Windows Vista has a feature called Dreamscene which allows you to set any video as your wallpaper . Unfortunately Dreamscene is not available for XP users . But there are plenty of ways you can do it in XP too . Not so long ago i wrote a post explaining how the same can be achieved using VLC player . This time we are going to use an Open Source Software . (more…)

You can launch your favourite applications in Vista using a combination of ‘[Windows] key + number ‘ . All you have to do is to add the shortcut to applications that you want to start in the Quick Launch Toolbar . You can do this by a simple drag & Drop operation . You can have a maximum of 10 shortcuts there , by default you are provided there with a “Show Desktop ” and “Switch Between Windows” shortcuts .

From Left to right , the first shortcut on the quick launch toolbar is assigned to the [Windows] + 1 , second to [Windows] + 2 and so on . The tenth one is assigned to [Windows] + 0. The good thing is that you can rearrange the shortcuts in any way you want . (more…)

If you are tired of the same old boot screen of Vista , you might want to try this out . There is a small software which lets us create a boot logo format in a matter of seconds .

First we need to download the Vista Boot Logo Generator which we are going to use to create the logo type . After installing the application , run it in an “Administrator” mode . Now we need to select an image file which we want to use as a logo . Now we need two versions of the image , both in 24 bit Bitmap format , one is 800 * 600 and the other 1024 * 768 . (more…)

Windows Vista will have a feature called Dreamscene which will allow us to have a video as a desktop background . Dreamscene will only be available to the people using Windows Vista Ultimate but for people using Windows XP , there is also a way . And that is VLC player . VLC player has a built in feature that can allow you to have any video as a wallpaper . All you have to do is the following things (more…)

There are a lot of methods through which users can download videos from youtube . Here i will tell you about the method which i prefer . I basically visit this site . Apart from youtube this site allows us to download videos of many sites such as Google Video , Metacafe , IFilm , Myspace .

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This is a simple tutorial to demonstrate how to run multiple google talk on your pc .

A Shortcut to google talk on your desktop will have a target address like this

”C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe”

All you got to do is make another shortcut and make the target as

“C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex

The /nomutex is the key here and now run multiple googletalk.