About TopStyle

You can edit your HTML, XHTML and CSS in a single program.

• Preview CSS while you write it.
• Style Checker to validate style sheets against multiple browsers.
• Style Upgrade tool to quickly replace all outdated HTML code.
• Site Reports to see at-a-glance where styles are used in your site.

The program offers many unique features, including the option to upgrade your HTML documents by replacing outdated markup with equivalent styling. You can also convert HTML to XHTML and check your CSS syntax against multiple browsers, using a side-by-side preview. A harmonious colors feature allows you to easily create pleasant color schemes for your site and more. TopStyle Pro offers complete site management with the built-in File Explorer, clip libraries and resource manager and integrates with existing web authoring tools.

Wine configuration

This is with a clean configuration directory and running in a 1024×768 virtual desktop.

$ winecfg

Once the .wine directory is built the configuration tool will start and you can set a virtul desktop in the graphics tab if you wish.

Installing TopStyle

You can download the trial version from here.

tom@tom:~$ wine topstyle.exe
fixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0×34fea0) using GetSystemInfo()
fixme:process:IsWow64Process (0xffffffff 0×34fe9c) stub!
fixme:advapi:CheckTokenMembership ((nil) 0×123790 0×34fe1c) stub!

TopStyle first run

tom@tom:~$ cd /home/tom/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Bradbury/TopStyle3
tom@tom:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Bradbury/TopStyle3$ wine TopStyle3.exe
fixme:midi:OSS_MidiInit Synthesizer supports MIDI in. Not yet supported.
fixme:win:UpdateLayeredWindow (0×30030,(nil),(nil),0×33eefc,0×20c,0×33eef4,0×00000000,0×33eef0,2): stub!

Feel free to comment about this post at the wine-forum.

Create a handy button for your Windows Live Messenger contact so your friends can easily add you to their contact list.

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Click here for Button Builder.

Here’s a lot of talk about the new user account control policy in Vista, and all I can say is: as it is, it annoys the hell out of me and slows down my normal computer usage. Just why, oh why, does it have to flash my video card to a black screen, take 5 seconds and really just make itself a royal pain in the arse?

To turn it off, the easiest way is to go into the Control Panel and type in ‘UAC‘ into the search bar. It’ll bring up a search result of ‘Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off’. Just follow the prompts from there.

To keep some of the security of the UAC, let’s just turn off the crazy annoying blacking out screen bit. To do this: (more…)

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Well, this one is arguable. Many sites preach service tweaking as the end all of tweaks, and Vista does have a lot of services (like 130). However, a good portion of them are set to manual or disabled by default. Manual will only start the service when the operating system thinks it needs to use that program. However, Vista does have a lot of services set to Automatic by default that are not needed for many people. Granted, they are usually sleeping, not using any CPU, and if they use memory, they usually get paged out to disk pretty fast. But, regardless, it is fairly quick to do, and will gain you some improvement.

First off, how to tell what you should really be worried about. One new feature in Vista is the ‘Go to Service’ feature in Task Manager (or at least I never noticed it before). Open Task Manager, Processes tab, right click on a particularly heavy process, and select ‘Go to Service (s)’. This will jump you over to the services tab, and select all the services that are running under that process (multiple ones are usually running under svchost.exe, many of the others only map to one service). (more…)

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Well, you’ve gotten the operating system down to a certain point, what’s next? Well, figure out where your bottlenecks still are! There’s probably some software on your computer that just kills performance (or 6-7 of them). Don’t blame MS quite yet. Anyway, luckily for you Windows Vista has a simple tool included that can help you identify the problem and remedy it quickly.

* Open the task manager (many ways to get to it, easiest is ctrl+alt+delete then select Start Task Manager)
* Navigate to the Performance tab
* Click on Resource Monitor
* Expand the disk section and sort by either reads or writes column. (more…)

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The eighth tip video by PCWizKid. Is your Windows Vista registered under the wrong name, misspelled or has been transfered to you? Follow these steps to change the registered owner name.