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How To Create A Windows 7 Theme
December 7, 2009
You may have seen our article last month on how to add lots of Windows 7 country themes to your collection of already pre-loaded themes on Microsoft’s latest OS… But what if you want to be able to have your own collection of pictures and wallpapers displaying on your desktop? Well, you can create your own theme for Windows 7 in just a few simple steps, or just create a desktop slideshow for simplicity.
In previous versions of Windows, if you wanted a picture to be displayed as your desktop wallpaper, you could right click that picture and select ‘Set as Desktop Background’, but if you wanted to cycle through wallpapers, you had to use a third party program such as this Windows Vista wallpaper changer. Don’t worry, the basic option is still there in Windows 7, but you also have another option…
Continue reading »How To Add Lots Of Windows 7 Country Themes To Your Collection
November 11, 2009
Ok, so Windows 7 is all the rage right now. In case you hadn’t heard, since its release a few weeks ago, the market share of Windows 7 has already surpassed that of Snow Leopard and Linux put together! One of my favourite features in Microsoft’s new OS is the ability to use a theme with various desktop backgrounds. If you haven’t seen this already, you can find it in the ‘Control Panel’ under ‘Appearance and Personalization’.
Since the testing versions of Windows, guides have been popping up all over the net on how to add other country themes to your own (country-inspired theme styles along with various wallpapers of the country concerned), which is included by default, which is all well and good, but it’s a bit of a hassle digging out the themes from the Windows folder on your hard drive, and when you do your choices are limited to 5 countries.
Continue reading »Digg Wordpress Theme – Digs’em
January 30, 2008
I’ve been looking for a new Digg Wordpress theme to form the basis of a new look to the site for some time now and have been looking at various options, none of which I’ve found to tick all my boxes and been totally happy with.
However, my friend Garry Conn contacted me the other day saying he had released his first Wordpress theme called Digs’em. This theme is built from the ground up by himself and utilising his best-practice knowledge in relation to all things blogging and has a distinctly similar look and feel to the very popular social networking Digg.com site.
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