Themes

Get ready to review custom styles and how to extend splash. This session will also provide an overview of secondary tiles and style themes. [02:18] - Custom styles [21:21] - Extended splash [33:23] - Secondary tiles Full course outline: Mod 01: Animations Mod 02: Responsive Design Mod 03: Branding…

2010 will probably be remembered as the year of the Cloud – cloud computing that is. It seems like talk of the Cloud is everywhere right now, and to join in the fun, Windows Live and Bing teamed up last month to host a competition for users to submit photos that illustrate how Windows Live…

October is the spookiest month of the year, fact. As the warmth of the season of mists and mellow fruitfulnesss is grasped by the ice-cold fingers of winter, the days become shorter, the nights longer and the earth spins slowly into the “dark half” of the year. That’s according to the Celts, who…

Tim Heuer and his team recently released a new Silverlight-based theme that could work for any line-of-business or, really, any other Web-based applications in need of a simply laid out and elegant theme. The new theme, called JetPack, is now available in a bundle with the three others previously…

Tsitsi Gora, UX Designer at Microsoft, appears on the show to announce the new Silverlight themes that her team has been working on. Tsitsi demonstrates the new themes available for download and explains the scenarios they had in mind when they created the themes. The new themes…

A new NASA Windows 7 theme is now being featured on the Windows 7 personalization gallery website. This site, for those that don't know, is a great resource for finding new ways to personalize your PC, including free themes, backgrounds and gadgets. Recent additions to the themes gallery have…

If you have a the HTC HD2, you can now skin your phone with a new Kin-inspired theme, courtesy of Jaxbot on the XDA-Developers forum. Called KinLauncher, this theme for Windows Mobile has been configured specifically for HD2 phones, but is being tested now by forum members for use on other devices.…

I love that Microsoft keeps updating their collection of themes for Windows 7 because - I have to admit - I quickly grow bored with my desktop background and color schemes. I like to switch it up pretty often and the themes feature in Windows 7 lets me do that easily. With themes, my wallpaper…

Remember Royale Blue, Luna, Luna Silver and even the Zune XP desktop themes? Those feeling nostalgic for XP’s old-school looks may be interested to know that all of these have been ported, unofficially of course, to the Windows 7 platform. Over on the independent design community DeviantArt, a user…

Since the first Bing theme pack for Windows 7 was so popular, the Bing Team decided to do it again with the release of Bing’s Best 2, a new collection of desktop backgrounds for your Windows 7 computer. Windows 7 theme packs let you click once to install a set of desktop backgrounds that rotate…