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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Microsoft(R) Firefox 2007 Professional (http://www.msfirefox.com/)

MSFirefox.comYeah I know.. It cracked me to the ground... I mean come on!!!

I have been in bed for 3 days because of that stupid flu.. I can't see clear o hear anaything beside the stupid continous ring in my inner ear... and no I dont need to see a shrink for that..

Anyways nither flu drugs nor injections, or even watching 3 seasons of family guy made me feel better (by the way dont watch the untold story, the movie sucks.. it turns out that Stewie is gonna be a total loser), this funny idea did!! Forget the logo, the style or even the copytight notice.. what made me crack on is the warnning summed as:

Visiting the following sites using MS Firefox 2007 will cause your computer to shut down unexpectedly

and dont forget about the donations part:

The Microsoft(R) Corporation is an international non-profit organisation exempt from Federal income taxation under IRC 501(c)(3). It is governed by its Board of Directors.

Please consider supporting the Microsoft(R) organsiation by making a contribution. Donations are tax deductible.

We thank the millions individuals and organizations who have already made a donation.

 

and you can download it, but instead you will get IE 7.0! check it out your self @ : http://www.msfirefox.com/

note: all text formatted in Italic is copied as is from http://www.msfirefox.com/

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Sunday, October 22, 2006

a’7oko wege3 men el s6oo7!

You just won’t believe the way I slept last night and the reason behind it! hala2 before I tell you, we need to get you people in the mood first =)

Fine, I’ll be honest and direct. Close your eyes and try to go back to the 3rd grade and try to remember when we used to mock our class mates with different names and ways! I used to be the expert when it comes to 2 things, lama el mes bet7o6 wa7ad min el wlad been 2 girls, or when we start a roomer ino fi tneeen be7ebo ba3ad, I just remember khader and dana, I used to tease them badly that they always go to the teacher and cry! (khader and dana, wherever you are, I wish you luck and happiness) loool

To tell you the truth, they used to hate each other! But what would you think eza ba2olkom eno when we were kids, we used to tease the people we like, bs 7awlo tsheeelo el reeee7to tal3ah, o ele 3ala sha3arha eshreh, or 7ata abu 4 eyes, m3 eni I’m wearing glasses now! hehe

Note: If you can’t remember this, ma3nato you are sitting on the other side of the table zai khader o dana!

We got older and the way we express our feelings changed! To tell you the truth, till now when it comes to girls, I just like picking on them as if we are 10 years old. It’s not something I’m proud of, bs I just enjoy it. My friends nazalo faraman hadaro dami feeh 3ashan I used to mock them and their girl friends! ya 7abeebi sho kunt a3mil iza zaqqato 7amalelha daftar, wila sha7anelha el mobile, ra7at 3leeh o 3a edeeh o ejreeh, estalamto shahar zamman! be sara7a el sha’3aleh ma kanat tod’7ol be rasi.. they used to tell me that a day will come and I would fall right down on my face and get attached to a girl (la2 mo zai tab3it el mail, hehe), and that day came 4 months ago! allah wakeelkom zai ele waqe3 men s6oo7 =)

Now you are in the mood, embari7 I slept metrabe3 3al kanabye wil notebook be7odnee! Can you imagine??!! s7eet el sobe7, dahri mush mksoor, la2 la2 kizib; s7eet ment3el abo taltamisooo o el short 7alel loonoo 3ashan 7arert el notebook! Akeed you can guess why leesh nimit heek?!! =p

hala2, you are thinking meen hai ele emha da3yeh 3LEEEHA mo ELHA, 3ALEEHA leelet el ader o 7abatni, mm mahi el tanyneh kamman majnooneh zayee, hehe mm za3rah, o sho’3ol dawaween, akeed ma bedi ansah to mention ino hee 7ilweh la allah! bs el erd be3een emo ‘3azal! loool (yes that type of teasing, I just scored three points, yoohooo!) Anyways el notebook battery is running out and I have 14 minutes life time left, so ill catch you later!

sala7ef =)

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Thursday, October 05, 2006

Microsoft Windows Vista Aurora on your Desktop

Every time I install Vista, I keep on woundering, where did that sweet Aurora goes after you finish configuring your desktop for the first run! I know it's the screen saver dah.. but how do you get the chance to run it in the background in the first place??!! Guess what? and since talking is much easier than doing, Long Zheng got it all, check out what I got from his blog:

The wonderful Dave Vronay from Microsoft’s UX team has submitted this great tip to me after constantly nagging him about Desktop Aurora. With a bit of persistence, it has finally paid off. With this practical yet simple method, you can emulate the look of Desktop Aurora without any system modifications or heavy impact on performance. However, it must also be said that this approach is very flawed, as it has several downsides that makes it impractical to use for extended periods of time. But who cares, you can only get so much of eye-candy anyway.

Desktop MystifyDesktop Aurora

The concept is extremely simple. Run a screensaver on the desktop. But with the added power of DWM, you can get all the cool Glass effects on top of the screensaver, so it’s just like a real wallpaper. Screensavers has always supported the ability to be called to render on any surface to assist in development. But we can also utilize this method to create an interesting desktop background effect.

As you can see, the results can look stunning on a Glass-abundant application such as the “Gadgets Gallery” with some modifications to the original Vista screensavers.

How to do it

Automatic method

Blog reader Nate, has coded an application which automates the entire process. His application gives you an extremely easy way of selecting the screensaver desire, and makes it even possible to start the screensaver rendering on startup. You can download Nate’s application here.

Screencast

You can watch a screencast showing you the steps you need to take to achieve the same result.
Lazy man's Desktop Aurora screencast
Click to image to view video (H.264, 2:48min)

Manual method

Otherwise, if you feel confident, you can follow these steps below.

  1. Boot into Windows Vista, obviously
  2. Open the Spy++ tool, which is used to assist in software debugging. If you don’t have a copy, download it here.
  3. Use the “Window Search” icon, which is the binoculars icon in the toolbar.
  4. Drag the “Finder Tool” on to the desktop. The area surrounding the desktop should be bordered. Release mouse. Click “OK”.
  5. An item called “Folder View” should now be highlighted in the main window. Go up 2 parent items, and find “Program Manager”.
  6. There should be a bunch of characters on the left like “0002010C”, record this set of characters.
  7. Open the Hex to Decimal converter (http://www.easycalculation.com/hex-converter.php)
  8. Insert your set of characters into the “HEX value” box. Copy the resulting “Decimal” value. This is your “Handle ID”.
  9. Open command prompt. Type in “[Vista Drive]:WindowsSystem32mystify.scr /p [Your Handle ID]”, you might end up with “D:WindowsSystem32mystify.scr /p 131340″. Click Enter.
  10. Enjoy

To stop the desktop screensaver, simply launch Task Manager and find the screensaver process, then end the process.

You can also replace “mystify.scr” with any screensaver you desire. The Ribbons (ribbons.scr) works too. Aurora (aurora.scr) can be pretty bland. The Windows Energy (SSBranded.scr) can be quite intensive, but looks pretty cool. Bubbles (bubbles.scr) won’t work well.

Whilst the result is fancy for a few minutes, it becomes impractical because the desktop icons are overlapped by the screensaver rendering. But since DWM renders on top of the screensaver, you get all the fancy translucent effects with the screensaver.

I suspect the ‘real’ Desktop Aurora will use a better implementation of rendering, as well have a ‘quieter’ animation than screensavers to ensure it does not distract the user from more productive work, like Solitaire.

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