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Scene Deskmod Minimal

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January 12, 2009
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Myriad on Windows Vista SP1

*** FEATURED AND RELEASED ***
It was a big suprise but this screenshot got featured on Lifehacker.
I had to hurry up finishing the skins, but eventually got them uploaded. You can see and download them from here.

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Borrowed Skins
Vista Visual Style // Antar Basic by MANNiEmedic
Wallpaper // minorkeyWS by ether
Icons // affel by bobbyperux

Modified Skins
Winamp // Myriad Winamp Classic of Mire v2 Winamp by biftek.
CAD // Myriad CAD of Pure Adium by Nevezen
Colorpad // Myriad Colorpad (loosely based on Sonetto by eos8)
Rainmeter // Myriad Rainmeter - (code borrowed from spr33 and AKH-Arazand)

Original Skins
Rocketdock + stacks docklet // Myriad Dock
Skincalc // Myriad skincalc
Codepad // Myriad Codepad
Shutoff // Myriad Shutoff
Media Player Classic // Myriad MPC Logo
Same Game // Myriad Same Game
Snake Game // Myriad Snake

3d Color Changer // Myriad 3dcc
Resource hacker // changed program icons to blank icon, changed power and network status icons in the systray

Unseen
Other little apps running hidden to improve functionality & productivity
Hoekey // mapped winkey + (letter) to launch all my favourite little apps (skincalc, colorpad, codepad, notepad2, shutoff, console2)
Desktop Media // creates a shortcut on the desktop whenever a USB drive / cd is inserted.
Ditto // the best clipboard catcher I've used
Magic Mail Monitor // checks my Pop3 account
QTTabbar // adds tabs and a whole lot more to Explorer

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History
I ventured into the realm of desktop customization while I was on 98se and stumbled across the invaluable resource of WinT's forums. He was king of the smooth minimal look, and would hack everything that he could. Ever since them I've always tried to make my desktop look as least "default" as possible. I like change, and I can't resist a nice minimal, yet useable look. With Vista came a whole set of new challenges though as I myself haven't yet tried to make my own Visual Style. Thankfully there is some great work being done some very clever people. The artists that come to mind are invaderjohn, sweatyfish, nindijin, dimage, and MANNiEmedic.

Details
This theme came about when I was looking back at a previous screenshot of mine when I was on XP, I was using Mirev2 - a fantastic dark minimal opensource XP Visual Style. Not long after that I discovered the BASIC (non-aero) version of MANNiEmedic's Antar VS. It was fairly close to what I was looking for. It was the first Vista VS that effectively pulled off a dark explorer window background. Invaderjohn had featured several screenshots of WIP's but he was encountering a few color issues so they got out of beta. This however did the job, just needed a good dose of the 3dcc to fix up some of the colors.

Credits
All the skins details are below, but I would like to especially give credit to MANNiEmedic for his great work on the VS, and to pepijnnuland and asuraci for their work on the mirev2 suite. Lastly to WinT, possibly the father of windows desktop customization.

The Myriad Suite is open source so feel free to edit and release anything. If possible please keep the open source love going. Also please leave a reply on this page so myself and others can check out your work.
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~Red-Steel Jul 13, 2010  Hobbyist Interface Designer
the whole thing is quite fantastic. great work man :D:peace:

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~AlbinoAsian Jul 14, 2010  Hobbyist Artist
why thanks! =D
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Mood: Joy !jefersongomes Jul 13, 2010
Nice Shot.

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~cyrixDesign Jul 13, 2010  Student Interface Designer
very nice work :D !

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~AlbinoAsian Jul 13, 2010  Hobbyist Artist
thanks very much mate!
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~cyrixDesign Jul 13, 2010  Student Interface Designer
np dude :D

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*Del11boy Mar 24, 2010
Awesome Work Bro! :wow: :omg: :+fav: :peace:
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*ether Jul 24, 2009
holy crap, you make the wallpaper look all good and stuff! love the pink, man, love the pink.

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~AlbinoAsian Jul 24, 2009  Hobbyist Artist
thanks ... maybe you've got another photo you think might go well with my new myriad base =)
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~G-SKY-CN Jul 19, 2009
nice :thumbsup:

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