Heya folks,

as you can see I didn't submit or commented for a while, the lack of activity is the result from a depression, I currently suffer.
It's been almost two years and now I'm getting treatment and hope I get the energy and motivation to create some new stuff.

ATM I'm not very happy with the new OS's, the customization gets more difficult, even the usability is back to the early 80's. Currently I make myself familiar with Linux, especially Arch and I love it, it's fast, but very complex And I hope Adobe etc. finally see, what a huge market they would fill with versions for Linux, a lot of people switch to Ubuntu etc, it's easy to set up and even easier to use.

That's why I want to concentrate on Android and Linux, the possibilities are endless and I've a lot of fun with my smartphone and laptop

Take care
and have a nice weekend
-Chris

ohhhh my god, all I see are ponies, with cute eyes and in all colours of a rainbow,
going mad here, maybe it was the LSD I took as a teenager... mmh

please help me

Heya folks,

I don't know about you, but I was always sick of the default windows font rendering, that's why I used GDI++ with Windows XP and GDIpp with Win7, until a few months ago GDIpp worked great, but then there where a lot of compatibility issues (Google Chrome/Firefox).
Now I found this [link] on a chinese board [link] (yeah yeah yeah, at least with google translate I could read something )
Works awesome and you can switch language, still a pretty shitty translation, but great tools to create configs and it runs as a service.

Check it out
-Chris

PS: added a screenshot [link]

//UPDATE
there is a new google code site available with a new installer [link]

PSS: the update fixed some issues with chrome/firefox

IMDB [link]

Just watched AHS and loved it. But I think it gets canceled with the next season, too graphic and kinky

Take care
-Chris

PS: Still hoping for Dribbble invitation

Hi there!

Has anyone a Dribbble invitation for me?
If yes, please leave a note.

What's new? Absolutely nothing...
Wait, found a two year old cookie...


YEAH you thought I would taste it, right?
well I did, was still good

Take care and Ladies, always shave the back of your knee
-Chris

most of the time, I listen to Metal/Hard Rock

but I've a fable for the 80s and at work I can't listen to Metal, my colleagues would kill me so I listen 80s music (thanks to Last.fm) and most of the time I know the songs, but I couldn't name them, but today I even started to dance and since it's not a very complex song, it was easy to find.
And a few minutes ago I googled for "Maria Magdalena" and now I've a huge queue of songs, gotta love YouTube

A journey through the Internet
Take care and don't forget the matching poll
-Chris

PS: and that's why "Vice City" is the best GTA ever

Normally I don't do something like this, most people delete "their" stuff, if someone "point out" that its stolen or ripped off, but this guy is... is... well I can't find the right words

this is the deviation by ~landscapepic
:thumb169541592:
You can actually see the original signature on the pic

and this was his note:

_{hi! can you give me the link to the "original tree"?i will delete if i found it similar to my version.}

My response was (well yeah a little rude):

<sub>F*CK are you for real

"your version" is the one from the Desktopography exhibition 3 by =pete-aeiko and the original is from ~detail24

people like you really piss me off
you can actually see the signature on "your version"

bold and stupid, great combination</sub>

So spread the love

...tested the new CS5 trial and its great, it's fast (much faster than my CS3) and has a lot of new options (especially the new drawing and painting options are great), loving it...
...laid my hands on a few old Queen Millennia videos, I really like this old anime...
...and got myself a new PC, everyone want to know the specs? maybe I should make something like this


And how you doin'?
-Chris

Hallo Leute,

wollte mein Wacom Intuos 3 A4 (Large) Special Edition verkaufen, hab vor mir demnächst ein neues Intuos 4 zu zulegen.
Das Intuos 3 hat mir immer gute Dienste geleistet, aber ich mag die neuen Funktion am Tablett die Arbeitsfläche zu drehen, da man ja schlecht das Tablet drehen kann

Das ist mit dabei:
1 x Wacom Intuos 3 A4 SE (Special Edition ist komplett schwarz und hat den Airbrush pen)
1 x Pen + mines
1 x Airbrush pen
1 x Rechnung (für Restgarantie, gekauft im Nov. 2008)

ich dachte dabei an 320€, und dann per Paypal.

Bei Interesse einfach melden
-Chris

All I've are half finished skins for foobar, Windows, CAD and some Icons.

I don't know, maybe it's the season or something, but I don't get started on my themes and/or drawings. All I wanna do is sleeping, listen to music and watching movies, not really productive and then I eat a lot of crap too
Luckily I've to get up at 6 and walk to work but its actually pretty nice, I can make snowballs and throw them on houses/windows

Soooo, I guess Winter isn't that bad at all

Take care
-Chris

Just watched some cool music videos

MC Hammer - U can't touch this
Snap - The Power
etc.

when I found this cool remix, I am not a fan of electronic music, more of a metal-head myself, but this is very cool, nice beat
Check it out: [link]

take care
-Chris

Yesterday I watched the season final of Dexter, and I am not amused its not what I hoped for. I don't want to spoil anything, but that is a very sad ending and so lame, the authors wrote exactly the most predictable ending.
I never read the books or any articles, but I hope they have/had a better story and please, next time (if I watch it , get a better story and don't repeat the same shit over and over again...

Wish you all a very nice day and please have some cookies
-Chris

Hello there,

I just bought my first MP3 Album from the Amazon shop, normally I buy a CD and rip it to my HDD (mostly lossless , but the Soundtrack I bought wasn't available on CD.
By the way the soundtrack I am talking about is from the Movie Ink [link]
It was a great movie with amazing music. So I thought, go and buy the CD, but then I read that the movie wasn't that successful and they never pressed the soundtrack on CD.
But I think this was a unique experience. Why? It's damn expensive, I just paid 9 bucks for a bunch of mp3 files, no case, no cover, still a good rip with a good bitrate, but not compared to FLAC or APE.

Sorry to be such a pain in the arse
Have a good night
-Chris

PS: I want my treat! NOW! ...jafsd3251qafj... You damn cat, get off my keyboard, Sorry...

So I just tested the newest WindowBlinds release and I don't like it at all. The new UIS0 feature is nice (FYI its the default Aero engine with the ability to add textures and simple changing the color) but the rest is just not worth it, some apps I use on daily basis don't skin like they should be (Google Chrome, Firefox) the glass doesn't work and have very weird borders.
Under XP in combination with LS/BB, WB works great, the whole system was fast and it was really cool to work with it, but atm I think normal Windows 7 VS are much better.
I am little disappointed about WindowBlinds and its not worth the 20 bucks. Sorry Stardock you lost yourself a subscriber...

Take care and have a nice weekend
-Chris

Just finished listening to the latest Rammstein album, and its great. Equivocal and provocative as always, five stars
My first CD ever was the second Rammstein album, I was fifteen and my parents thought I was kinda, well lets face it, disturbed

Do you've any recommendations for an album?
-Chris


Features

I don't know whats going on, but yesterday I could browse on this site without any problems. Sure I had some issues with the Google Chrome browser I use, but after an update, everything works great. Today I can't even check my messages, far less browse through galleries.

Anyone the same problems? The last time I had this issues, when I used the Opera browser, but even Opera works great now. Maybe the devart developers should test new functions before they set em loose


//Update
Now its working again, maybe it was just a temporary glitch, don't know


Have a nice weekend
-Chris

A little tip for all the Windows 7 + Wacom tablets user out there.
After I installed the Wacom Drivers, I got a huge "Show Desktop" button. (In Windows 7 its the new button on the right side of the superbar)
I thought it was a bug in one of the Visual styles I used, but after I did some research I found out it has something to to with a service, which Windows starts after the installation of the Wacom drivers. It's called "Tablet PC Input Service". I stopped it and the button went back to the normal size and I think its much better this way.

If you've the same "problem", this is how its done:
Press the start button and type "services.msc" in the search field. (Enter)
Stop the "Tablet PC Input Service" and set the start mode to "Disabled". (OK)

After that your "Show Desktop" button should resize to the normal state. And don't worry your Wacom will work as always.
-Chris

I just read, that next year, Metropolis the movie from 1927 (Wikipedia), are going to be fully restored, uncut and re-released.
Its great news and I love this movie and watched two different version, the Cinema cut and the Original cut-cut
But now they found a copy of the original Uncut in South America (Buenos Aires) and restored it for over 200.000€. I think its one the most extraordinary movies and every time I watched it I was impressed by the pictures and vision, especially if you think about that the movie dates from 1927.

Features

Since I use Win7, I use mostly the library function, created a project library and put all my folders/files for current projects in there.
But there has to be some better way, sometimes I use some files for 2 or more projects and then I have to copy or move the file through the projects.
I found this very cool app called Flow [link] , but its very expensive and I don't know, didn't test it yet

Most people don't have that many files for one project, just a PSD for a drawing or something, but when I create a theme/website for example, I have hundreds of text files, photoshop, html and css files, not just for my private stuff, for work too.
Good example are the latest Litestep themes I made, VPR and Gaia have more than 200 files (rc's, psd's)

How do you organize you projects? Do you use a tool to keep track of files? Tell me!

Have a nice weekend
-Chris

Features

Got a new job, so I'm a little busy right now. Still working on my stuff Don't worry...


Experience with Win7

Still think its amazing and already modified some themes and resources...
I am little disappointed with WindowBlinds. It's not bad, but its definitely not the best way to skin Win7.
On WinXP the possibilities are almost infinite especially in combination with Litestep, but the most stuff you can do in Win7, are already available with the default theme engine. I don't know if I make any WB themes for Win7.

I bought the Vista Style Builder and think its a good way to edit/create new themes.

Take care and tell me what's new on your side of the world...
Chris-


PS: I love Aero