Konfabulator is a program that lets you put "widgets" on your desktop. You can have a floating clock, weather report, calendar, etc.
Yahoo! purchased Konfabulator (it use to cost $19.95 to register) and has made it available to everyone at no charge.
http://widgets.yahoo.com/
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For those who don't know about "Royale", it was basically the first theme/visual style made by Microsoft after the release of Windows XP.
It originally came out for just Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. It was always XP-compatible, but had a MCE-only installer file. Royale has been on the net for some time, but only after some people had extracted the files from the MCE installer and made the files available to all.
Microsoft New Zealand officially released Royale to users of all versions of XP.
They no longer have the download available, but you can still get it from my XP Themes page.
Since this is an official Microsoft-made visual style, you do NOT need any theme installers or patches to use this. Just download and install!
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Windows and DRM at the hardware level in your BIOS:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39116902,00.htm
Like it had intelligence - and more importantly, had feelings..
Why? Because I want to cause it PAIN.
Every time I set a folder to a certain view setting (such as "Detail View," sorted by "Type"), and then 10 minutes later the folder has reset the view setting on its own (to something like "Large Icon View," sorted by "Name"), I want to have a Big Red Button® that I can click that causes the system to experience HORRIBLE PAIN.
Everytime Windows loads up, and several programs such as GetRight, Task Manager, Serv-U, and others are loaded, but DON'T show up on the System Tray, I want Windows XP to feel more PAIN.
I want it to feel so much pain, it will do nothing but CRY until it learns to do stuff correctly.
I think the the problem with Zip files showing up as folders, and the Search program searching through Zip files as if they were folders is somewhat fixed - by first unregistering the ZipFldr.dll file, and then deleting it in Safe Mode... But shouldn't there be some sort of option to tell XP to NOT fucking treat Zip files as folders? Even with WinZip or WinAce installed and fully registered with all .ZIP files, XP still "sees" them as folders.
I wish XP was "alive" ... Read More »