We all like to customize our desktops to reflect our tastes. We do this by putting a picture of our favorite bands as the wallpaper, using our favorite color as the operating system color scheme, and with the newest softwares available we can even dock our favorite programs fancily right on our desktops.
Custom icons are another great way to make using computers fun. Having a mini T-Rex where the Recycle Bin should be is one example of custom icons. For people who use custom icons and change from one set of icons to the next rather frequently, 365icon is surely a mouthwatering delight. They provide some of the highest quality free icons available on the internet.
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I always wanted to do a post on Wallpapers, specially High Quality. Have loads of them in my hard disk, packs and packs of them and If I start sharing all those it will take ages. So, I thought why not share them category wise? only the best ones. With that intention, here’s my first post on high quality wallpapers, starting with Nature. Why I choose nature is because they look extravagant specially when you’ve un-checked “Show Icons on Desktop” =). I hope you like these.
Attitude By Ladyrapid
Amazing Nature Wallpapers By Dominic Kamp
Castle Mountain
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Véronique Meignaud aka Marmotte, is a french freelance illustrator living in Paris, working mainly for video games industry as concept artist (character & environment design) and for several publishers. If you love Illustrations, this is an artist who should be followed for sure. An impressive portfolio, worked for companies like Electronic Arts, Darkworks, Gameloft, Spidergames and much more. Here are some examples which I found brilliant and share worthy. For more info and full work, check out her website & blog.
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I always got stuck when editing a home made video, adding those special effects with music etc looked like a hell of a job. Not anymore, here’s a website that lets you edit your videos with all the required elements. Presenting Masher, where you can create online videos, mash up pictures and music.
You can upload your pictures, music and videos and then edit them in their online Studio. There are lots of pre-given effects, music files, skins and even videos which you can use to either experiment or use them in your stuff. The Timeline is also very easy to use (see screenshot below):
The first one is the Skins bar where you can add skins like a LCD TV, Marquee lights or even a breaking news scene. After that, add a effect, like Rain, stars or whatever you prefer. It also gives you the ability to add text. So do check it out if you’re looking to edit your home videos in a professional way.
Looking to play HD content (Movies etc) on Your PS3? Here’s an awesome guide written by AudioBoxer which lets you play HD Files (.MKV), tackling it with NO/minimal quality loss. Normally HD movies are in GB’s but you don’t have to worry about that, PS3 can support drives up to 350GB and you can keep your favorite movies in it easily.
To play HD Content on your PS3, you’ll be needed
Setting Up PS3 Media Server
The first screen you will see is the status screen.
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Windows 7, something which is way better than Vista (I hate Vista) – speedwise and supports almost every thing. Most of the users (like myself) have shifted or are being shifted to Windows 7 gradually. There are many awesome windows 7 applications, almost all the major ones already have their own versions which are for windows 7 only. I’ve compiled here a small list of Windows 7 applications that you will definitely like, some of these applications are new and are in beta phase (which you can also participate in the testing and development), rest have their final versions, so on and so forth.
1- Windows 7 Application Launcher (7APL)
7APL is an application launcher made with Windows 7 in mind. You can launch single applications or group of applications with a single hot key or by using the newest features of Microsoft’s latest OS — JumpLists and interactive thumbnails which are well-integrated into the application. This gives you 3 easy ways to launch applications:
- Right click access to profiles through JumpLists (whether the app is opened or closed)
- Customizable hot keys for each individual profile
- Interactive thumbnail to view/launch profiles (hover over 7APL icon in taskbar)
Features Include:
- Profiles – Group applications into profiles to launch them simultaneously.
- Profile pictures – Associate pictures with profiles to easily identify between them.
- Hotkeys – Specify hotkeys on a per-profile basis to launch your applications
- Interactive thumbnail – Launch profiles directly from the taskbar
- Jumplist support – Launch profiles or tasks directly using jumplists
- Toggle Mode – Toggle mode allows you to close the apps you launched (on a per-profile basis)
- Exceptions – Pesky applications that won’t close can be added as an exception
- Pinning – The application pins just fine for those who want it constantly running
- Options – Run 7APL at system boot, minimize on startup, and minimize on close ensures you can keep the launcher running at all times if desired
Download Here (Beta Version)
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IxEdit is a JavaScript-based interaction design tool for the web. With IxEdit, designers can practice DOM-scripting without coding to change, add, move, or transform elements dynamically on your web pages. Especially, IxEdit must be useful to try various interactions rapidly in the prototyping phase of your web application.
With features like Editing directly from the browser, J-query powered smart code, saving data using local hub etc, designers can benefit greatly.
I have to admit, I’m a wordpress theme hunter myself since I run some blogs based on it. Getting a new theme is always refreshing, for me and for the readers. Not often but yes, I do it randomly. If you’ve been to Smashing Downloads earlier, you might have noticed a change =). Anyway, for past couple of weeks or so I’ve been saving / bookmarking new wordpress themes that I didn’t confronted earlier. They’re high quality for sure so to save people some time, I’ve combined a list of 14 wordpress themes and I hope you like them.
Also, if you want more, I’ve complied 13 Awesome Collections of Free Wordpress Themes in the past. Do check that one out as well.
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AltPE (Alternative Picture Editor) is a freeware application alternative to your usual image editor. To retouch and edit images, and add basic effects on your photos, there is no need to hack the latest version of Adobe Photoshop.
AltPE works with most popular image formats: PNG, BMP, GIF, TIF, PPM, PGM, PNM, JPEG (compression adjustable) and JPEG2000. And it supports RAW through DCRaw. You can add text on the design, size and shape rotate as desired. Adjust color, light and contrast of the image. Remove annoying red eye effect on pictures. And, among many other functions, supports the TWAIN standard to also use a scanner.
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I’m confronting much useful Adobe Photoshop tutorails on almost daily basis. Trying most of them and am getting good at creating things which I thought I won’t be able to. My skill levels with the help of these tutorials has definitely increased and I’m getting more and more addictive to Photoshop. In the past I’ve compiled great adobe photoshop tutorials in couple of posts (49 Tutorials in total) which a lot of people loved and I’m grateful for that, If you missed, here’s the list;
16 Exciting Adobe Photoshop Tutorials To Boost Your Creativity
33 Tutorials to Unleash the Photoshop Beast in You
Today, I’m presenting another list of some awesome and useful adobe photoshop tutorials and I hope you like them. Also do subscribe to our RSS feeds, via your reader or email.
1- Create an Abstract Style, Vibrant Jumping Man Scene (Tutorial)
2- Create A Vibrant Space Nebula (Tutorial)
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