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Camouflage Your Cluttered Desktop

Using the Desktop as the default saving location of your files, projects or downloads proves to be, in most cases, very time efficient. This way, you don’t have to think twice about where are your recent files are and you can continue your work after a short break almost instantly. Things get complicated when y...

16 November 2009
12:31 GMT

Blitz Picture Transformation

Digital images are now part of all our lives and we encounter them almost everywhere. Today, we have right at our fingertips both the technology and the ability to produce and edit pictures with insignificant effort. There are hundreds of applications that can help you change anything about a graphic file and all you...

29 October 2009
14:01 GMT

Pamela Anderson in Recycled Couture for Hollywood Style Awards

Not long ago, Pamela Anderson was saying that she was past being just the “Baywatch” bombshell and that she had moved on to becoming art. Renowned fashion designer Vivienne Westwood thinks the same of the star, as she’s been the muse and face of her collections for quite some time now. Anderson&rsqu...

13 October 2009
15:31 GMT

Pin-up Dita Von Teese Explains Her Unique Style

Burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese is not known only for being the former wife of shock rocker Marilyn Manson, although many are quick to say that this is her main claim to fame. In the fashion world, Dita is hailed as one of the most innovative and stylish presences of the moment, always creating her own fantasy world ...

8 October 2009
02:56 GMT

Suri Cruise Has $3-Million Wardrobe

It’s not uncommon for stars to pay exorbitant amounts of money on things that they only get to enjoy or use just once. Obviously, clothes are also included on that list of items. Three-year-old Suri Cruise, daughter of famous Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise and actress Katie Holmes, for one, is living celebrity ...

2 October 2009
14:11 GMT

Robert Pattinson Gives Women Unrealistic Expectations of Men

Robert Pattinson, the British actor who plays Edward Cullen in “Twilight,” is more than just an idol boys look up to and girls daydream about. Pattinson is also a new standard as regards what ladies look for in the love of their life because he is so extremely influential. The problem is, an OK! Magazine ...

13 August 2009
09:02 GMT

Roisin Murphy Accuses Lady Gaga of Stealing Her Style

Lady Gaga not only got to hold the headlines so far for her music but also thanks to her outrageous outfits and the almost unbelievably unique combinations of items, futuristic headwear and thigh-high boots. Because of this, she was always held as a pioneer of a new trend, a deadly combination of old elements with un...

10 August 2009
16:41 GMT

Sonic Will Be Fixed Over Time, Sega Says

Back in the day, there were very few iconic video game characters – from Mario to Link, things were pretty standard – but Sega's Sonic was a hot up-and-comer that quickly gathered around him a lot of quality titles, particularly side-scrollers that emphasized his speed. However, as technology advanc...

5 August 2009
13:11 GMT

Megan Fox Wows in High Slide-Slit Dress in Berlin, Germany

Megan Fox is gorgeous – these days, making this statement has become redundant since the very mention of her name implies it, they say. While she insists she wants to be more than just a pretty face and the hottie all magazines want on their cover, it’s for her great looks that Megan Fox continues to stea...

15 June 2009
16:21 GMT

Quick Tip: Finding an App's Original Icon Set in Mac OS X

Say you're doing a project for school, a presentation, or you simply need to get a hold of an application's original (512 x 512) icon. Searching Google Images may do the trick, but you'll often find yourself with pictures that are too small, blurry, modified or just not the one you're looking for....

2 June 2009
09:22 GMT

Lady Gaga in Rolling Stone: The Rise of a New Music Icon

Lady Gaga is generally considered pretty la la because of her weird fashion choices and that certain something she has about her that makes each of her appearances so unique. Still, it’s precisely this that has gotten her so far and, in the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine, the singer insists once more th...

27 May 2009
10:42 GMT

Fashion Gets Lady Gaga in Trouble with the Russian Police

They say Lady Gaga is the hottest thing in pop music and fashion – at least as far as singers can be trendsetters, a label that the “Poker Face” songstress is clearly mighty proud of. However, being such a huge fashionista does come with downsides as well, since not everybody might be open to Gaga&r...

20 May 2009
16:11 GMT

Jordan, Jade Goody and Jodie Marsh, the Cheap Trinity of Modern Culture

Celebrity culture has often been targeted and highly criticized for the type of values it gives birth to and then promotes quite shamelessly, many say. Since former glamour model Katie Price announced husband Peter Andre was divorcing her and speculation has started to build she might be trying to pull a fast one on ...

15 May 2009
14:31 GMT

Unlikely Fashion Icon: The Reign of 3-Year-Old Suri Cruise

She’s just about to turn 3 years old, but TomKitten, aka Suri Cruise, the daughter of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, is arguably one of the most mediated celebrity kids. What Suri has and other children her age don’t, though, is also the title of “style icon” that the media just bestowed on her....

6 April 2009
14:51 GMT

Explore, Select and Extract

Desktop customization can be a nice pastime and is even felt as a necessity when the old items displayed onto your computer's screen become boring. If new wallpapers and screensavers are easy to find and replace, the default icons for your files and folders are a bit more tricky to locate (online or offline), se...

3 March 2009
12:41 GMT

Stainless Gets a Cool New Icon

While Mesa Dynamics still has version 4.0 of its lightweight web browser on offer, Stainless now has a more attractive-looking icon. Meanwhile, the development team's promise to bring as much of Chrome to the Mac as possible appears to be on still. The free web browser that supports some of the features found in...

1 December 2008
09:53 GMT

Dock Icon Pillows Should Make a Great Christmas Present

The guys at Throwboy have designed a set of small pillows that complement the Mac OS X Dock. Pillows are based on application icons such as the Finder, iTunes, iChat, iPhoto, the Dashboard, and more. “We know your computer is more than a tool,” Throwboy says on its website. “It's a constant co...

28 November 2008
03:36 GMT

Freeware Pick - Dock Detox

Ever found that applications bouncing on your dock become annoying at a point? There are times when you need this kind of notification from Mac OS X, but more often are the times when you don't need the distraction.An application like Dock Detox can eliminate this hassle for good. Dock Detox is a “haxie&rd...

16 October 2008
15:02 GMT

Def Jam: Icon - Achievements (Xbox 360)

The game features more than 35 artists and it's less wrestling-oriented than the previous releases. Producer Kudo Tsunoda said that wrestling and hip-hop don't go particularly well together. However, early previews of the game have revealed that throws and environmental damage will remain in the game.Yes, i...

1 July 2008
09:25 GMT

New Icons for Your Old Desktop

Occasionally, we all feel the need to change something about our surroundings or about ourselves - no matter if it's the hairdo, the place of our furniture or simply our daily habits. If you don't want to try anything big (the new hairstyle might be 'uninspired' or you could end up breaking your f...

27 June 2008
07:41 GMT

Mac-Switchers Confused by Installation Prompts

Ever thought installing a simple program (such as Mozilla Firefox) on the Mac can be more confusing than it is on Windows? Neither did I, but that's because we don't see it the way a Windows user does, especially if it's the first time they're installing a piece of software on the Apple machine.Th...

26 June 2008
09:36 GMT

Windows Vista Icons - The Prototypes

Windows Vista ships with an entire collection of imagery that is not limited to the Vistas and the additional wallpapers, but also covers every nook and cranny of the operating system. And the icons in Vista come to illustrate my point. Microsoft has an icon factory at its disposal, literally. And when I mean literal...

2 May 2007
09:31 GMT

Levelstar's PDA and Docking Station Helps the Blind Surf the Web

Ten years ago, blind people had limited means of accessing computers. But things are changing. New hi-tech products are now helping blind people to read e-mails or search for information on the Internet. You probably heard of the screen reader, an application that attempts to describe to the blind user in speech what...

20 April 2007
04:38 GMT

Oxygen Icons Survey

Started in March 2005, at the Appeal Project meeting, in Berlin, the Oxygen icon theme is now created for the KDE 4 desktop in the SVG format. The use of the scalable vector graphics (SVG) allows the icons to better reflect 3D complex effects, highlights and shadows. Inspired by the OS X Aqua style, Oxygen is orient...

19 April 2007
06:03 GMT


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