Halloween is a great holiday for all to enjoy and what’s a better way to celebrate than to trick out your Android phone in full orange attire. For this article I have found a number of apps, themes, and games that transform your phone into a Halloween-themed device.
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Celebrate Halloween With Android Apps, Themes And Games
By | October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Platform: A Drag-And-Drop Customizable WordPress Theme
By | January 28, 2011 |
According to the latest statistical data from Royal Pingdom, there are approximately 152 million blogs exist today. To put that number into context, there are more blogs out there than the whole Japanese citizen in the world. If you want to stand out among this kind of crowds, you need to work really hard – and customization is the key.
One of the most common way to customize your blog is to use themes. If you are a WordPress user, you should be familiar in the concept of themes. But even though there are literary thousands of free themes out there, using them will not really help you to stand out – as everybody is doing the same thing. A quick calculation will tell us that in average one theme is used by more than tens of thousands blogs.
That’s why customizable themes is the solution. During my quest to find a good customized WordPress theme, I found Platform, a theme that can be easily customized by dragging and dropping the elements.
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Make Tech Easier Got A New Facelift
By | January 2, 2011 |
It is a brand new year and we have given Make Tech Easier a complete makeover. Our site now has a completely different look and we have also added several useful features.
1. Speed
The main emphasis of this new design was to improve the page load time. Using the Genesis framework (affiliate link), cache plugin and various time-saving techniques, we are able to shave/optimize a big chunk of redundant javascript, CSS and code and utilize the server resources more efficiently. The result is what you see now, a faster loading and more responsive site.
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Easily Change Splash Theme Without Going To The Command Line [Ubuntu]
By | November 3, 2010 |
The plymouth theme was introduced in Ubuntu Lucid to provide a better theming solution for the splash theme. With plymouth, one can use a high resolution image as the background and also get it to show animation. The only thing that will put off many newbies is that the theme can only be changed using command line. That is until Zorin Splash Screen Manager comes along.
Zorin Splash Screen Manager is a simple GUI that allows anyone to change the splash theme easily. It is only released few days back, so it is still short of features. However, for the one thing that it did (changing of themes), it sure did its job well.
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Beautify Your Gnome Desktop With Elegant Gnome Pack [Linux]
By | October 7, 2010 |
Linux users who are using the Gnome desktop and love the dark theme, you got to try the Elegant Gnome Pack – said to be the most complete dark theme for Gnome desktop. Don’t take my word for it. Check out the screenshots below and decide for yourselves.
Desktop with Cairo Dock (Click to enlarge)
Embedding Google Font to Your WP Blog
By | July 23, 2010 |
How many of you actually tested your website design on different browsers and computers before you launch the site? I bet few of you do. Do you know that what looks good on one OS (for example, Mac) can really look bad on another, such as Windows? The main reason is because the fonts used in the Mac system is not available in the Windows OS. Substitute font is used by the computer (without the font) and this can really screw up your web design. A good way to overcome this is to use a web font that is supported by most browsers, so that your site will look essentially the same regardless which browser or computer you are using.
During the I/O developer conference in June 2010, Google introduced the Google Font – a series of open source font, that you can embed and use on your site. All the fonts are hosted on the Google server, so any browsers can utilise it without much effort. At the moment, there are 18 different fonts (as of this post) that you can choose from and I am sure more will be added to the library in the future.
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How to Install QtCurve in KDE
By | March 29, 2010 |
In a previous MTE article, you learned how to create a unified desktop using the KDE 4 Oxygen themes for KDE, GTK, and Firefox. Oxygen is clean, simple, and visually pleasing, but some people want a little more flexibility. QtCurve is a theming system that gives you the configuring power to have varieties of themes, from downright plain to shiny eye candy.
Best of all, QtCurve has native support for KDE 4, KDE 3, GTK, Qt4, and Qt3. For those who are frighteningly obsessive about having uniform boxes, buttons, and sliders, QtCurve is perfect.
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15 Fantastic Looking Dark GDM Themes
By | January 12, 2010 |
One of the coolest things about being a Linux user can be showing off your slick custom interface to your friends. With the maturing of Grub 2 and kernel mode setting, we’ll soon all have a beautiful boot from start to finish. The step we’re covering today is customizing GDM, the login manager you likely use if you’re running Ubuntu or any other system with Gnome as your desktop. Well those of you who don’t like the Ubuntu brown can brighten up because there’s no shortage of slick GDM themes available for download. Today, we’ll cover where to get them and how to use them.
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