How would you like to make your computer desktop look awesome like this? Customizing your computer can be confusing at times, so with this simple guide I will show you how to make your desktop look amazing in minutes. Very little technical knowledge is required.

Step 1. Finding A Wallpaper

The first step to customize your desktop is to find a wallpaper that you like. This is the fun part! If you would like to use the same wallpaper displayed above, it can be found here.

Finding a good wallpaper can take time and a lot of searching. If you’re having some trouble, check out some of these websites that allow you to download wallpapers:

• Reddit
• 4chan
• Google

Step 2. Download & Install Rainmeter

This is the program that makes the magic happen. Download Rainmeter here.

If you have any trouble using Rainmeter, you can find a full guide here.

Step 3. Download & Install Skins

If you would like to make your desktop look like the one pictured above, download these skins:

• Serenity
• VeryFlatWeather

To install the skins, simply open the .zip files and drag the entire folder contents to the rainmeter skins file on your computer (usually located at: “C:\Users\Yourusername\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins”).

If you would prefer something different, check out these resources.

Step 4. Download & Install Rocketdock & Custom Icons

To get an awesome dock like the one pictured above, you will need to download Rocketdock.

Once you have downloaded Rocketdock, you will need to download some custom icons.

Next, open the .zip file which contains your custom icons and drag them to Rocketdocks icon folder (usually located at: “C:\Program Files\RocketDock\Icons”). You will want to replace the existing icons.

You can add new icons to rocket dock by right clicking and selecting “Add Item”. To select a custom icon, right click on the icon and select “Icon Settings”. Chose the icon you want and press “OK”.

For a more in depth guide on how to customize Rocketdock, check out this youtube video.

Step 5. Customize Rainmeter

This is where the fun begins. To begin customizing, open Rainmeter, right click the Rainmeter icon in your taskbar, and select “Manage”. Your screen should look something like this:

First, in the left hand column you will see a drop down option which says “Active Skins”. Click it, and select the first option. Then, on the right hand side, select “Unload”. Do this for all the options in the drop down box.

You should now have no skins active.

Setting Up The Clock & Calender

First, select your theme on the left hand side (In our case we want to select “Serenity”). Open “Group1″, then “Date”. Click on the file called “Date.ini”, and select “Load” on the right hand side. You should now see the date on your desktop.

To place it where you want it, select “Draggable”, from the bottom right hand side of Rainmeter. You can then click and drag the date to where you would like it on your screen. Once you find a good spot, un-tick “Draggable” to lock it in place. 

Next, set up the time using the same method, ensuring you load the “Clocke.ini” file.

Setting Up The Weather

Using the same technique as setting up the time and date, select the theme “VeryFlatWeather”, from the left hand side and load “weather.ini”. Your desktop should now display the weather. To customize the weather for your town follow these steps:

1. Go to http://weather.msn.com
2. Search for your location (e.g. Lodon, United Kingdom or New york, NY, United States)
3. Look at the URL, it should look something like this: “http://weather.msn.com/local.aspx?wealocations=wc:UKXX0085&q=London%2c+GBR” The Weather code is UKXX0085 
4. Copy the weather code
5. Open Rainmeter, right click on weather.ini and select “ Edit”. 
6. Paste your weather code in the area that says “Location”, making sure to delete the default weather code and leave no spaces.
7. Click File > Save then close the document. 
8. Click “Refresh” in Rainmeter. Your weather should now display correctly.

Setting Up System Information

Using the same method for the above options, select the Serenity Theme, then select System-compact and load “Compact.ini”. Ensure that it is draggable, then place it where you would like it on your screen.

Step 6. Hide Your Taskbar & Recycle Bin

The last step is to hide your Windows Taskbar and recycle bin. First, right click on your taskbar and select “Properties”. Then, un-tick “Lock the Taskbar”, and make sure that “Auto-hide the taskbar” is ticked”.

You can then drag your taskbar to any side of your screen. (I like having mine in the left handside).

Next, right click your desktop and select “Personalize”. Then, on the right hand side select “Change Desktop Icons”. Un-tick “Recycle Bin”, and select “OK”.

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Step 1. Open iTunes & Select Your Language

The first step is to select your language. To do this, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the small language icon.

Step 2. Go To The App Store

The next step is to select the “App Store” from the top menu.

Step 3. Select A Free App

Locate the “Free Apps” section on the right hand side of the page. Select an app, and click the small “FREE” icon which appears once you hover over the app.

Step 4. Create A New Account

Once you have selected a free app, a popup will…. pop up (AWWW YEEAAAH!) asking you to “Sign In To Download From The iTunes Store”. Click on “Create New Account”.

Step 5. Click Continue

This step is probably the most difficult step that has ever been made. To complete this step, you must click “Continue”.

The most difficult step ever

Step 6. Accept The Terms & Conditions

Being the good citizen that you are (cough), at this point you must read the novel that is the Terms & Conditions. Good luck! Once you’ve finished, click “I have read and agree to these Terms and Conditions”, then click “Agree”.

Step 7. Enter Your Details

Enter your personal details here, including your email address, and a password that you would like to use for your iTunes Store Account.

Step 8. Select A Payment Method

At this point you want to click “None”. Enter your billing details (Don’t worry, you will not be charged), then click “Create Apple ID”.

Step 9. Verify Your Apply ID

The next step is to verify your Apple ID by going to your emails and clicking on the link that Apple sends you.

Done! That is how you Create An iTunes Store Account Without A Credit Card!

Hope you enjoyed this post guys. If you have any other tech questions you would like answered, feel free to contact me! If you’d like to read more posts like this one, don’t forget to Subscribe.

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1. Walking the wrong way then suddenly realizing

You’re walking along in public, on the way to a shop when suddenly you realize you’re walking the wrong way. You don’t want to look silly by turning around, so you look at your phone and pretend to be reading a message from someone telling you to come back, then you quickly walk the other way as if someone is waiting for you. Now no one will know you were walking the wrong way, AND it looks like you have friends! Yay!

2. Running back to bed after turning the lights out

So you’re upstairs lying in bed, and your throat feels like someone shoveled a sandpit into it, but you’re too lazy to get up and get a drink. You try your best to fall asleep, but it just ain’t happening… so begrudgingly, you slouch out of bed, switch on the light and make your way down stairs to the kitchen to get a glass of water. On the way back, you switch off the light and make your way back to your room. You glance behind you and notice how dark it is down the hall… Fuck that! So you RUN as fast as you can back to your room and dive under the covers. Don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone your afraid of monsters in the dark.

3. Laughing and agreeing when you don’t hear what someone says

We’ve all done it. You’re hanging out with a group of people you’re only just met, when suddenly someone says something which makes the whole group laugh.. Naturally you laugh too, just to fit in. That is, until you realize they where talking about you..

4. Checking yourself out in a reflective window, when you realize someone is behind it wondering what you are staring at.

You’re walking through the car park, on your way to an important meeting, when you decide that you’d better double check that you look okay. As you’re staring into a nearby car window, making funny faces and picking pimples, your gaze slowly drifts past the reflection and into the window. That is when you notice the mortified person sitting there shitting their pants. Whoops!

5. Pretending not to notice colleagues in public

You’re walking around the shopping center, minding you’re own business, when you notice an old friend from high school. CRAP! It’s not that you don’t like them, but you TOTALLY don’t feel like having an awkward conversation with them right now about what the two of you have been up to lately. That is when you notice them looking right back at you. DOUBLE CRAP! You quickly look away and pretend to be totally immersed in something nearby and silently wish that they don’t approach you.

6. Purposely changing your walking pace so that you can step on the colored squares at the shopping mall

Yeah you know what I’m talking about. We all done it as kids. You walk through the shopping mall, purposely maneuvering yourself so that you step on the colored squares. Make sure you don’t step on those cracks though! Don’t want to go breaking your mothers back… admit it, you still do it.

7. Walking up stairs on all fours when no one else is watching

Animal mode. ENGAGE! Double points if you’ve ever been caught. Triple points if it was by your crush, or even worse.. your boss.

8. Remembering something funny at the most inappropriate moment

So you’re sitting with a group of friends, zoning out, when for no apparent reason you remember yesterday when you farted in class and no one knew it was you. You start giggling to yourself, when you notice everyone is staring at you… “What?” that is when you realize that Billy was just telling everyone that his grandma has cancer… awkward.

9. Making stupid faces in front of the mirror

You’ve just jumped out of the shower and you’re drying yourself off, when you look up into the mirror and notice how sexy you are *cough*. You figure, what the hell.. and start making the weirdest faces you possible can. And they say the first sign of insanity is talking  to yourself..

10. Say “You too!” at inappropriate moments

You’re at a fancy restaurant with your date, when the waiter comes over with your delicious food. “Enjoy your meal!”, she says. Without thinking you reply “You too!”. You realize 5 seconds later when she starts looking at you strangely. Whoops..

Thanks for reading guys! Do you have any other weird or crazy things that you do and think that no one else does? Let us know in the comments! you may not be alone..

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Whenever you store data on a computer, after a while the data can become fragmented, thus making it take longer to load and potentially become corrupt. To prevent this from happening, you can Defragment your hard drive using a built in tool from Microsoft. However, some times the built in tool is slow or does not do the job correctly. This is where Defraggler can help.

There are many tools all over the net which can defragment a computer, however I prefer using Defraggler for its ease of use and reliability. When you open Defraggler, it immediately gives you a nice clean interface, displaying your drives and a visualization of how fragmented they are.

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As you can see, defraggler also offers a file list view, which can show you each individual peice of data which is fragmented. For the more advanced user, you are also able to search for files based on their size or file name.

All in all, Defraggler is a great program for defragmenting your hard drive, and I would definately reccomend it over the default program from for windows.

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Before you begin, make sure that your iPhone is up to date with the latest software updates.

1. Press and hold your finger on one of your apps until all the apps on your screen appear to be shaking

2. Once your apps start shaking, you are able to drag and organize them around your screen by simply touching an app and draging your finger to where you want the app to go.

3. To create a folder, simply drag one app on top of another one. You will then be prompted to enter a name for the folder. Simply enter a name and you are done!

To remove apps from the folder, open the folder, and follow steps 1 and 2. From here you can then drag the app out of the folder and back onto the home screen.

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Over time, you may notice that your computer starts to run slower and not perform as well as it did when you first bought it. This is because every time you use your computer, small amounts of information are saved and slowly build up which can slow your PC down and even make it crash. For example, whenever you visit a website, the site saves a small amount of information on your computer to remember your settings, or to make the page load faster the next time you visit.

So what are we to do about this inevitable build up of junk? Are we supposed to just let our computers slowly get worse and worse? Thankfully, there are many programs out there which can remove this junk and make your computer run like new again. One of my favourite programs for cleaning my computer is CCLeaner.

CCleaner is a small application created by Piriform, which can be used to remove all the junk that hangs around your computer over time. Not only can it remove the junk from your recycle bin, temporary files and web history, it can also clean out your registry and remove old settings which may make your computer run slower.

Ccleaner Interface

As you can see, CCleaner has a very neat interface and an extensive list of cleaning options, however generally speaking, it is fine to run out of the box and it is best not to mess around with too many settings unless you know what you are doing.

To use CCleaner and remove all the excess junk your computer has built up, simply click “Analyze”. The program will then search your computer and find all the junk. Once it has finished searching, click on “Run Cleaner”. This will take up to several minutes depending on how much junk is on your computer. Once its done, your computer should run like new!

Remember, CCleaner will remove all your web history and saved passwords, so make sure you have your favourite sites saved to bookmarks correctly, and make sure you remember all your passwords before you run the cleaner.

Some other features that are included with CCleaner, is the ability to easily remove other programs from your computer which may be hogging up resources, or to stop programs that run when your computer starts up in order to make it start up faster and more smoothly.

CCleaner can also manager your System Restore points, and has a built in Drive Wiper which can effortlessly and securely remove all data from a hard drive.

Ccleaner Features

You can download CCleaner Here: http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

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A quick way to check if its the website or a local problem is by visiting Downforeveryoneorjustme. Simply enter the website you are trying to load and hit enter. This handy tool will then work its magic and let you know if there is a problem with the site you are visiting, thus making it down for everyone, or if its just a problem with your computer/connection.

Thanks for reading guys! Do you know of any other handy websites or tools that you would like to share? Let us know in the comments!

www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com

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One way that I have repeatedly seen malicious software be distributed is through Tinylinks. A Tinylink is where you take a long URL and shorten it using a tinylink service. The service can be quite helpful, however the Tinylink URL does not give any clues as to what the website it is leading to contains.

A handy tool for taking precautions when it comes to tinylinks is URLXray. This website can go ahead and check to see were a tinylink leads, before you click it. That way, you can find out if the link leads to an unsafe website before you click!

To use URLXray, simply visit the website, copy/paste the tinylink into the space provided and then hit enter. The website will then search the link and let you know where it leads!

http://urlxray.com/

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Have you ever wanted to set your own music as a ringtone on your iphone? Check out this quick tutorial which explains how!

1. The first thing you need to do, is make sure that you can see file type extensions. To do this, open up Control Panel and click on “Folder Options”. Then navigate to “View” and uncheck the tick box which says “Hide Extensions For Known File Types”.

(Older versions of windows: Control panel > apperance and personalization > folder options > view)

2. Open itunes and find the song that you would like as your ringtone.

3. Grab a peice of paper and write down the time* that you would like the ringtone to start and the time you want it to finish. It needs to be 40 seconds or less for this to work.

(* for example, if your song goes for 3 minutes, and the chorus starts 1 minute in and goes for 30 seconds, you would write down: 1:00 – 1:30)

4. Right click the song and click “Get Info”. Then, click the options tab. About halfway down there will be a start time and a stop time. Change these times to the figures you wrote down in step 3 and click OK.

5. Close the Get Info box and then right click the same song again. Click on “Create AAC Version”. A second song will now appear underneath the original song with the times specified in step 4.

6. Now, your song should show up in your music folder. (The place where all the music is stored on your computer). Generally for itunes, this is located in: Libraries > Music > Itunes > Itunes Media > Music.

7. You can now delete the song from your itunes library, making sure to click on “Do not delete from folder”. Once this is done, locate the song on your computer. Right click it and select “Rename”. At the end of the name, it will say “.m4a”. Change this to “.m4r” and press enter.

8. Close out of the computer folders and go back into itunes. On the left hand side, there should now be a tab caled “Ringtones”. Click on the ringtones tab and your ringtone should be there!

9. Lastly, to actually get the ringtone on your phone, simply sync your iphone with itunes, making sure that your sync settings copy over ringtones.

Hope this helps! If you have any problems, don’t hesitate to ask for help on my contact page.

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Are you bored and looking for something to do?

Do you just hate shopping centers?

The answer is finally here.

18 hilarious things to do at the shops:

1. Walk around the shops looking normal, then as soon as an announcement comes over the loudspeaker, assume the fetal position and scream “Oh god its those voices again!”, “Please! Make them stop!”.

2.  Go down an escalator, making sure that someone is behind you. Just as you reach the bottom, yell out “MY SHOELACES! AUUGGHH!”

3. Teach the birds in pet stores how to swear, making them unsellable, yet highly entertaining!

4. Order a dozen live lobsters from a seafood shop, then set them free in a department store (remembering to remove the little rubber bands from their claws of course.

5. After a few minutes of hilarious chaos, run up to one of the lobsters and explain to it that you have found the potion required to turn it back into a human.

6. Walk up to random strangers and ask them if they have seen your pet snake. It was in your pocket just a minute ago…

7. Walk into the grocery store wearing a white lab coat, mask and goggles. Carefully put some vegetables in a plastic bag, holding them at arms distance with a pair of tongs, shaking your head in disgust. Occasionally take some notes on a clipboard. This one works best when there are older people and parents nearby.

8. Run up to an employee in a department store (preferable male), squeeze your legs together and yell at him “I need some tampons.. NOW!”.

9. Slowly walk up to a surveillance camera and stare straight into the lense, rocking from side to side. Do this for several hours without moving at all.

10. Walk into the changing rooms and in a singsong voice, say: “I see London, I see France…”

11.  If a sales person walks up to you and asks if you need help, start to cry and exclaim “Why won’t you people just leave me alone!?”

12. Release a box full of ants into a sale bin full of underpants.

13. Go into a fitting room and yell out: “Hey! We’re out of toilet paper in here!”

14. Unleash several mice into the dressing rooms

15. Tip toe quietly and stealthily through the isles and around corners – with a magnifying glass

16. Stage a fake phone call on your mobile phone: “What do you mean doctor, I can’t have malaria, that was weeks ago!”

17.  As you walk past people in the isles, look at them with sudden shock and terror on your face and run in the opposite direction screaming.

18. Tell the manager that they need to call a clean up in the laxative isle.

If anyone complains, explain to them that you are simply doing an experiment on human reactions and thank them for participating. This will usually stop any potentially worrying situations and get people laughing a bit.

Ryans Crazy Thoughts takes no responsibility for any actions which may cause injury.

We do not condone any of these activities. This blog post is for entertainment purposes only.

Do you have any other funny ideas to do while at the shops? Let us know in the comments!

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