Royale Noir theme now officially available as Zune theme
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3.11.2006 New Default Theme for Firefox 2
There's a discussion going on in mozilla.dev.apps.firefox about "Changes
to Fx2 Chrome" which is about proposed changes to the main browser
window structure (buttons, layout, functions) that is exposed to users
by default in Firefox 2.
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13.3.2006 Download Ferrari Windows 7 Theme
In past we have covered set of beautiful themes for Windows 7 and also posted guide on how to create Windows 7 themes. Now here is something for Ferrari lovers.
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13.8.2009 Windows 7 Theme & UI for iPhone
First of all i’d like to thank spintek and ebl4287 for releasing such an awesome Windows 7 theme for iPhone. Before getting started confirmed that your iPhone is Jaibreaked and you have installed OpenSSH in your iPhone through Cydia.
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19.8.2009 New Windows Standard Theme in Windows Vista
Many community members have expressed concerns over the visual experience of the Windows Basic theme, and, we heard you loud and clear. In fact, we too wanted something better, and we’ve overhauled this theme with an all new version. For those who haven’t been following the discussion, let me brief you on the issue.
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10.7.2006 Download Style 7 Windows 7 Theme Generator
In past we have covered several windows 7 themes as well as guide on how to create Windows 7 theme now here is unique tool Style7 Windows 7 Theme Generator.
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16.10.2009 How to Restore Default Windows XP Theme
So you have installed third party theme on your Windows XP and due to some reasons your theme files are corrupted and you don’t know how to revert back to official Windows XP themes.
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22.10.2009 Royale Noir: secret XP theme uncovered
During Royale’s development (the XP Media Center theme), the graphic artists also produced a black version of the skin, sans the overused “glass” effect.
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30.10.2006 Mac OS X Snow Leopard Theme for Windows 7
Windows 7 Themes Gallery has been updated with three new themes – based on the original wallpapers pack from the upcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 release.
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12.8.2009 Windows 7 RC Build 7100 OS X Theme Leopard
In past we have reviewed Leopard Transformation Pack 2 & Mac OS X Leopart theme to transform Vista to Mac OS X.
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6.6.2009 Leaked Windows 7 Details: Theme Files, Gallery, Packs and Wallpaper Slideshow
While Windows 7 is still a taboo subject as far as Microsoft is concerned, with the company offering just crumbs from the feast that is Windows Vista's successor, details do manage to slip through, and the Redmond company has nobody to blame for it but itself.
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6.8.2008 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - let’s see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 to Cure the Vista RTM Wow Hangover
When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience.
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11.4.2008 Vista-For-Free coupon with Vista ready PC's
Microsoft and the world's leading PC vendors have reached an agreement to promote the long-awaited Vista OS by offering PC buyers worldwide a free upgrade coupon, as a way of encouraging them to buy a Vista-capable PC as early as possible, according to market sources, citing information leaked from Taiwan-based PC makers.
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11.10.2006 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista’s tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vista’s image is tarnished. And it’s corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008Vista Gets New Standard UI
Theme
While Microsoft has always
shown off Windows Vista with
its new Aero user interface
and "Glass" theme, not
all customers will have the
required hardware to power the
advanced graphics. In turn,
Microsoft has spruced up its
Standard theme, which had been
the subject of many
complaints...
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10.07.2006Official theme support now integrated in Google Chrome 3.0
The latest developer build of Chrome now includes an official option to install themes into Google Chrome. It was reported earlier this week by Neowin
that Google is preparing to launch a theme gallery. It looks like this has happened with the release of build 3.0.195.6. The option is offered under
"Personal Stuff" and has the option to "Get Themes". Pressing the button redirects you to a webpage, that shows a whole array of new themes for
Chrome. Applying the theme is as simple as pressing the "Apply Theme" button below the chosen theme, and a ".crx" file is downloaded. A restart
of Chrome is not required to apply the theme.
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07.08.2009New theme coming for Vista
Mentioned at a dinner last
night with Jim Allchin was
that a new theme is coming to
replace the Non-Aero Theme for
Vista Capable PCs (PC's that
cannot run Windows Aero).
Also mentioned were
some other great features
coming from Vista, Restart
Manager and Windows
ReadyBoost.
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25.05.2006Windows 7 to add slideshow wallpapers, theme gallery and theme packs
Dont worry Windows 95 Plus! enthusiasts, Microsoft hasnt forgotten about you and your themes. A recently updated MSDN Library document shows that
Microsoft hasnt just brushed themes under the carpet, but instead dusted it off, added some new polish and is even putting it under the spotlight.
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06.08.2008.mobi Aims to Standardize
Mobile Web
AT CTIA The theme of
fixing the poor mobile
Internet experience has been
an overarching theme so far at
this year's CTIA Wireless
show in Las Vegas. .mobi's
Alexa Raad thinks her company
is about to solve that, and
she sat down with BetaNews to
tell us why...
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04.04.2006Google preparing to launch theme gallery for Chrome
Last week, information was spread that Google planned to implement proper theme support within their Chrome browser. Just recently, people have
discovered, in the developer builds of the browser, that the company has built in the theme support already. It was unclear how they'd plan to
display said themes, though many suspected the obvious choice of an online gallery; now, however, TechCrunch is reporting that this has been all but
confirmed, with several themes already having been discovered. TechCrunch states that the themes will be available at this link, which has obviously
yet to go online, but you can already preview it if you have the very latest build of the Chrome browser.
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03.08.2009New Windows Vista Standard
Theme
Screenshots recently released
have confirmed speculation
that the Windows Vista "Scrap
Metal" theme would not in
fact be the final visual style
that users without Aero Glass
would see. The new visual
style seems to resemble the
Aero Glass style much more
closely.
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07.07.2006Windows 7 to add slideshow wallpapers and more!
Don't worry Windows 95 Plus! enthusiasts, Microsoft hasn't forgotten about you and your themes. A recently updated MSDN Library document shows that
Microsoft hasn't just brushed themes under the carpet, but instead dusted it off, added some new polish and is even putting it under the spotlight.
The document "
Creating and Installing Theme
Files" (now edited) has been updated with several "additions to the .theme file format were made for Windows 7". They include: (Click Read
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10.08.2008Snow Leopard to bring a new 'marble' appearance?
Apple has always said that the new version of OS X dubbed "Snow Leopard" would be about performance gains and not new visuals. With that in mind it
has been circulating the web in resounding fashion that Apple will release a new theme for OS X when the product is launched. A mockup (below) gives
a possible rendering of what the new theme may look like. There is not much else to go on but when a story gets this big it generally means there is
some credibility behind the source. Keep your eyes peeled as it is expected that this theme will be unveiled anytime between now and the upcoming
WWDC.
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26.03.2009Vista Build 5472 Impressions
and Screenshots
A new build of Vista appeared
on connect late yesterday, and
first reports of it are
promising.
Ryan
Hoffman of
Bink.nu had
this to say: "I've gotten
Windows Vista Build 5472
loaded up on my Tablet PC, and
so far so good! It feels fast.
I mean, really fast. The new
blue basic theme is in. The
new Aero cursor theme is
enabled by default. Did I
mention, this build is really
fast?"
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18.07.2006More Windows Vista Packaging and Disc
Take a look at how the Windows
Vista packaging will open up
to reveal the media inside.
Also, it is our first peak at
what the Windows Vista discs
will actually look like.
I like what they've
done with the disc. The design
on the disc is unique and
fresh. Microsoft has adopted
pretty much the same looking
holographic CD/DVD's since
Windows 2000 and its nice to
see it be given a fresh new
look - which seems to be a
reoccurring theme with the
Windows Vista packaging in
general.
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02.11.2006Gmail offers new Inbox themes
Gmail owners, Google, wanted "to go beyond simple color customization" and have announced 30 new themes. There's many new themes to fit your
style, a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time and even
a weather theme that can rain on your mailbox. There's even an old school ascii theme (Terminal) to geek up your mailbox. Google have also done
some work to Gmail's default look to make it "crisper and cleaner". To customise your inbox, go to the Themes tab under Settings.
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20.11.2008Royale Noir: secret XP theme uncovered
Sometime after the launch of
XP, somewhere in Redmond,
someone on the Microsoft
design team was in the
progress of developing
something for Media Center. It
was believed to be too
powerful for public
consumption and forever
archived in the servers at 1
Microsoft
Way.
Devoted
Channel9 member W3bbo spotted
an interesting theme on one of
the people_ready television
commercials airing in the
States. After some dedicated
searching, he finally
uncovered this mystery XP
theme by Microsoft. W3bbo
writes,
"D
uring Royales development (the
XP Media Center theme), the
graphic artists also produced
a black version of the skin,
sans the overused glass
effect. The result is an
aesthetic black skin named
Royale Noir, it even works
with Office
2003.
Since the
skin was never released (or
reached final adjustments)
there are a few issues with
it: some of the colors dont
meet the overall feel (theyre
too purple-ish compared to the
greys of the bitmaps) and the
inactive titlebars are a
little too dark.
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31.10.2006'Blackcomb' Renamed to
'Vienna'
Microsoft has changed the
code-name for the next version
of Windows after Vista from
"Blackcomb" to
"Vienna," according to
company evangelist and blogger
Robert Scoble. Blackcomb was
named back in 2000, when
Windows XP was still known as
Whistler. But Microsoft says
it needed a name that fit the
"Vista" theme...
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20.01.2006Bring a little Bing into your Windows 7
The team over at Bing wanted to show off their support for the launch of Windows 7, by putting together the top images on Bing in June, July and
August into a Windows 7 theme pack. The 20 very stunning photos are available for free, directly from Microsoft's Personalization Gallery.
Microsoft's Bing team managed to group these images to help show off some of the Windows 7 features, with the personalization gallery feature.
Windows 7 makes it easy to download, install and run a brand new theme pack with a few clicks of the mouse. The dynamic background theme packs
interchange every ten seconds to one day (default 30 min), depending on user's preferences.
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23.10.2009Snow Leopard: New Marble Interface?
With every release of OS X, like most operating systems, interface changes are constantly being made. Snow Leopard, Apple's upcoming operating
system, is yet to see any major UI changes in the currently available builds. However, a source has revealed a new theme that may be underway.
Recently leaked information states that Snow Leopard will use the Marble theme instead of Aqua. While not much is known about the new theme,
Marble is expected to consist of a flattened Aqua look and pick up some elements from iTunes and iPhoto, unifying the style across the operating
system.
Snow Leopard is expected to be released in this quarter.
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15.01.2009New Windows Embedded build brings new theme
User called marxo found a new Windows XP MCE-like theme in the latest CTP of Windows Embedded:
This style can be
found in the Windows Embedded Standard CTP Refresh. It's called "Embedded" and, along with the wallpaper, gets copied into the image if
the Windows XP UI component is added. As it's digitally signed it works with any XP/Server 2003 install. The archive I uploaded below contains the
Embedded folder and the Embedded.theme to be copied to %systemroot%resourcesthemes and the wallpaper in its original format and size.
winbeta.org - 09.10.2008
Bridging the Vista Graphics
Gap
Graphics performance,
which has long been an
afterthought for most
corporate PCs and many
consumers, will move to the
forefront with the launch of
Windows Vista, Microsoft's
next Windows operating
system.
Vi
sta, due late next year, will
offer four different themes,
including the well-publicized
three-dimensional Aero Glass
with transparent
windows.
Starting
with a Classic theme, which
looks like Windows XP, each
will offer successively more
advanced features, also call
for successively more powerful
graphics.
Vista is
expected to measure the
graphics grunt available in a
PC and automatically serve up
the proper UI.
But
what's still unclear is where
many of today's PCs will fall
on the Vista interface
spectrum and thus how
consumers and corporate buyers
who wish to gain the most
advanced features can get
prepared. ..
winbeta.org - 16.11.2005
New Windows XP Theme :Zune - Previously Royale Noir
Microsoft has released a new
theme for Windows XP that is
black and resembles the Vista
style. Its name you ask?
Zune.
neowin.net - 03.11.2006
Windows Vista Packaging and Disc
Take a look at how the Windows
Vista packaging will open up
to reveal the media inside.
Also, it is our first peak at
what the Windows Vista discs
will actually look like.
I like what they?ve
done with the disc. The design
on the disc is unique and
fresh. Microsoft has adopted
pretty much the same looking
holographic CD/DVD?s since
Windows 2000 and its nice to
see it be given a fresh new
look - which seems to be a
reoccurring theme with the
Windows Vista packaging in
general.
jcxp.net - 02.11.2006
