What adds to its appeal is, the Rainmeter skins are Open Source and can be created by anyone if you learn how Rainmeter works. Skins are similar to the Gadgets that you see on Sidebar.

You can download and customize the skins. A Popular site to download Rainmeter skins is Customize. Download it and place it in C://Program Files >Rainmeter > Skins.  Execute Rainmeter and on the status bar, click on the icon. A Pop up menu will appear where the skins will show up. Check out which widgets you want and click on it.

Here is a screenshot of my desktop customized using Rainmeter.

You can download Rainmeter. As easy as that!! so go ahead and Customize your desktop. Upload your desktop on any image hosting service and paste the links in the comments section. We would be happy to take a look at it.

Rainmeter Themes Download

1. Omnimo – Windows 8 Metro Screen and Live Tiles Theme For Windows 7
2. Iron Man Theme

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We usually search for any item in Firefox by two ways :
1) Search by typing the word in the Search Box.
2) Search by typing the word in the URL

Although the search box lets you allow searching , I find using the URL method more useful. But with advent of search engines like WoframAlpha , Bing , people do not want to remain with Google Search and want to explore some new engines. All said and done , how do they change their default search engine from Google to Bing or any other search engine. We at Blogsolute will teach you how to do this change by a simple trick .

Hands-On

Well , the trick is to simply change a key value in Mozilla Firefox’s key collection. Type about:config and Click on “Yes , I’ll be careful , I promise “ button. You will now see a lot of preference names and key values.

In the Filter , type in keyword.url , the key which we will be working on. Now click on keyword.url key and double click it to modify it. You will see the default value in it as “http://www.google.com/search?q=t with advent of search engines like WoframAlpha , Bing , People gradually are switching to ” without the quotes. Now below we give you a compiled list of the search value for the keys for certain search engines.

1) Bing – http://www.bing.com/search?q=

2) WoframAlpha – http://www35.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=

3) Yahoo – http://in.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=yfp-t-in&type=ds&p=

4) Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Once you have done this , Press Ok and Restart Firefox. Now you are ready to search. Hope you liked this trick. Although there are some more search engines , the list we provided are the ones mostly used for finding information. If you have the value for some more Search engines or want for more search engines , do leave us a comment. We would be pleased to grow this list.

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But what really happens is when we delete a data from the hard disk , a trace or an image of data is left back in the Hard disk.  There are various tools out there to recover your deleted files , while most of them are paid , there are some free alternatives for Memory Recovery and one such tool is Recuva from Piriform. Data Recovery infact is an extensive process but that is used only in the corporate world and is an expensive process.

Recuva scores over its other counterparts basically because it is a freeware and at the same time is more effective.

Recovering your data is as easy as 1-2-3 . If you have accidentaly deleted a file , Install Recuva ( Note : Install it on any partition other than the partition you want to recover data from ).

On Opening Recuva , it will present you with an option of recovering certain types of files ranging from Music, Videos, Documents and so on.

Select Type of File

After clicking on the appropriate option , Recuva will ask you for a location to scan for .You can choose a specific location or the whole of the computer.

Select the Location to Search

There is an option of Normal scan as well as Deep Scan . If you could not recover the files using Normal Scan , you can always go in for Deep Scan , but the process will take some time to finish . The Interface is very easy to use . you have to Select the drive and Select the Scan Button.

Once scanned , Recuva will show you the files that have been deleted recently. The one’s that are marked green can be recovered easily , The Yellow marked files may or may not be completely recovered and Red marked files cannot be recovered at all. You can select which files you want to recover and Click on recover and choose the location to save the file . ( Note : It is recommended to save the file recovered from a partition onto another partition ). To the right is an information bar which informs you about the Info , Properties of the file which provides information about the file as to when it was last modified.)

Select the FIles to recover

There you are done with recovering your files!!!. One important thing to note is that if the data on the hard disk is deleted , Try using Recuva immediately . If any data is written to the disk after a file is deleted , then the chances of recovering the deleted file is a rarity since the sector has now housed another data file.
We tried recovering a formatted Hard disk with Recuva we did get some data back whereas some of them was lost which apparently happened because the data was replaced by some other data.

Download Recuva

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In this article, we at Blogsolute list out the 10 Gmail Labs feature that enhance user experience. The features can be found under Gmail Settings > Labs. You can choose to Enable or disable the features. So here we go.

1) Mail Goggles: Ever reconsidered why you sent a certain mail in a fit of rage. Well Mail Goggles is here to prevent it. A set of math calculations whose difficulty level can be varied will be presented to the user before he sends the Click Button. Well , who knows the problems can change the user’s mind.

2) Custom Keyboard Shortcuts: Set up your own keyboard shortcuts for certain actions like Compose mail, Delete mail and become a Keyboard Ninja.

3) Mouse Gestures: An Interesting features that lets you browse through your mails by Mouse gestures. Open a mail, Hold on the Right Click key for 3 seconds and then Move your mouse right to go to next mail, left for previous mail. Up for going back to the Inbox.

4) Message Translation: As the name suggests, Write anything in English Language and then convert it to any regional languages like Hindi, Malayalam and Marathi etc. So now no more memorizing the keys for other regional languages typing. Just write the equivalent sounding word in English and off you go …. For ex. the word “MEY” (I) can be written by writing MEY in English.

5) Offline: Access your Gmail offline anytime. We at Blog solute had covered this feature a few months back.

6) Pictures in Chat: On a Low Bandwidth, Gmail’s chat is of utmost importance. This Lab feature allows you to see your friend’s profile picture while you chat with them.

7) Previews: There are certain previews Labs features like Youtube Preview, Picasa Previews, Flickr Previews. So the next time you receive a video or a Picasa Invite, you can preview it right from your mailbox.

8 ) Superstar: Some messages are important / special for us. We distinguish them by “starring” (adding a star) to them. This feature will add additional stars, bangs with different color. You can search mail by using the term “has:red-bang” for a mail starred with a red-bang without the quotes.

9) Undo-Send: Sent the mail without composing or was there any glitch you noticed after pressing the Send Button?? , Do not sweat, The Undo-send lets you enable a feature where in you can “Undo-send” the mail you sent. Although the Undo-send button appears for a 5 or 10 seconds, it is enough for that quick reaction.

10) Vacation Time: Out on a Vacation with no connection to the Virtual World?? With the Labs Vacation Time feature, every incoming mail will be sent an automated reply. Fill in the message, enter the vacation dates and leave it all to Gmail Labs Features.

Note: All the features once enabled will have some extra settings to tweak. You can change the settings at Gmail Settings > General Settings.

There are a few other interesting Labs features to try out. Do check it out and leave your comments on which features you liked the most.

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