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I’m attending my first ever Microsoft Certification (MCITP -Windows Server 2008 Server Administration) course right and during the break time i think why not I do another post for you guys.

Ever since Windows XP Service Pack 3 is released, changes made to Windows theme function has been more stricter  than ever.

Unlike what it used to be, just by renaming and overwriting uxtheme.dll can solved the problem in less than a minute …. it doesn’t seems that way …. well not until now.

There are 2 ways actually to change the theme of your Windows and apply third party ones to your desktop.

I’ll show how how to do it and where to get fantastic themes as well for free as what you see below.

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Since I’ve downgraded to Windows XP on my Lenovo laptop recently, I did suffer a slight dip in my internet surfing.

This is because unlike Vista, XP is only based in IPV4 protocol wherelse in Windows Vista you have IPV6 protocol to support internet connection bandwidth.

But one thing good about XP, is that, you can tweak settings ( that includes internet, themes and performance) to your hearts desire.

Being a great hobbyist on tweaking, I decided to do some tweaking on the internet connection settings.

I’ve downloaded a software called Cablenut.

With Cablenut I can set internet optimized setting in the registry directly via this software.

Let’s me share your my setting and it has improved my connectivity by 60%.

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There will 2 angles when people look at the title.

One - Some people may think I’m talking about piracy, which is simply NOT what I going to talk about.

OR

Two - It’s another crazy idea which can be sensible and realistic.

Here’s the scenario:-
You have a habit of formating your laptop or desktop most of the time. During re-formatting, you will have to get ready all the the CDs associated to the process; 1 CD/DVD for the Windows Operating System and maybe a couple of  cds for drivers. After that, if you are a tweaker you might have to tweak your Windows (disabling this and that).

What n-Lite does for you is compile everything to 1 media which is  a CD or DVD.

Think of this, you will only need 1 CD or DVD to complete the whole process of installing the operating system, drivers and hotfixes.

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Laptop is portable ….. but an IPod as a laptop?

Well, when I explain to my friends and collegues about this discovery …. almost everyone laughed and said “You’re kidding ….right”.

As you normally guess …. it is definately a discovery, no kidding.

Technology is movin at a fast pace right now and you can actually turn your Ipod or any storage device (portable hard disk, USB drives) into a portable laptop virtually.

With Mojopac, this fantasy is a reality.

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Recently, I’ve covered a topic on portable applications and I believe that more and more people would want to make full use of their existing thumbdrive.

One application that is not in the list of portable applications on the portableapps.com website is Skype.

Skype, as you all know, is the most used VOIP application and almost majority of the desktops and laptops in the world will have Skype installed in their PC.

Best of all, now you can make it portable and run it on your thumbdrive.

Cool ……. lets’ begin.

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Being an IT administrator, I have always wanting to make life simpler for myself; i.e. to carry my programs (or program files) and use them whenever I  go.

A laptop is a good mobility tool but sometimes you can’t possibly use it at work or carry it everywhere ( do note my Lenovo is like 3kg and the battery life last for about an hour and a half on full charge).

Though this is a laptop blog, I would also like to share with you technologies that can be made much more simpler for us users.

I’ve recently made my imation Flash Go! USB drive a portable application.

To make my explanation sounds simpler, I can now run my office suite, browser, chat program, media player,  password manager tool, anti-virus, pdf reader, e-mail client and much more … all from my USB thumbdrive.

That’s a lot of stuffs there and my thumdrive is only 4 Gb, so how is this possible?

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As you know Google Chrome has been around for a while and to tell you frankly it is one of my favorite browsers on my laptop to date.

There are a couple like Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Opera and many others but what I really like about Google Chrome is the speed.

However there are certain features in Google Chrome that is not up to my preference like the menu and clearing of private data.

Although there is a button from settings icon that says “Clear browsing data”,  it does not actually cleared all the data cleanly …. hmmm …..

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Being a more of a Windows based user, it is a rarity that I’m covering any MAC stuffs at all on my blog.

Not to undermine any MAC OsX users out there but it’s actually rare that that you see any users carrying a MACBook instead of a Windows based laptop.

Anyway, this is special MAC edition post that I’ve made today and I hope it will be useful for my MAC OsX visitors of this blog. This is a post on the “must have” and  ”good-to-have” applications for those who have MAC OsX on their laptops.

Do note that all the applications I have written below are all available free for download and use.

Let’s get started :-

1. SketchBOX  - This neat application allows you to insert notes to your desktop …. call it a “Note Manager”
2. Tudos - This is a dock expansion for you to store all of your applications.
3. iClockr -  A project and tasks management application.
4. OnyX/Deeper - This is utility tool that will maintain, optimize and personalize your MAC OsX.
5. EverSave - The tool that saves your work during crashes.
6. Burn - A burining application for MAC OSX.
7. AppCleaner -  A small application that allows you to throughly uninstall your unwanted applications.
8.  Carbon Copy Cloner -  A cloning, backup up and synchornize tool for your files.
9. SpotLook - A GUI for your desktop search.
10. Photobook - Facebook photo browser for MAC OsX.
11. FMenu - Facebook evenmt notifier.
12. TwitterPod - Twitter client for MAC OsX.
13. Adium -  Universal Internet Messaging Application
14. Cooloquy - Internet Chat Client.
15. NeoOffice - Office suite for MAC OsX
16. Thunderbird - E-mail application
17. Vienna - RSS/Atom Newsreader
18. Skim - PDF Reader and Note -Taker.
19. iStumbler - Utility to detect Wi-Fi signals.
20. Classic FTP - An easy to use FTP client
21. Firefox 3 - Web browser.
22. Camino - Web browser.
23. Opera - Web browser.
24. Audacity - Sound and audio editing software.
25. QLab - Control audio, video and MIDI 
26. Ultramixer - Professional DJ Software 
27. SimpleSynth - Plug in your MIDI keyboard and play.
28. VLC Media Player - Multimedia player
29. Real Player - Real player for MAC OsX.
30. Jing - Captures images and records video.
31. Frame By Frame - Stop motion movie creation application.
32. Sweet Home 3D - Interior design application software.
33. Blender - 3D content creator software.
34. GIMP - A photoshop alternative and image editor.
35. 7zX - Compression archiever. 
36. UnRarX - Uncompressed RAR files.
37. Perian - Adds all popular video formats for Quicktime.
38. Handbrake - DVD to Mpeg-4 converter
39. Senuti - Transfer iPod songs back to your iMac or MacBook.

This is the list that I can think of at the moment. If you have better suggestions … drop a comment on to this post and share it on this blog.

Hope this lists is sufficient for your needs …. till next post ….