Tired of how XP looks and feels? But not yet ready to dump it? Then you can change the look of windows XP and make it look more like windows vista with this utility called XPize. It is an open source utility that patches the necessary files to change the default XP theme. It is a very clean utility, meaning no spyware. It comes with few visual styles. XPize has recently released “ XPize 5 Release 6”. You can read...

Here we Goooo (gle) again! Google just launched a new toolbar feature called SideWiki. You can find out all about it in Danny Sullivan’s extensive review on Search Engine Land. Saikat Basu wrote a good article on this as well. It has become a hot topic since the official launch. Even though it is still very early to predict SideWiki’s future, yet people are already divided over this project. You will have an idea...

From time to time you need to run security checks and other maintenance on your PC to ensure optimal performance and overall security of your pc or network. You need to make sure there are no vulnerabilities and pc is completely patched. A full PC audit allows you to view the current state of your PC and will also tell you what actions you need to take. It may also very well reveal information that you weren’t possibly...

Tired of slow news sites? Want to flip through news sites quick to find something interesting? Then Google’s Fast Flip may be the answer for you.  Krishna Bharat, Distinguished Researcher of Google News announced the launch recently on the official Google blog. Google Fast Flip Snapshot This new experiment of Google Labs is designed to allow users to flip through headlines, recent news and popular topics from top publishers...

Technorati is changing the way it calculates the authority numbers. A recent blog post on the site by Jen McLean, explains the reasons behind decreased authority numbers. As per their announcement, they are not going to count static blogroll links toward authority numbers and they will rely more heavily on RSS and atom feeds. If you are a Technorati user and/or get significant traffic from the service then you might want...

By default wordpress installations set the administration account username to “admin”. For security reasons, it is a good idea to change it to something hard to guess or something unique.  This username has full backend administration rights and if this account is compromised then you could pretty much lose your entire blog. Wordpress doesn’t allow users to modify this username directly through dashboard user options. Greyed...

What is pretty to human eye may not be true for a search engine bot or spider. You want your website to be nice looking to your visitors but at the same time you would want to rank well in search engines. For SEO (Search Engine Optimization) purpose it’s vital that you know how a spider or bot sees your site. Visually appealing doesn’t always mean it is crawler friendly. Certain elements or objects cannot be read...

You have finally decided that you want to have an online presence. It is time for you to get your own website with your own domain name. While you are searching for a domain name and other related services for your business, you will come across some great offers! Yes, I am talking about FREE domain name offers. These days a lot of companies offer a free domain name with their product or service. A lot of web hosting...

So you have an ISO image, now what? You want to see what is in it before burning to a CD or DVD. May be you don’t want to waste time and energy burning the file to a disc; you just want to explore or use the content of that disk image.  Is there a way to open an ISO image file without burning to a disc? Absolutely YES! You can explore your ISO files using a disk image emulator.  It’s a tool that allows you to mount...