How to make your own Folder Icons in the Windows XP operating system

Windows XP operating system is one of the best operating system which is installed in most of the devices in this universe. Because of its simplicity, the Windows XP operating system is considered as the best operating system in the world. You can even notice that the people who were using the Windows XP operating system would never go for the latest upgrades of the Operating systems. Because of the ease in the Windows XP operating system, the people used to stay in the Windows XP operating system.

There few tips that can be still used by the people who were using the Windows XP operating system. In this post I have share a bit of information for the Windows XP operating system, and in this I have discussed the steps how to make your own folder icons in the Windows XP operating system.

Generally, we used to store different kinds of files and informations in the each folder. But the thing is that, the icons for the folder will look similarly. If you were changing the icons according to the kinds of information which are stored in a folder, then we can easily access the informations very easily and quickly too.
The steps are given as below;

Step 1: Right click over the Folder which you need to change the Icons in the Windows XP operating system. This will show you pop-up menu in the screen.

Step2: In the pop-up menu, select the Properties in the Menu.

Step3: In the property window which you have selected, click the customize tab in the menu and also click on the change Icon button.

Step4: After clicking the Change Icon button, the pop-up box with series of icons and pictures is available for you. You can click on the any image you want and you can select the icons to be the Folder Icon for your Folder. This helps you to choose the Folder icon in the Windows XP operating system.

How to add extra Icons on the Icon Menu: 

If you want to use a custom image as your icon in the Windows XP operating system, you have to add your image in the %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll.

-> In order to make your image as a custom icon, select an image which you want to make as icon. • Open an image editor application on your personal computer.

• Now crop the image into the size of 24 x 24 pixel or 16 x 16 pixel resolution in the image processor.

• Now save that image into 24-bit bitmap image from the image processor.

• Now repeat up to step-3 in the folder, and then you need the click on the browse button near the top of the image.

• You have to choose the image which you have changed into the bitmap format. Then select Ok button. Finally you have changed the custom icon in the Windows XP.

How to Connect All your Computers with Single Mouse and Keyboard

Nowadays it’s a common thing having multiple Systems in their home like a Desktop and a laptop, Even there are a lot of people who work with two or say multiple desktop computers and its hectic to work with two mouse and two keyboards, Did you ever heard that we can actually operate multiple computers using a Single mouse and keyboard? Yes that’s possible using various methods, So here are a few methods which we can try to overcome that.

This can be done through hardware and software either ways but the important thing is the computers should be connected to each other via LAN or any Network connector.

1. KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) switch, its hardware or say a cable in specific which will be a short one for keyboard, video and mouse. These are actually commonly used in Datacenters where lot of servers are placed in a single rack with a single keyboard, monitor and mouse. It will let you share a single mouse, keyboard and monitor across two or multiple computers. There is also KM switch cables using which you will be able to share a single keyboard and mouse with two computers that have two separate monitors. The best thing about using these hardware cables is they give really fast connections which makes it worth to go and makes the work more efficient. One of the main advantage of using KVM switch is that it saves space which would have been occupied if multiple keyboards, mouse are used.

2. If you don’t want to add any hardware cables there are a few software’s too which we can try, First thing to try out is Input Director, which is a Windows-only utility that’s easy to install and is totally free for non-commercial use. At first, you need to install this Input Director program on all your Computers. The computer that is physically connected by keyboard and mouse becomes the Master computer whereas the other systems will be Slave computers. Just make sure you never shut down the Master computer without turning off the Slave computers first because by doing that you will lose access to the keyboard and mouse which are physically attached to the master computer. There`s another program called Synergy , this one is a bit harder to setup than Input Director , but it’s free and a open-source thing which supports Microsoft windows, MAC OS and Linux. Both these programs are small ones which won’t eat up much resource your computers. On using both the software’s you don’t need to press any switches or buttons which was there in the case of KVM switches. Simply just move your cursor to drag drop or copy paste across your multiple computers in a easy manner. 

People who don’t mind spending for a peaceful computing will love to go for the hardware way and the Users who don’t like to spend money and want a clean desk without messing with cables will go the software way. Happy Computing.

Google X Developed Contact Lens That Helps Diabetics

Google has developed in his research laboratory Google X an electronic contact lens that could help diabetic patients. It regularly measures the blood sugar level of the tear fluid and can thus warn of high or low blood sugar levels.

With an electronic contact lens Google wants to make the daily life of diabetes patients easier because the contact lens that they wear can monitor every second, which measure blood glucose levels in the tear fluid.

So patients no need to prick their finger to detect a drop of blood their blood sugar levels. This is also the problem encountered by many diabetic patients to measure their blood sugar levels too rarely. Tiny sensors and chips and an antenna are installed between two layers of a soft contact lens, which will allow extremely precise measurements.

Google has built several prototypes, including those measure blood sugar levels per second evenly. Currently, they are experimenting with integrated LEDs as an early warning. It is still developing at a very early stage, but they were conducted several clinical trials earlier, under which the prototypes were improved.

It can be released once the clinical trials were completed but will still take some time. Currently, Google is in talks to with the U.S. health supervision FDA. Google wants to collaborate in the further development with partners who have experience in bringing such products to market. The partners will develop among other apps, of which the measurements are provided to the winner and his doctor.

Meizu MX3 With octa- core SoC Soon In Europe!

Meizus MX3 the first Android Smartphone from Meizu China with 5.1 -inch display, 8- megapixel camera and 128 -GB memory option should be available in Europe in mid-2014. Detailed plans for the available markets will be soon publish the manufacturer.

The Chinese manufacturer Meizu is one of the top Smartphone manufacturers and the manufacturer was already made some hints relating to that in the CES 2014 and it is only available in China now and it will be available in other parts of the world soon. The MX3 is to appear in the third quarter of 2014 in the U.S. But before that, the manufacturer plans to launch the Smartphone in Europe.

This was informed by Sierra Ma who is responsible for Meizus, international business deals. So during February 2014 you may expect the list of countries in which the MX3 will be available. The MX3 is the Meizus’s first Smartphone with a 5.1 -inch display. The resolution is 1,800 x 1,080 pixels, which results in a high pixel density of 415 ppi.

The RAM is 2 GB in size. Meizu offers the MX3 in four memory types; 16 GB, 32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB. Inside the MX3 is the Samsung Exynos 5, an eight- core processor, which consists of four A15 cores with a clock speed of 1.6GHz and A7 four cores with a clock speed of 1.2 GHz. This principle is referred to as big.LITTLE concept.

The camera on the back has a Sony image sensor with 8 megapixels, autofocus and an LED photo light. The camera in shooting mode can shoot up to 20 frames per second. The MX3 is shipped with Android 4.2. These are called the manufacturer as Flyme 3.0; the Meizu missed its own user interface.

 In China, the MX3 in the 16 -gigabyte version which costs 270 Euros is now converted the 32- gigabyte version for 290 Euros. The model with the currently biggest memory is the 64- gigabyte model for around 340 euros. The 128 -gigabyte version is not currently listed on the website.

The New Chrome 33 Beta A Talking Browser with custom elements

Google's browser Chrome 33 beta supports so-called custom elements, ie HTML elements that can define you as a web developer. More than that now it also supported via the web Speech API and speech synthesis. Custom elements are part of the Web Components, a new technique, which is currently developing the W3C. They allow web developers to define their own HTML elements and to use later in their apps and websites.

This can also extend existing elements and modify and combine several elements to create into one, which is then available under a HTML tag. Moreover, it is possible to extend the existing APIs DOM elements. The ultimate aim of custom elements lead to significantly compile into a code, as for example, define recurring buttons together with their complete functions once and then leave like a standard HTML elements. The Web Speech API allows web apps to access features for speech recognition and speech synthesis.

While Chrome voice recognition via the web Speech API support for some time comes with Chrome 33 Beta now also support for speech synthesis. This allows for example to have texts read in web pages directly from the browser. The combination of the two techniques makes it possible to issue a dictated text via the browser in a different language again. This user does not have to repeatedly enter the same information into forms, has introduced Google auto complete request.

Now firstly, the function is available only for payment information available that manages the browser and can be automatically entered in the appropriate forms. Sites can request the information with the request function auto complete but the user has the option to agree or reject. In addition, Chrome 33 beta supports the Page Visibility API now without a prefix.

Also the download of web fonts has been optimized so that the fonts are in most cases available, even before the rendering engine flashing begins with the presentation of the website. For CSS animations and transitions a new Web animation model is used, which has been implemented in flash. In addition, Chrome now supports the latest version of Web Notification API.