I've been intimately using computers since the mid-80s and the internet for the last 8 years or so. After leaving the IT world in the late 90s I've been fortunate to live intimately with nature as a Scuba Diving Instructor for the last 10 years. I've lived on some beautiful islands in Central America (Roatan), the Eastern Caribbean (The Commonwealth of Dominica) and now I'm in the South China Sea (Tioman).

Even here, in Tioman (a very small island 50km off the east coast of Malaysia) I'm luck...

I'm using the latest Dreamscapes build 1.95.[b].028, Vista Enterprise SP1, 2GB RAM, 2.16 Core 2 Duo, ATI1400 card (3.6 score).

When I use the latest dreams, Copper Pool, Exotic Plasma and Grassy Field, my Explorer.exe memory use goes up from a normal 50Mb to over 100MB and the explorer.exe CPU usages gets higher too (higher than the dwm.exe CPU usage).

Desktop Earth and Water Dream are better, only increasing the explorer.exe to between 64Mb and 75MB.

This happens both with WindowBlinds...

ok, i'm finally giving it a go, and trying to create a WB skin...could someone please tell me if it's possible to skin, or preferably re-colour, the menu bar background in applications...i've tried everything i can find, and to no avail..windows explorer is fine, it's other applications, as seen in the screeshot below,



thank you

Imagine yourself at the center of a virtual loop where all the windows you use are spread out around you. Whichever window you need to view can be centered in front of you with a click of a button.

Take this idea and zoom into your pc environment. With Deskloops, all the windows you have open are aligned side by side in a loop-like order. No more countless windows arranged one on top of the other in a confusing manner. You can access all the information you need and navigate through it easil...

i have a website, and have pages that show quicktime movies i created.. i only noticed this problem because two seperate friends using IE told me they got bored looking at the same video...i always use firefox so never knew there was a problem...


you can select from one page any one of six different movies, and then you are taken to the next page to watch the movie.

everything works fine when viewing with Firefox, i can watch whatever movie i want

when viewing with IE only one video ...

if you want to install Windows updates from within Firefox, but IE Tab does not work, there is another solution. Windizupdate... very simple and it works...go to their website and follow the instructions... i tried it on a friends laptop that IE Tab wouldn't work on and not only did it work, it was much much faster at getting the updates than going through Mircosofts website

Link

i've just found an incredibly cool bit of development software from microsoft called 'Scalable Fabric' basically it lets you drag your active window to the side of your screen, where it automatically resizes it to a thumbnail, freeing up your workspace..click on it and it restores....

this link is to the info page on experimental microsoft software Link


and this is the link to the direct download page Link

once i downloaded it, i renamed the file to scalable.msi, then installed it.....

enjoy this amazing animated GIF (JIF?)...it's mind-boggling

Link : Link

There's a new version of VideoLAN's VLC player.

VLC is a free cross-platform media player.

* It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
* It is available for almost every OS
* It needs little CPU power

i've been using this for ages, and it plays everything, you can skin it, and it's FREE!!!

Link

it's fantastic if, like me, you have a laptop and travel alot, as it ignores the DVD region code, which means i don't get puni...

i use firefox, and have installed an extension that allows you to decide whether to allow javascript from a website to run on your machine..when i'm in wincustomize there are quite a few different .com's asking to run javascript in my browser...as well as (obviously) wincustomize there are also

sitemeter.com
gamezone.com
intellitxt.com

i allow wincustomize (or else the website doesn't function correctly) but do not allow the others (website works fine)...what exactly do the other sites ...