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By hiding all icon in the will give more space in the windows taskbar. This tricks has tested in Windows XP Sp2, sure. For other version of windows maybe its does not work. Afte do this tips all active and inactive icon will be hidden and “Hide inactive icon” option in the “taskbar and start menu properties” will not active.

If you want a cleaner look or you want to hide a certain icon in your tray icons near the clock do the following tips:

1. Open registry editor (Click Start and choose Run, type regedit then press enter)
2. Navigate to following registry key: “HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorer”
3. Create new DWORD entry called “NoTrayItemsDisplay” (without quote).
4. Open it and give it the HEX value 1 instead of 0
5. Close regedit and reboot your computer to take effect. And look in the systray, now no icon appear in the system tray.

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Most people don’t think about backing up their Mac until after disaster strikes; by then, it’s too late. So What are you waiting for, Looking for a Free Mac OS Backup Tools. Don,t worry here am posting some of the Best MAC OS Backup Apps and Yes they are free. Check out the following List .

1. SilverKeeper:

SilverKeeper is free application from LaCie that automates backups to external storage devices like hard drives, and other removable storage devices that have SATA/eSATA, IDE, ATA/ATAPI, SCSI, USB, or FireWire interfaces. It is now compatible with OS X 10.3.9 through 10.5.x. This includes the current version 10.5.5 of OS X.

2. Bonkey:

Bonkey is an easy-to-use backup software that will automatically back up your data to local disks, network locations, FTP, SFTP, or an Amazon S3 account. Bonkey is also able to backup Microsoft SQL server databases.
One other important feature of this software is that it includes encryption and compression and it can do full backups or only to modified files.

3. Time Machine:

Time Machine, the backup software included with the Mac OS since OS X 10.5, lets you easily create and maintain current backups of all your important data. It also makes recovering lost files a simple, and dare I say fun, process.

It makes backing up your data so easy you may forget that it’s there, working quietly in the background, automatically backing up your data.
Time Machine also offers one of the best interfaces for recovering a specific file or folder from a backup. ‘Time Machine - Backing Up Your Data Has Never Been So Easy’ provides a step-by-step guide to configuring
Time Machine and creating your first backup.

4. JaBack:

JaBack is a software that can help you execute tasks. Backup software with advanced automation features. The backup file is in standard zip format which allows you to restore data using any zip utility. After backup, You can ftp or email the backup file.

JaBack also includes synchronize, copy, and zip tasks to satisfy all your backup and archiving needs. Schedule tasks by the second or minute, or on a hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis.

5. Mathusalem:

Mathusalem is a robust and unintrusive backup system for Mac OS X Leopard, which can be used either as a System Preferences pane or directly as a command line tool.

Mathusalem is complementary to
Time Machine as it backups automatically one or more directories of your choice to remote servers in order ensure extra safety of your most important data. Be aware that Mathusalem is not designed to “clone” an entire file system or a subportion of it, but instead to optimally handle everyday simple backups.

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Loginox is the simple way to customize your login screen. If your Mac is password protected, the first screen you see after starting up is the login screen. This screen contains the default image of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, which can get boring after a while. Loginox is an application which lets you easily customize your login screen.

Use Loginox to change the login back ground image with a single Drag-and-Drop. Why navigate through all the folders on your hard disk? Drag a JPG image from anywhere and drop it into the main window of Loginox. A simple click on the “set new login image” button will change the login
background image.

The image size of the default image is 2560 x 1600 and has a ratio 8/5. You can prepare your images with Sizerox (www.sizerox.com) to have the right dimension and ratio for your customized login screen.

If you want to switch back to the Leopard default login
background image click on the “Reset to default” button
Download Loginox here

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