I bet you didn’t know that you could change the placement of your Enlightenment titlebars. Although not necessarily pracitical, it does make for some impressive desktops, and it allows you to quickly differentiate between windows. Say, for example you have aterm and rxvt both open and are using one for admin work and one for standard work. You certainly don’t want to accidentally issue a standard user command (one that could do harm to your system) as the root user. Problem is, by default, both terminal windows pretty much look identical. What if, however, the terminal for root work always had vertical titlebars and the terminal for standar user had the default horizontal title bars? Pretty quick means of differentiation eh? In this article you will see how simple it is in Enlightenment to make your desktiop even more unique.
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Chromium Noise, desktop, E16, Enlightenment, linux, verticle titlebars
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 display the menu bar below the address bar in the header area of the web browser. The menu bar contains links to menus like File, Tools or Help while the address bar is being used to load websites and perform searches on the Internet.
Most web browsers use a different display of toolbars with the menu bar on top and the address bar below which is also the default display in all windows and applications in the Windows operating system. There is however no option to customize Internet Explorer toolbars in the browser itself.
The only way to change the location of the Internet Explorer Toolbar is to edit the Windows Registry. To do that press [Windows R], type [regedit] and hit [enter].
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Browsing, Windows
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Aero Peek is one of the new features that gets introduced in the new Microsoft operating system Windows 7 that is poised to come out later this year. Aero Peek actually refers to a set of features that are introduced, one of them with the ability to show the computer desktop hiding all active windows in the process. The feature in Windows 7 is enabled by hovering over an icon in the Windows 7 Task Bar.
AeroPeek for Windows XP and Windows Vista tries to mimic that behavior. It works by clicking on the program’s system tray icon which will hide all active windows and display the computer desktop instead. Another click on the icon will display the windows again. This is different from the behavior in Windows 7 as it is now possible to interact with desktop elements.
The main use for this feature however is the display of desktop gadgets and other information that are displayed on the desktop. It is different from pressing [Windows D] which will minimize all windows and bring them back upon pressing the keyboard shortcut again. Windows D may change the active window when used while Aero Peek will always return to the window that has been active before.
Still most users will probably prefer the Windows D shortcut as it does not require another software to be running permanently in the background. Aero Peek requires the Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 and a computer running Windows XP or Windows Vista.
from:Aero Peek For XP And Vista
Windows
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Windows can be resized with the mouse, why would anyone need a software program to perform the operation? That’s probably the first question that comes to mind when looking at Move Me, a software program for Windows that provides the functionality to resize windows. Think of notebooks and especially netbooks for a minute.
Their small computer screen and the touchpad navigation make it sometimes necessary to be able to resize windows. Netbooks have a maximum resolution of 1024Ă—600 which means that it can happen that some elements of a window are not visible on the screen.
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Windows
move windows, netbook software, portable software, resize windows, scroll windows, window-management, windows software
A recent analysis of index.dat files on a Windows XP Service Pack 3 test system revealed hundreds of entries. Index.dat files are hidden files that contain information about visited urls, cookies and other cache related files. The information are only recorded when Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is being used to browse the Internet. What many users do not realize is that data is also recorded if a software program makes use of the Internet Explorer rendering engine.
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Browsing, Windows
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The fstab file has a very key mission for your Linux system. What it does is map devices to directories so those devices can be used. If you plug in an external drive or a device like such as an iPod you are going to have to take advantage of fstab. In this article you will learn how to create a proper fstab entry to make mounting devices simple.
What fstab does
As said earlier, the /etc/fstab file is a means to map devices to locations so the devices can be used. Typically when you plug in an external device that device will show up as a device in the special directory /dev. Most externally connected usb devices will show up as a variation of /dev/sda. But if you try to access that device through the /dev directory you’ll have no luck. Instead you have to map the device to a regular, mountable directory so the device can be used. Without the fstab file only the root user would be able to do the mounting and the mount command would always be something like “mount /dev/sda2 /media/mp3″. When the root user mounts a device in this way only the root user
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