Archive for November, 2009

Just like the Windows 7 Gadgets, Windows 7 themes are hugely popular with the users. Unlike Vista, Windows 7 themes are much better in terms of speed, look and feel. If you are one of those users looking to upgrade or buy Windows 7, then you should definitely look out for some custom made themes. As always, the wonderful designers at DeviantArt have come out with some gorgeous looking Windows 7 themes. Below is a collection of the best Windows 7 themes you can get.

Best Windows 7 Themes

1. WoodStock Windows 7 Theme

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2. Arturik Theme for Windows 7

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3. Desk 09 Windows 7 Theme

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4. Red Windows 7 Theme

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5. Heart Windows 7 Theme

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6. Dark Knight Windows 7 Theme

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7. Only Black Windows 7 theme

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8. Windows 7 OSX theme

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9. Windows 7 Waterbomb theme

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This is HUGE. I am very proud to announce the first ever annual TechPP Mega Christmas Giveaway. There is a reason for having the word 'Mega'. We will provide visitors with the opportunity to win licenses of excellent software programs worth more than $10,000 this holiday season, starting last week of November! Many well known and respected software companies have already agreed to provide us with FREE Licenses to their amazing products that we could hand out to the lucky readers of TechPP. Each day we will be providing free licenses to one excellent software product. I do not want to spoil the fun by revealing the names of the software products, but you can be sure that these products are best in what they are supposed to do. Some of the giveaways will be for lucky few winners while some others will be 'free for all'. Isn't that exciting? Most of the software developers have confirmed their participation in this mega giveaway and we are still in talks with few others. Stay tuned for further updates on TechPP Mega Christmas Giveaway. You can follow us on facebook or Subscribe to the updates...

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A “prolific” Leonid meteor shower is expected to light up the skies of Asia and Europe tonight. This meteor shower can be viewed from November 13-20, 2009 but the peak will be early tomorrow morning, November 17, 2009. The most activity will occur and best hours to view the Leonid Meteor Shower will be after 1:30 am EST and before sunrise. The moon will not be visible from the Earth so the meteor will be easy to view than ever before. According to NASA, every hour 20-30 meteors should be visible during the peak time (1:30 am EST until dawn). You don’t even need a special camera to observe the leonids because you may see it with your naked eye just make sure your in the right place and pray for a clear skies. Even if you can't get clear skies or for any other reason, you can still watch this rare astronomical event live online for free!

Watch Leonid Meteor Showers 2009 Live Online

1. Watch Leonid meteor showers Live online for free on Ustream 2. Watch Leonid Meteor shower video on JustinTV You can also follow all the updates on Leonid meteor shower on...
"Better late than never". This is the excuse I am giving myself for being late in announcing the winners for IP Privacy Pro Free License Giveaway. Because of the weekend, it took more time than expected to get the licenses generated. Though the response for the giveaway was awesome, with more than 100 comments made in a week, I guess a shorter duration for the giveaway would have been better. Thanks everyone who participated and those who helped in publicizing the giveaway. IP Privacy is a wonderful application which is both anonymous browsing software and a browser cleaner. It normally costs $39.95 per license and the guys @ privacy-pro were kind enough to share 20 licenses, each valid for 6 months! As usual, we have used Random.org's List randomizer tool to pick the 20 lucky winners and by the time you read this post, you would have got your license key in your mail inbox.

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Winners List: 1. Omar Play 2. Samrat P 3. clydeman 4. bowlby4 5. Bishnu 6. Ágoston Tordai 7. Thomas 8. blogrpro 9. lucifer 10. alain 11. Murphy 12. Budha 13. Garrett 14. H2o 15. Regine 16. Persian boy 17. kopo 18. hafiz 19. princevit 20. Hotshot05 Once again, congrats to the winners and others do not need to fret. Some...
google-wave-extension When I wrote about all those super cool Google Wave gadgets, I plainly assumed that everyone reading the article will know how to install a Google wave gadget. It was a bad assumption from my part. So, here is a simple easy-to-use guide on how to install a Google wave gadget extension. Google Wave Extensions come in two varieties: gadgets and robots. Gadgets are the most similar to the Facebook apps, you install them and they run as part of a wave (thread). Robots are more similar to the bots you see on Twitter, but far more sophisticated because they behave as kind of artificially intelligent participant in a wave. Suggested Read before reading further:

How to Add a Robot to Google Wave?

Step 1: Google Wave Robots (bots) will have their own wave email address. For example, the Wikify bot has an email address: wikifier@appspot.com, which is what you use to install the bot. Click the cross icon at the bottom of your contacts list in the left sidebar. Add the bot's mail ID and click Submit. 30 Comments Read More
Few days back we had seen a detailed guide on running XP mode for Windows 7. One of the main pre-requisite in order to run the Windows XP Mode, which comes as an add-on was that your CPU must have hardware level virtualization support. This requirement made it impossible for many users to use Windows XP Mode on Windows 7. Not to worry anymore! Here is an alternative for XP Mode - VMLite.

VMLite XP mode

vmlite-xp-mode-alternative VMLite XP Mode offers similar functions as Microsoft XP Mode, but doesn’t require hardware virtualization. It allows you to run Windows XP at the same time from your desktop running on a different host operating system.

Features of VMLite XP mode

* Provides similar functions as Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode from Microsoft * No requirement for hardware-assisted virtualization, namely, it runs without VT-x or AMD-v * Provides seamless integration with host desktop to run applications from Windows XP virtual machine * Host files can be accessed from within the XP Mode virtual machine easily * Support 3rd party virtual machine images * Runs on any PC with Windows XP and above as host operating system * Highly performed, XP Mode boots in 15 seconds

Download Torrent Files Without BitTorrent via HttpTorrents

download-torrents Now-a-days even technically enabled guys are finding it difficult to optimize their BitTorrent clients for the highest speeds and/or bypass the ISP/firewall blocks while downloading torrent files on the internet. Here is where, httpTorrents comes to the rescue!

Direct download of Torrent files

httpTorrents provides the option to download files directly without having a BitTorrent client! As per TorrentFreak,
The integration with httpTorrents gives users the option to download the files directly without having to use a BitTorrent client. Music tracks can also be streamed directly from the site itself. The service works in a similar way to most other files hosting services such as Rapidshare, but only works with torrents and doesn’t allow users to upload files themselves.
These direct http downloads are particularly helpful for people who have restricted access to BitTorrent, such as those whose ISP or firewall blocks or slows down transfers. There are currently 4000 files available as a direct download, but this number is growing rapidly.

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httpTorrents is a sister site of KickassTorrents, which is another popular torrent search engine. KickassTorrents’ users can submit a request for files that are not yet available as...

Google Analytics and Feedburner Integration is On [UnOfficial]

Finally! After 2 long painstaking years since Google acquired Feedburner, there is some good news at last. There were problems galore since Google took over Feedburner in 2007 and except for some minor changes and major bugs, there wasn't much to cheer about till now. During my casual digging up of stats, I was surprised to see a sudden jump in Feedburner visits (check below).

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This clearly shows that some background work is going on towards integrating Feedburner with Google Analytics. Ofcourse one could log on to their feedburner account and look for Reach, Item use and Item clicks. But with this new development you can get all the stats from one place. Subscriber count - the one statistic that many bloggers are most interested in, is not part of this current integration. Right now, you can only see data about the traffic that your feeds brought to your site.

How to see Feedburner stats on Google Analytics?

Getting to this data is not at all easy. First of all, you have to use AdSense for feed or FeedBurner to track this data. Then, in Google Analytics, you have to...
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