September 2011
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How to Replace Icons in Windows 7
Changing icons in Windows without using third party solutions can get quickly confusing. Fasten your seat belt.
What you need
New icon in .ico format
Target file
Optional: third party application
Changing System Icons
To change icons for Computer, Network and Recycle Bin, follow these steps:
Right click on the Desktop then select Personalize
In the Personalization Window click Change...
June 2011
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If you have a “forgot password” feature that sends password reset links via...
– Jeffrey Paul makes a good point. Security shouldn’t be a concern if you are already sending tokens for password resets. Also, if my email is hacked into, I would have much more to worry about than Facebook and Twitter passwords.
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May 2011
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Exploitationware →
Just like social media marketing, gamification never sat right with me, and this piece explains why, far better than I could have ever done.
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Mario meets Portal
April 2011
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March 2011
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The iPad: Less is More →
The iPad only does less than a regular computer to us geeks. To everyone else, it does more.
This guy, albeit young, is saying what most tech journalists fail to realize. Good luck with your task killers, ‘open’ proponents.
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But lets get it out there: this isn’t just about the user experience. This is...
– Fred Oliveira
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February 2011
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Tasking a programmer to design a website’s layout is usually as wise as...
– Scott Mitchell
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New 2011 Manga Series
Hiromu Arakawa, the author of the popular Fullmetal Alchemist manga, has announced that he will be launching a new series as early as April. Meanwhile, the author of Major, a baseball manga with a large fan base in Japan, has followed up by announcing his new boxing manga series.
While I am excited about the former, the latter makes me wonder wether we need another boxing manga beside the...
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When you build a product you would like to use, you are sure to have at least...
– Insightful Tweep
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United Kingdom? England? Great Britain? Get all your questions about UK answered in 5 minutes.
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On Market Share →
Diogenex:
Android has overtaken Symbian smartphone operating system market share. Apple’s lead in tablets is plummeting (or not). These days news about mobile market share is rampant, and seemingly everyone wants to add their voice to the chorus of pundits discussing the numbers.
But let’s set aside questions of how market share is calculated to ask a simple question: why does market share...
January 2011
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Apple’s successful conquest of Sony’s home turf could be seen as the...
– How Steve Jobs ‘out-Japanned’ Japan
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The February issue of Kadokawa Shoten’s Newtype magazine is announcing on...
– ANN
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In this sense, The Social Network is not a cruel portrait of any particular...
– Zadie Smith
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iPhone = Mac 2.0 →
A good piece I came cross via Daring Fireball. I join Jean-Louis Gassée in his point of view and would add that a shrinking iOS share would definitely lead to a more refined experience with all the crapware moving to the dominant platform.
December 2010
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LittleIpsum: Mac App Store Denial →
LittleIpsum v1.1.1 has been officially denied at the Mac App store due to not meeting the following guideline:
2.8 Apps that are not very useful or do not provide any lasting entertainment value may be rejected
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November 2010
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Adobe Flash For Samsung's Google Tab Is An... →
Somebody has warned you before…
October 2010
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Thoughts on the Mac Appstore...
Steve Jobs has just announced the Mac App Store. This will be a hot topic in the upcoming months and will undoubtedly fuel intense debates around Apple’s virtual ecosystem. I think the idea of an App Store on Mac is welcome, as long as Apple doesn’t prevent developers from distributing their apps outside of it. Of course, it won’t be necessarily beneficial to all developers, as...
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Stuttter™
We are getting increasingly used to all the unusual and bizarre naming conventions we see around the web. One of the most notable patterns is repeating one consonant (or vowel in some cases) several times (dribbble, fffound come to mind). While this technique results in unique brands with available domain names, it is often hard to guess the right pronunciation at first and even harder to spell it...
September 2010
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New BERSERK anime in the works
Deep breath… ok let’s go: New Berserk anime has been an….ann… Ok, I start over. Deep breath… A new Berserk anime project has been announced in the yet-unreleased 35th manga volume. The wraparound doesn’t mention wether it’s a spin-off or a manga adaptation. Either way, it’s going to be the most epic anime project of this decade. Five TV...
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Playing: Pokemon White
I got my hands on the latest iteration of Pokeman Pokemon for the nintendo DS, and I have to say that… well, it’s just another Pokemon game. I have to admit that I dig the legendaries of White / Black (here), but not quite the starters. Between a fire pig, a stupid-looking otter and a god-knows-what plant type, there is nothing to get excited about.
I haven’t played a Pokemon...
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Introducing ū—
Experience “ū—”: The Last Distraction-Free Writing Environment You’ll Buy. Today.
PORTLAND, OR - The Ourobouros Fun Factory, LLC is proud to announce a revolutionary new tool for serious artists doing serious work. It’s a distraction-free writing environment that we call “ū—” (pron. “YOOOoooouuuuu…”). And, it’s going to change the way you think about thinking about maybe writing some day...
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Changing 3rd Party Icons on iPhone 4 Without... →
Install iPhone Explorer from here: http://www.macroplant.com/iphoneexplorer/
Plug your phone into your computer and launch the app.
I am going to use Dunk app for an example here…
Navigate to “(name of your phone)/Apps/Dunk/Dunk.app”
Rename the file in there “icon@2x.png” to “icon@2x_Original.png”
Name the icon you want to replace the original with “icon@2x.png” (yes it is case sensitive)
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