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Desktop Customization

Google acquires BumpTop – a 3D desktop application

May 3, 2010

Yet another day and the giant continues to acquire startups. Just a couple of days ago we did a post about Google’s 8 acquisitions in the first quarter of 2010. This time it’s BumpTop – a desktop customization application that brings in real-life simulation of your desk. I have used BumpTop and it’s a decent [...]

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5 awesome minimalistic wallpapers

April 16, 2010

We are back again with some really nice high quality widescreen wallpapers. This time we have some minimalistic awesomeness for you. Download these beautiful wallpapers by clicking their thumbnails below. [Artists have been creditted] Water Drops by Alexander Aerostream by ve1n Tenere Tree by vladstudio Green Field by DeskCity Last Stripes by Hemingway81 Enjoy your [...]

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How to have Safari-like font smoothing in Firefox, IE or Opera

April 9, 2010

Safari is a browser that implements cutting edge font smoothing techniques. Any page rendered in Safari looks really good and pleasing to the eye compared to other browsers. Now if you are on Mac OS X, it turns out you won’t have any problem with font smoothing on other browsers thanks to the system-wide implementation [...]

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Vienna 5 transformation-pack for Windows 7

March 28, 2010

I still remember the time when the first Vista transformation pack was made available for XP and how I went so crazy to download a 31MB file on my dial-up connection. Well, Vista came and gone and even Windows 7 seems so 2009. We need something new, don’t we? So here it is – The [...]

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Dream Desktop – a unique wallpaper manager!

March 21, 2010

There are lot of wallpaper managing software available on the internet today. Mostly all of them have pretty much similar functionality like maintaining a list of wallpapers and changing them at regular intervals. Today we have featured a slightly different wallpaper managing software – Dream Desktop. Dream desktop is different in a sense that the [...]

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Windows 7: Use new 256 x 256 icons for folders

March 19, 2010

Beginner Tip Today I had a discussion with my friend about a troubleshooting session in which he wanted to change icons of some the folders. He wanted to use the native new Windows 7 icons which he could not find the new icons in its default location. Although he figured out after a while, I [...]

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IE9 Teaser Wallpapers

March 19, 2010

Microsoft recently rolled out the IE 9 Platform Preview which has created a sort of anticipation within me. Not that I am a hardcore IE fan but being a Windows user since stone age, I love it when something new comes out of Redmond. So I thought of teasing the so-called winboys and made 12 [...]

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Widescreen wallpapers: Abstract

March 7, 2010

It’s a lazy weekend and the internet seems literally on strike. So I thought of slipping out a few abstract widescreen wallies. When it comes to abstract, I am little too choosy with the color schemes. Too light shades are not my types. So here goes the soothing dark ones. All the wallpapers are minimum [...]

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Windows 7: Make your own Start Orb with Start Orb Creator

February 23, 2010

Everyone loves customizability and that is why at TechExplorer we regularly include posts related to desktop customization. Today we’ll feature a small application called the ‘Start Orb Creator’ developed by a deviantArt user Blizo. Start Orb Creator lets you use a custom image as your Start button image. The application is very intuitive and self [...]

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Widescreen wallpapers

January 29, 2010

It’s been a while we had some visual treat. So I thought why not look around for some beautiful high quality widescreen wallpapers and serve you with some relishing awesomeness!? Click on the wallpapers and you will be redirected to the download page. Something in Blue by blubbelOo Apple Splash by Mota.ru Summer Feelings by [...]

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