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How to disable Multitasking and Background wallpapers in jailbroken iOS 4 on iPhone 3G to avoid Sluggish Performance [Guide]

If you’ve already jailbroken and unlocked your iPhone 3G with iOS 4, you must have noticed that it gets really slow after some usage. This is due to the low amount of RAM in the device which isn’t suitable for multitasking. Plus iPhone 3G also feels a little hot after a while and not to forget, the battery takes a major hit. While, restoring the device and starting over the whole jailbreak process seems like a fix, here’s a simpler fix without losing any of your data.

Bing welcomes the month of Ramadan with a background

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Today’s background on Bing is dedicated to the month of Ramadan in which Muslims all over the world fast. The scene in the background shows a busy market place in Bangladesh. Lots of fried food is being sold in the image which is consumed at Iftar everyday at sunset, which marks the break of fast. Hovering over the hotspots shows different information on Ramadan It’s great to see the Bing team using this background and I’d like to thank them for it. :) Thanks to Manan for sharing this with me on Twitter.

How to change the Windows 7 Logon UI button set

Rafael Rivera, the man behind numerous hidden tweaks and discoveries in Windows 7 has posted another one on how to change the button set in the Logon Screen in Windows 7. Why would you want to change the Logon Screen button? You can already change your logon background in Windows 7, but some wallpapers make the button and text hard to read. To solve this issue Microsoft has hidden 3 choices of button sets in Windows 7.

Windows 7 Logon UI Background changer Button Set Comparison

Image Credit: Rafael Rivera

Bing Image Archive by Long Zheng

 Bing Image Archive Long Zheng (Mr. about-to-graduate-from-university) of istartedsomething has created an archive of the photographs that are used as Bing’s backgrounds. They are some of the best looking photos you’ll see. Although, Bing has an option to navigate through the old photos, it’s not really a fast process. That’s where the Bing Image Archive steps in. Created like a calendar, it archives the daily images from the United States version of Bing as well the international images. The US images also show the hotspots that are shown on the Bing homepage and link to certain search results.

Easily change your Logon Background in Windows 7!

Rafael from WithinWindows has done it again. He has discovered a new logon UI background customization trick that Microsoft has put in Windows 7 for OEMs. It requires a registry change and a few folder changes but does it without the need of any third party tools or hacks.login-customized-thumb

This does require a bit of work to get it working. First of all you’ll have to enable the functionality in the registry by creating ( if missing ) a DWORD value named OEMBackground in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background and enable its value to 1 or to 0 if you want to disable the functionality. Or you can just use this registry file I created, to quickly enable it.