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Resize your images and add watermark

If you will use your images for web, sometimes you may have problem with them in uploading to your server. Especially, if your images are big in size. In such cases Fast Image resizer will help you a lot. In four easy steps, you will have resized al of your images and add watermark to them.

1) Download Fast Image resize. Unzip it and double click the executable file. Following window will open up. Click on ‘Options’.

2) Once Option is selected you will notice a small window. There are four options available to it – Output, Watermark, language and Extended.

3) Select ‘Output’ option to resize the image. You can move the slider left or right to decrease or increase the quality of an image.

4) Select ‘Watermark’ tab to add the watermark to the images. Watermark can be a simple text or you can add the logo by importing the logo image. Select fonts, font color and size of your choice and choose any of the six predefined location for placing the watermark on photo.

Note - The application is OS independent (JAVA) and is available in two languages – German and English.

How to install vista themes without patching the system first

Normally, vista is protected against installing third party themes not signed by microsoft, however we could instll these themes by patching the system. Now, with a free 200 kb application, we can install and enjoy these third party themes.

The new vista themes that have been moved to themes dolder will be automatically by the application. Then you select the theme and click apply button. Then your theme is applied to vista. Even after reboot, your theme will be in use.

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Windows 7 theme for Windows XP

Microsoft has released Windows 7 M3 build, although you can find it at bittorrent sites, you may not have the opportunity to test it. But still you may want to see its look. You can download the Windows 7 theme for XP below and relief your feelings.

You can download the theme using following link:

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Watch your adsense earnings on firefox statusbar

If you are a blogger, using firefox and monetizing your blog with google adsense, then Adsense Notifier firefox plugin is just for you. Personally, I use google adsense and check my account very frequently. Sometimes it can be boring and annoying for me to login my adsense account to check my earnings.

Now, I dont need to login my adsense account to check my earnings. Adsense notifier plugin logins to my account and shows my earnings on the firefox status bar. You can set it to show the info you want. Here is the download link:

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How to download youtube videos in ubuntu

You can find a lot of alternatives for this subject as you can find any other applications in ubuntu. This the beautiful side of liinux and free os platforms. Of course there is an easy way and difficult way. First the easy one:

Step 1: Find the video you want to download and wait for it to completely finish loading.

Step 2: Minimize your browser (do NOT close it, some browsers delete the temp directory upon closing), and navigate to the directory /tmp

Step 3: Drag the flash file onto your desktop. Voila!

This definitely works with firefox, and probably most other browsers aswell. Enjoy!

And there is an another easy way to download videos from youtube in ubuntu and any other operating system; the online applications. For example Vixy.net is a site that allows visitors to download youtube videos in any format they want. Read more…

Install Linux without a CD

Is there anyone who doesn’t love linux? If yes, you don’t know how easy to install a linux distribution, especially, ubuntu. But now, it is even easier to install a linux distribution to your flash disk or harddisk. How?

Download Universal Netboot Installer (UnetBootin) Here. Choose which distribution to install from the dropdown menu. Choose your iso image file,  choose where to install the system and click ok.

How to extract images from a pdf file

In fact we could do this with a simple trick. Open pdf file, hit print screen button and paste it into the paint or any other graphic program. But it is indirect way of extracting an image from a pdf file and the quality of image can decrease. There is an easier way to do this.

You can use PDF Image Extractr. It is free. It will save your time if you want to save many images from a PDF file. PDF Image Extractr also supports batch jobs to save all the images from multiple documents. You can adjust the quality of output images and set the page range in PDF Image Extractr.

Ubuntu, how to change the look of login screen

Although I am sure that you like the classic login screen of Ubuntu, time is the number one enemy of personal taste. So in time it is normat that you may want to change your login screen like everything else. So, dont be worry, new themes are not so far.

The standard login screen on an Ubuntu desktop is managed by the “gdm” desktop session manager. gdm is theme-able, and extra themes are only a package install away. The package in question is gdm-themes and can be installed using Synaptic, or by issuing the following command in a terminal session:

sudo apt-get install gdm-themes

After the package is installed, go to the Login Window configuration under System > Administration > Login Window in the desktop menu, and in the window that pops up, navigate to the “Local” tab, and add a checkbox next to the theme you would like to use.

Make your Windows look like Ubuntu

You are fond of linux and ubuntu and you have to use ubuntu because of its software support, then Ubuntu Customization pack is just for you. With this pack you can make your windows pc look like ubuntu with the files it contains like; visual styles for Ubuntu, Cursors, Boot Screen, LogonUI, Screensaver, custom sounds and much more utilitie.

To apply the Ubuntu Customization Pack simply download the installer using the following links. Please download and install at your own risk.

Download Ubuntu Customization Pack (Part1, Part2 and Part 3)

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