Behold!

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One cold winter morning,I was as usual, strolling through my daily coffee of tech forums early this morning {which had mostly experienced ‘geeks’, much like our forums}, when I saw a post about some error a fellow geek has encountered on his desktop, he was fortunate enough to post a screenshot of his desktop; but just as I was about to scratch my head over to help him solve that problem {which was , heck, new to me!}, something else began to scratch my head, something more intense, more rationale to this problem.. it was his desktop.It hadn’t been the way it is to be. Not the error message dialog box, it was his taskbar and window UI.. completely different , dark and fiery. Looked like a World of Warcraft stuff to me..I was affixed with this matter for quite a while.. why would someone, atleast this guy, who I would have described as a “intermediate geek” if it were not for this screenshot. It puzzled me.. why would SOMEONE like that ever have the time or the right mind to do something like that? I used to run my windows stripped off from the default theme to save precious resources and RAM even though I had enough.. because it just felt right.. and felt faster no matter how much fast hardware we have here in this modern era.. it felt different, nevertheless.

My windows desktop AFTER I heavily customized it..

My desktop since then ^; and If you've mistaken this for windows 98, then close this page and never ever visit us again.

A couple of days passed by and I saw more users more like me who had themed desktops.. So one day, I took great courage and decided to customize my desktop. BAM! Then I realized what it meant…  all of a sudden it felt different, no less intriguing, and also proved negligible impact on performance. It did feel the exactly the same as when I long ago, stripped off the theme from my PC..Then I was able to realize the difference. It was the change that mattered. Consistency has died and variety has added to the spice of life. Such and such customization is a key component to a UI’s user friendliness factor.{ By user friendliness, I do mean it literally too, } It is the essence of assurance to the user, that his desktop has been altered to his taste and needs. For me its was changing the colors of UI to get my brain receptors from thinking that my workplace is not the same old useless thing. I don’t know how many others have the same opinion about this. For others , this could mean anything from being “cool” , to showing off {but if only they knew that It was mainly the inner contentedness that gets them prepped..} It has a couple of other advantages too.. for eg; if you were reading an ebook in your bed at night {from a smartphone or an ebook reader}, a darker theme would be easy on your eyes in the low light.{it also saves energy in addition to saving your eyes, so yeah its green! {lol well not literally} }Other uses could be in laptop back covers.. just imagine a room that is fully white, white walls, decor, furniture, even your shirt, and your laptop, all white. Now slip on a full black cover accessory to the back of the laptop. Classy! You will be noticed. {http://bitly.com/inspiron} And it has also other meaningful added advantages, for example, you can choose to be cool and caring at the same time by pasting an awesome AIDS awareness stickers on the back of your mobile or a laptop or even on the backside of your office computer’s monitor.

And adding to all of the above, it never fails to bring about an important factor that we all desire , the “change”. The extent of personalization, and the more vivid the device will be, and the more meaningful it will present to you. Believe me, online geeks, this works.

Do you like change in your life? If so , you are awesome

While Personalization could mean setting the theme over a wide range of gadgets like smartphones, mobiles , desktops, laptops, tablets and all its interiors {software} and exteriors, it can even be applied to software apps like web browsers or just any other applications. For example, Even your music player’s playlists are a personalization, or the lanyard you tug it on your mobile so it ‘looks at least secure’. So its not just limited to setting the theme , its  about , well , personalization! For instance, I never can live without navigating myself to the options/preferences menu in any newly installed software/app. “like this” blog post if you do the same too!

Now let me round up what I think about all of this..

• I like to personalize my things regularly so they don’t feel “old” to me
• I like to support for causes by including flashy stickers and wallpapers
• I like to personalize anything to a darker theme in the night and a brighter theme in a sunny day so it just fits right and gives outright visibility too.
• My gadgets tell that I’m more concerned about them as I install lanyards, anti theft software’s and what not..

The above points are what I think that best reflects my view on me and my gadgets. This is what I am, a geek with a flair for productivity even when it comes to personalization.

This is a subtle message to your mom that implies you are busy playing angry birds on your iPhone all the time and that you shall be angry should you be disturbed at that point.

So the bottom line is, personalization is a good asset, not just a useless thing that we power users often mistake it for and again, its not just limited to setting the themes and it’s all about the change and the outcomes it can provide.

So get over now, and start personalization and let the change flow in! Give us your views on how you and your gadgets symbolize your personality and needs.

Lets hope for change!

By the way, thumbs up to you all if you’ve spotted an element of personalization in this blog post and knew it coming! Thanks again, for the read. And for those who still haven’t spotted it, I’ve used the curly brackets instead of the normal ones in this whole post. (curly brackets are the geek’s favorite thing after Linux, oh or you’ve probably knew that already, and if you didn’t , why are you reading this anyway?)

 

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-PCstats.com

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-letmedefine.com

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