON 1525 two days ago.
Next, the best solution but quite complex and sometime does not work. By modifying XP bootable CD itself. You will need a blank DVD, about 1GB space in any running OS and a freeware called NLITE. Download this freeware and install it. Put your WIN XP cd into your DVD/CD drive. Save the hard drive driver in a folder and open NLITE. You will need to copy all the files in XP cd to your local drive but don’t worry NLITE will do it for you. To insert the SATA drivers within the installation package, you need to have it saved on the HDD. Hence, when the warning window appears click OK and select the destination folder for the files to be saved. Make sure that the destination partition / HDD has enough space to store the contents of the installation CD.
Immediately after you have chosen the destination folder, the application will start copying the Windows installation files. When finished, it will display some version information regarding the newly copied Windows Installation Package.
Now, click next twice until you get to a screen where you get options sorted in 4 categories: Integrate, Remove, Setup, Create. We are interested in the integration procedure, therefore select the Drivers button and click next. From the next menu window, click Insert and select multiple drive folder option from the drop down menu. This option permits you to browse to the location where the downloaded drivers are found.
Select the containing directory and click next. You will get a list with the available drivers (in case there are more than one) or simply one driver. Select it (them) and click next. Now the application will ask for the permission to start the integration procedure. Choose Yes and wait for the drivers to be inserted into the installation package.
With problematic driver being included in the installation package you can install Win XP on your SATA HDD…but…the installation package is on the HDD. You need a bootable CD in order to start an installation. Don’t worry, once the installation package has been adorned with additional user selected drivers it can be transformed into a bootable disk image and later burned on a CD. To encapsulate the installation into a ISO image use the same Nlite application. Open it, make sure the HDD installation folder is selected and click next. Select “Last session” preset and click next again. Now from the options menu choose Bootable ISO and click next. In the following window, make sure that the mode is set to “Create Image” and click Make ISO. A destination folder is required where the resulting ISO image will be saved. Once the image saving process finished you have the freedom to burn it on a blank CD with whatever you favorite CD burner software may be.
VOILA its done!!! cAiMpS
Ozio Gallery
•October 27, 2008 • 35 CommentsAs a joomla user, you may be wanted to use good and very professional galleries to display your photos to attract people to vist your site. I will advise you to use OZIO GALLERY component which is released for free under GPL license. In fact, when installing this component you will be very happy with its functionalities and you may find demonstrations on the site of the ozio gallery (http://oziogallery.joomla.it/). However, there is a word on the botton of the gallery that you will not like at all. It is “Powered By Joomla.it“. The developer is very very expert and intelligent. They encrypted this coding in such a way that I took allmost 3 hours to find it.
Below are the steps to remove the “Powered By Joomla.it“
1. Goto root folder of the joomla system.
2. Goto to the folder administrator\components\com_oziogallery\css and open it.
4. You will find the file ‘ozio.css‘ and open it an editor.
5. Remove all the code after the line 6 that is remove the code after the code </style>.
6. Save the file.
7. Refresh your gallery and voila its done!!!
MOZY::Simple, Automatic, Secure Online Backup
•October 31, 2008 • Leave a Comment
Click on the link to have a free account of 2GB free storage: http://mozy.com/?ref=4SE9QH
MOZY::Simple, Automatic, Secure Online Backup.
If you want to backup your data, use the free online system called Mozy Backup. You will have to register and its totally free and you will get a space of 2GB at the beginning and you may upgrade to more space later on. The system will let you download its free software called Mozy Backup and you may personalized which data to backup. The software will backup your data automatically whenever it will find your connection idle and will just inform you after the back up has been done. Thats very nice and no worry at all. Click here or the link above for a free registration.
Even when you will format your PC, you can restore the data from the Mozy system directly because Mozy will store your machine names and similarly you can back up data in the same account for many machines. Also, the main advantage is that you can also backup your favorites for IE and Firefox or any browser you like to use. Thats the most fantastic functionality of this system. Every time you format your PC or laptop, you can always retrieve back all your favorites. But please make sure to give your PC or laptop the same machine name every time you make a fresh installation of windows.
Also, from time to time, you will get e-mails from the system stating that you may get more space by some simple stuffs or whenever there are promotions. However, you can also buy more spaces for the back up system.
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
•November 28, 2008 • Leave a Comment
Its indeed very amazing and fantastic to see real pictures from of big events like US Civil War in 1860’s. Google has hosted many photos starting from 1860’s to 1970’s. These photos are never seen before. I advise you guyz and gurlz to please have a look at them. Its really fantastic. You may look at these photos on google images or have a brief description of what it is from the google official blog.
DIABLO III: and the heavens shall tremble
•December 28, 2008 • Leave a CommentI’m very excited to hear about DIABLO III. I have been playing DIABLO II for more than one year during my HSC level because I just love that game and I found it more fun than GTA SAN ANDREAS. When the developer of DIABLO II left Blizzard Entertainment, they developed a mind blowing game named HELLGATE LONDON. Though I’m used to download every stuff, I bought that game and it was really fantastic. Now I just can’t wait to play my favorite game new release. Its gonna be fantastic and Its gonna be my past time. I’m sorry for all those who won’t see me after I start to play DIABLO III. I may not even eat on time.
Stopping blogging
•September 8, 2009 • Leave a CommentHello everybody,
Just wanted to tell you all that I have stop blogging and I prefer to twit than blogging though I was not a regular blogger.
I have switch to web design and web development as my carrier and I enjoy it. I also provide many services during my free time:
- PSD to XHTML conversion
- PSD to Joomla ! 1.5 Template and existing Joomla! 1.5 template customization
- Website development with Joomla! 1.5 and from scratch with PHP 5 and MySQL and PostgreSQL as backend
- Very soon domain name and hosting services
- PC repairs and maintenance
- Brochures, pamphlets and newsletters design
Please feel free to contact me:
Email: http://scr.im/faardeen [this type of email is to prevent spamming]
Skype: faardeen.madarbokas
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/faardeen
Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter/faardeen
ColorMunki
•October 11, 2008 • Comments Off
ColorMunki is the industry’s hottest all-in-one color solution that delivers unparalleled color control and color creation tools for photo and design digital workflows.
Each ColorMunki solution is designed to meet the workflow needs of your creative profession. I’ll let you explore it by yourself to know how much fun you can do with this: http://www.colormunki.com/
