Tips & Tricks - Part 4

May 5, 2007 By CypherHackz 29 Comments

Change your XP icons to Vista

If you want to use Vista icons without installing Vista Customization Pack, maybe you want to try this method. [tags]vista, vista icons, icontweaker[/tags]

Download and install IconTweaker. (Don’t worry. It is free. :d )
Then, download Vista icon pack.
Extract and double click the icon theme to install it.
Once installed, click on Vista icon in IconTweaker and choose Load Theme.
Finally, click Ok. Done!

There are two more icon packages available for download. Ubuntu and OSX. Try them too. ;))

Ahh…want to change your Windows XP cursors? Go here please, Vista Cursors for Windows XP. :d

Cypher: Actually, I don’t want to install Vista but I like its icons. :d

Filed Under: Tips & Tricks, Windows

May 4, 2007 By CypherHackz 23 Comments

Get FREE Box.net account with Goowy

Hey guys, do you want to get free account at Box.net ? Well…you know, Box.net is one of the best online file storage available on the net. But you need to pay them if you want to use their service. And because you are my site readers, I will share you this. How you can get Box.net account for free… Yes, I said free… But how? Please continue your reading…

Go to Goowy and create your Goowy account.
Once registered, login to Goowy and click on View your files under File Storage.
Fill in the password form and click on Create Account button.
Congratulations! You have successfully created your free Box.net account and can use up to 1049 Mb of space.
Now, you can login to Box.net with your Goowy account which is yourname@goowy.com

If you think this tips is useful, why not digg it to make it to the front page and share it with other people. Just click the button above. Go on, click on it. :d [tags]box.net, free, storage, goowy[/tags]

Filed Under: Tips & Tricks

March 29, 2007 By CypherHackz 10 Comments

Tidy-up your CSS file with Clean CSS

I coded all my themes and CSS manually by using EditPlus 2, by hand. But when coded in text editor, your code might unstructureable and will slow down your site. That is why you need something that can optimize and tidy up your files.

Here has come a website called Clean CSS. Clean CSS is a nice utility that will tidy up your CSS file and will optimize it to make your site load faster. For an example, instead of

padding-top: 10px;
padding-right: 5px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-left: 5px;

Clean CSS will tidy it into like this

padding: 10px 5px 10px 5px;

Beside that, Clean CSS will remove all unnecessary things and will pack your CSS file into smaller package.

Speed Up Your Site: Optimize your CSS [via Daily Blog Tips][tags]clean css, css, cascading stylesheet[/tags]

Filed Under: Blogging, Tips & Tricks

March 22, 2007 By CypherHackz 12 Comments

Rename your WindowsXP Start button text

Did you know, you can rename your WindowsXP Start button text to something else? Some of you may already know that you can do that by edit your Explorer.exe file and change some value in your registry setting. But here comes an easy way to do that.

StartBtn Renamer is a simple utility that you can use to change your WindowsXP Start button text. With this Delphi coded tool, all you have to do is just type in the word that you want to use and click on Rename It! button. It is much much easier than edit it by using Resource Hacker right? [tags]windows, windows xp, xp, tips, how to[/tags]

[via TechBuzz]

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March 19, 2007 By CypherHackz 8 Comments

Be cool with Winamp and Yahoo! Messenger

If you listen to musics while chatting with your friends, I guess you need this thing to show them how cool you are. b-)

Larkington’s Yahoo Messenger Winamp Plugin is a additional feature that will set your Yahoo! Messenger status message to the title of the song currently playing on your Winamp. There are also some other Winamp plugins which are working with the same concept but this plugin is better than the others. And I’m currently using it on my PC and this plugin works perfectly. <:-p

But if you have created custom Yahoo! Messenger status message, you need to delete all the messages because, this plugin will rotate the messages instead of displaying the song currently playing on your Winamp. :-w To delete the custom messages, you need Yahoo! Messenger Status Edit.

Don’t wait any longer, download the plugin and be cool instantly! >:/ [tags]winamp, plugin, yahoo messenger[/tags]

Filed Under: Computers, Tips & Tricks

February 3, 2007 By CypherHackz 11 Comments

Tools to convert FLV files

There are tricks that we can use to download videos from Google or YouTube. For an example, by using YouTubeX to download from Youtube. But the file downloaded is in FLV format which means, we need a FLV player to play it. However, we can convert the FLV files into MP3 or MPEG format. So we can play it in Winamp or other media players that support those formats.

Convert FLV to MP3 (online)

If you don’t want to download software to convert your FLV file to MP3 format, you can use FLV NellyMoser to MP3 Online Converter to convert it. Choose which FLV file that you want to convert, enter your email and image verification and wait for awhile. Open your email inbox and you will get the download link to the converted MP3 file. [tags]flv, converter, youtube, google[/tags]

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Filed Under: Computers, Entertainment, Tips & Tricks

December 29, 2006 By CypherHackz 6 Comments

4 Tricks to Shut Down your Windows

There are many methods that you can use to shut down your computer. The normal way is click on Start > Turn Off Computer > Turn Off. But here I will share with you how you can shut down your computer in different ways.

1. The fastest way

I always do this when I want to shutdown my computer. Just press the Windows key (on the keyboard) and press U key two times.

Continue reading “4 Tricks to Shut Down your Windows”…

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December 16, 2006 By CypherHackz 3 Comments

Customize your FeedBurner Headline Animator

Do you want to change your FeedBurner Headline Animator from the old-school style

to like this

Some of you may already knew about it. Now we can use our own custom image for our headline animator. Just create your own design, then go to FeedBurner account. Under Publicize, go to Headline Animator and in Customize Your Headline Animator, choose “Design your own…”.

There you can customize the title, date and headline for your headline animator. You can decide the colour, font size and width. And you also can drag to arrange them on your image.

Btw what do you think with my feed animator design? The idea I use is from this WordPress theme. Lol… :d [tags]feedburner, headline, animator[/tags]

Filed Under: Artworks & Designs, Tips & Tricks

December 8, 2006 By CypherHackz 6 Comments

Display AdSense in certain Posts in WordPress

James emailed me on how I display my adsense in certain posts. As you can see on my homepage, there is an adsense above the content in my first post. And after the first post, there is another post that has adsense but without content. To do it, you just need to put a counter. We create the counter by using PHP.

First we need to declare the variables that we want to use.

$postnum – This variable use for count how many posts in the loop
$showads# – This variable is use the adsense that we want to display.

Note: Replace the # with number, eg: 1, 2, etc.

Ok here is the trick. Put this PHP code before the loop.

<?php$postnum = 1; //Define the initial value$showads1 = 1; //This mean it will be display in post #1$showads3 = 3; //This mean it will be display in post #3?>

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Filed Under: Tips & Tricks, Wordpress

December 7, 2006 By CypherHackz 1 Comment