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.  Read more...

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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.  Read more...

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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.

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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.

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.  Read more...

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