11/01/2005 - Just a small note for those of you…
…who haven’t played Marathon. The 3 games are now available for free download from Bungie.org. Combine this with Aleph One and possibly my icons, and you can play them under OS X.
Welcome to Max Themes!
03/01/2005 - Marathon Icons
I chatted with a few Mac people, asking if they liked Marathon. I was somewhat chocked when some of them replied that they never played it! I just couldn’t believe that there are Mac users out there who haven’t played Marathon, because to me they go hand in hand. Although I was too young to really appreciate the first Marathon that much, me and my friend were nuts over Marathon 2 and we even made new levels and enemies for it.
Some of you might know that Marathon recently celebrated it’s 10th anniversary. I read a good article at a swedish Mac news site called MacNytt about it, and I got inspired to play it again. This time I played trough Marathon 1 and I took the time to read the Terminals to learn the story as well.
Anyway, this inspired me to make a set of icons. I’ve recreated the original icons, but in full 128×128 pixel glory. I’ve tried to stay as true to the original icons as possible and I’m really happy with the result. There’s a total of 33 icons in 3 sets, one for each game.
Go download my Marathon Revisited Icons!
These icons are ment to be used with the open source Marathon project, Aleph One.
Aleph One runs under OS X and even has new features over the original games such as Open GL rendering, cross-hair and a third person view.
For additional Marathon Aleph One downloads such as remastered music, remade high resolution textures and scenarios, visit the Lh’owon Ar’kives.
There are instructions in the Read Me bundled with the icon set on how to replace the icons for Aleph One.
If you have any cool Marathon stories or tips you like to share, post a comment!
27/12/2004 - Guess who got his driver’s license today?
Who? Me! That’s who!
Just a little FYI post to share my joy.. 
10/12/2004 - Milk updated!
A new version of Milk is available, these are the changes:
Milk 2.5
- Added a baby blue selection color. This was well needed for usability and contrast and made it easier to make certain buttons such as the toggle state of some of the buttons in iCal and iTunes.
- Added appSkins for QuickTime, VLC, iCal, Calculator, TextEdit and Installer.
- Updated appSkins for iChat, Address Book, Safari, iTunes and Help Viewer.
- Themed Font Panel.
- Improved contrast of indeterminate progressbars and scrollbars.
- Bundled the desktop pictures and icon set in the guiKit.
- Added two new desktop pictures; ‘Solid Baby Blue’ and ‘Baby Blue Milk Splash’.
- Added improved iSync menu extra.
- Customized list alternating rows color.
- Hopefully solved the bug with text not appearing.
- Mini buttons (mostly used in Safari) now have the text vertically centered.
- Changed the inactive state for scrollbars.
- Removed the inactive state from segments buttons which means that the save dialog’s back/forward buttons will look better.
- Changed the Metal window bevels to use transparency, this means the iChat invitation windows look better.
- Changed the Chocolate menus to be a bit darker.
Milk 2.5 [5,8 MB]
07/11/2004 - iFix updated
This update is for QuickTime 6.5.2 and iTunes 4.7. There are no other changes other than the compatibility.
iFix 7/11/2004 [4,8 MB]
02/11/2004 - Aluminum Alloy updated
Aluminum Alloy has been updated for ShapeShifter 2.0. I decided to upload a plain guiKit now that I can bundle the desktop pictures, so you wont have to go trough the hassle of downloading and mounting a dmg.
These are the changes:
Aluminum Alloy 1.6
Updated for ShapeShifter 2.0:
- Bundled all desktop pictures in the guiKit.
- Customized the altering row color.
Updated appSkins:
- VLC skin is updated for version 8 (still only in preview) which adds a new equalizer button. This means that the skin wont work with previous versions though..
- Added the Bluetooth button to the Address Book skin.
- Added the AirTunes button and Party Shuffle bars to the iTunes skin.
Aluminum Alloy 1.6 [10,1 MB]
19/10/2004 - Oh, an update!
Not much theme related to tell you though. I don’t have any theme in the works, except for NickelCobalt, which has halted though. I haven’t talked to Paul Johnson in a while, but the delay lies with him because he is too busy to make buttons. I’m ready to work on the theme, I just don’t have anything to work with. I’ll see if I can get ahold of him.
I’ll tell you this much though, when there is an update to ShapeShifter, I’ll start working on updates of my themes to make use of the latest features. Although, Brushed and Mac OS XP I’ll be looking to hand over to other themers as I’ve lost interest in them.
And I’m working on getting a spam filter installed so we can get rid of these annoying comments..
Some personal notes.. I now have a part time job 
And no, it’s not as a gui designer.. I work at the local food store at the butcher’s counter, selling grilled chickens, fish, hams etc. It’s a lot more fun than it might sounds and I’m happy to be doing something!
I’m getting closer to taking a driving license as well. I’ve passed the theory test, and I have a time booked at the skid course where I’ll learn to handle the car on slippery surfaces.. and I’m now taking driving lessons in the city, trying to learn to see all the signs.
21/09/2004 - Icons for Unsanity
Unsanity released a new version of FontCard yesterday, and it features new application graphics done by me
I made the icon for the app itself, the pref pane banner and the installer box.
There is also a Unsanity blog page that shows some upcoming icons. The FontCard icon was actually the most recently made though.
14/09/2004 - Sorry for the lack of updates..
I’ve been busy with regular life stuff. I’m taking driving lessons, going to the gym etc. I know there’s nothing more frustrating than a website with lack of updates, but I just haven’t had much to talk about. I don’t have much to talk about now either, just wanted to make an update anyway.
When I have something relevant to say, I’ll post it. Just wanted to let you know that I am, in fact, still here.
And damn these spams that get into the blog comment system…
20/08/2004 - Paul Johnson gives update on NickelCobalt
I talked with Paul on iChat recently and we agreed that he should let you know all what’s going on with NickelCobalt. So here is the latest news which Paul posted in the forums and which I’m quoting:
NC UPDATE!
Sorry for my continued lack of communication regarding progress on the Nickel Cobalt theme. I don’t know if excuses make things better or worse, but at least there’s an end in sight.
Yesterday Kellie and I closed on a house. We’re stoked, but it’s been a HUGE ordeal. I mean, things have progressed smoothly, but it’s such an amazingly time-consuming and complex process to buy a house. Finding one was challenge enough to begin with, but now after about a month since finding the house, it seems that everything is finally going through. In 10 days the movers will arrive and we’ll make the four-hour move to our new residence. Then we’ll move in, clean, paint, fix the things that need fixing, etc.
How does this affect NC? Well, for the last several years I’ve been working from home full-time for an out-of state graphic design firm. We’re moving back into the town where the business is based, which means I’ll be working in the office again. I’ll miss the flexibility of working from home, but the positive side is that I’ll actually be working 8-hour days and having weekends and evenings like a normal person again. Which means (… wait for it …) more time for fun things like (… wait … for … it …) theming! YAY!
Thanks to everyone for the patience and continued interest in NC. I won’t let it die, I promise. Max and I are well into it and all that is needed is a few decent blocks of solid time from me and we’ll be back on-track.
Wish me luck packing, moving, painting, unpacking, etc. Look for more NC news in a month or so. I don’t want it to be that long, but I should try to be reasonable and give myself a couple weeks to get settled before expecting to see any fun time.
