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Recently, Microsoft has added new, free themes in its Windows 7 Personalization Gallery. The new themes  available for everybody to download are:  Cats Anytime, Dogs in Winter, Summit on the Summit and Twinkle Wish. If you want to download them, go to the official Microsoft webpage here. If you want to download other themes, read this other article.

Have you ever tried to create a shortcut for a certain file or folder? I am pretty sure that you are familiar with the annoying shortcut text message, the prefix ” – Shortcut” which is inevitably created by the system and appended next to the file or folder name. Here is a simple hack to remove it for good. Continue reading »

How many times have you wished to be able to write longer Twitter messages? As you know ,Twitter messages are limited  to 140 character, forcing you to write, short, straight-to-the point replies and messages which, most the time, don’t express the real meaning of what you want to say. Let’ see how to write longer Twitter messages thanks to a couple of  little websites and a dirty trick… Continue reading »

Google has recently rolled out an interesting feature meant to overcome language boundaries called Google Dictionary.  Google is not new at releasing translating tools. You may be interested on these articles on Google Translate client and translate everything in your Gmail.  Google dictionary is a handy bidirectional multilingual dictionary able to translate everything you need. Continue reading »

How many times have you wished to know certain information related to your computer and its hardware but you have not managed to locate it in any way? Finding computer hardware specifications such as CPU specs, motherboard features etc. is a very hard task, above all of you don’t have the right tool. Let’s see how to get hardware information in one click thanks to a freeware solution. Continue reading »

After Installing or uninstalling software, your Windows registry gets “heavier and heavier”, packed up with dozens of keys which, in the long run, contribute to make your whole operating system slower. Other times instead, these registry key, if not properly treated generate errors and issues of different kinds leading sometimes to crash your Windows. Let’s see how to clean your system from this junk  thanks to a free Windows registry tool and scanner. Continue reading »

This is a quick trick which lets you enable and turn on the famous and eye-candy Windows 7 Aero Glass theme to all Windows 7 machine available in the Windows Virtual PC. Here is the easy step by step procedure. Continue reading »

Lately, all the major computer and software houses have released a lot of interesting, free e-books to download right away. The issues with such books is that sometimes they are well-hidden among big, important websites such as Apple.com or Microsoft.com. During my Internet rambling I have written about such books but, since they are all scattered over Web Talk, I have decided to collect them all together! Continue reading »