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How to Easily Turn your Windows 7 Home Basic and Windows 7 Starter Edition into Windows 7 Ultimate by Using a Small Patcher

This short tutorial will allow you to enable Aero Glass and all other Personalization features in Windows 7 Home Basic and Windows 7 Starter Edition and not actually transform your Starter and Home Basic edition to Ultimate.

If you own a netbook or any Windows 7 powered machine with Windows 7 Home Basic or Windows 7 Starter installed, then you know that there are quite a number of things that you can’t do with your operating system when it comes to customization/personalization. The Starter and Home Basic editions don’t have Aero Glass, Aero Snap, Flip 3D and other features. What pisses off most users who use the versions mentioned is that you don’t have the power to change the freaking wallpaper. Well, netbook users rejoice! There’s a way to enable the customization features in Windows 7 Home Basic and Starter Edition with just a click of a mouse button.

You can enable or activate the personalization feature of your Home Basic and Windows Starter by downloading a nifty little patcher called Personalization Panel. The small patcher automatically patches system files to enable all Windows Ultimate features.

Simply run the Personalization Panel exe file and reboot your system. Once your system starts again, you’ll have your personalization features activated just like in Windows 7 Ultimate Edition. Just to remember to save all your work before running the patcher, for it will automatically reboot your system without asking your first.

Download the Patcher here.

 

 

 

Tags: Aero, customize, Personalize, wallpaper, windows 7, Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Starter

MinFBook: A Chrome Plugin for a Minimalist Facebook

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Do you hate how Facebook look? Want to try minimalizing the pages in such a way that it would suit your preference? There’s an easy way to customize how you see Facebook through a Chrome plugin called MinFBook (Minimalist for Facebook). It is a personalized solution for those who are tired of useless and distracting elements in the Facebook interface. You can Individually hide almost 50 interface elements, custom colors, and more…

With MinFbook you can simplify Facebook without losing practicality. I’m a big fan of the minimal the web, But sometimes, when minimalism steps in, the practicality of a particular web product is diminished. By using the plugin, you can select which features will appear and which ones will stay hidden. It actually doesn’t automatically do all the work for you. You have to choose which ones will stay by editing the plugin settings. It removes as much or as little as you want. It also adds functionality if you so choose. Just remember that the plugin will only work on your browser, the Chrome browser in particular, and will only affect how you see Facebook. It doesn’t alter your Facebook account in any way. Your Facebook friends will still see your profile the same as everybody else see theirs.

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Tags: chrome, customize, Facebook, Minimalist, Plugin

SamFind: Customizable Search Engine

Search engine aggregators and popping out everywhere. There are Eco Friendly search engines, search engines that pay users for just using the service, button based search engines and a lot more. There is this one search engine aggregator called SamFind which lets you customize the look and feel of the search engine and even the search results.

By default, Samfind aggregates search results from the three most popular search engines out there. This includes Yahoo, Google and MSN respectively. You normally have to type an extra keyword in order to get a search result for a particular topic or niche. With SamFind, you can customize which of the topics you want to appear in the results of your searches. If you want immediate results for pets and animals simply add it to your list of topics and a buttons from niche search engines will appear in your customized search page. You can also place widgets in your custom search page.

I just noticed a few things when I tested the service. The search results do not appear on the same page for some topics. A popup window will open which will bring you to the service offering the niche search service. Google search results do appear on the SamFind page but still pops out another window. There are also no ads in the service. They said that they are kind of anti-ads and don’t want their users to use a service full of ads.

The search engine looks nice and clean but the fonts and design could use a little more polishing. Their concept of displaying art in their pages instead of advertisements is a fresh idea when it comes to search engines. If you are already accustomed to using iGoogle as your home search page and still want to use Samfind, you can easily insert it in your iGoogle page and still benefit from the customized search results.

Tags: aggregator, customize, samfind, search-engine