VistaICO: 135 Free Vista Icons For Download
There’s no better way to spend a Sunday, than customizing your Windows. Customizing is always fun, so here’s what I have today. VistaICO is offering a set of 135 free well-designed Vista icons for download to customize every corner of your system. You can customize your system toolbar, file types and other program icons as well.
VistaICO Aero Pack 3 is one of the highest quality icons sets you can find on the Internet. You get 135 full-sized 256×256 icons icons in PNG format. ICO format in lower resolution is also available for shortcut icons etc.
How To Try Out New Facebook Design
Earlier today, I wrote about the new Facebook profile design which is slated to release for everyone this Spring. Currently, it’s only open for Facebook developers and normal users can not try it. I have found a way by which even regular members can use and try the new upcoming Facebook design.
As I said before, it’s only open for developers, so for this you’ll have to become a developer yourself! No, I’m not going to ask you to make a Facebook application. Just by adding the Developer application can count you in their developers. That means then you can also try out the new design.
Sneak Peak At The New Facebook Profile Design
Facebook is planning to roll out the new, redesigned profile this Spring. Their aim is to make things simpler, cleaner and more relevant for the users, without stripping them off with their control over their profile and privacy. And as for developers, they can create more meaningful engagement with users, offer new integration points in profiles, and provide distribution for engaging applications.
Developers have been given a beta period to test out their applications with the redesigned Facebook. The new design uses tabs to split up different types of information, still keeping it simple and easy-to-use. Being a developer myself, I was very excited to try out my Facebook application with the new profile. And to my surprise, it worked like a charm :)
Try It Out!
If you would like to try out the new Facebook profile design, click here. Remember, many features might won’t work as its only open for developers to test their applications.
Now even non-developers can use the new design. For more information on how to, click here!
Let’s take a look at the drop down menus in the top menu bar.
User Menu
From this menu, you can view or edit your Profile, edit and privacy and account settings. Or if you need to, you can also log out from here.
Friends Menu
Friends menu allow you to view your friends list, recently updated profiles, online friends and allows to further invite or find friends using your email address book.
Applications Menu
Add, remove or manage Facebook applications added in your profile.
Inbox Menu
Here you can manage your private messages, view your Inbox, sent messages, notifications and fan page updates, or compose a new private message.
Let’s move on to the tabs now.
Tabs
- Feed: Shows your mini-feed updates
- Info: Shows your basic, contact, personal, education, work and custom application information.
- Wall: All the wall posts
- Photos: View and manage your albums, add, edit or view photos.
- Boxes: Here everyone can see all the applications added.
Overall, I feel the new design is way better than the current one. It’s more easy to use, and I like the idea that all the applications are in a separate tab and won’t load if we try to open our Profile page. There was one missing thing that I hope to see in the final release of this layout, the Social-Feed. It helped me lot to catch up what’s going in my friends profiles.
Facebook Preview
To preview the upcoming improvements to Facebook, be a fan of the official Facebook Previews page.
Do let me know what you think of this design, and did you like it or not? I’ll be looking forward to know your views.
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Download UXtheme.dll Patch For Windows XP SP3
by Haris on May 20, 2008
in Design, Microsoft, Softwares, Tips and Tricks, Windows XP
In spite of all the problems that have come with Windows XP SP3, people are still using it. If you are also one of them, then you must have noticed that your 3rd party Windows XP themes have not be working after installing service pack 3. That’s because the uxtheme.dll has been changed.
To fix this, you will need the UXtheme Patcher in order to run any 3rd party themes on Windows XP. Download it from here [direct link] and run the EXE file. Press the Patch button, and wait for a few seconds for it to patch. Now restart your computer for the changes to take effect.
Amazing Face Art
Check out these amazing face art pictures. These pictures were forwarded to me by a friend and thought it would be nice enough to share it with you all here. There are 15 pictures and you can see them below.
Click each thumbnail for the image to enlarge:
Gmail Might Get Themes
Gmail themes are not a new thing to users, who are using already skinning their Gmail using third-party tools like Greasemonkey, GMail Skins (Firefox add-on), custom user stylesheets etc. But officially, you can only change Gmail views like mobile, HTML (for slow connections), Standard View or Standard View without Google Talk gadget.
Enable Thumbnails For PSD Files
by Haris on May 17, 2008
in Design, Tips and Tricks, Windows
Recently, I really got frustrated when I needed a quick preview of a PSD file, and the folder where it was saved was full of PSD files. I needed the file urgently. Then, I ended up opening each file manually to see what it was. Later, after I got through my work. I Googled some ways to overcome this problem in the future.
Adobe Bridge is good, and can be used to view what’s in the PSD file, but it eats half of my RAM, so I usually ignore it. After Googling for about an hour, I was finally able to have thumbnails instead of those blue feathers.
Google Celebrating First Laser Anniversary
by Haris on May 16, 2008
in Design, Google, Internet, Technology
Today, when I opened Google.com, I noticed a different logo on the front page. Later, on some googling, I came to know that Google is celebrating the first laser anniversary with this new logo on their homepage.
Just thought would let you all know, if you didn’t knew.
Adobe Rolls Out Flash Player 10 Beta
Adobe has recently released a beta version of it’s upcoming Adobe Flash Player 10 (code-named as Astro). It has some new expressive features and visual performance improvements that will allow designers and developers to build the richest and enhance the Web experience to a greater extent than it previously was. One thing I like in this beta, is its support for Ubuntu!
Adobe Flash Player 10 will take creativity and interactivity to a new level. It includes better support for 3D animation and video hardware acceleration, among other improvements. This early beta has been released for developers to test and give feedback about the player to Adobe.
