Sometimes if your windows crashes, or if you modify the display resolution settings, you will find that the icon positions on your desktop will change and maybe even your wallpaper, and you will lose the setup you had going. but now you can avoid that easily with IconRestorer.

IconRestorer has been designed to remember the icon setup to avoid the boring job of manually restoring the right icon positions on your desktop.

IconRestorer can be used to place the icons back to their original location on the Windows screen when needed, or even to manage two profiles of icon position.

Features:

* Manage icons position separately for all screen resolutions
* Multiple backups for each resolution
* Backups management: rename, delete, export and import
* New: option to Save and Restore Desktop Wallpaper with Icon Positions
* New: option to move files with unsaved position to special folder on Desktop
* Start with Windows and start minimized to tray options
* Contexual quick help
* Windows Vista compatible
* Check for program updates feature
* Multilanguage: English, Italian , Spanish and Valencian, with support for non latin languages translations
* Free support forum for bugs report or requests

You can download it here.

In this video showing many of the cool Android platform applications, Sergey Brin, Co-Founder of Google, announces that Google will be setting aside a $10 Million award for the best application developed for the Android Platform. Amazing!

Nothing beats holding an actual book in your hand, but sometimes it’s nice to be able to download it and take it with you. Especially if it’s completely legal. Here’s a list of 20+ sources for e-books for your use.

Downloadable

AskSam.com/ebooks/ - A small selection of classic texts like Shakespeare, and assorted legal & governmental texts.

Baen Free Library - A small library of downloadable science fiction novels, mostly the first in an ongoing series to get you hungry for more.

BookRags.com - Small selection of free choices, and thousands more for premium members. Can be downloaded as PDF or Word documents.

Gutenberg.org - The first project for converting public domain works into a digital format; their selection now numbers over 5,000.

ManyBooks.net - A large selection of books to be read on your PDA, cellphone, iPod, iPhone and more.

Mary Jo’s E-Texts - Hasn’t been updated in several years, but links still work. The books are formatted for a doc reader on Palm. Includes classic literature, the Oz books, and even some fan fiction.

Mslit.com - Over 1,500 texts provided by Microsoft for their MS Reader.

NetLibrary.net - Only a small selection for free; however, annual membership, and access to over 500,000 works, is only $8.95 a year.

Oxford Text Archive - Over 2,000classical texts you can download as ASCII or DOC files, some do require permission of the original uploader.

PlanetPDF eBooks - A decent sized collection of classic novels all in PDF format.

PocketPCbooks.net - Over 40 classic books specifically for your Windows Mobile Device. Come on, every one needs to carry Sun Tzu’s The Art Of War on their PDA.

The PDA Librarian - Run by an actual high school librarian, this site is specifically for Palm PDAs and features classic literature as well as books for teens and college bound individuals.

HTML Only

Bartleby.com - Harvard Classics and encyclopedias are included here in this easy to browse, HTML only site.

Berkeley Sunsite Classics - A small selection of true classics such as Jane Austen and Thoreau.

Bibliomania.com - Over 2,000 classic texts, study guides, biographies, and more.

Grtbooks.com - A large collection of free-to-read online texts dating back as far as 200 B.C.

Infomotions.com - A collection of over 14,000 documents from full novels to Western philosophy.

Internet Public Library - A large directory of online texts hosted at other sites.

The Perseus Digital Library - A large collection of classical texts broken down by the time period they were written in.

ReadEasily.com - A site with e-books specifically with the elderly and somewhat visually impaired in mind that allows you to change colors, fonts, and size to make it more legible.

The Online Books Page - A gigantic directory of e-books from all over the web.

[via:Mashable]

I’ve been using this program for a while now and i love it! TeraCopy is a program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed. It allows you to Pause and Resume file transfers. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times while Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer. File list makes sure that all the files that are copied are listed and if any errors found during the process, it will be listed there. Also, it’s seamless integration with Windows Explorer allows you to keep working with files as usual.

TeraCopy is available both as a Freeware and a Paid version, but the freeware contains all the features that are required by a Home user and can satisfy one’s need.

You can download TeraCopy Here.

Consider this scenerio: You have some programs installed in drive C and now the drive is running out of space. You wish to reallocate the programs to another drive but cut-pasting the programs won’t work. You don’t even have the setup files of those programs, so you can’t reinstall them on another drive. What will you do? Enter Application Mover

Application Mover is a tool that relocates installed programs from one path to another on your hard disk. Application Mover takes files found in the path specified in the ‘Current Path’ field and moves them to the ‘New Path’ path. Application Mover scans the windows registry for references to files located in the ‘Current’ field and changes those references to the ‘New’ path. Application Mover also scans all windows shortcuts in the Start Menu and adjusts path references to the new program location. Finally, *.ini and Install.log files present in the original program path are checked for strings matching the old path location. If found, these strings are changed to the new location. Confirmation dialogs are available if you enable the ‘Confirm changes’ checkbox . If a file is ‘busy’ and cannot be changed to the new location, a reboot prompt is offered. Pending changes are then completed after the reboot.

You can download the application Here. The downside though, that this is not freeware.

here is a cool alternative to adding video to your desktop background without hogging system resources and memory. It will work in any Windows Vista version and Windows Xp. Here’s how it goes.

1. Download and install VLC Player for Windows.
2. Run VLC Media Player, go to Settings -> Preferences, expand Interface and click on wxWidgets. In the bottom right corner of “wxWidgets interface module” window, click on “Advanced options” to show advanced settings. Then uncheck the Taskbar check box in order to remove VLC Player title from the taskbar while the program is running. Check Systray icon if you want to enable Systray (system tray or notification area) icon instead.
3. Next, expand Video -> Output Modules and then select Direct X. In bottom right corner of DirectX Video Output window, check the Advanced Options check box in order to see all the settings available.

4. Check and tick the “Enable wallpaper mode” check box.
5. Then, select Playlist and then check or tick the Repeat current item checkbox.
6. Press “Save” button when done.
7. Open and play any video that you would like to set as motion wallpaper in VLC Media Player.
8. If the video hasn’t yet been set as desktop background, right click on the video and click on “Wallpaper”.
9. The video or movie will be set as if it’s DreamScene motion desktop background wallpaper.

Now important thing is to configure VLC Player to loop the video . This can be done by simply clicking on View then select Playlist. Now highlight the video that is playing and by clicking on Repeat One or Repeat All button .

But make sure the video format is supported by VLC Player such as MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, FLV (Flash Video) and etc. If it isn’t simple convert it to the above files.

Another alternative is BS.Player. Just download and install the BS.Player. Run BS.Player and open your favorite movie or video clip that you would like to set as desktop background.
Then right click on the video playing on a window, and select “Desktop mode” on the options menu. Alternative, you can just press D shortcut key. Wow, your desktop is now playing video, without interfering with other desktop features.
[via:thinktechno]

This is how you properly recycle old computer hardware.

A dinosaur made up of motherboards and other peripheral devices

A fish made up of motherboards, cds, and harddrives

A motorcycle made up of hard drive pieces

A keyboard shoe

An old mouse as toothbrush holder

A chair made of CD’s

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