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techjungle — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:51:25 +0000

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Google’s online Museum

techjungle — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:09:00 +0000

Have you seen special Google logo on holidays, festivals, New year and events? Dennis Hwang, a graphic designer is the person behind all this. Working as Google’s international webmaster with Google, made first logo for Google in the year 2000 and has designing the specialty logos since then. These special Google logos look very beautiful. You can see all these logos here (not posting any logo here as Google logo page denies to use these anywhere else). Some Google’s fan has also created logos of Google, see here.

Increase your battery life with Vista battery saver

techjungle — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:15:00 +0000

Some times you’re working on some important work on your laptop (running Windows Vista) and suddenly power goes off and you want your laptop battery run longer but this looks to be impossible.

Windows vista with Aero and Windows sidebar enabled consume bulk of the battery power (see comparison here), so you have to turn off these features manually in order to increase laptop’s battery life. But with Vista battery Saver utility created by Tamir khason lets you to automate this process and save up to 70% of laptop battery and makes your work easier with increased running life of laptop battery. This utility is still in beta stage but its a worth to give it a try atleast , every software has some bugs.

Download Vista battery Saver Public Beta 2 r1

Use Microsoft fingerprint Reader to login to Windows Vista

techjungle — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:04:00 +0000

Every time you starts Windows, you have to manually type login ID and Password to complete the boot up process and start working on the system. But if you too lazy to manually type the login ID and password, Microsoft fingerprints Reader lets you to login to Windows with your fingerprints.

You can log on to your computer and your favorite websites with the touch of your finger, without having to remember all those passwords – simply place your finger on the receiver whenever a password or username is required. Easy-to-use software makes replacing passwords with your fingerprint a breeze. The Registration Wizard helps you register fingerprints for each user. When you first visit a site that requires a password, just touch the Fingerprint Reader with your registered finger, enter your data, and then click OK. When you browse back to that website, you can simply log on with your fingerprint. You can also use the Fingerprint Reader to quickly switch between Windows user accounts without closing programs and files. See the Demo.

Download Windows Vista drivers for Microsoft fingerprint Reader\ Purchase Microsoft fingerprint Reader online

Source : Windows Vista Blog

Eyes Wide open

techjungle — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:54:00 +0000

Click on picture to enlarge

Above image has a stationary point in the middle and circle of green dots on which a blue light is running through one by one. Just Sit back and try to concentrate on the stationary plus sign in the middle. If you have good eyes then in few seconds the green dots will disappear only the blue moving dots will remain. If you have poor concentration the green dots will not disappear. So check your eyes power now (click the picture to enlarge, to get the moving image)

Resize the Taskbar thumbnail preview in Windows vista

techjungle — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:40:00 +0000

Microsoft has added many new features in Windows vista and one of is “Taskbar Windows thumbnail Preview“. Windows Vista’s taskbar thumbnail preview feature allows you to see the small preview of opened windows in the taskbar, just hover the mouse on the taskbar opened items and a small thumbnail preview will be displayed on the taskbar. But Windows vista doesn’t allow users to customize or resize the size of taskbar thumbnail preview. Some users may prefer bigger preview of windows or some other effects as well.

Andreas Verhoeven has created a free utility, very easy to use, called Thumbnail Sizer to customize the Taskbar windows thumbnail preview. Download Thumbnail Sizer, extract and run the exe file.This will open the small window containing the two slider to customize the thumbnail preview size, mover right/left to change the size of preview but do not move the both slider to extreme right as it will cause thumbnail preview of some windows not to appear on the screen when hover the mouse on the taskbar it just blink and go away, this happens once you move the sliders to extreme right then the size of thumbnail preview becomes 1024 X 1024 which windows can show properly therefore it thus blink and go away, you can also add the fade in animation effect. Check the option box “automatically start application every time windows starts” if you want Thumbnail sizer to every time Windows starts. Once done, close the Thumbnail Sizer.

Gmail: A Behind the Scenes Video is out

techjungle — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:13:00 +0000

Official Gmail Blog: Watch the final Gmail collaborative video
Some time back Gmail ask its users to submit their own videos on Gmail. Gmail got huge response from the Gmail fans from more than 65 countries submitted more than 1100 videos on Gmail. You can see all videos here. Some of them Rubik’s cubes, in a bottle, babies, dog’s trip , jugglers, firemen, camel-riders, animation are good enough to be on Gmail blog post with the final Gmail collaborative video.

It was a very difficult task for Gmail team to choose a single video from so many amazing videos. But the ultimate video is out.Enjoy………

Fix Java based Applications that disable Windows Vista Aero Glass interface

techjungle — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:05:00 +0000

In Windows Vista Aero Glass interface gives the Glass transparent look to windows and taskbar, which looks very beautiful. But whenever a java based application is launched a pop message on the task bar appears “The color scheme has been changed to windows vista basic” and while running that java based application you can’t have the Windows Vista Aero Glass interface. This very annoying that you have purchased a expensive Graphics Card only for running Windows Vista Aero Glass interface on the System but the incompatibility of Java application deprived you from the Windows Vista Aero Glass interface.

After realising this issue a new version with update 2 has been released which is available on Java site. Click here for offline installer (size: 7 MB) or direct download from site

Orkut now in customized languages i.e. Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, Bengali

techjungle — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 08:28:00 +0000

After a long period research, Orkut has introduced the portal in 5 new Indian languages so as to make this awesome website accessible to more of the techsavy Indians. Now Orkut is avaliable in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu.

Already, Indians share a large part of Orkut and this step of Google will enable more of them to join and shake hands with the world through Orkut.

With the introduction of these languages which covers 80% of the India, Googlers hope that more Indians will be able to come close and communicate in their native languages. Google say that this only for a start, going forward they will be introducing more of the Indian languages in Orkut.

Viewing the orkut site in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil or Telugu (or any one of our other 12 languages) is easy.

Click the settings button under your profile photo (or click the blue settings link at the top of any page). On the general tab, choose your preferred display language from the drop-down menu at the top of the page. Click save changes.

If you are having trouble reading languages on the “Settings” page, it is likely that your browser scripts have not been updated. For Internet Explorer, proceed to “Tools” and then “Windows Update”. Here you should accept the Windows XP Service Pack 2 update. All languages are included in this update.

Enjoy!!!…

Psychedelia: Windows Vista screensaver inspired visualizations for Windows Media Player

techjungle — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:04:00 +0000

Microsoft’s Windows Vista has some very cool screensavers like Windows energy, ribbons, bubbles etc. Stephen coy the designer of the Widnows Vista screensavers and Time cowley, a Software engineer has created a visualization pack, inspired from Windows Vista screensavers, for Windows Media Player called Psychedelia.

Psychedelia and synesthesia realized through cutting-edge computer graphics technology. These visualizations translate sound into colors, shapes and motion.The pack contains seven great visualizations: Album Art 3D, Bubbles, Distortion, Gigertron 3D, Hypnobloom, Ribbons and UpCube. Download Psychedelia Size: 5 MB (Windows Media Player Visualization plugin). Its worth trying……