I’ve been using same logon screen for quite sometimes. Suddenly I got this idea of making a nice logon screen like the one we use to see in Vista. I bet all of you would admit XP default logon screen sucks. ;p

Because of that, I decided to create my own logon screen with aero effect for WinXP. This is the screen shot of the logon screen in action.

Here is the link to the logon screen. It’s in .exe format.

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To apply this logonui, paste the “logonui_vista.exe” into your “windows\system32\” directory. Then open up “regedit” and go to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon”. You need to change the value of “UIHost” to the new logonui path.

note: This is free software and the author is not responsible for any damages cause by using the software.

I’ve been waiting for the new season of House MD and Heroes for quite sometime. House is currently in its fifth season of broadcasting.

House, also known as House, M.D., is an Emmy Award-winning American medical drama, which debuted on the FOX network on November 16, 2004. The show was created by David Shore and executive produced by Shore and film director Bryan Singer. During the 2007–08 United States television season, the series was the most-watched scripted program on TV and the third-most-watched program overall, behind American Idol and Dancing with the Stars.

For more information, can visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(TV_series)

Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring, which premiered on NBC on September 25, 2006. The series tells the stories of ordinary individuals who discover that they have superhuman abilities, and also explores how these people adapt to the changes these abilities bring, and their roles in preventing catastrophes and saving humanity. The series emulates the aesthetic style and storytelling of American comic books, using short, multi-episode story arcs that build upon a larger, more encompassing arc.

For more information, can visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_(TV_series)

After I’ve finish my assignments, I did something weird.

Not the above naughty stuff of course. I’m so naive and innocent.

I created a program that can pack an executable file into smaller size and make it easier for distribution.

Of course I didn’t write the core engine. It’s a module from http://upx.sourceforge.net/. The program only available in command line interface, so I decided to make a GUI for it using Java which this pass few day I was facing for most of the time.

Here is the screenshot of the program, hope it can help lazy people like me.

It’s currently in beta stage and some feature are not fully functional. I’ve yet to add in function like saving your project and so on. It’s a freeware and same goes to the module.

Here is the link to the program.

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Upgrading your website and blog is very common for webmaster and blogger. When we get new software updates, we will always upgrade the existing software. Usually we need to take the website down for this upgrading purpose. One reason is don’t want to let your visitors to see breakdown website/blog or confuse your visitor with some gibberish error.

The most common method to inform your visitors that you are upgrading the website/blog they are viewing is putting up a “under construction splash page”. Sometimes unforeseen circumstances occur and we need extra time to work on it and this splash page can inform your visitor that you are currently working on it.

I’ve created my own “under construction splash page” for my blog. It’s build with a timer to tell the visitors how long the site is down.

Suddenly I got this idea of creating a plugin for WordPress where admin can enable this splash page when doing the upgrade. I know there are already similar plugin out there, but I’m just curious and try to make something myself. I’m thinking not to use database like other available plugin. Best of all, the offline timer will be there.

I don’t know what am I doing. I suppose to do my assignments and instead of doing assignment, I went and fix the CAPTCHA plugin I’ve created last time.

Not much fixes, just a bit of javascript fix and change of directory name.

To check out the changes I’ve made or download the plugin, you can go follow this link.

http://blog.zorex.info/?page_id=2

Well, these are the changes I’ve made.

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ff = document.getElementById("commentform");
ff.submit.style.display = "none";
submitVal = ff.submit.value;

to

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for( i = 0; i < document.forms.length; i++ ) {
    if(document.forms[i].submit.value != null ) {
        submitVal = document.forms[i].submit.value;
        break;
    }
}

and

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ff2 = document.getElementById("zrx_captcha");
ff2.style.display = "inline";
ff.submit2.value = submitVal;

to

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ff2 = document.getElementById("zrx_captcha");
ff2.style.display = "inline";
document.forms[i].submit.style.display = "none";
document.forms[i].submit2.value = submitVal;