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Winners of the HyperDesk Giveaway

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After getting a good response for the HyperDesk Review and Giveaway, I thought I’d announce the winners now.

The winners are Santosh and Salah Eldin for the following desktops:

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

August 28th, 2008 at 6:47 pm

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Four Free Ways To Add Comic Speech Bubbles To Your Photos

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If you want to have some fun with your digital photos collection and impress people around you, why not put together a few photos, add some comic speech bubbles and spin a funny yarn? Here, I’ll take you through 4 services that let you add speech bubbles to your photos instantly in a matter of minutes:

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

August 23rd, 2008 at 7:19 pm

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How to replace protected system .DLL files in Windows?

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Replacing protected .DLL files in Windows isn’t easy. There’s an annoying system protection dialog that pops up when you try to try to replace a DLL file and sometimes, you won’t be able to overwrite a .DLL file at all.

Replacer is just a 12 KB utility that can be used to replace protected .DLL files in your Windows system. Download it run the replace.cmd program.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

August 22nd, 2008 at 7:09 pm

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Download UxTheme Multi Patcher for Windows XP SP 3

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Some of my friends have been telling me that SP 3 installation broke the uxtheme.dll patch that they had installed, preventing all third party Windows XP themes from working.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

August 22nd, 2008 at 7:09 am

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Hyperdesk Hypersuites – Quick Review and Giveaway – Win 2 DarkMatter Subspace Theme Licences!

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If you’re the kind of person who frequently keeps changing skins on your desktop, you’ll love Hyperdesk. Hyperdesk is a product from The Skins Factory that allows you to skin your Windows desktop.

The themes are designed by commercial artists – so they look very professional. Every skin suite (Hypertheme) includes a Windows theme, a cute icon set, and an equally pleasing wallpaper. Additional stuff like Windows Media Player themes and a few widgets are also present in some themes.

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Here’s why Hyperdesk’s Hypersuites are better than many other themes available for download:

  • Very brilliant themes – professionally designed, no niggles, and neat finish
  • Hyperdesk uses Microsoft’s own skinning engine – so your system stays stable
  • It’s a matter of just click – install – apply. Doesn’t involve any hacks
  • One click easy restore – You can easily return back to the default theme at the click of a button – no hassles here as well

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

August 6th, 2008 at 5:46 pm

Enable or Disable Various Windows XP Settings Quickly using Xpy

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Xpy is a very small but powerful software that can let you disable many Windows XP settings and program behaviour quickly at the click of a few buttons.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

August 2nd, 2008 at 6:24 pm

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