Posts Tagged With: skins
· September 7, 2008 at 1:52 pm · Online Tools
Tired of the way Gmail looks? You can give it a new super clean redesign, if you have Firefox and Greasemonkey installed.
As you can see, this changes the way Gmail looks from top to bottom. I like the lighter colors and the more “clean” interface myself. You can pick up the user script for it here:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7646
Also, be sure to stay tuned on the Super Clean Gmail blog, so you get the latest updates on how the project is going, and when it has been updated:
http://gmailsuperclean.wordpress.com/
Is it about time Google did a refresh of Gmail themselves? I think so…
· August 12, 2008 at 5:31 am · Hot Web Topics, Personal
Continuing the e-mail trend from yesterday, today I thought I would share some of my favorite Firefox add-ons and themes. Listing the add-ons I use with Thunderbird is an easy task. Why? Well… there are only two of them.
Quicktext - Keep a list of pre-written messages to use in your e-mails. It also accepts variables so personalizing a static message with information you have in hand is easy to do.
Minimize to Tray - This extension minimizes Thunderbird to the system tray on the task bar. This way I can keep Thunderbird running without it getting in the way when I don’t need it.
There are only a handful of themes really worth checking out too. Here are a few of my favorite themes for Thunderbird:
Azerty ‘mail - Brighter and unique icons, but still keeps the same look and feel.
Charamel - A tan colored Thunderbird theme that is awesome, except for a few little things here and there that keep me from using it 24/7.
Silvermel - A silver port of Charamel, same look (and bugs) - just a different color.
The rest of the popular themes out there all look like Apple/Mac clones (insert yawn here), and do we really need more than one of those? I think not. Really wish DeviantArt had some better ones too, but they seem to be a little lacking with the Thunderbird skin section.
· October 30, 2007 at 9:35 am · Online Tools
While waiting for the Gmail folks to upgrade my account - figured I’d go out and look at some of the alternative themes out there for it. This one I found over at Userstyles.org - the home for scripts used with the Stylish Firefox extension (or with some, Greasemonkey).
I do have to say it looks pretty slick.
+ Check Out Gmail.app (Mac Os Style) on Userstyles.org!
· August 14, 2007 at 7:48 am · Desktop, Software Help
It has been a while since a visual style for Windows XP has tickled my “I like to dress up Windows” fancy. The TangoXP visual style though is pretty simple, pretty slick and hey, yeah it is just pretty too.
Need help on using different visual styles on Windows XP?
+ Changing Visual Styles in Windows XP Help
· November 22, 2006 at 11:09 am · Personal
Now I usually love to browse through the Windows XP visual styles on Deviant Art, but lately all of them have sucked.
They are either ugly or Vista and OS X ripoffs. With that in mind, I have to say I was pretty surprised and happy to see SlanXP had been released. I have been using it this morning and I can’t find a thing hardly wrong with it. Personally I just had to change a few of the font settings - other than that it is as good as they get.
