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For decades, IBM was a pioneer in the portable computer market, introducing the venerable ThinkPad laptop brand--sold to Lenovo in 2005. And when Big Blue was still designing laptops, its engineers and designers came up with some pretty strange ideas. The U.S. patent drawings in this gallery showcase four of those ideas: A telescoping display designed for frequent fliers A self-contained, pop-up magnifier to make the display larger A scissor-hinge lid for the ultimate in display flexibility A collapsible glare shield that looked like a giant, square ice cream cone. While none of these ideas made it to market in their original form, they illustrate the creativity of IBM employees. They also provide a glimpse of current technologies that were being toyed with years ago--such flippable displays (found in many convertible, tablet laptops).
Wild IBM laptop patents: Telescoping screen, pop-up magnifier, and more
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How to make 256×256 Windows 7 Icons | Jared Heinrichs
Date Posted: Aug 25, 2009 Author: Jared Heinrichs Posted in Programs and tagged How To .Nmap and Zenmap (the graphical front end) are available in several versions and formats. Recent source releases and binary packages are described below. Older version (and sometimes newer test releases) are available from the dist directory (and really old ones are in dist-old ).
Download the Free Nmap Security Scanner for Linux/MAC/UNIX or Windows
Disable printer notification in the Windows System Tray | Microsoft Office | TechRepublic.com
December 16, 2010, 12:00 AM PST Takeaway: The printer notification balloon displays information you already know. If it annoys you, disable it.
10 tweaks to make Windows 7 even better | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com
Windows 7 appears to be a crowd pleaser among the IT pros who have been kicking its beta tires — including Deb Shinder. But even though she’s very impressed with the new OS, she’s already discovered several ways to improve it. Windows 7 hasn’t even been released yet, but many people (yes, I’m one of them) are already running it on their production computers despite Microsoft’s advice not to do that with beta software. Regardless of Windows 7’s incomplete status, many techies will tell you that it’s more stable and reliable than Vista. According to a recent ZDNet poll of IT pros , they are four times more likely to be happy with the new OS than early users of Vista. Still, as good as Windows 7 is, it’s not perfect out of the box.How to make 256×256 Windows 7 Icons | Jared Heinrichs
Date Posted: Aug 25, 2009 Author: Jared Heinrichs Posted in Programs and tagged How To .
Download Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 2.1 Free - A professional, yet easy-to-use tool for creating icons, cursors, and other small pixelgraphic images.
Despite its name, Greenfish Icon Editor Pro is not a tool that you can use just for editing icons, as it can also create animated or static cursors, small pixel graphic images and manage icon libraries. This full-featured application can be used for extracting icons and cursors from executable files or converting image formats. The interface is compact and well-organized, providing you with easy access to all the features, thus the application doesn't pose any problems, even to beginner users. Each time you run it, you are welcomed by the startup screen, where you have to choose the type of item you want to create. Layer support, together with the collection of editing tools make it a great tool for handling pixel-graphic images. It comes with advanced selection handling (lasso and magic wand tools, marquee, saving/loading selections from files) and a collection of filters (invert, solarize, blur, sharpen, remove matte, bevel, glow etc.) that allows you to enhance your pictures.
HomeGroup is a great new feature in Windows 7. Unless you have multiple Windows 7 computers on your network however, HomeGroup is pretty useless. Disabling it will remove the HomeGroup link in the left hand pane of any Explorer window and stop the HomeGroup services. If you’re not part of a HomeGroup already, skip to Step 2.
Disable HomeGroup In Windows 7 [How To] | Windows 7 Customization
Add Custom Libraries To Windows 7 Explorer [How To] | Windows 7 Customization
Windows 7 comes with plenty of new features. Notably, Libraries. In Windows 7, the Libraries are not individual folders by themselves. Each library folder is an aggregate of various different folders and each library view is tailored to specific content.
How to change file icons in Windows
Looking for a way to change the default file icons in Windows ? Windows XP has some decent icons for your shortcuts like My Computer, My Documents, Recycle Bin, etc, but they are nothing very special. And after 7 years on the market, looking at those same icons over and over gets boring! You can change the icons in Windows in two ways: manually by going to Properties or by using some icon tweaking programs.Edit Edited by Howdy Duty, Horses4Ever, Dave Crosby, Vivek Kumar Rohra and 44 others Many people think the icons on their computer desktops are static and permanent.
How to Change or Create Desktop Icons for Windows
C ontext menus come in handy for performing the task quickly and efficiently. The context menu options save time and effort in navigating for appropriate options. You can easily customize Windows context menus to include the most frequently used features and functionality. Here is the registry hack for adding “Copy to” and “Move to” options to your context menu.