Circles III : Gaia

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An update of my Circles 2.1 pack, expanding it to 120 icons. It is now also available in 8 different colour schemes drawn from the Gaia09 project.

As a digital musician, there is a slight focus on music software, but there are nearly 90 other icons for all major operating systems.

Cartoon fox for Firefox icon by ~Bucinhas.
Sample background image by =lassekongo83.

The full list of icons:

Creative
Acrobat - After Effects - Air - Bridge - Contribute - Corel - Design - Dreamweaver 1 - Dreamweaver 2 - Encore - Fireworks - Flash - Gimp - Illustrator - ImageReady - InDesign - Inkscape - OnLocation - Photoshop 1 - Photoshop 2 - Picasa - Premiere - Soundbooth

Music
Ableton Live - Audacity - Cubase - Foobar - FruityLoops - Garage Band - iPod - iTunes - Logic - ProTools - Real - Reason - Record - Recycle - Renoise - Sonar - Songbird - Sony SoundForge - Spotify - Torq - Traktor - VLC - Wavelab - WinAmp - Windows Media Player - Zen - Zune

Office
Access - Excel - Office - OneNote - Open Office - Outlook - Planon - PowerPoint - Project - Publisher - Word

System
Apple - Clock - Computer - Configure - Drive C - Drive D - Drive E - Drive F - Drive Z - DVD/CD Drive - Files - Games - Gnome - Mail - Movies - Music 1 - Music 2 - Photos - Recycle Bin (empty) - Recycle Bin (full) - Restart - Sleep - Start - Tools - Ubuntu - Windows

Utilities
CCleaner - CD Burner XP - DVD Shrink - Xplorer2 - FileZilla - Nero - Notepad - ObjectDock - QuickTime - RocketDock

Web
Browsers - Chrome - Digsby - Facebook - Firefox - Firefox 2 - Instant Messaging - Internet Explorer - Limewire - Opera - Pidgin - RSS - Safari - Skype - Thunderbird - TweetDeck - Twhirl - Twitter - Twitter 2 - uTorrent

Circles 2

I've created a series of seventy one icons for your RocketDock / ObjectDock customisations. The icons come in 256 x 256 pixel PNG format. Enjoy and share!

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Fwonk* T-Shirts

There's now a range of t-shirts available with some unique Fwonk* designs - including some unique guitar effects pedals.

Check out the range here.

New Fwonk* Design

Okay, so I know I create a new flipping design for Fwonk* every 6 minutes... but this one is here to stay for some time. The horizontal scrolling thing was way too uneven and seemed to depend on viewing it on an enormous resolution. I created a new design to replace that mistake, and this is just a tweak on that design (now with a brick wall background and more info on the title page).

I expect there to be a flurry of releases on Fwonk* in the next week or two - we have music from Smoke & Mirrors, Echosonic and myself as Heskin Radiophonic.

Customising Your Desktop pt.2

I just enhanced and edited my previous post about modding your Windows Desktop, so it's now a part of the new Tutorial section of the Fwonk* Forum. Read it here.

Customising Your Desktop

Customising my desktop has become quite a geeky hobby of mine. The above image (click for full size image) is my current desktop at work. I have a similar setup at home. The task bar is on auto-hide, though I have the SlanXP2 theme installed.

Using TweakUI I have removed all of my desktop icons - I just don't like them cluttering up my screen! So the key to navigating through programmes and folders is this little box down in the bottom right. I have this sitting over the top of all my other programmes, though I can click through everything bar the icons themselves.


This is a combination of two highly useful programmes. The time, system details and transparent black background are a customised version of the Enigma theme for Rainmeter. This is a highly customisable utility that sits in your system tray and provides all manner of information you might need.

The black icons is a customised version of RocketDock. This features the Stacks Docklet, which allows grouping of icons - as seen here, I have my Microsoft Office programmes under one icon.

This is only the beginning for your 133t h4xx0r5 out there, who go into far further detail, using EmergeDesktop and LiteStep and all manner of shell custom programmes.

There are all manner of sites out there to help you get or create your own wallpapers too. Try a few of the follwing:

• deviantART
• Customize.org
• InterfaceLIFT
• Lifehacker

Get hacking!

Desktop Customisation

Believe it or not, but the above is my desktop at work (click for a larger image). Gone is pretty much everything, with the exception of ObjectDock. I created a set of icon buttons using Inkscape, got rid of everything from the desktop (including wallpaper!) I just really prefer a clean, clutter free work environment.

Here's a close up on the dock:
Many of the buttons are for work specific software, but it is easily customisable for other uses. You can download a RAR file with the icons, fonts and original Inkscape file here.

Sawteeth Records

I've been reading and researching teh stylee nu trends in web design, and having looked back on my portfolio, realised I needed to revisit some of the older sites I designed to spruce them up.

First amongst these is Sawteeth Records. This is a website created by my mucker Vasko. The basic design and graphics of the old site I linked to above are a bit long in the tooth by today's standards, so I am working on a new update with swizzy new CSS and navigation method.

You can preview the site here.

Latest Designs

I've been working on a couple of things lately, I've redesigned the Mechagodzilla website with fancypants new graphics, been working on a guitar tutorial website for a local guitar tutor and designed a logo for a new charity - the Society for Safe Migration, which aims to promote safe migration for people who often travel in perilous circumstances.