October 19, 2011
Maybe you despise the idea of dressing up your Android phone to make it look like an iPhone. Or maybe you wouldn’t mind some new eye candy for your phone. Either way, the fact remains that there are a large number of theme developers out there just waiting for users to download and give their apps a chance.
September 8, 2011
You have to admit that Gnome Shell does look elegant, even if you completely hate it for how it works. Some people even say that Gnome Shell practically breaks every ergonomics rule in the book, but others seem to enjoy it. Currently I myself find it most useful on my netbook, and I like what the developers have done to try to put some new life into the boring old desktop.
June 14, 2011
When you upgraded to Snow Leopard most things probably got much better, but occasionally you might stumble across something that doesn’t suit you and you want to change it back. One of these little annoyances is changing the application icons. Once upon a time, you used to be able to copy and paste your preferred icons in order to change them to a new icon. But in Snow Leopard things are different.
November 4, 2010
Have you ever noticed how many little Facebook symbols are scattered throughout the Facebook landscape? There has to be a Facebook team in some back cubicle at headquarters just thinking up what little image Facebook could offer next. Whatever the reason for so many little images, the one thing it can do is cause a [...]
September 28, 2010
There are a vast number of free icon sets online, but if you want to roam beyond pure particular use, there are also a score of problems connected to them. Licensing and the lack of branding are just two of them. Even if you’re not a software developer, learning to create your own icons is [...]
March 28, 2010
Day in, day out; you browse folders, open programs and files. Each and every time you, see the same boring icons that everyone sees on their computers. Why be the same as everyone else when it’s not difficult to be unique? You can easily personalize your computer and set it apart from the masses. Folders [...]
March 22, 2010
Icons don’t take up much space. The little 16×16 (up to 256×256) graphics though, grab our attention. How many times have you judged a software or web app, just by looking at its icons? Originally meant to make computers easier for newbies to understand, icons now occupy all the spaces where you care to look. [...]
November 19, 2009
Humans are, by nature, good visual learners. That’s why visual things are engraved easier in our brain. We will recognize faces in photos easier than listening to the description. That is also why the first thing that we will remember about a certain type of file or application is its icon. In the computer world, [...]
September 5, 2009
How boring is yellow? The color brings on a state of yellow blindness when you have been staring at it for a decade. But ever since I can remember, that has been Microsoft’s color of choice for its folders. Vista has brought in some changes, but for us Windows XP users it’s the same old [...]
September 3, 2009
I find myself using the same crappy buttons on websites because that is all I have. Everyone knows that buttons and icons are a integral part of any website. So it’s always back to the drawing board and start making new icons! Time and time again I have to create custom icons and buttons for [...]
