Archive for May, 2009

28
May
09

Vista Aero-Glass turn on or turn off?

Vista is sexy because of its new aero glass transparency effects. Here is how to enable and disable this new eye candy. Found this over at Tech-recipes.com
Eye Candy! The new transparency (or glass effect) in vista is amazing. But it can take a lot of your cpu and gpu cycles to run it on a daily basis.

To Enable or disable this effect:

1. Right-Click on a blank area of desktop
2. Select Personalize from the context menu
3. Click Window Color and Appearance Option

4. Here you can check if you want to Enable Transparency or not.
5. You can also disable the whole aero glass theme from here. Just click the Open classic appearance properties for more color options link.
6. Select a non-Aero theme and click OK.

These effects require pretty heavy video card specs… If you can’t get it working, it might be time to upgrade your system.

28
May
09

You can improve your wireless signal for free

You can improve performance with this site:
http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template2/index.html

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I have used this for occasions to improve reception for customers that have their routers too far away or have interference affecting them. If you print off the windsurfer card onto card stock, and then glue tin foil on it, cut in the slots and tape it together, you would be surprised how much it will improve. Just remember to direct the parabolic antenna towards where you are. If you get stuck, you can view the systm video that shows it step by step on episode 45 at http://revision3.com/systm/surfer/.
Cool thing is they are basically free.

07
May
09

Kids on bus get into fight then video get published on you tube http://ping.fm/a12kV