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Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Decorate Your Home or Apartment with Custom Framed Art
Most of the art people display in their homes is not purchased as an investment. Even the dilettante knows that some paintings appreciate in price and can make their owners incredibly rich. But art lovers are still more likely to buy pieces that appeal to them than they are to chase after artistic lottery tickets. No matter what it is worth, custom framed art can be used to decorate and personalize any space.
"Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper, "Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh, and "Sunset in Venice" by Claude Monet are three of the most recognizable paintings in history. And they are recognizable because people buy prints and hang them in their apartments, homes, and dorm rooms as framed art. Few could afford original paintings from any of the aforementioned artists. But most can afford framed art, which only costs a bit more than movie posters.
Where to buy them
Traditional poster stores are located almost exclusively in urban areas. The reason for this is simple--there are more people in these areas that decorate with less expensive art. But that does not mean than suburbanites and country folk do not appreciate framed art. Many of them hang it in their game rooms, offices, or man caves. Movie posters are particularly popular. However, as we mentioned, most do not have access to local poster stores. So, where can they go?
Instead of taking a trip to the nearest city, it is now possible to buy posters and art on the internet. The process is fast, easy, and affordable. It is also a heck of a lot more convenient than spending hours traveling to and browsing through poster stores. Let us take a moment to discuss the myriad advantages of shopping for art, prints, and poster on the internet.
Categorized
Whether you're looking for sports posters or art prints, it is easy to find what you need when products are separated into distinct categories. You won't have to flip through every poster or print in the store's catalogue when you shop online. Many online poster stores also separate art posters and prints by styles and genres, which makes it even easier to locate a specific piece.
Search by Artist
People who like art prints often have a few favorite artists; they might adore Picasso or Van Gogh. An online poster store makes finding these posters and prints a breeze with their search option. Simply type in the name of the artist and all of the art prints that are associated with him (or her) will be displayed. Many art lovers choose to group these prints together and decorate an entire space, like a game room or office. The search option makes it much easier.
Select a Frame & Matting and See it Live!
After you have found the prints and/or posters you desire, most online sellers offer a framing option. Buyers can actually view their prints in different frames and even have them matted. These click and view features take the guesswork out of shopping in stores for the perfect frame to match your new poster or print. All framed art arrives well-packaged and ready to hang.
Saturday, 7 April 2012
Create A Custom Firefox Installer with Add-ons, Bookmarks And Preferences
Deploying a customized version of the Firefox web browser can be quite the daunting task. It does not really matter if you are a home user who wants to copy Firefox to another PC, or a system administrator who has to deploy Firefox on hundreds of PCs. Home users can use Firefox backup programs like Febe or Mozbackup for instance to copy their extensions and settings to the new computer.
Firefox Addon Maker offers to create custom Firefox installers that will not only install the selected web browser version, but also add-ons, plugins, bookmarks, passwords and other custom preferences.
The portable Windows application displays all customization options on one screen. It begins with the selection of the Firefox edition that the installer should install on target computer systems. The program supports the current stable version of the browser, the beta version and the previous version. It does not support Aurora or Nightly versions, or older versions. All program interface languages are selectable here as well.
While it is possible to include existing profile data in the installer, it is also possible to create a custom installer without it. You can select one of the detected Firefox profiles directly, or a custom profile path instead which is for instance necessary for portable versions of the browser, or if the correct profile path has not been detected by Firefox Addon Maker.
The private and common options menus define which settings and components are copied from the selected profile to be included in the installer.
The following choices are available:
Private Options: Include bookmarks, passwords, cookies, history, preferences, sessions and extension user dataCommon Options: Including extensions and themes, plugins, components, search engines, dictionaries, modules and hyphenationIt is possible to copy the complete profile, or only select preferences. Home users for instance may want to include all preferences and settings, while business owners might not want to include cookies, passwords or the browsing history.
It is probably a good idea to create and configure a new Firefox profile to be used for the creation of the custom installer, as it is not possible to customize individual settings further. All extensions will for instance be copied over, without options to select only some. A new profile allows you to customize the installation exactly the way you want it to be distributed.
The editable options can be used to set Firefox as the default browser on the target system, to select custom interface icons, and to disable the browser’s Migration Wizard, Compatibility Wizard and Crash Reporter.
The program furthermore offers to include the latest Adobe Flash Player and Shockwave plugins, as well as Macromedia Authorware, Windows Media Player and the Microsoft Office 2007 in the installer. This is useful if the option to include plugins from the selected Firefox profile has been disabled.
The installer can add the Firefox installation to the start menu, pin it to the Quick Launch toolbar and place a shortcut on the desktop.
A click on Create Installer finally creates the custom Firefox installer. The program downloads the selected version of Firefox before it is processed and the installer is created.
The program saves the custom installer on the desktop. The program and the created installer are compatible with all recent 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the Windows operating system.
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Sunday, 11 March 2012
How To Create Your Custom Reddit RSS Feed
Even though I knew about Reddit for as long as I knew about Digg, I never really used it for a longer period of time. This changed recently when I started to use my account more actively. I personally like two things the most, next to a big list of smaller things. Reddit first and foremost is one of the few destinations on the Internet that keeps you up to date on things that you are interested in. It is either the first site to know, or among the first to post a link to the original source where it all began.
The second is the community that powers the site. It is the comments that can give you additional insight and perspectives, that may mention alternatives or other information that improve the original story.
Reddit on the other hand is not the easiest site to use, especially its customization options require some explaining. When I first joined Reddit I tried to find public RSS feed links for categories, but could not find any that were working properly.
I then noticed that each Reddit account had its own private and customizable RSS news feed. These private news feed are accessible on the preferences page.
If you have already customized your frontpage, you can simply right-click on the RSS or JSON buttons and select the copy link option from the context menu to import it into your RSS feed reader of choice.
If you have not done that already, you need to click on the Edit link in the top nav bar first to customize the selection. All Reddit sections that you are subscribed to are listed in the right sidebar of the screen. You can simply click on an unsubscribe link there to remove a section from the feed. You can also add sections again by scrolling down the page and clicking on the subscribe buttons next to each section.
Please note that your private feed gets automatically updated if you are adding new sections to your frontpage.
You can only subscribe to groups here, and not subgroups. For that, you need to click on one of the listed subgroups on the page, and click on the subscribe link on the new page to add it to your frontpage (and thus your private RSS feed). This is useful if you are only interested in a specific subgroup.
Lets paraphrase again:
There does not seem to be an option to only subscribe to the top stories of a particular group. If you subscribe, you get all stories that are posted there.
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Thursday, 1 March 2012
Mark All Visited Links In A Custom Color
Visited links by default display in a different color than links that have not been visited. These different link colors act as visual indicators on websites, that make it clear on first sight whether you have opened a link on a page or not. This is especially useful on sites with dynamic listings, like Hacker News for instance or Reddit where contents change often throughout the day, but also for research to distinguish visited resources from unvisited.
One of the issues that you may experience on today’s Internet are sites which change the visited link color via CSS so that it looks like to the normal link color on the site.
Visited is a Firefox add-on that paints all visited links in a color of your choosing. It overrides the defined link colors on all websites, so that visited links can be distinguished from unvisited ones.
The default link color has been set to gold, which should highlights visited links clearly on most pages, but not all. It is possible to change the color in the advanced Firefox preferences (and unfortunately not in an options menu via the about:addons page).
To change the link color, you need to enter about:config in the Firefox address bar to open the advanced configuration of the browser. Filter for the parameter extensions.visited.color.visited and change the value with a double-click. You can enter a color name or color code beginning with # in the value field. You can for instance change it to #800080 to turn the visited link color to purple.
The feature can be activated or deactivated with the shortcut code Alt-v for text links, or Alt-Shift-v for image links. It is unfortunately not possible to disable the painting of links on selected sites (it is for instance irritating in admin consoles and interfaces).
Firefox users can download and install the add-on at the official Mozilla Add-ons repository.
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Windows 8 Metro UI Won’t Allow Custom Backgrounds
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With the Windows 8 Beta just around the corner, it is becoming easier to see into which direction Microsoft is heading in regards to the final version of the operation system. I have already expressed my concern that Windows 8 could become too tablet centric, and as a result alienate a large part of the desktop PC market.
The core reason for blocking custom Metro UI backgrounds? The dynamic nature of the Metro UI which increases or decreases in size whenever apps are added or removed. Photos added as wallpapers would have to be scaled, stretched or repeated when users add or remove apps. Plus, those desktop backgrounds would hardly be visible anyway according to Windows 8 director of communications Chris Flores.
It feels out of place that Microsoft is locking out users from customizing the operating system the way they want. It is like saying that they do not trust users to make that decision on their own, and that they therefor have to make it for them.
What they may not have taken into consideration are users who work with a set number of apps. Why should not those users be allowed to pick a photo or wallpaper for the Metro UI desktop background?
It is likely that we will see third party themes and hacks shortly after release that remove the restriction from the operating system. But those are mostly installed by experienced users and not the average user. How will they react when they realize the the operating system is less customizable than Windows 7?
I personally think that Microsoft should reconsider this, and let users decide for themselves whether they want to use photos, wallpapers or one of the available styles for their Metro UI interface. Another idea to cope with the situation would be to allow photo streams instead of just one photo.
What’s your take on this?
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Responses so far:ernesto says:
How about Mac computers and all of the Apple products? Everybody was happy with out being able to customize anything until recently. Oh, papi at Apple says its for our own good, and no body complained.
Those people who didn’t complain are the same people who couldn’t handle Windows. They are called tech illiterates and they don’t want to get involved in the products they own and tweak them…they want decisions made for them. The same people who accept that type of mentality are the same people who let tyrants get into power.
I have to work with Windows 8 almost every day, because I’m part of a team developing a product for it. I just hate it. The more I work with it, the more I hate it.
It’s the worst working experience with OS I ever had. Of all MS OSes I had used – DOS, Win 95, 98, 2k, XP, 7 – no one made me so angry and frustrated.
It’s not only about incompleteness of OS and it’s development version bugs, it’s also about “look and feel”.
ernesto,
you know that the Mac OS X was never primary desktop OS, but was some kind of “niche” product before.
Metro is a bit different because of its tile interface. In other OSes you work with desktop icons and apps, you are not supposed to work with tiles or gadgets very often.
Win 8 idea is to push you again and again into the world of MS square tiles, what I found disgusting compared to icons and gadgets of other desktop or tablet OSes.
Mac Mini with Mac OS X is my second work PC. I don’t have big sympathy for it, but if you ask me “what would you prefer, Metro look or Mac OS look?” – the answer will be Mac OS for sure.
My take is that the Metro UI was designed by a colorblind 5-year-old, and it has no place on anything except tablets and smartphones. Making it the default on a desktop or laptop is a decision I would expect from Steve Jobs (and that is *not* a compliment).
The lack of custom backgrounds does not make me despise it any more; nor any less.
Morely,
It looks like MS wants “one size fits all” , one OS for desktops and tablets, with the sale pitch “now you can have the same MS Office experience on desktop, notebook and slate/tablet too”.
Not an insane idea by itself, if not Metro ugliness and foolishness.
Hello,
That’s the most crazy thing i’ve heard from Microsoft.
How to not be able to change your desktop wallpaper!!!!!! The background its an important thing, i change mine frequently because it’s F******G BORING to see every day, week, month the same old picture.
Microsoft WAKE UP, don’t make stupid mistakes like “Vista”!!!
PC and NOTEBOOKs are not TABLET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Junus,
you are wrong.
There are 2 different things in Win 8
1) your old desktop (almost as it was in Win 7)
2) your Metro desktop with apps and tiles
In current Win 8 developer preview you can work with desktop as it was before, except the Start button brings not menu, but ugly Metro desktop with old desktop showing on it as one of the tiles.
You are able to change old desktop wallpaper (and wallpapers can even auto-change themselves from the theme packs), but you are not able to choose background for Metro desktop.
So, in general, so far you can work like before, but you have to make old-style menu yourself with help of one of 3d party launchers.
Instead of links in old start menu, apps add tiles to Metro desktop (altogether – apps, uninstallers …)
or you can just turn the metro interface off and use it nearly exactly like windows 7.
For those who don’t know how to do this:
1. Open regedit by typing regedit at the Start screen.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
3. Modify the RPEnabled key to a “0” instead of the default “1”.
4. To return to the Metro UI, just change the value back to a “1”.
I made a couple of .reg files that I leave on my desktop, one to turn it on, and one to turn it off. I think you can turn it off w/our restarting, but turning it back on requires a reboot (I can’t remember).
I’m currently looking for a good primer on how to customize the metro interface and change the hotkeys and basically control it in a very custom way (I don’t care about the background). anyone have a good pointer?
Windows 7?
Roman ShaRP says:> to choose background for Metro desktop.
Correction: you can choose some color theme for Metro, but not set image as background.
I plan on skipping Windows 8
and this is just another reason to.
The philosophy of for a standardized look
makes sense for tablets and phones but a
hallmark of the desktop has been customization.
Personally, I think the Metro UI should be standard
only for tablet devices and not the default for desktops.
I think Microsoft will learn this the hard way by Windows 9.
Skipping Windows 8 and waiting for Windows 9 ? Windows 9 will be worse as it will be only tiles with no switching to classic GUI.
Im a developer who works with windows everyday and I love it. I cant stand Mac. The good news is KINECT is coming to laptops and makes windows now an even greater money making app project.
^ These are the kind of tech illiterates that like this stupid stuff!
I think MS is creating a “learning curve” problem for themselves, nevermind how good Windows 8 is or not. Even some people who visit tech sites like Ghacks are thinking Windows 8 is only Metro. Like Roman ShaRP alludes to, Metro is something Microsoft want to push you to use but it is removing the old and traditional, not completely at least.
Siily mistake in my previous comment :)
“Metro is something Microsoft want to push you to use but it is NOT removing the old and traditional, not completely at least.”
Looks like Vista version 2 in the making. And than Windows 9 will come out with the same limitations – in a more nicely worded way and everybody goes along happy as sheeps :)
Seen this with Windows 1.1, WindowsMe and Vista. History just keeps repeating.
The more I read about Win-8 the more it looks like MS have taken deliberate aim at both its feet with a large cannon and is wildly lighting the fuse.
Given that beneath the Metro overlay Win-8 looks like being more Win7 SP2 than a major code change, I think I’ll wait for v9 in the hope that the tabletize everything fever has cooled by them.
for all the comments and articles, I’ve not seen anyone put 8 to the test with core apps like office, video editing, 3D applications like Max, Desktop Publishing such as Quark, music apps, Photoshop, etc..
the stuff that companies use everyday. how does 8 do with these applications? does the new UI interfere? can the new “hybrid” desktop work with these ok?
or will we be seeing a lot of ppl hanging onto XP/Vista/7 for years to come to work properly ?
Khai,
W8 now is pretty unstable and risky. I had 2 complete reinstalls already, so now team lead said that better not install anything but only very needed apps, and better do not experiment with settings. In general we need only Visual Studio for the project development.
I can’t work well with that, so I installed a few toos/apps:
- ScreenshotCaptor
- GIMP (it might be weird, but I do prefer it to Photoshop)
- AIMP3
No word about what MS Office suit will be compatible, and we don’t have more time for experiments. So, as for office work I reload to Seven or work on Mac for now.
Before the reinstalls I installed some more software -
- OpenOffice (once more may be I’m weird, but do prefer it even having corporate licensed MS Office at my disposal)
- Pale Moon (custom Firefox build)
- Miranda IM and so on.
Most worked.
But I don’t know what of them rendered Metro incapable and pushed me to reinstall. May be it was my messing with the pesky UAC.
And the first reinstall was after attempt to make work USB wireless device TP-Link TL-822N with Seven drivers. This attempt made Win 8 crash even before dual boot choosing screen, but full reinstall of Win 8 solved the problem and I didn’t lost my Win 7 installation.
hi,
can one launch apps., from the tile’ start menu’? if so, why all this fuss? resource-wise, how is it compared to win 7?
if it is no better than 7, vista will get a graveyard companion.
” It is like saying that they do not trust users to make that decision on their own”
You are right. Microsoft doesn’t trust, or, think that Windows users are idiots. I personally have a problem with Microsoft taking away my freedom of use, by blocking any browser access to Windows/Microsoft update sites in Windows 7.
lookmann,
yes, user can launch apps from tiles. But.
Imagine that all your links from the Start menu, really ALL of them (applications, uninstallers, help files, all-all-all) are put into tiles. NO FOLDERS. 24 tiles per screen.
How long will your desktop be, and how convenient will be for you to find some app in this length?
As for me, new MS concept is just unusable for desktop.
Thought I see Microsofts point behind this, I also know for users like me who actually only have a set number of tiles which fit the one screen without scrolling that a background isn’t a bad idea. As far as third party, yes, I can’t speak for everyone but when Consumer Preview is released, I’ll have something ready for everyone to customize it. :)
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