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It has been a while since I shared my wallpaper of choice with you all – and this time I do have a good one. How could you say, “No!” to wallpaper that looks like bubble wrap?
That’s right – you can’t. It is just so perfect, yet so simple. The only thing you have to worry about now is keeping people from touching your screen.
You know you feel the urge to pop some bubbles too!
Pick up this wallpaper for yourself at many different screen resolutions at Mandolux.
The Legend of Zelda and Christmas always seem to go together for me. Think it has to do with the fact that the most memorable Christmas I have is when I got The Legend of Zelda: a Link to the Past for Christmas as a kid. So what better way to celebrate that special tingly feeling the game series gives me than to do another custom icon creation.
+ Download the Link Desktop Icon! (.zip)
Hope you enjoy both of these very special icons. The icons are compatible with the following sizes: 256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24, 16 x 16. It is also in both .ico and .png format.
Also, hope you all have a very Merry Christmas Eve – and don’t forget to check out some of my other custom icon creations I have done in the past too.
The last of my Mega Man 9 robot master series of icons, Tornado Man is just awesome. Number one, he shoots out tornados – which in their own right are cool. Secondly, he is green, which is my favorite color. Originally a robot stationed in a weather control center. With the ability to create powerful tornadoes, he used them to offset the formation of typhoons.
+ Download the Tornado Man Desktop Icon! (.zip)
The icon is compatible with the following sizes: 256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24, 16 x 16. It is also in both .ico and .png format. Enjoy, and let me know if you like ‘em or not. More robot masters from Mega Man 9 to come? One more to go!
Download the Desktop Icons for the other Mega Man 9 Villains!
He is heavy, orange and as far from a Village People construction worker knock-off as you can get. Concrete Man, from the new Mega Man 9, is your standard villain. He’s big, powerful and doesn’t look too happy. Now you can add him to your own desktop with my latest creation, the Concrete Man desktop icon!
+ Download the Concrete Man Desktop Icon! (.zip)
The icon is compatible with the following sizes: 256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24, 16 x 16. It is also in both .ico and .png format. Enjoy, and let me know if you like ‘em or not. More robot masters from Mega Man 9 to come? We will see…
Download the Desktop Icons for the other Mega Man 9 Villains!
There is something kind of comforting about having space based wallpaper. Maybe I spend too much time staring off into my empty desktop thinking about the meaning of life? Perhaps I have some deep seeded love for Star Wars that I am not ready to admit? Here are the best of the space related wallpapers I have seen as of late…
Remember a few posts past, when I asked if anybody had a solution for Windows Vista color coded folders? I had this on Windows XP with the help of programs like Folderico. That is when I decided it might be better off creating my own colorful Vista folder icon pack so I could just do this myself – no extra program needed!
Download the Vista Colorful Folder Pack! (.zip)
All of the icons are in the .ico format, and supports the following sizes:
256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24, 16 x 16
Why color code your folders? Having color coded folders for certain documents is more than just about “making things pretty”. It is also very helpful when it comes to getting things done. Let’s say you use the green folder for your bills, green is the color of money – hence it makes you jump right to it instead of having to hunt through all those yellow folders.
Depending on how popular these are, I might release more colored folders in the future. Feel free to use them however you like. If you pass it around to a friend, might also mention where you got it and ask them to subscribe to my RSS feed for more!
I had an idea to customize a few of my default Vista icons, but had no way of doing so. I had the icon files, but no way to edit them. So after doing some browsing around I did come up with a solution to my icon editing woes.
First Step? Get Paint.NET!
First step was to pickup Paint.NET. This is an awesome free image editor with all the bells and whistles of your hundred-dollar programs.
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
Grab the Paint.NET ICO Plugin
Well worth having, just as a backup image editor if nothing else. Since Paint.net does not have .ico support built in by default, I picked up this page:
http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1152
To use it, all you need to do is unzip and then put it in the “FileTypes” folder in the Paint.NET directory.
Startup Paint.NET and try dragging and dropping an .ico icon onto the canvas. Thanks to this neat plugin, it will open just as any other image would open. With saving as an .ico, I had a few errors at times but doing it again or changing the name of the file seems to have helped.
So there is a totally free way to edit and create custom desktop icons for your next design project or desktop redecoration.
Usually the more creative wallpaper is what gets me going, but for some reason this vanilla version of a hardwood flood with lights is very appealing to me. Well, the fact that I didn’t need Home Depot to get it laid down across my desktop is a green checkmark in the win column.
If your looking for a simple work space, this wallpaper selection should do the trick for you. Check it out over at DeviantArt, where you can also pick up the 1680×1050 and 2560×1600 versions.
Yesterday I spend a little time playing around with my WordPress theme here, looking at adding widgets to themes that didn’t come “pre-designed” with them in mind. Thankfully for people like me Automattic has a great tutorial on how to get this done. Along with adding a few more features, support for gravatars and a third column I promise this version of the layout has 10% more awesomeness.
If anybody’s wallpaper belonged in an art museum rather than a desktop, it would be the wallpaper of Javier Ocasio of Studio TwentyEight. He has delivered some of the best looking and most unique wallpaper that have ever graced my PC’s desktop.
Not a believer yet? Check out some of my favorites and you soon will be…
You can get more of Javier’s work on his site or his Deviant Art profile.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
