Mac users who make use of VLC media player and are tired of the cone icon can easily give it a face lift with the MacRabbit VLC Makeover Kit. Setup is easy enough:Find your copy of VLC in Finder Right- or control-click it and select “Show Package Contents” Navigate to Contents > Resources Drag all the icons from the downloaded disk image to the...

Note: This is for Windows 7 users only. In Windows XP and Vista, when you use the Windows Live Mail client, you can right-click the icon at the bottom so that it only appears as such when the app is minimized: When using the Windows Live Messenger, by default it will also have a small icon: However the problem is that these Windows Live applications do not...

Two web sites that are all about eye candy for for Linux are KDE-Look and GNOME-Look. You get your pick of the litter when it comes to.. well.. everything in a desktop environment using Linux. Wallpapers, themes, styles, window decorations, icons, cliparts, system sounds, splash screens, bootsplash, VLC themes, Xine themes.. the list goes on and on and on. So if...

The little orange guy in Google Maps as most people know is the character you see in the Street Views function. The recent update to the Google Maps service definitely puts greater emphasis on this. For example: The Street Views icon (i.e. the orange guy) is now directly on top of the zoom slider…   …and yes it’s functional. While...

Think the floppy disk is dead technology? OpenOffice 3… floppy disk! Google Docs.. floppy disk again! Windows Live Writer… FLOPPY DISK! ThinkFree.. ACK! FLOPPY DISK AGAIN! You cannot escape the floppy.. I think it’s about time to.. oh, I dunno.. change the save icon to something besides a 3.5-inch floppy...

My Ubuntu desktop looks like this (click any image for full size):When I have an app open it looks like this:The way to get Ubuntu to look like this is fairly simple. 1. Download Microsoft core fonts to get Arial Like it or not, the Arial font looks good on Windows just as Helvetica looks good on a Mac (unless you’re some typography nerd that insists...