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The Joy of Vista

Found this interesting cartoon on Windows Vista ..Enjoy !

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Customize Windows Vista

I had installed Windows Vista Home Edition the other day and came across these tips which i feel would be very useful to Vista Starters.

Here are the five customizations that most Vista users would want to make as soon as they get the new OS rolling:-

Customize the desktop: Right-click the desktop and choose Personalize to change the background, screen saver, sounds and mouse pointer. You can also choose a theme, alter your monitors resolution, or change your icons and fonts. If you use Vista’s Aero interface, you can assign custom colors to your windows by choosing Windows Color and Appearance  and picking a color, or click Show color mixer to mix a custom color.

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Permanently Block Time-Wasting Web Sites

Is there a web site that’s utterly toxic to your mental state or ability to work? Maybe you grind your teeth over your ex’s weblog, which details every moment of her happy new life without you. Maybe you’ve lost hours of your life trolling eBay auctions and you simply can’t impulse-buy another autographed Neil Diamond record. Perhaps online backgammon can snatch away hours of your day at the office.

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Install Your Own Wikipedia

The collaboratively edited Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) is a vast, searchable repository of information, constantly written and re-written by its readers. Don’t you wish you or your group could have your own editable encyclopedia of brain dumps and documentation like Wikipedia? You can. MediaWiki (http://mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki), the software that runs Wikipedia, is freely available for anyone to install. In this hack, you set up MediaWiki on your Windows PC and add and edit pages to your new, local personalpedia.

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