Tag: THEME

Whether you're an oldie that experienced everything the 70s had to offer, or you're anti-drugs with an itching curiosity to live through an LSD trip, Surreal Territory is the Windows 7 theme for you. In essence, Surreal Territory is just a bunch of pretty landscapes with the colors of the rainbow fantastically splashed across them. There are also some, er, 'magical lines'. You know... those ...

Tonight while I was browsing the Chrome Extensions Gallery, I noticed something a bit odd. A recently uploaded theme returned the error you see above when I clicked it. OK, I thought... Maybe the author really did take it down. So I tried again... Using some of the more popular themes, like the Android-inspired one I blogged about a while back. Again, the error appeared. Which got me thinking: ...

The Windows 7 Personalization Gallery is packed with good looking themes, and there's something for everyone -- from dog and cat lovers to high-end auto enthusiasts. Today, a stunning new theme has arrived and it's packed with gorgeous images from the Spitzer Space Telescope. In all, there are 14 images in the theme. Quality might be an issue for some users: at 7MB for the whole pack, each ...

Like what you've seen of the Windows Phone 7 Metro interface? Wish you could make your desktop look like it? Wish granted! A group of DeviantArt users has created the Omnimo theme for Rainmeter, the highly-customizable desktop information app for Windows. As you can see, Omnimo is a very faithful port of Metro's angular, widgety good looks. Like most good Rainmeter themes, Omnimo is packed ...

I love Roman Nurik's Android-inspired theme for Google Chrome -- but it's nice to change things up every now and then. Today, I've switched over to a new theme called Hardware which was inspired by (or remixed from) Roman's theme. Instead of Robot's muted grays and greens, Hardware is electric blue on black with a printed circuit overlay. If you're a fan of darker themes, this is one of the ...

Windows 7 offers plenty of personalization options already, but there are some nice unofficial (and unsigned) themes out there that you can't install without a little tinkering. Normally that requires downloading and patching several Windows .dll files, and it can be kind of a pain in the butt -- especially if you're not the DIY type. Kishan Bagaria has put together Windows Theme Installer ...

Plenty of free blog services come with a selection of templates, but Google has decided to take the next step with Blogger. The popular blogging site now allows you to dress up its templates with colors and images of your choice by using a simple graphical editor. Blogger Template Designer includes fifteen templates, with one, two, and three column layouts for each. Besides adding colors and ...

Ubuntu has been the "Flagship Linux" distro for quite a while now. This is the distro most people judge Linux by (and the only one I personally work with). However, its visual style remained constant for a long time, and has been starting to look a bit stale. It's difficult to convey "innovation" to end users when your product keeps the same look, version to version. There's been a lot of ...

The official Windows 7 personalization gallery already has some pretty nice themes available. Whether you're into hot cars, animals, or abstractness, there's something for (almost) everyone. Just added is a gorgeous new seasonal theme called Czech Spring which includes eight high-res springtime wallpapers. Flowers, a babbling brook, a pastoral landscape -- you can almost smell the nature-y ...

Once the official extension gallery opened, it didn't take long for unofficial themes for Google Chrome to start appearing. The problem -- as with Firefox's Personas -- is that many of them are just plain awful. Every now and then, however, a nicely done theme appears. If you're an Android fan using Google Chrome for your desktop web browsing, the Robot Theme has been crafted just for you! ...

It's been known for quite some time that Mozilla was planning to re-skin Firefox 3.7. At long last, the old default toolbar icons have finally been replaced in recent nightly Minefield builds. The new icons are nearly identical to the ones we first saw last year in the mockups. Support for Aero transparency hasn't been integrated yet, though it remains part of the 3.7/4.0 Windows Theme ...

A new plugin and companion theme is promising to make your Firefox a little futuristic. Thanks to a Firefox lover from Australia, you can make your browser look like the proposed designs for version 3.7 and 4.0. While both are nowhere near ready for release, there have been some interesting mock-ups and proposals for what it will look like. To take a look today, install his Strata40 theme ...

It's no secret that Mozilla is working on a fairly major facelift for the next major version of Firefox. We've already seen some early concepts for Linux and Windows and there's even an easy-to-install Strata 4 theme (called Strata40) for current versions of Firefox. On his personal blog Chromatic Pixel, Mozilla contributor Stephen Horlander has shared some more iterations of the Windows ...

I love Growl, the highly-customizable systemwide notification app for OS X. In fact, I love it so much that I rounded up the 10 coolest Growl styles on Download Squad a while back. Well, my post might be totally invalid now, because there's a new Growl style in town, and it's the best I've seen yet. Meet Mono. Mono is a slick, dark style featuring subtle animation, and it was created by ...

A while back, there was quite a bit of talk about the progression from initial conceptualization of Windows 7's signature wallpaper to its final form. Now, thanks to Manan Kakkar you can utilize some of the background images that were part of that evolution on your Windows desktop. There are 8 images in total which Manan has packaged as a WIndows 7 theme (using the Garden sound scheme). As ...