wrSideLinks is a free (freeware) desktop utility which you can get here . It is made by very talented programmer from Cuba, Rogert Gomez Ocano who has earned its fame by releasing several very popular plugins for Astonshell. This amazing app (others  should folloow soon) will have its own website (work is in progress). As the author stated this app is a tribute to Astonshell and it is designed for people who like to experience a taste of Aston. This app works as Aston’s sidebars (toolbars) and works great under explorer, Astonshell and Aston2 Shell.

System Requirements: Win 9x, Windows XP, Windows Vista
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Stay tuned for updates and news on this gem

Aston2 Shell has been released and it is looking really awesome. You can check it out here and the new web site is coming soon.
I am really amazed with what those guys from Gladiators have managed to achieve. What we are experiencing here is pure hardware acceleration. I remember I once had a dream (like all of the people using skinnable software and desktop shells) of animated desktop, and this is a dream come true.

My favorite features definitely  are icon zooming on the fly (by using ctrl+ mouse scroll like in some browsers) and Live Wallpapers. The only down side is still very complicated skinning process but WSIWYG skin editor is going to be the next big thing which we can expect in the following months. I’ll try to talk to Dmitry Cashev (main Aston2 programmer besides Nick Egorov and Oleg Bulychov) about giving us some really neat tips on what is the best way to skin A2, to kill some time before editor becomes available

Desktop supports 3ds (3d Studio Max) files which is really amazing, yes good news for you out there that like that thing (I suck at 3d Max ). How it can be used you can see from several skins made by Vitaly Cashev. Really awesome if you are a game developer Vitaly hats down.

I’ll try to  figure out some things by myself during the weekend. In the mean time enjoy this beauty.

Now it is official, the new look is on. I have been working on it for a long time and the new things in general are:

There are several more things on their way but I’ll keep you inform about that.