It has been a tradition for most of us Filipinos especially in our family to prepare 12 or 13 kinds of round fruits in our dining table. We believe, like most of us that each fruit represents one month in the coming year and the round shape is believed to bring good luck for that month. Well, this is what we have at our little table for this coming 2012.
Customize your Log On screen
Most Operating Systems(O.S) have their own default log on screen everytime you lock, hibernate, sleep, restart and turn your computer on. Log on screen on different operating systems have their unique log on boxes and background picture. For over years of using your personal computers and laptops aren't you sick of looking your default log on which adds load to your boredom? Well, I know, lot of us wanted to have something new and cool. Many of us have been wondering if there is a way to change our old and boring default log on screens. The answer is YES! There are several ways to change your log on screen. I'll be sharing two out of many methods to do it. These methods are applicable only to windows users.
Method A
1. Download and Install Tune Up Utilities. Here, Im using Tune Up Utilities 2011.
2. After installing, open Tune Up Utilities.
3. Click on the Customize Windows Tab.
4. Click Log On Screen.
5. Click Create New.
6. Click Search Local Hard Drive and choose the background you want.
7. Choose the appropriate alignment and you can see the preview on the right side of the window.
8. Hit the Save Log on Screen.
9. Finally, Lock your computer to see your new Log on Screen.
Method B
1. Download and Install TweaksLogon. Check their official site or download it here.
2. After Installing, open TweaksLogon.
3. Click on Change Log On Screen and locate your desired background.
4. After finding your desired background, hit the Open button.
5. Your Log on Screen background is changed. check it out by clicking Test Button.
How to Stop Receiving Messages in Facebook Group Chat
The number of Facebook Groups have been growing rapidly everyday and we have been members to some of these groups. Some of your friends or maybe you have created a Facebook group to gather all your friends in one environment where you can share,chat, interact with them. Some of these are Groups for your High School and College friends, bestfriends, schoolmates, batchmates, neighbors, bandmates and even your own church-mates.
Somehow there comes a point where members of your group send messages on your group chat which not concerns you and it keeps on popping on your window which makes you feel irritated. You may be wondering if there is a way that you can stop or turn off your group chat from popping your window. Well, it is indeed possible.
Here is how you do it!
1. Go to your Group and look at the upper right where you can see the button "Edit Settings".
2. Uncheck the "Send me group chat messages" then hit the "Save Settings".
There you go! You will no longer be annoyed by unwanted chat messages from that specific Facebook Group!
Restoring your Old Facebook Chat
Just recently, Facebook have updated their chat system. Most of us doesn't like it for the reason that the new Facebook chat is not so user-friendly. When clicking the Chat on the lower-right side of the monitor, it opens up and fully fills the right side of your monitor. Unlike the old Facebook chat system, in these new chat system, you cannot directly see all your online friends. Instead, what's on your list will be those friends you chat the most and even their offline, you can still see them on you chat list. And you hiding your chat list more complicated since you are required to click on the settings button below and click Hide Sidebar.
Somehow, there is a way on getting back your Old Facebook Chat. Thanks to Greasemonkey developed by Anthony Lieuallen, Aaron Boodman and Johan Sundström, this is all possible. Greasemonkey is an add-on for Mozilla Firefox which was last updated last July 20, 2011. It allows you to customize the way a web page displays or behaves, by using small bits of JavaScript. This also works for Google Chrome. Here is how it is to be done.
For Mozilla Firefox:
1. DOWNLOAD Greasemonkey for your Mozilla Firefox if you are using Google Chrome or other browser while reading this.
2. If you are already using Mozilla Firefox while reading this, just click HERE to download then proceed immediately to step no. 4.
3. If you are using Google Chrome in downloading this, locate where the download has been save. Click the file, Click Select program from a list of installed programs then hit OK. Click browse, find and double click Mozilla Firefox folder, then click firefox, then click another OK.
4. Your Mozilla Firefox will be opened and there will be a pop-up window, click install now. Then another pop-up of the add-ons window will appear, click Restart Firefox.
5. After restarting your Mozilla Firefox you can see this cute little monkey on the upper right side of your screen. This indicates that you have successfully installed Greasemonkey on your computer.
6. Now, Clike here to DOWNLOAD the script for your chatbox. There will be a pop-up like this then click install.
7. Restart your browser now and check your Facebook in Mozilla Firefox now. Boom! Your old Facebook Chat system is now back!
For Google Chrome:
Just proceed immediately to step 6 in installing Greasemonkey in Mozilla. You will see these pop-ups. Click install then another install.
Refresh your Google Chrome browser and go to your Facebook. Your Old Chat box is now back just like in the picture on step 7 above.
REMINDER: This will not be stack or saved on your account. Your old chat box will just be visible to the computer where you installed this.
The Green Solution, Green PCs
For the past decades, computer evolution is one of the remarkable advancement in technology. Since from the very first computer release in 1944 up to the present computers which are in the market today. ENIAC ( Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) develop by John Mauchly and John Prosper Eckert was the first computer release in 1944. Computer has been modified and upgraded every year to suite to our personal and office needs. Nowadays, computers are equipped with high-speed processors compared to the very first computer released long time ago. Intel for example, had just recently released their 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processor Family. Built with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 and Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology. Extra Performance on Demand. Smart Multitasking. Somehow, due to this rapid changes in technology have resulted in a fast-growing electronic waste around the globe. Electronic waste(E-waste) are electronic devices which have been disposed. An estimated 50 million tons of E-waste is produced each year.
Green PC's have been introduced recently in the market. This has been marked as one of the solution for this so-called E-waste. Userful MultiSeat Linux 2011™ is software that turns 1 Linux computer into 10 high performance independent computer stations. Another is the NComputing vSpace software which provides multiple end users with simultaneous access to a single operating system instance of either Windows or Linux. Another remarkable one is the SoftXpand 2011 which supports Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions, 32 or 64 bits) and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems. Somehow this kind of technology has its limitations. This can't be used yet in a business like an internet cafe. This technology was not yet designed for gaming purposes. The process and transmission of data for games from each of these workstations is too heavy for this kind of technology. For now, this could only handle office and business applications/software which are commonly used in a company, school and other small businesses.
Today, the world is suffering crisis, not only economically, but also environmentally. This technology is really a big help to us. Turning 1 computer into 10 or more computer stations, how much savings could that be? A business, company, school can easily deploy large computer stations at a very low cost. A single PC with a very nice processor, video card and etc., nowadays, may range around P20,000-P40,000. See? This could be also seen as one solution to global recession. Through this every place in this world can help reduce not only in electricity bill, hardware and support costs and most especially in carbon dioxide emissions and electronic waste. An ECO Fact: Switching 1% of the world's PCs to Userful Desktop is equal to taking 26 million cars off the road.
Customize your start orb!
Ubuntu. Windows. Mac-OS. Alienware. These are the most well-known operating system which are commonly used worldwide. Somehow, Windows dominates among the four. Aside of being user-friendly, it is affordable compared to Alienware and Mac-OS. Eventhough Ubuntu is free and it's open source, many people still love Windows. Let me ask you one question, do you want to learn some customization for your laptop or PC's to make it looks great? Well, let me teach you one technique.
Customization of you start orb is one technique in making your theme looks great. First of all, you will need to download the software Resource Hacker. This is a freeware utility to view and modify Windows executable resources. You can download it here! Install it to your system after downloading.
Let the customization begins!
1. Open Resource Hacker.
2. Click File, then Open or simply press CTRL + O.
3. There will be a pop-up. Look for Local Disk (C): , click the folder WINDOWS, the select and open
the explorer.
4. Click Bitmap. You are going to edit 6801, 6803, and 6809. Click one of these three, the right-click 1033.
5. Click Replace Resource. Then open new file with new bitmap. Locate the folder where you save your orbs(BMP format).
6. Repeat steps 4-5 for 6803 and 6809.
7. Click File, then Save or just press CTRL + S. Name it as explorer.exe .Save it anywhere you want
(but i prefer create new folder in desktop and save it there).
This is where the tricky part comes in.
8. Open My Computer. Local Disk(C): . Windows. Look for explorer.exe ,then right-click it.
9. Click Properties. Click the Security tab above. Then click Advance below.
10. Click Owner tab above. Your current owner will be SYSTEM. So you're going to click EDIT. Click
YES. Click Administrators. Click Apply. Then OK. Click OK again.
11. Right-click explorer.exe. Click Properties. Click the Security tab above. Then click Edit below.
12. Click SYSTEM. Then Click to check the box for FULL CONTROL. Do this also for Administrator and User. Click them both, one by one then check the box for FULL CONTROL.
13. Click OK. Then another OK.
14. Copy this explorer.exe to another location for back up purposes.
15. Go back to the folder where you save the explorer.exe which you have created with Resource
Hacker. Right-click then click copy or simply CTRL + C. Specifically, go to this location C:\Windows or click My Computer->Local Disk(C)->Windows then paste the explorer.exe here.
16. Press CTRL + ALT + DEL then click Task Manager. Click on Processes above. Right-click explorer.exe then click end process.
17. Click File. New task(Run). Type explorer.exe then hit OK.
There you go! You will have a new look in your Desktop now. You will have a cool start orb like mine!
You can also search more of these start orbs in Google and Deviantart.
Any words from you?
In this world, there are many means of communication. Cellphones, PAD's, and Computers are just some of them. The most commonly or well-known now is through social networking. Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and many more. But the very basic one is talking. Are you talkative or not? How many hours do you talk a day? Who are the people you talk most of the time? We just can't stop talking. From the very moment you spoke a word when you are a baby, up to day last words of your life. Somehow, the words we speak sometime get misunderstood by other people. Why is it so? Is it the way we talk, or it is just the person who heard those words have different standards and interpretation. It could vary depending on the situation, but what will you do if you are having this situation now? Are you ready to lower your pride and listen? Or you will fight for your stand? I'm just been caught to this dilemma. On a situation which get most of my attention. How would you feel if a person keeps on repeating things that you already understood? How would you feel if you talked to a person about a serious problem and it seems that, you can't even get a single word from him/her? Well, this seems a tough one but hey, everything will be just alright if we are just willing to lower our pride. Try to listen with both ears, both direction, analyze and internalize the situation smoothly. Think deeply. Let me ask one more time, "Any words from you"?
Stereotype
There are billions of people in this world. Divided by different cultures, countries, tribes and races. Classified according to beliefs, traditions and pride. Each of us have different sufferings, illness, disorders and weaknesses. Somehow, there are people who really get most of my attention. Those people who only have one ear. Not literally, but philosophically speaking. These people are people, who only use a single ear in listening to conversations. People who couldn't dare to listen to both ears, both directions. They always analyze and interpret things which always favors to there side. They didn't even tried to ask or listen about what others say in analyzing and interpreting situations. Sometimes, its not only deafness, but also blindness. To them, their ideas and interpretation on things are always right. So let me address this, are you one of them? Stop and think for a while.
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