Pixelpope

The nerd’s best friend: the Optimus keyboard.

Every key of the Optimus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing exactly what it is controlling at this very moment.

Think of this: 130 single OLEdisplays. This won’t be cheap but will be the eye-catcher on your desktop.
Of course this won’t make much sense for the 10-finger-blind-typing.
Besides that: It can really help you a lot to see what function is currently assigned to a certain key, think of all the shortcuts in Photoshop or other programs, tutorials with keys blinking in a certain order or things like that.

Unfortunately I didn’t get to see this any earlier:

I was surprised to recently see that pixel art again has made it into mainstream.
Pictures were taken at local H&M store in Berlin / Kurfürstendamm, where they are used as small design elements.

Click small previews for full image.

Here I have some pretty pixel art eye candy for you:

This Flash game was made some time ago by “Pixelboy Designs/Marmotte”:http://www.pixelboy-designs.com/

He says it’s inspired by Kid Icarus, though it also reminds me of Wonder Boy.
Nice work and retro look.

I am happy and somewhat proud to annonce that blogging software bBlog has been released in version 0.7.5, only a week after we started to work on it.

This is probably the most basic theme for the Sony Ericsson k700 you will ever find :)
I made it about a year ago just when I got my k700i and all these animated and colourful themes were going on my nerves. Reason: They look cool but are very hard to read and use in the everyday usage.

Free download: dark usable (23 kb)

I’ve just created a template/skin/theme (whatever you call it) for the blogging software bBlog and you can download it here for free.

Download: dmig.zip (18 kb / bBlog 0.7.2 – 0.7.4 compatible)

If you think it looks familiar, it probably reminds you of the old layout of Design made in Germany, which this is a tribute to.
Thanks for permission again to “Martin Rack”:http://www.martinrack.de!

I am thinking about releasing it for WordPress in the future, so if you might like that, you could drop me a line or a comment as an extra motivation that would probably speed up the process. ;)

Comments, wishes, and recommendations are always welcome.
Also, if you decide to use the template, feel free to add a comment with link to your site, as I would like to see who uses it.

History

* 2005/06/02 improved dmig theme is now official part of “bBlog 0.7.5”:http://www.pixelpope.com/journal/14/bblog-075-is-out.htm

• 2005/05/22 first release for bBlog 0.7.4

TGT Soft, maker of Windows XP theming software Syle XP won’t deliver.

Why won’t they respond to neither my Pay Pal payment nor any of my 3 emails?
I don’t know and as a paying customer, I don’t think I have to care about.

Lucky me: I payed by Pay Pal, not directly by credit card.
Thus, I could open a dispute on the payment. And as TGT Soft didn’t respond to this dispute within 10 days, the claim was automatically granted.

Normally I don’t care much about skinnable software, so I use the default theme or look for a quite minimalistic one.
Same with Firefox – just ‘till I found PixelZilla, a cool pixel style theme for Firefox, Firebird, the Mozilla suite, and now even for K-Meleon.

Of course all Firefox skins are pixeled somehow. But this one goes for a reduced colour set, pretty much towards the high coloured trend.

Credits go to “Róman Joost”:http://www.romanofski.de/

Design made in Germany and computer maker Shuttle are arranging a “wallpaper competition”:http://www.designmadeingermany.de/wettbewerb/shuttle/index_en.html.

The contestants are supposed to created a wallpaper of dimensions 1280 * 1024 that is related to the “Shuttle XPC system”:http://eu.shuttle.com/de/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-171/310_read-3476/.
Deadline is June 13th 2005 at 11:59 PM CET.

Prizes are a nice looking PC and a TFT monitor, that even won the “red dot design award”:http://www.red-dot.de/.