Windows 8 Consumer Preview was promised by Microsoft to be available for public by February and we are just few days/weeks from the actual release date. Before the release date we have received some leaked screenshots and reports which suggests that Microsoft has renamed Windows 8 Beta to as Consumer Preview build 8220.

Windows 8 Beta is expected to have new features, improvements , tweaks and all new theme packs for the new build. Luckily one of the theme pack was leaked on the web and is now available for download.

As per reviews and screen shot we have found Windows 8 as just a version upgrade of Windows 7, the functionality at the back end is same as Windows 7 but the only difference add is its new interface and is more likely to target tablets, touchscreen devices.

Well is you are excited to get hand’s on then the theme pack which contains windows 8 desktop backgrounds including two dual screen wallpapers. You can navigate to this page for download link.

This morning Google made a public update to Gmail interface and it started to appear on your Gmail accounts. Once you login to your account you would see a tab on right corner of the screen, just click to revamp your appearance towards new Gmail look.

The appearance of your emails are categorized as Comfortable, Cozy and Compact and also the addition of HD themes under settings tab. A few HD themes are available on your Gmail account and still the old themes exists some of them are discontinued.

How To Activate HD Theme

In-order to enable HD themes click settings (gear type icon) on right corner and select the desired HD theme from the options.

Click on Themes and you will be redirected to new gmail themes page having color themes, HD themes and classic themes.

Now select the theme under HD Themes tab and google will instantly apply to your account. These themes may vary from mine according to your location.

WordPress is one of the most popular content management system widely used by million of people with different purposes including a freelance blog, personal blogs, business websites, e-commerce websites, portfolio’s and many more. Through WordPress you can develop an attractive and easy manageable site for yourself according to your needs.

WordPress is simple to use for which it is not necessary that you must be a web developer or designer all you need is to have a little bit of coding knowledge so that you can customize the layout according to your wishes.

The best thing WordPress contains is the feasibility to the theme, you can change the entire look of your website with attractive themes. You can find many remarkable best wordpress themes from Google, but the theme lie in two categories as premium wordpress theme and free wordpress theme, so choose the theme which you like the best and which suites your content and your business.

Simple WordPress Themes To Download

You can browse to our previous best wordpress theme collection which includes some premium themes styles to be downloaded for free.

Below is the latest collection of free wordpress themes which contains great functionality and design that can be used for your personal use as well as for your business too. There is not such difference between the paid/premium themes and free theme, all is that free themes are most popular among and is one of the reason that attracts people.

1. WordPress Theme – Newsbest

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2. Suvsite Free WordPress Theme

 
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3. WordPress Theme- Contrive

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4. WordPress Themes- wodine

 
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5.Composite Free WordPress Theme

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6. xanadu

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7. iSocial Free WordPress Theme

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8. WordPress Themes – Bigone

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9. Limex Free WordPress Theme

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10. WordPress Theme – officefurniture

 
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11. Refine Free WordPress Theme

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12. Princely

 
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13. Sonic free WordPress Theme

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14. WordPress Theme – zylyz

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15. WordPress Theme – Noble

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Facebook latest feature Timeline is going on its way for developers, the actual reaction from the audience will be experienced when the feature gets public, but until now many users are curious to know how to implement Timeline to their profile.

Well enabling Timeline early is not a difficult task but its not at all straight forward either, as the Timeline is only available to for open graph developers, even you can be one of them, just follow the tutorial which explains you how to make your profile a Timeline.

Things To Remember:

• You probably won’t do this until your are actually a developer, still proceeding? then expect some bugs.
• At first your Timeline will only be visible to you, it would go public automatically after few days ahead.
• Your Timeline will be disabled if you login from different machine, you can get back your timeline (but only after following this step) by navigating to  http://www.facebook.com/YOURUSERNAMEHERE?sk=timeline
• You need to have a verified account for one of the step. Verified account means linking your credit card or verifying your phone number with account.

Enabling Timeline On Your Profile:

Step 1: Login to your account.

Step 2: Enter into developer mode, if you haven’t type ‘developer‘ in search bar, click on first link which should be an app.

Step 3: You will be redirected to developer app page, if not click the developer app from left tool-bar.

Step 4: Now create an app (it won’t actually be live for every one to use). Name your app with an eye-catching display name and namespace. Agree the Platform Privacy Agreement, in this step you need a verified account.

Step 5: Make sure you are in your app settings page, as your app name would be displayed on top of the page.

Step 6: Search for ‘Open Graph’, click and "Get Started using Open Graph" link.

Step 7: Now create a sample to test the action on your app, like ‘watch‘ a ‘movie‘ or ‘play‘ a ‘game‘

Step 8: This will navigate you to action type configuration page. Change some default settings like changing tense from ‘watch‘ to ‘watched‘, click thorough all the existing three settings page.

Step 9: Have patience, and wait for 2-3 minutes.

Step 10: Check back your Facebook home now, at the top of the page Timeline would be waiting for you.

And finally you are done, view your Timeline now, make a screenshot of your Timeline and share among your friends. Hopefully the steps above won’t cause any problem implementing it, but if you still have trouble make your voice shout by commenting below

The annual Facebook f8 conference held a few hours back where Mark announced an interesting and eye-catching feature called Timeline, which aims to revamp your Facebook appearance to whole new design as it is now "the evolution to your profile."

Timeline has been designed in-order to preserve all your happenings in your life enabling user to highlight events, snapshots, random updates so that they don’t get hidden behind your most recent updates. The timeline page could even be used to display your whole life right from your birth until your marriage, all at one glance. looks amazing !!

Well its up to you what you want to share or how you want to design your timeline, the overall control is with the user.

"Imagine if there was an easy way to rediscover the things you shared, and collect all your best moments in a single place," Sam Lessin, product manager at Facebook, commented. "With timeline, now you have a home for all the great stories you’ve already shared. They don’t just vanish as you add new stuff."

Mark Zuckerberg said at the conference: "We want to design a place that feels like your home. Where you tell story online is very personal. You spend a lot of time creating it. We want to make Timeline a place you’re proud to call your home. It’s a completely new aesthetic for Facebook. It gives you the ability to curate all your stories so you can express who you really are," as reported on Huffington Post’s live blog.

I am not sure how many of you would  like this feature sharing your story to the world but although its interesting.

Hey wait a second now you don’t search for activating Timeline in your profile because the feature is beta until now and will be public in a couple of months ahead.

check out this video after the jump.

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If you are lucky enough to get yourself an account on new social networking site called Google Plus, then today I am sharing you a simple trick to make your profile more attractive and eye-catching. You might have noticed some profiles on Google Plus integrating small sized images look like a single banner.

Do you know how? Well, this is the part which looks attractive when you have a good image as a banner either describing your personality, your passion or whatever you like to in the image. The tip becomes successful where you have to create each single image (150 x 150 each) but remember orderly uploading the images.

Or want to try an alternative named Google Plus Banner, which could provide you with the banner, slicing your favorite image into 5 in few click and ready to upload.

Using Google Plus Banner:

Step 1: Navigate to gpluspic.com/banner and upload your desired image.

Step 2: After uploading the image adjust the the area which you want to show as your profile banner.

Step 3: Click on Preview and Download button to finalize your image, now save them on your desktop and name them in order which will help you in uploading the right sequence.

Step 4: Now open your Google Plus profile and hit Edit Profile.

Step 5: Click On Add Some Photos, and start uploading your save images.

The final output looks something like this, isn’t it looking great.

Still using Windows XP? Want to transform your old looking Windows XP appearance with latest Windows 8? If yes, then this post is for you and all others readers who get bored with their Windows XP styles and does not have much hardware support to upgrade to Windows 8, so why not get this Windows 8 visual style for your desktop.

A member from deviantart have managed to create a Windows 8 visual style theme pack for Windows XP users. The squared shaped windows edges, a traditional Windows 8 default wallpaper, and the most important and intelligent tweak is your computer picture in notification area (as you can see in the image). That’s really a cool looking tweak, don’t know how the developers could manage user image under notification area, whatsoever its looking great.

Download Windows 8 Visual Theme Pack for XP

Bored with the similar Windows 7 user interface and searching for a change? If yes, then here is a Mac OS X Lion Transformation Pack for your Windows 7. This is a simple and easy transformation pack which changes the overall look of Windows 7 with Mac OS X Lion operating system.

Windows 7 transformation pack hits every part of windows from desktop interface to logon screen round the way to control panel. Moreover the transformation pack also installs some latest Mac OS X Lion features to your current windows.

Installation supports both x86 and x64 versions of Windows 7, so go ahead and transform your Windows 7 with Mac OS X Lion.

Download Mac OS X Lion Transformation Pack