Some of the themes created for Windows 7 are pretty impressive (I am currently sporting the NASA spacescapes for those interested). However, if you don’t want a slide-show of images which typically come with a theme, rather just a single image in the theme you can easily “extract” it. Once a theme is installed on your system, simply open...

Gmail users utilizing the web interface who would like to give their interface a new look each day should play around with the Themes available in the settings. While this is not a new feature of Gmail, applying a theme other than one of the simple “color only” ones usually changes quite regularly. For example, I am currently using the Planets theme...

As I was doing an overview of the TextMate product for my tip yesterday, I noticed TextMate offers a nice collection of user submitted themes. Some of these I really liked (i.e Fake and Plastic Code Wrap) and would love to be able to use them in my text editor of choice, Notepad++. With the help of the “Textmate theme to Notepad++ styler” tool, this...

If you really want to dig into Firefox customizations and make some interface changes which may not be available through existing themes or add-ons then utilizing the userChrome.css file is what you need to do. Don’t worry, you don’t have to learn a scripting language (unless you want to of course) as there a numerous customizations available for you...

One thing you probably knew Firefox did, but might have never explored is applying a custom theme/skin. The latest release of the popular browser fully supports this functionality and even offers a theme repository on their own site. There are tons of themes available and you can probably find one for just about anything you can imagine, so take a look. Vista...

If you run an older computer  there are certain services you can safely disable in Windows XP. This won’t make your computer blazingly faster by any means but it will gain you a "few extra horsepower", so to speak. To access your running services:Go to Control Panel. Double-click the Administrative Tools icon. Double-click the Services...

In order to make any changes to your WordPress theme, you’re going to need to understand the basic structure of your theme. In this video, I will show you how your theme is put together and which file goes to what. Video Length: 10:42 [hidepost=1] [flv:http://pcmech.s3.amazonaws.com/wordpress/wordpress8.flv 610 366] [/hidepost] [hidepost=2] Download Now To...

Your WordPress theme is going to be the design of your website. There are LOADS of free and very nice WordPress themes available for your new blog, but you need to know how to install them to your blog. In this video, I will show you were to find a theme for your site and how to install it to your blog. Video Length:...