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wallpapers i’m using at the moment

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:48:10 +0000

a designer/developer desktop

boogie — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:28:26 +0000

some of you may remember back in the day when i helped code and put together a little shell for windows called aston shell. it’s simply a program that replaces your entire explorer shell with a customizable one. there are hundreds and hundreds of themes available for the thing. there are cool little pop-out sidebars where you can put your shortcuts, a desktop notepad editor, cpu monitoring, etc. there’s all sorts of plug-ins for the thing that others have written.

the other great thing about the program is that it was designed to run more efficiently and faster than explorer. that means less crashes. that means cooler running times. that means not having to start up all of that unnecessary software that explorer requires to run. that also means faking your desktop to look like a mac, like what i did.

in my theme, i’m using a bunch of wallpapers that either i made or that my designers made. i use multiple wallpapers because i have them recirculate to a new wallpaper every 10 minutes. i’ve included a few screenshots below. the first one and the mac one was made by myself. the rest were made by designers that i work with @ coke and a designer that left us to join depthcore. there’s like 20 others in my theme that i use that were taken from either abduzeedo or depthcore, but i’ll save those for another post.

here is the theme i’m using right now. i’m also using a disk monitor plugin that i wrote as well as a dock that i wrote using the very same concepts found here, just not in javascript form. you can check out the wallpapers below. i even threw in a mac wallpaper for the apple guys.

coldplay “viva la vida” wallpapers

admin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:35:43 +0000

apparently i’ve been getting a lot of hits from my recent wallpaper blogs “inspired from apple’s coldplay ad” and noticed a ton of people were searching for high-res wallpapers of the advertisement’s screenshots. well i have them here inside of this thread.

oh i’m sorry, did i forget to mention the huge obnoxious watermark across all of them? they were taken from a 1080i video which is apparently impossible to find. you won’t find these anywhere else unfortunately.

quite jackass of me, i know. i’m simply working out my “seo” skills for this thread. if i spot an opportunity to get the panicstarter name out there thanks to a ton of people wanting these wallpapers that only i have, then why not, right?

edit: i’ve been getting a TON of hits lately for the searches “viva la vida wallpaper” and “coldplay apple wallpaper”. i’m actually on the 1st page for both on google, and yes i do have the 1080i version of the video which you most likely won’t find. i can provide you some high-res of these wallpapers. just send me an email at boostedboogie [at] gmail [dot] com. you can also find my other wallpapers and other “viva la vida” wallpaper revisions here. if you use my wallpapers, please send me a photo so i can post it up. i’d love to check it out!

wallpaper revision

admin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:37:05 +0000

got a request from 2 friends to make a non-me version of the previous wallpaper. i’ll admit it looks a whole lot better without me standing in the middle.

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and more of you have informed me that you are using my wallpapers. again, send me screenshots. i’d love to check out your setup!

wallpaper inspired by apple’s coldplay ad

boogie — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:30:33 +0000

i simply love apple’s new space/leopard theme and style with their latest ad for coldplay’s “viva la vida”…so this wallpaper is inspired by that.

i don’t expect people to be using this one much because of me obnoxiously in it. if you want a version without me in there, just let me know and i’ll throw it up. i simply did this one just to see if i could copycat the style and am quite pleased with the results. hint hint: color dodge and lots of cloud renders.

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new wallpaper thanks to a new tutorial

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:55:21 +0000

i’ve found myself to be creating wallpapers more often than usual so i’ve gone ahead and taken the liberty to creating a wallpaper category.

i know it’s impossible to see in the screenshot, but there are some colorful stars around the image. wallpaper was inspired by this wonderful tutorial.

just a quick note for those who want to give the tut a try, when you get to the nebula part, setting your cloud renders to “overlay” will not work. instead, set them to screen or some other blend mode and adjust your opacity to what you want and erase anything that darkens up the image too much.

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readers using my wallpapers

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:35:31 +0000

again, a big thank you to the readers who actually took the time to take photos of their desktops using my wallpapers. it’s actually pretty cool to see that there are a lot of female developers who check out the blog.

more submissions to follow when i get the time to sort these out.

there’s her pic. here’s her submission.