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WindowFX is a revolutionary new program that allows you to add an unprecedented number of special effects to Windows XP. Make your Windows PC really shine with WindowFX!
WindowFX adds special effects “fx” to your Windows experience. Effects include shadows under windows, min/max/close/open animations, window dragging effects, window scaling, window tiling, alt-tab task switching options, taskbar preview thumbnails, and much more. WindowFX when combined with WindowBlinds can give your Windows XP system a next-generation Windows look and feel. The two complement each other (and are developed by the same team within Stardock).

WindowFX 3 takes advantage of your video card to provide the effects without losing down your computer. Stardock does caution that it does require a reasonable good video card with modern drivers to get the most out of. WindowFX is, bar none, the most advanced visual enhancement utility for Microsoft Windows. No other program comes even remotely close to what it can do.

A short listing of its features include:
- True, alpha blended shadows under windows
- Ability to morph windows when minimizing and maximizing
- Several different morphing effects available.
- A set of window opening and closing animations
- Ability to have large icons on the desktop while having normal sized icons everywhere else
- Wide range of semi-transparency options such as making windows, the start bar, menus, and more semi-transparent
- Various special effects for Windows desktop icons and their labels
- A set of special effects for menus when opened and closed
- User defined size for windows to maximize to.
- Able to add more transition special effects and shadows created by users
and more!

WindowFX 3 takes advantage of your video card to provide the effects without losing down your computer. Stardock does caution that it does require a reasonable good video card with modern drivers to get the most out of it. Many of the Special effects that we have come accross professional videos like flipping, rotating, zooming, skewing, blending directly applies to your desktop windows with windows FX.Easy to use interface makes getting to windowFx’s features a snap. Even you can have shadow effects on your windows. Windows Fx even provides zooming capabilities for windows straightaway.
Some of the Features of WindowsFx are

Animating windows : The open, closing, resizing, Moving of a window is accompained with animation effects like sliding, rolling, rotating, zooming.

Taskbar Previews : You can view a small snapshot of the entire window by just moving the mouse over different windows in the task bar.

Task Switching:
The Windows operating system allows users to switch tasks using Alt + TAB. WindowFX extends and enhances this feature by allowing a larger graphical preview of the tasks as well as being able to change the hotkey associated with the action.

Application Transparency : WindowFx can make application windows semi-transparent, enabling you to see through the windows.User can also configure level of transparency to each window.Start bar can also be made transparent.

Finally windowsFx is an application that transforms the bored mindset way of working with windowsxp into a interesting way.

WindowFX is a revolutionary new program that allows you to add an unprecedented number of special effects to Windows XP. Make your Windows PC really shine with WindowFX!
WindowFX adds special effects “fx” to your Windows experience. Effects include shadows under windows, min/max/close/open animations, window dragging effects, window scaling, window tiling, alt-tab task switching options, taskbar preview thumbnails, and much more. WindowFX when combined with WindowBlinds can give your Windows XP system a next-generation Windows look and feel. The two complement each other (and are developed by the same team within Stardock).

WindowFX 3 takes advantage of your video card to provide the effects without losing down your computer. Stardock does caution that it does require a reasonable good video card with modern drivers to get the most out of. WindowFX is, bar none, the most advanced visual enhancement utility for Microsoft Windows. No other program comes even remotely close to what it can do.

A short listing of its features include:
- True, alpha blended shadows under windows
- Ability to morph windows when minimizing and maximizing
- Several different morphing effects available.
- A set of window opening and closing animations
- Ability to have large icons on the desktop while having normal sized icons everywhere else
- Wide range of semi-transparency options such as making windows, the start bar, menus, and more semi-transparent
- Various special effects for Windows desktop icons and their labels
- A set of special effects for menus when opened and closed
- User defined size for windows to maximize to.
- Able to add more transition special effects and shadows created by users
and more!

WindowFX 3 takes advantage of your video card to provide the effects without losing down your computer. Stardock does caution that it does require a reasonable good video card with modern drivers to get the most out of it. Many of the Special effects that we have come accross professional videos like flipping, rotating, zooming, skewing, blending directly applies to your desktop windows with windows FX.Easy to use interface makes getting to windowFx’s features a snap. Even you can have shadow effects on your windows. Windows Fx even provides zooming capabilities for windows straightaway.
Some of the Features of WindowsFx are

Animating windows : The open, closing, resizing, Moving of a window is accompained with animation effects like sliding, rolling, rotating, zooming.

Taskbar Previews : You can view a small snapshot of the entire window by just moving the mouse over different windows in the task bar.

Task Switching:
The Windows operating system allows users to switch tasks using Alt + TAB. WindowFX extends and enhances this feature by allowing a larger graphical preview of the tasks as well as being able to change the hotkey associated with the action.

Application Transparency : WindowFx can make application windows semi-transparent, enabling you to see through the windows.User can also configure level of transparency to each window.Start bar can also be made transparent.

Finally windowsFx is an application that transforms the bored mindset way of working with windowsxp into a interesting way.

1.  A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

2.  A snail can sleep for three years.

3.  Babies are born without kneecaps.  They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

4.  Butterflies taste with their feet.

5.  Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds.  Dogs only have about 10.

6.  February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

7.  If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line  would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

8.  In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

9.  Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

10.  Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

11.  Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump.

12.  “Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand, “lollipop”  with your right.

13.  The cruise liner QE2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

14.  The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

15.  The words ‘racecar’ and ‘kayak’ are the same whether they are read  left to right or right to left.

16.  TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

17.  Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

18.  If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at a red light.

19.  The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

20.  Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

21.  There’s no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables.

22.  There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels  in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”

23.  There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: “indivisibility.”

24.  The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there  were three gifts.

25.  crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live.

26.  A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein.

27.  A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

28.  Pinocchio is Italian for “pine eye.”

29.  The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the  lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet.

30.  The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable.” 

Ipconfig is the command issued at the command prompt to know the ip-address associated with your system.You can have more than one Ip-address , if you have more than one network adapter or network connection.

1. Click on “Start” in the bottom left hand corner of screen
2. Click on “Run”
3. Type in “command” and hit ok

You should now be at an MSDOS prompt screen.

4. Type “ipconfig /release” just like that, and hit “enter”
5. Type “ipconfig /renew” to get a new dynamic ip-address from your system.
6. Type “exit” and leave the prompt.

Changing of Ip-address is useful in cases like

1. To  reset network  configuration of your system.
2. You can chage the Ip-address if you are facing any conflicts with switch or any router.
3. Reassigning an Ip-address due to an power outage on the router or an modem.
4. To hide your identity on the web.

2. Subject Parameter : A string representing the subject of the mail.

3. Message Parameter : A string representing the actual message of the mail.

Below example code is a simple web page consisting of text fields

<?
if($_POST[submit]){ // Checks to see if the form has been submitted or not
$to = “YOUREMAIL@YOURSITE.COM“; // Your Email Address
$subject = $_POST[’subject’]; // Gets the fields from the form
$message = $_POST[’message’];
if($subject==NULL|$message==NULL) { // Checks to see if the fields are left blank and if so it display the message
die(”Sorry, but one of the fields was left blank. Please Return To The Form”);
}
$mailsend = mail($to,$subject,$message); // Puts the information into order and then sends it
{
header(”Location: ?message=Thank you”); // Redirects the page back to contact.php and then displays a message
}
}
?><form method=”POST” action=”submit.php”>
<p><label for=”fp2″>Subject:<br>
</label>
<input type=”text” name=”subject” size=”20″ id=”fp2″><br>
<label for=”fp1″>Message:<br>
</label>
<textarea rows=”6″ name=”message” cols=”16″ id=”fp1″></textarea><br>
<input type=”submit” value=”Submit” name=”submit”><input type=”reset” value=”Reset” name=”B2″></p>
</form>
<? echo $message ?>

“Instantly Turn Your Word Documents Into Google Adsense Revenue Generating Web Pages!” WordToWebPage is an easy to use desktop application that allows you to convert any Microsoft Word document into a ready to upload webpage – even if you have absolutely no programming experience at all. Better still, WordToWebPage allows you to have complete control of your website. In a matter of seconds you can: - Choose from three different web templates. - Input keywords, headers and footers. - Select background graphics - Place your AdSense advertisements. WordToWebPage Can Turn Your Dusty E-Books Into Profit Pulling Machines! If you are into Internet marketing, you probably have a bunch of e-books that just aren’t selling as much as you’d like. Many people have the private label rights to books that they’ve never really been able to profit from. Imagine if you could use them to generate p***ive Google AdSense income? With WordToWebPage you can. Simply use WordToWebPage and it will convert your e-book it into a fully functional website – loaded with Google AdSense! That means that with WordToWebPage you can convert a 300 page e-book into a 300 page website – with hundreds of profit pulling AdSense links in a matter of minutes! You might end up generating more income in a month from your new website than you would have in a year’s worth of e-book sales! One of the best ways to get web surfers to see your products is to create a highly ranked website. Yet, to get a high Google or Yahoo rank, you need to have as much legitimate content as humanly possible. The problem is that if you simply upload hundreds of pages of junk content, you might actually get kicked off of many major search engines for creating spam websites.

Visit http://www.wordtowebpage.com

Might be you have come across some text files which will display the images in the form of letters.you also thought of doing the same thing for your images. But searched on the net and could not find any software or software is too costly. Try the free online service which can convert your photo in to an graphic made of letters.The output can be in the form of letters or squares both in B & w and colour options. It will generate the text based output in just 3 seconds. The only limitation is that the image that has to be transformed should be in JPEG format and size should be less than 50×60 pixels.

Original Photo:

Converted Photo in Ascii letters

You can also convert Your own image into Letters using asciiomatic

Different sets of icons are available from iconpacks.com which can be downloaded freely and can be used in any project and is meant for non-commercial use. For commercial usage ,you have to buy the icon sets from iconpacks.Every icon pack contains a set of unique professional icons that can come in a variety of styles & colours, and a wide range of file formats (.ico, .gif, .bmp) to make them as easy as possible to implement into your projects.

Different icon sets like Smiley icons, Assorted Icons, Button Icons, Moonshine Icons, jaffa icons, Metrox icons, Tribal Glyph icons, Mini robot icons can be downloaded from IconPacks.com

The fun, addicting, award-winning series continues with Virtua Tennis 3, built specifically for next-gen consoles. With ultra-realistic graphics and precise player control, gamers will hit the court and play as or against today’s tennis elite including Federer, Sharapova, Roddick, Nadal, and Williams. A new multiplayer mode allows up to four friends to battle it out on 23 courts around the world. As they serve up their best in a mix of exhibitions, tournaments and competitions, players will rise through the ranks and battle for the top spot!

Features:

• Court Games: 10 all-new mini games!
• Easy to play, difficult to master: Anyone can pick up Virtua Tennis 3 for instant enjoyment, but honing your skills will be a challenge.
• Fast, fun and thoroughly addictive: Mini-games and online modes keep gameplay fresh and challenging.
• New World Tour mode: Create your own superstar and enjoy a host of new mini-games, tournaments and challenges.
• Tennis Stars: Features 20 of the world’s biggest tennis stars playing on a variety of stadium and surfaces from across the world.
• Xbox 360™ exclusive: Xbox Live® online tournaments and modes let you challenge your friends from around the world.
• PLAYSTATION®3 system exclusives: Unique new tilt functionality allows players to spin, lob and slice the ball with a flick of the pad. Play tennis in spectacular 1080p resolution - the highest video standard available.
• A true High Definition experience: The most accurate and rich tennis experience to date!

Male tennis stars

The following players are available in the game, each with different characteristics:

• Roger Federer - All Around
• Rafael Nadal - Fast Runner
• Lleyton Hewitt - Counter Shots
• Andy Roddick - Big Server
• Tim Henman - Serve and Volley
• James Blake - Powerful Strokes
• Tommy Haas - All Around
• Sébastien Grosjean - Fast Runner
• Mario Ancic - Big Server
• Juan Carlos Ferrero - Strong Forehand
• David Nalbandian - Strong Backhand
• Taylor Dent - Serve and Volley
• Gaël Monfils - Various Shots

Female tennis stars

Type the code on to the Phone to get the desired result.

*#0000# - Gives you the software version present in your mobile phone, date it was created, Your Phone model No and language info.

You have received call from some body, But in the received calls it is showing as (private Number). You want to see the number after closing the call then type *#30#

*#43# Allows you to check the “Call Waiting” status of your cell phone. i.e call waiting service is activated or not.

*#67# Allows you to check the number that “On Busy Calls” are diverted to
Are you scared of your Total calls duration, received calls duration, Dialled calls duration and want to reset to zero before somebody sees, then type *#73#. It will also reset the game scores and game rankings.

*#7760# Display the code of Manufacturer
*#7780# Restore factory settings
if you lost your nokia mobile phone and found it some where and there is a need to authenticate that the mobile is yours can be done by serial no on the phone box. Compare the serial no on the box to the serial no from the phone by typing *#92702689#. By typing *#92702689# you can get the unique serial no of your phone as well as date it was made and Purchase date (if it was filled on the purchase date). After entering the code the phone has to be switched off and restart it to make it fully operational.
12345 This is the default security code press and hold # Lets you switch between lines