Vista Icons

Ran across a tutorial on creating Vista icons. Vista has a new GUI and the really cool shell theme ‘Aero’. Check out some of the examples on that page, but even better you can browse and click on samples at this page from rw-designer.com.

From there you can view the default Vista system icons in varying sizes/resolutions like the example below. Though if you look close enough, it appears that the smallest rendition of this icon appears to never wrap around the *front* of the device like all the others. File a bug!

Vista Icon

Public download of latest Vista build!

Here’s the download page to build 5728 of the Release Candidate for Windows Vista. Previously you needed to be a Beta tester or part of the TAP program to get the builds. Go get the bits and party on this OS, there’s tons of new features and enhancements.

Coca Cola Vending Machine Hack

Get two drinks for the price of one! Of course, the question arises – how did he figure this out to begin with? If you have trouble viewing the video, download it and watch from the desktop.

A playable piece of art from Capcom

Capcom’s latest game for the PS2 is Okami. The big deal around town is that they’ve taken a decidedly different approach to making games more visually appealing. Instead of trying to make it more lifelike, they’ve delivered a fantasy game rendered as a traditional Japanese watercolor painting.

Gamespot has tons of screens to revel in the old and new art forms blended together, here’s their Okami site with gameplay videos and very favorable reviews. Enjoy.

Okami thumbnail

Network Centerfold

Found this girl geek, probably pining for the day she could pose as the “Network Centerfold” girl of the month. Though I think she could just be holding up the network cabinet. Anyway, for the wiring job…I’d give her a 7 out of 10.

News for those that geek out on gadgets, computers, military, art, games and oh so much more.

I recently bought this domain name with the intent of posting here as a hobby, a labor of love I suppose. I hear time and again from co-workers that I need a hobby, this is the best I could do.

I’m sure there won’t be folks actually *wanting* to come here for geek news on a regular basis for probably the better part of 6-12 months. Which means I have lots of time to post random crap on everything from military geek stuff to literary and art geek news (assuming there is such a thing).

We’ll see.

-andy