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I know I am running behind in my blog posts. I had so much to write about in this month, but for the past 2 weeks I've been facing problems with my home machine. Unfortunately I haven't been able to pinpoint the faulty component. I know it's a hardware issue as I've tried reinstalling Windows, 5 times with fairly great degree of variance. With SP2 slipstreamed with hotfixes until MS-05-053, SP2 without any hotfixes, Pro & Home (build 2600 & SP2) and Windows 2000 SP4. I even...
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In the very first public display of collaboration of it's kind ( at least I think it's first, correct me if I'm wrong )… Microsoft & Mozilla Foundation have a common agreeement over the RSS icon. People using Mozilla family of browsers will be delighted to know that it's still orange! In a post made on IEBlog by IE Team members it was made public " that it’s in the user’s best interest to have one common icon to represent RSS and RSS-related features in...
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Yesterday Dec. 13th, 2005, a young graphic artist & Windows™ Visual Styles maker known in the community as KoL and owner of studiotwentyeight.com ; removed one of the most popular Visual Style known as VistaXP from his site as well as other sites where it was available like Neowin.net , deviantart.com . The decision was prompted by a request by Microsoft asking him to cease work on this skin and take necessary actions to prevent continued redistribution of his work. For people who aren't...
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I finally purchased Window Blinds 5 yesterday. At $19.95 it is one incredible app, and I have to say that I like what I've seen so far. The most awesome feature will obviously be per pixel αlpha blending. Here's a screenshot of my desktop with VistaXP v3 Visual Style by KoL, of StudioTwentyEight . Though I have to say that the most impressive thing about WB5 that amazed me is that it doesn't need to any dedicated process in order to run, it runs as a native Windows XP extension...