Windows Vista has many new features that are designed to help older computers run Windows Vista better. One of those features and the topic of this tweak is called ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost helps your computer by giving it more high-speed memory. If your computer is running low on RAM then it has to kick a lot of applications out of high-speed physical memory to the paging file on your hard drive. This usually results in a big hit in performance and increased activity on your hard drive. ReadyBoost helps this situation by giving Windows an alternative to having to stick data into the slow paging file on your hard drive. Instead, ReadyBoost uses a USB storage device that is faster than a hard disk. This results in a performance boost because Windows will have a high speed alternative than using the slow paging file on your hard drive.

In order for ReadyBoost to work, it requires a USB storage device that meets minimum performance and space requirements:

• The device must be at least 64 MB
• The device must be USB 2.0
• It has to be able to read at 3.5 MB/s
• It has to be able to write at 2.5 MB/s

If you are unsure if your USB storage device meets these requirements, just give it a try anyways. To get started using ReadyBoost, follow these steps:

1. Plug in USB storage device.
2. Go to Computer and right click on the removable storage device and select Properties.
3. If your device is compatible, you will see a ReadyBoost tab. Click on that.
4. Select Use this device and select the amount of space on it you want to dedicate for the ReadyBoost system file.
5. Click OK and you are finished.

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From time to time everyone experiences a creativity block. Especially when it comes to designing a website. Here a a few sites that showcase nothing but beautiful websites from around the world. Your bound to get inspired after gazing through the sites listed below.

CSS Import

CSS Princess

CSS Drive

Design Snack

CSS Vault

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Automattic Stats will collect visitor and feed stats from your blog and display it in the WordPress.com Global Dashboard.

Easy AuctionAds is a free plugin for WordPress that allows you to easily integrate AuctionAds into posts using different keywords.

AWSOM Drop Down Archive is a WordPress plugin designed to put a posts drop down archive link box above your posts area on your index and individual posts page.

WordPress Excerpt Editor provides a convenient place for creating and editing all of your excerpts. It can “auto create” excerpts using the first 40-55-70-100 words from the content, optionally retaining some of the HTML tags and add custom excerpts for pages.

WP Post to Twitter will notify Twitter every time you make a new post.

Blogtimes Map is a wordpress plugin that shows when the blogger posted in the last period of time, and allows a visitor to click on the blogtimes Image Map, and be taken to the corresponding posts.

The reddit button plugin integrates the reddit buttons on your blog, allowing your visitors an easy way to submit your posts to reddit. Includes automatic detection if the post is already submited as well as displays the count.

Twitter Tools provides complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

The IMM-Keyword plugin allow you to add keywords to their WordPress-powered site without the need to modify any existing codes or templates.

IMM-Glossary allows you to create and manage an online glossary of terms relevant to their website.

http:BL lite verifies every visitor’s IP address against Project Honey Pot’s database. Known spammers & harvesters are blocked from accessing your site, to prevent them from abusing or spamming it.

Countdown Timer allows you to count down the years, days, hours, and minutes to a particular event.

WordPress Contact Form with Spam Protection v.2 is a major release of the popular WordPress Contact Form first developed by Ryan Duff. This release adds some great features, including an optional subject list, protection from scripting entries, and setting the reply name and email address to the visitor who filled it out.

Thumbnail Viewer is simply used to overlay images on a page, similar to Lightbox JS.

Genki Feedburner SiteStats insert the Feedburner SiteStats code into footer.

EasyPayPal allows you to make money from your WordPress site by collecting a subscription payment from your users.

FLV Embed is a WordPress plugin made to simplify the process of adding FLV videos into your blog using Jeroen’s FLV Player.

iTunes Playlist Plugin will read an XML playlist generated by iTunes and display it on your blog.

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Check these sites out to fuel your obsession!

ColorBlender.com

Colour Selector

COLOURlovers

COLOURlovers allows anyone visiting the site access to thousands of pallets registered “lovers” create. They also let you display your “love” for color with a small piece of javascript that embeds a 5 color pallet onto any website or blog. Take a look it’s worth it believe me!

Suggested by a reader of this blog:

Kuler from Adobe Labs

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Check out a few of the latest WordPress Themes!!

Aqueous Light

Bamboo

2Colours

Always Fresh

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Kaccordion Multipack is an implementation of jQuery, interface, jReflection and Accordion.

WordPress-on-a-Rope provides a soap interface for web service clients. Most of the code has been taken from the XMLRPC interface and modified to work with the PHP soap server. You must enable the PHP Soap Extension for this plugin.

Robs Translator allows your blog visitors to translate it from English to one of 10 different languages at the click of a button through Google’s translation API.

The Webdezine Pure CSS Horizontal Menu is a dropdpwn, cross browser multi-level (nested) css navigation system for WordPress that can be displayed across the top of your header area. It includes support for Pages, Categories, Archives, Blogroll and Meta Links.

Stock Quote Sidebar allows you to put a list of stock quotes in your sidebar.

Stock Quote Tooltip allows you to configure a list of company names that you want to be able to mouseover within your blog to get a tooltip with a near-realtime stock quote and mini chart.

AuctionAdder rewrites eBay-URLs in posts and comments for AuctionAds API. (Site in German)

Dash Note will allow you to create a post-it note in your WP-Admin.

Random Posts Widget is a sidebar widget cum plugin to display a random post regardless of category.

Simple Yearly Archive allows you to display your archives in a year-based list. (Page in German)

WPTWIT is a plugin for WordPress which integrates Twitter into your site. With a useful sidebar widget and a powerful templating system, this plugin allows you to keep your visitors updated with your latest tweets.

GooSPress is a spellcheck plug-in for WordPress built around Googie Spell developed by Amir Salihefendic.

TimeZoneCalculator calculates different times and dates in timezones with respect to daylight saving on basis of utc.

Mobile Web Toolkit will create a mobile version of your blog.

Lastly, AuctionAds calls for various AuctionAds tools and plugins. And they got a gift waiting for you.

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Let your creativity shine and get paid for you work.

At Zazzle, you can share and celebrate your interests and passions with unique one-of-a-kind products from apparel to greeting cards! Whether those interests are pets, family, collecting, art, cars, or sports, you’ve found the place to express your creativity and share what is uniquely you! It’s easy, fun, and affordable. And thanks to our start-of-the-art reproduction techniques and unparalleled customer support, you’re sure to be delighted by the results. Now…prepare to be Zazzled!

Here are a few examples of what you can easily create:

Design Your Own Stamps

Greeting Cards and Post Cards

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• 5 Texture Tips
• – learn the key ingredients to great textures Rain Effect Tutorial a nice animated Rain Effect sent in by Colossus
• Making Black/White in Photoshop for converting color images to good black and white images by Richard Schneider
• Match color from another photo – Before combining two photos, how to get them to match color values
• Getting the Ansel Adams Look – Is it a color photo? You’ll need the channel mixer or levels
• Cloning Tool Stopped Working – I am having problems with the cloning tool on photoshop 7
• Scaling to match another image size – Scaling to an exact target size is tricky… and should never enlarge!
• Resetting Dialogs in Photoshop – if Photoshop seems to be misbehaving
• PS 7 rejects Scanner – hello? where did my scanner go???
• Color Photo from Black and White – to and from black and white tips and tricks
• Help removing white backgrounds – How do I get rid of the White background in my forum sig?
• How to pick up an exact color… – How do you select an exact color to match?
• How to fix a corrupted file – Crashing during a “SAVE” is not a pretty picture
• Hot spots too bright – Flash flare and hot spots can cause problems. Here’s one way to solve the problem…
• Photoshop picks only black or white – When I go to pick my color, it will only be Black-white
• Replacing Body Parts – How do you match the color in photos before swapping faces…
• Multiple Scan Assembly – How do you assemble multiple parts of an oversized scan?
• Photoshop Elements for Sepiatone – Give a photo the “old fashioned” look with sepia toning
• Lost scanner contact – Photoshop can’t find my scanner!
• How to restrict the file to just TWO colors? – Trying to build a 2-color ad
• Clone Stamp Problems in CS – Here the Clone Stamp Tool seems to have a life of its own, and doesn’t catch new samples…
• How do you create an artistic border? – Creating artistic borders
• How to achieve Black/White with Color Detail – How to achieve Black/White with Color Detail
• How to select Hair – The 1,000th person has asked how to select hair
• How do you merge pictures and text? – trying to merge 2 pictures and text
• Photoshop Text Runarounds? – How do I create text runarounds in Photoshop CS
• Sizing Images for Print in Elements – This reader wants help sizing images to gang print onto single photo paper sheets…
• Copying Saving from Disk to Disk – Problems cutting and editing images from disk to disk
• How to fix a corrupted file – Crashing during a “SAVE” is not a pretty picture
• Optimizing graphics for the Web – Can you direct me to a tutorial on how to optimize photos I wish to publish on my website?
• Fading Photos – Use Feathering or Layer Masks
• Grid Patterns over Photos – Multi colored, grid over art – painstaking process
• Pen Tool in Photoshop CS – Why can’t you draw an “Open” path
• Photoshop and Error 39 – NOT Photoshop!
• Automating the Healing Brush – lots and lots of dust spots
• Burned Holes in Photoshop
• Help recall Filter Settings… Reapplying filter effects
• PS Bevels by hand
• PS helps Faded Photo two scans?
• Making round corner rectangles in Photoshop
• Hot spots in photo (Flash Burn)
• Adding Fill Flash in Photoshop
• Removing Date Stamps from Photos
• Mismatched resolution causes problems
• Making round corner rectangles in Photoshop
• Get Rid of White Backgrounds? Classic question!
• Aging Photos: What would they look like today?
• Custom Gradients? break out of the defaults
• Annoying Gray Boxes? Careful what you click
• Selecting Wrong Colors? Eyedropper Spread Trick

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I came across an article yesterday on an article yesterday: Dosh Dosh’s Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange: An Interactive Experiment and decided to give it a go. I am conducting my own experience for the Technorati Favorite Exchange with a twist though, my blog is still considered a “newbie” by many standards and I would like to know if the effect will be anywhere near that of the results of major blogs. Only time will tell! Here are the contest guidelines.

1. Participate by Simply Exchanging Favorites

This is fastest way to participate the exchange program.

• Favorite my blog by clicking here and using the tags “blog development” or “blog resources”. Then please leave your Technorati username as well as a similar link to your blog in a comment below.
• To make things easy, I suggest using a Technorati favorite link or button. You can get the buttons and links easily at this Technorati page. Please leave a link to one blog only.
• My Technorati nickname is nycgraphix and I will favorite all the links as soon as possible. I won’t leave any confirmation comments as this will clog up the comment section.
• Check to see who has favorited your blog and do also let me know if I’ve left you out after 48 hours.

2. Link to this blog post with your Post on Technorati Favorites

This is only for those who wish to hold Technorati exchanges on their blog also. These are the steps you need to take:

• Create a post on your blog announcing that you are exchanging Technorati favorites. Include a link to this post to indicate that there is a similar exchange going on at Blogtology and also at Dosh Dosh.
• Feel free to use use any link text you want. But please make a new post on this topic instead of putting the link in a old post that is already deep in your archives.
• Get a Link Back. Once I’ve noticed the link via trackback or Technorati, I’ll include a link to your post on Technorati favorites in this post itself so readers here can visit your blog to participate if they want to. I will also try to periodically highlight this post so it never gets lost in the archives.
• Links will usually be put up pretty quickly but if you didn’t see your link up after a day or two, please feel free to send me an email.

Andy Beard has come up with the best method I’ve seen yet, using OPML to mass import the sites you would like to add to your Technorati Favorites. This way, with a few simple clicks you can add 500+ blogs at once to your favorites and hopefully most of the blogs you add will also return the favor. Its also a great way to avoid missing anybody.

Here are Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange Hosts to add to your favorites list:

Dosh Dosh – kawaiikuma
AskaX World – Andika Kusuma
T Jantunen.com – T Jantunen
CalvinWarr.com – Calvin Warr
Vinod Live! – Vinod Ponmanadiyil
Bil2me dot com – William Toomey
Zath – Simon Barker
VersaCreations – Vivienne Quek
Azazil.net – Gary V. Vaughan
MrGaryLee.com – Gary Lee
Blogging for Money – Michael A. Setyaputra
Money Consciousness – Nenad
Brown Thoughts – Brown Baron
Quasi Fictional - Diogenes
Foreign Perspectives – Arnold
Home Based Business – Brian Pratt
The Million Dollar Experiment Down Under – Rob St George
Sexy in Red – Norlina
JameoTips – ValkrieAngel
I Thought, Therefore I Blog – Bet Shop Boy
My Online Collections – Star500
Ramblings of an Undisturbed Mind – Beth
Make Money Online The Quick and Easy Way – ejcooksey
Manila Mom – tessasandiego
Gauravonomics – Gaurav Mishra
Digital Mail – atul
Rishi Raj – rishimac
Keeping Fit Is A Daily Battle – Nash Trout
Serendipity – Sharique
PinoyBlogosphere – pinoyblogosphere
Life in the Fast Lane – Deborah
Our Journey – sy
Localingo – tanguy
Middle Zone Musings – Robert Hruzek
India PR Blog – hobbithob
My Journey to One Million Dollars – Laura
Sleeping Princess – Jocelyn
Blogtology – nycgraphix

Visit them and get Favorited!

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AutoHeader is a SEO WordPress plugin that allow you easily optimize your blog for search engines adding different meta tags and titles to each post, category, etc avoiding duplicate content and supplemental results.

Socialogs allows your visitor to add your site to Socialogs.com – social bookmarking site.

Referencing by Links makes links from the user-defined keywords to google and wikipedia, right in the editor easily.

Comment Twitter SMS Notification uses Twitter SMS service to send you the latest comment posted on your blog.

BDP Move Comments is a tool for moving comments from one post or page to another.

The TextImage plugin for WordPress displays your post text as a PNG image instead of sending it to the browser as normal HTML.

Commentia is a small, quick and easy to use plugin that allows multiple classes to be assigned to comments based upon a users role or permission level (Administrator, Author, Editor, Contributor, Subscriber, Guest).

http:BL WordPress Plugin allows you to verify IP addresses of clients connecting to your blog against the Project Honey Pot database. Thanks to http:BL API you can quickly check whether your visitor is a e-mail harvester, a comment spammer and so on.

Add Graphic Signature is a simple plugin that helps you to add a graphical signature to posts on your blog without having to edit the blog theme or having to insert them manually to every post.

Author Notify is a WordPress plugin to show a message box in all the posts by a particular author.

BanglaFixer is a plugin for WordPress, that fixes broken Bangla texts in Firefox automatically. And visitors using other browsers also can see your Bangla WordPress blog seamlessly.

WebPurify Profanity Filter uses the WebPurify Profanity Filter API to remove profanity from comments and replaces with benign characters.

MP3 Tag allows to include a download link or player for mp3 files.

WordPress vCard allows you to add your vCard details via the WordPress administration area and then display a link to your vCard via a vCard icon.

XHTML MIME type sends the correct XHTML mime type to the browser if it supports it.

ContentGen+ is content generator for WordPress that uses RSS/Atom feeds to populate your blog.

Cool Excerpt scans all post entries for audio and video content (and associated tags), displaying audio or video icons under each excerpt. Also supports Ajax transitions between excerpt and posts inline.

Permacop allows you to easily redirect any url of your site. It allows you to chose any URL of your blog to be redirected to any URL.

Insentive makes WordPress to accept insensitive usernames.

Postalicious will fetch you del.icio.us bookmarks and post entries with the new bookmarks. You can control how the posts will look, and even set a minimum number of bookmarks per post.

BlogFollow shows a snippet from a commenterfs blog at the bottom on their comment.

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