Vista Sidebar, a clean and sleek utility for all Windows XP Users. Created by Joshoon at Deviant Art has uploaded this actual working application for Windows XP users. Using a combination of resources such as Alky for Applications, a Windows Vista to XP compatibility client, and the sidebar extracted from Vista the port allows XP users to run this Vista Sidebar which was originally create for Windows Vista.

Users can grab additional sidebar gadgets directly from Microsoft and experience the same functionality as they would with the sidebar on a Vista system. If you’re running Windows XP and looking for something fix on the corners of your widescreen monitor then this might just be it.

Download Windows Vista Sidebar for Windows XP [via gHacks]

With such a financial crisis ahead everyone of us are looking to save costs but also to save money on out power bill. Today we’ll take a look this utility called Edison to help you save money.

Edison is a small utility that allows individuals and business to cut power consumption on workstations and personal computers. Yes there is an inbuild utility in XP or Vista and make the appropriate changes, but this user interface makes it more fun and is much simpler… not to mention the fun statistics on how much money you’ve saved.

Installing Edison

This 28MB package is compatiable with both Windows XP (Service Pack2) and Windows Vista. Installation is as simple as pie.

After Installation you will get a screen that will prompt you to register your email account.  Once submitted you get an activations code, and after receiving it, hit the “I’m Activated!” button.

Using Edison

The next big thing is how to control this utility. It is quite easy to to adjust the power settings to be most advantageous to yourself and the environment.  The easiest way is to adjust the position of the slider between saving more or less power.

From the Interface you can make adjustments from inbuilt presets like Work Time etc or a complete custom schedule.

Download Edison For Windows

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If your search query resembles a web address (URL), Google Blog Search automatically uses the link: operator and shows list of blogs that have earlier linked to the web address mentioned in your query.

Confused? Let’s see a simple example. If I search for labnol.org, Google Blog Search will auto-convert this query to link:labnol.org and show this resultset which is nothing but a list of web articles that are linking to labnol.org.

Today Google introduced some changes in the way they index content from blogs / RSS feeds.

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Reveealed on a flyer, Microsoft has announced a new Starter Pack for Xbox 360 at an unbelievable price of just $100. The console features the minimal yet good XBOX 360 configuration that includes

1. 60GB hard drive
2. X360 headset
3. Ethernet cables 3 month Xbox Live Gold subscription.

It expected to be available at retail shops in this coming November. DPAD Magazine has quoted November 21st November as per this flyer

Sighted From My Digital Life

Another day — another cool freebie by smashing magazine. Released today is something called Feed Me Animals: A Free RSS Feed Vector Icon Set, designed by Mirjami Manninen. The set contains 5 original RSS-feed icons. The icons are available in in .png, .jpg, .eps and .psd.

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License : Free to use for both private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The set may not be resold, sublicensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use.

Making money online is something that everyone want to know. Well there is no one specific way that will help you make money online but you can create your own way to make your bread and butter or atleast pay your bills off by earning from the internet. These ways include but are not limited to designing themes and images, selling products, selling stock photos, advertising on your website or blog, data entry jobs, surveys , copywriting etc.

But one thing to consider is that all the above things require you to have enough skills to start making make money. Now what if I show you some pesky ways to earn some good $$$ for doing something that requires no extra skill and that you usually do on the internet ? Yes Keep reading below….

MyLot - Get paid to Express

This is one of the best way to make some serious money. MyLot is a discussion forum where you get paid to discuss in the forums but not limited to it. Other ways of earning here is starting new threads, replying, commenting, uploading pictures etc. All you need to do is sign up, activate your account and start posting. They pay you monthly by PAYPAL if you accumulate more than 10$. Around 300 - 500 posts can easily make you over 10$ mark, so Start earning now…

Homepages Friends

Searching the web is a part of everyone internet surfers daily routing. How cool will be if you are to get paid for searching ? Yes and that’s what homepages friends does to help you. You get paid to search. And the search engine is no other than the popular one which you could be using already - Yahoo! So basically if even if you aren’t using Yahoo! and you migrate to Yahoo! and search yahoo using this you can earn even upto 100$ a month easily. At an approx you get about 0.014 $ per search. So that means based on the number of searches you do you can earn much.. My estimated earnings in month are

0.014$ x 30 searches a day x 30 days = 12.6$

They pay you monthly via paypal once you get the 20 GBP (i dont know to make pound symbol on my US keyboard).. Now go ahead and pay you bills using myhpf…

Originally Written By TechyTuts.com

Complexion is one everyone cares about themselves. There are many creams and lotions as well as medications and treatments to attain good complexion, But everything takes time. But what if this can be achived at any instant of time using digital photography. Yes that’s basically what is shown here in this tutorial. Below is a cool tutorial for making oneself look fair using Adobe Photoshop (written by techytuts.com) Seems like a very simple way to make yourself look many shades fair in in your own photograp. Yes it works !

The tutorial can be read on tecytuts.com.

Click here to read this tutorial

Showcasing the 50 beautiful blog designs that literally stand out — either through their layout or through their design or through their attention to little details. Below you’ll find a variety of designs: clean designs, grunge, retro, graphics-heavy designs etc. Most designs presented below risk unusual approaches in the choice of design and content presentation. That’s what makes them different.

Beautiful Blog Designs

Acko.net

Standards for Life by Natalie Jost

Wishingline

Langgatan 3a

Loodo.com.br

Matblogg.se

This entry was originally written by Smashing Magazine. You can continue viewing this showcase at Smashing Magazine

As the Halloween is approaching, it’s best time to spice up your design with some quick Halloweenish icons. And this is another great set of Halloween icons, Smashing Pumpkins: A Free Halloween Vector Icon Set. This set includes 14 exclusive Halloween icons (.png, up to 512×512px) as well as vector sources (.ai CS3 file and .eps file), so you can modify and scale them as you wish. This set was created by Pien Duijverman from Netherlands, especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Download the icon set for free!

Licence : Free to use for both private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The set may not be resold, sublicensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use.

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Smashing Magazine has released a yet another new set of free vector icons called the Hearting Social Icon Set, a set of 22 social icons in .png and in resolutions 16×16, 32×32, 64×64. This set was designed by Ara

vind Ajith, the creator of TheDesignSuperHero.com, especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Download the icon set for free at Smashing Magazine!

The best thing is that they are licensed for free use for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes however the set may not be resold, sublicensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use.

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