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Windows only: Freeware application Start Killer hides the Start menu button, freeing up extra space on your Windows taskbar. You can still access the Start menu by hitting the Windows key or CTRL+ESC, but Start Killer frees up a good chunk of taskbar real estate. You can optionally disable the Start menu altogether if you wanted to deny users access to it. Start Killer only does one thing, but there’s nothing we like better than a simple tool that does exactly what it says. If you’re looking for a similar tool for Vista (whose Start button is much smaller), our tipster sent us this AutoHotkey script that may do the trick.

Requirement: 9x/Me/2000/NT4/XP/XP64
Website: Here
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True Launch Bar is a Superior replacement for the standard Quick Launch bar. All functions presented in Quick Launch are also in True Launch Bar. However, the True Launch Bar is fully compatible with Quick Launch because it uses the same folder for shortcuts. But there is one huge difference. True Launch Bar allows you to combine your shortcuts into groups. This feature looks like popup menus. This vastly improves the management of your shortcuts and save working space on your desktop. By using True Launch Bar, you speed up the launching of your applications like never before.

Requirement: 9x/Me/2000/NT4/XP/Vista
Website: Here
Download: Here

On 07May, Open Office Community annouce the public beta release of Open Office is now available for download and testing but is not for production use at this stage.

You can found the changes is the OpenOffice.org 3.0 new “Start Centre”, new fresh-looking icons, and a new zoom control in the status bar. A closer look shows that 3.0 has a myriad of new features. Notable Calc improvements include a new solver component; support for spreadsheet collaboration through workbook sharing; and an increase to 1024 columns per sheet. Writer has an improved notes feature and displays of multiple pages while editing. There are numerous Chart enhancements, and an improved crop feature in Draw and Impress.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 will support the upcoming OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.2 standard, and is capable of opening files created with MS-Office 2007 or MS-Office 2008 for Mac OS X (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc.). This is in addition to read and write support for the MS-Office binary file formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt, etc.).

OpenOffice.org 3.0 also will be the first version to run on Mac OS X without X11, with the look and feel of any other Aqua application. It introduces partial VBA support to this platform. In addition, OpenOffice.org 3.0 integrates well with the Mac OS X accessibility APIs, and thus offers better accessibility support than many other Mac OS X applications.

Detailed Guide available here.
Download available here.

Woork
Antonio Lupetti impresses with a very clean design and keen attention to details. Calm, clean and very user-friendly.

TehCpeng
Wood, coffee, ear phones. This blog reflects the habits of its owner.

Revota
Maybe, there is a little bit too much noise on the page, but the way blog posts are presented is quite unusual.

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External Touch Screen Concept

Have you ever see an external touch screen device that have a stand as a photo/image screen, a cover of your Macbook and it also work as a keyboard. See the pictures below as a touch screen device that cover on a MacBook. For more pictures, go to External Touch Screen.

 Bracelet Watch

The idea for this watch is classic plastic bracelet, with incorporated lines inside the watch that show the current time. Those three line are rotating around the watch and show the time, while the seconds line is going around all the time. One line for hour,second for minute and third for seconds,and three different colors for every lines. It`s simple concept, attractive and eye catching. The ORB could be made in two colors, black and white, with different colors for the time lines. Adjusting the clock is easy as the watch is the touchscreen, all you have to do is to touch the line, click adjust icon and slide current time line to correct time. This design is Djordje Zivanovic’s project for Signity International Watch Design Competition.

Nokia 888

In Nokia 888 form follows you: it is a light personal mobile communication device. You can change its form according to your needs during the day. You dont have to carry it in your pocket or on your wrist. You can carry it anywhere, in any form. You can roll it, bend it, put on your clothes like a clip.

It also makes some form changes that makes it more ergonomical: i.e. when you want to talk on the phone, the body form turns into the form of the good old telephone. You can personalize these forms and record them. Communication takes place via electronical motions that 888 has. E.g. you can send a heart shape to your girlfriend, so her telephone turns into an icon of heart.

TinySong is created by Grooveshark. It allows you to search for a track on the GrooveShark database, then gives you a short link that you can cut and paste into into an email, instant message or add to a blog entry.

TinySong is the latest project from the folks at GrooveShark who have recently been aggressively marketing their service with dirt cheap music download offers such as their Mothers Day 49 cent download offer. TinySong links in to GrooveShark’s’ marketing efforts as it not only allows users to share songs, but also allows the TinySong recipient to purchase the track they are sent if they are getting into the groove.

So have a try on it and send to all your friends by email or msn that you are hearing that songs.

Advertlets, the Asia better blog advertising company that offers the remarkably sensible proposition of targeted, unintrusive advertising that benefits online advertising and blogger community. Bloggers get better advertising that is relevant to their readers, and advertisers make their advertising dollars and their message count.

Now i would like to compare the Nuffnang and Advertlets. Nuffnang is Asia first Blog Advertising Company while Advertlets is Asia better Blog Advertising company. Both of them have the same objective that is put advertisement in blogger site from the request of advertiser. For blogger, this two company have their own way to make their blogger own money.

First of all, lets talk about Nuffnang, Nuffnang publish an global ads in blogger site but sometimes there is no global ads available for normal rate pageviews blogger while all the ads are giving to high rate pageviews blogger site. So the normal rate pageviews blogger publish a Nuffnang logo on their site without earning anything while you help them promote their website. Besides that, blogger can only earn credit by ads clicked from readers. If the readers no click the ads, there is no credit earned by the blogger.

Next is Advertlets, Advertlets publish every ads in blogger site and if there is no global ads, the advertlets javascript will publish default ads of advertlets to blogger site. Advertlets give both default ads and global ads to both high rate pageviews and low rate pageviews blogger. For the earning method, Advertlets is different from Nuffnang, Once your ads is display, you can start earning the money.

Ads offer from Advertlets: 165×240px, 728×90px, 336×280px, 468×60px and 180×150
Ads offer from Nuffnang: 728×90px, 160×300px and 336×280px

Read this articles for more details: Do you know the same space you make 20 cent from Nuffnang can make you $100 from Advertlets. Read about an experiment done by a blogger.

Mybloop is an unlimited free file storage website that have over 1,915,946 files uploaded by 53,494 users whereby over 2.7million of songs play in MyBloop. First of all you have to register for using the services and It is FREE. You can upload any files you like to share with everyone and mybloop support about 108 file type such as mp3, mov, mpeg, wav, rm, rmvb, wmx and a lots more.

You can create song playlist so that you can play the playlists or musics online by using MyBloop Player. If you feel you like the song you hear you can add the song to your playlist or embed it in your forum or blog. You only allow to download 3 types of files that is Videos, Documents and Programs. Remember NO Download Accelerators because the Download Accelerators break all the HTTP standards and rules and in some cases can lead to infinite loops when downloading files on MyBloop.

The file manager is special create for you by using Adobe Flash Player 9 but if you prefer classic version, there is still ready for you. You can organize your files into folders so that when someone views your profile it could take their computer some time to display everything. Same with Upload manager but if you prefer not to upload your files using web flahs or classic version, you can download the BloopLoader 0.7 that just released on 10th of May 2008. But Remember the maximum file size each is 1GB. When you are uploading files such as musics, videos or movies, please remember of their copyright issues but you are allow to upload it as long as it marked private and is not shared to everyone.

MyBloop is also an online backup service and allow user to backup their file inside MyBloop storage system. However, this does not give user the privilege to distribute the content as if it were user own. MyBloop will detects most inappropriate and/or illegal content and notifies admin for decide to act terminating access to the file for everyone except the owner of the file, resulting in a warning message sent to the user who uploaded the file. The second offense may lead to termination of your account permanently.

The MyBloop Team is working hard to let the user enjoy the function of free file storage. MyBloop currently develop a Pro version of account which is entirely optional, which will give you more features with your files. However, both Free and PRO users will always have access to their files.

La Femme
An artwork by James white with resolutions 1900×1200px, 1680×1050px, 1440×900px, 1280×1024px and as well as iphone version.

Download Here: 1900*1200px | 1680*1050px | 1440*900px | 1280*1024px | iPhone version

Summer Wallpaper
Light, bright and beautiful; available in various resolutions.

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Preiades Star Cluster

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Normally using firefox 2, when I click on the mailto: link, it will prompt out the Microsoft Window Mail(vista) or Microsoft Outlook Express (XP). Today I’ve get a good news for you who use Gmail. The latest Firefox 3 RC1 come with support YahooMail while left GMail user cannot use the function. Here is the configuration of GMail user to set the mailto: application handler.

1. Type about:config into Firefox 3 address bar. Firefox will come out a warning page and just click “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button to proceed.
2. Type gecko.handlerService into Filter box until you get gecko.handlerService.allowRegisterFromDifferentHost Preference name. Change the value from false(default) to true.

Warning: This configuration change disables a security feature that ships with Firefox 3, which prevents your browser from registering link protocol handlers from a domain other than the one it’s registering. Read more about what gecko.handlerService.allowRegisterFromDifferent Host does, and only proceed if you understand the risk. Don’t worry, you can set the value right back to false when we’re done.
3. Check for another preference name, network.protocol-handler.external.mailto value should be change to true.

4. Copy the following code to the address bar and press enter:

javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler(”mailto”,”https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s”,”GMail”)

If you are Google Aps user, use the following link:

javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler(”mailto”,”https://mail.google.com/a/example.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s”,”GMail”)

5. After you press enter, firefox will prompt you to ask you Add Application.

6. Now you click any mailto: link and you will prompt out a screen like below:

Click on the GMail and check the box for Remember my choice for mailto links if you wan to set it permanently using GMail.

To be safety, head back to about:config and set gecko.handlerService.allowRegisterFromDifferentHost value back to false.

To remove the GMail application, just go to Firefox’s Tool menu and select Preference then go to Application tab. Find mailto and select Application Detail from the Drop-down menu. Remove GMail by select GMail and click remove. You’re done.