Theme for Aston2 inspired by DJ Hero game. I have never liked the idea of using brushed metal in UI and skins in general but I must admit it fit in quite nicely. My first animated wallpaper but so I hope you’ll like it. You can get the theme here and below you can see the 1440×900 screenshot. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did while making it. It took hours and hours too polish the look the way I wanted but I think it has payed off well.

I know some people tend to underestimate the knowledge of skinning and question its usability in other fields but I personally find the knowledge from my skinning background pretty applicable. I’ll show one example just to illustrate it.
CSS sprites, really cool way to achieve nice rollover effects, button states, look at the css code below from planetaston.com

Wow cannot believe it Opera 10 alpha is available and you can get it here.
I do not plan to write a lot about other software releases but the one that come from Gladiators Software but Opera has been my favorite browser since 2003. although I hate to admit Firefox has been developing much faster and statistics are devastating for Opera. I started to use Firefox more because of some very elemental Opera shortcomings like in-line spell checker or some add-ons that Firefox has due to ever growing and huge community. more…