Today I will share with you a nice exclusive tip. I have discovered a hidden secret feature of Windows 8.1 which allows you to open the Start Screen personalization options with one click. As you may have seen from first hand experience, opening the Start Screen personalization requires several steps. You must switch to the Start Screen, then open the Charms and click "Personalize". This involves too many clicks and if you frequently need to change personalization settings, it can get tedious. From now on, you will be able to create a special shortcut anywhere you want, e.g. right on your Desktop! Let's explore this useful feature.
Nature HD#18 theme for Windows 8
How to automatically set the window border color as the Start Screen background color
There are two completely different environments in Windows 8.x, each disjoint from the other: the Start Screen and Modern apps is one, and the Classic Desktop is the other. They look completely different, but there an optimization you can do to make them feel more coherent. While Windows 8.1 introduces an option to use the Desktop background for the Start Screen, Windows 8 RTM has nothing to offer you to make the Start Screen look closer to your Desktop. Today we will learn how to make Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 use your window border color as the background color of the Start Screen.
Get the best looking Start Menu for Classic Shell 4+ with Winaero Skin 2.0
It is time once again to share our exclusive freeware skin, now updated for Classic Shell 4. With the recent release of Classic Shell 4, it has added many improvements. The most notable for me is the new style of the Start Menu, called the "Windows 7 style". It looks like the original menu, only issue is that the Start Menu color does not match the Taskbar color out-of-the-box. So, we have updated our skin to make it exactly match the Taskbar color and provide a polished look for Classic Shell on Windows 8. Winaero Skin 2.0 is compatible with Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.
Download Winaero skin 2.0 for Classic Shell
Winaero skin 2.0 for Classic Shell.
Here is an awesome looking skin for Classic Shell on Windows 8.1 and Windows 8 that makes its popular Start Menu match the taskbar better.
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Daily Bing #21 theme for Windows 8
WordPress bloggers: Fix markup validation issues with the Always Valid Lightbox mod plugin
Here at Winaero, and for some of my other projects, I prefer to use a fancy effect for images inserted in blog posts. The lightbox effect, as it is well known, is provided by a number of plugins for WordPress. Once, I changed the theme of my WordPress blog and tried to validate it with the w3c validator, but the HTML markup provided by my previous lightbox plugin was incorrect and not valid. I decided to fix the issue and it was then that I discovered the "Always Valid Lightbox" plugin, which produces valid markup. I was almost completely satisfied until I noticed some problems with it.
Download Always valid lightbox mod plugin for WordPress
Always valid lightbox mod plugin for WordPress.
Always valid lightbox mod plugin for WordPress. I've changed the resizing code and made the plugin refer to the "alt" attribute if the caption isn't set.
How to get an older version of the Opera browser
Opera, which was my favorite browser since 2003, has recently switched to the new rendering engine, Blink. Blink is a fork of Apple's popular WebKit engine; there are a number of browsers which use it as well. Opera claimed that they will work with Google to improve and extend Blink, and even since they went in that direction, Opera looks and acts more and more like Google Chrome. Personally for me, the user experience does not have anything in common with the classic Opera browser any more.
If you miss the classic Opera browser, there's good news for you: you can easily get almost any previous version of the classic Opera installer for free.
Nature HD#17 theme for Windows 8
