Transform Ubuntu into Windows with Longhorn Linux Transformation Pack

If you are accustomed to Windows interface and miss it while using Ubuntu, Longhorn Linux transformation pack is a project intended to turn Ubuntu to look like Windows Longhorn.

Windows Longhorn was the operating system on which Microsoft began work shortly after the completion of Windows XP . Unfortunately, the project never made it’s debut on the market exactly as intended and ended up on the fact that a few years later we received a system in the form of Windows Vista.

We have already seen how to bring Windows 7 like Taskbar on Ubuntu with Group Tabs and Stacks. Here is something which can completely transform Ubuntu into Windows like interface.

Longhorn Linux Transformation Pack beta is a GUI for Ubuntu, which changes the system interface similar to Windows Longhorn. The project is being developed for many months, but only now jumped into the beta phase. The latest release of Longhorn Linux comes with the installer. Also, introduces Linux Aero Glass Overlay effects and the Windows icons. In addition, you can use the sidebar with gadgets.

How to transform Ubuntu into Windows

Download Longhorn Transformation Pack and extract the ZIP into a folder. Double click oninstall.sh and choose run in Terminal when prompted.

This will install following applications and themes:

• GnoMenu and Longhorn menu theme
• Aero-style GTK themes
• Windows icons
• Windows fonts
• Screenlets and sidebar
• Nautilus-elementary
• RGBA (transparency) enabled GTK
• Emerald theme

Note: This is still in Beta state and doesn’t guarantee perfect installation. You should install only if you know how to remove installed components afterwards if something goes wrong. 

Rio Movie Windows 7 Theme Download | Official Microsoft ThemePack

I came to know about Rio Movie from the popular Angry Birds Rio edition. Rio is an animated 3D film coming in year 2011 from the creators of Ice Age. Rio movie will release on April 15th in the US but you can beautify Windows 7 desktops right now.

Microsoft has officially released Rio Movie Windows 7 Themepack which includes 6 high-resolution (1920 x 1200) desktop backgrounds that features the amazing animated characters from Rio movie and space from Rio de Janeiro.

Being officially released on Windows 7 Personalization Gallery, you can install this theme just by double clicking. It is compatible with all Windows 7 versions (Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate editions).

Download Rio Movie themepack 

AutoCAD 2012 Trial Download | Engineering Drawing Software

AutoCAD is a well known program and if you don’t know atleast you may have heard of it. AutoCAD is a program that provides a full-featured interface to create objects in areas of design, construction, architecture and more.

Many professionals use AutoCAD to create projects, plant construction, pre-visualizations of objects and more. If you are a user who was in search of a free version AutoCAD to test it out, you finally have the opportunity to try all the tools and functions of the program. AutoCAD 2012 is the latest release and now available for trial download of 30 days.

To download AutoCAD 2012, it is necessary to fill out the form on download page and on proceeding, you will be given a installer which downloads complete package. Note that you cannot use any Internet Download manager to download AutoCAD 2012.

New Features of AutoCAD 2012

• Microsoft Office style Toolbar
• Ultra realistic, Lighter and Faster – According to the Autodesk site, the New AutoCAD provides a gain of up to 60% in productivity, thanks to improvements in the visual and the general system of the new software.
• Molding Objects and Surfaces quickly
• Documentation of models and relationships between objects
• Compatibility with AutoCAD WS

Customize Firefox 4 to have Chrome and Opera Style Appearance

Firefox 4 has greatly improved performance wise. Even the looks and feel leave the previous versions far behind. If you are not satisfied with the looks and want to customize it, Stratiform will be of great help.

Stratiform is a small extension for firefox 4. Once installed it appears on the navigation toolbar at right hand corner. Just click on the icon to get the settings page.

With this add-on you can customize Toolbar, Tab bar, Add-on bar and Application Menu Buttons. Using this add-on is extremely simple even for beginners. You just need to click on buttons for changes to take effect. One good thing about this add-on is that it does not require a restart for changes to take effect.

You can customize things like buttons, icons, text fields, border radius etc. These fields can be changed to obtain Opera or Google Chrome style buttons and other appearances. Hence if you are unhappy with firefox looks, Stratiform can easily change things with few clicks. 

How to Combine Address Bar and Search Bar in Firefox 4 like Chrome

After the advent of Firefox 3.x, lots of people including yours truly, migrated to Google Chrome which was much faster and had a very low start up time. If you have been using Chrome, then you have surely gotten used to the single bar for both address and search. If you want the same in the all new Firefox 4, here is the solution.

If you do not have then, Download Firefox 4 Final.

The easiest solution is to get an extension to do the needful. This addon is called the Omnibar.

You can download the addon here.

Install the addon and restart Firefox 4, and you are set. The address bar and the search bar are now combined into a single bar, like in Chrome.

Firefox 5 Pre Alpha available for Download

When we are busy playing with Firefox 4 Final, Mozilla has already started building foundation for next release Firefox 5. Mozilla officials that roadmap for 2011 is not yet finalized but planed. Firefox 5 Final is expected on June 29th while stable build on April 13.

Reading Conceivably Tech, I found that Firefox 4.2 Pre-Alpha available on Mozilla FTP server for download which is said to be foundation for Firefox 5. May be the time constraints have restricted Mozilla for using version Firefox 4.2 Pre-Alpha instead of Firefox 5.0 Alpha. The date is calculated according to the roadplan of Mozilla.

Firefox release Pattern

Looking inside the Firefox 4.2 alpha, Noticeable change was seen on How Firefox 5 will handle account information on individual websites. The account manager will support multiple accounts through the URL bar and support multiple account sign-ins at the same time.

Firefox 5

Firefox 5 is expected to have new interface while the details on the evolution of JavaScript engine will also be announced at a later time.

Firefox 5 Features

• Simple Sharing
• animated user interface
• 50 common tasks flow problem of high priority improvement
• New asynchronous places
• Account management
• Intelligent Bookmarks Manager search function
• Support for Web applications to install / uninstall
• Each process with a label, to reduce crash impact.

Firefox 5 Web Platform Technology

• Hardware acceleration
• 3D transformation of the CSS
• Seamless switching full-screen video
• Increase cameras, video input type
• Low-power mode
• Use IndexedDB technology (IndexedDB allows Web applications on your local system for storing large amounts of data quickly retrieve offline)

Gecko Platform Development in Firefox 5

• To collect performance metrics from the user
• Document: Information on how to design a common platform for running interactive desktop, mobile or web applications without borders
• Integrate new user interface for Mac OS X 10.7
• Integrating new Android 3.0 User Interface
• Ensure that the JIT compiler compatible with the modern ARM CPU family pack.

Panda Internet Security 2011 and Antivirus Pro Activation Code for 90 Days

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