widgetwidget is proud the announce the launch of its sixth incarnation. In addition to that, a special Valentine's Day icon set, 'Hearts & Stuff' is also up for grabs.

Three new destkops are fresh off the burner at Time Out Of Mind; "Cliffs Of Ponto Beach"; "Tide’s Edge"; and, "Sands Of February".

Jamie McCanless has published another installment of two-letter monogram shields at warrior~poet. Scheldes VI f has the letter F and monograms fa through fz. Other sets of monograms are also available.

Iconkits.com is pleased to announce their latest stock icons set; Office Add On 2 Kit, including 40 brand-new stock icons rendered in the popular Office style. Based on the most requested icons, Office Add On 2 Kit is available right now for only $69 USD.

Erik Vlietinck points us to a tutorial on creating a mesh gradient button in Adobe Illustrator, resulting in a natural plastic look.

To expand on the flexibility of one of their original stock icon collections The Iconfactory proudlly presents Aquatica Database, an extension of the Aquatica stock icon set. This new set extends into the realm of databases with icons covering such specialized concepts as tables, scripts, records, and many others. Aquatica Database contains 52 unique icons in multiple sizes and formats and is available today for $179.00 USD.

Thursday 16th February 2006
User Contributions

Digging through 270 pages and 3 years worth of cursors at WinCustomize, Jay Lehrer's "Project CursorXP Port 2006" has a goal to port the best of the best WindowsXP cursors over to Mac OS X for use with Unsanity's Mighty Mouse haxie. Fully authorized by the original artists, these cursors all sport a great mix of style and class. The collection comes to a close with three cursor sets shared by Libardo "Lgp85" Gomez, PULIDO Wood, Radioactive and Warning.

C P Chambone shares a cell phone theme for the the Sony Ericsson K750i, Shocker, a black and cyan theme with standby animation resembling a taser gun.

An unusual Thursday edition of desktops and icons add a little dash of something unexpected to the week.

Alan Sherwood unleashes three more desktops from his quad-pack "Motheaten" series; Despair, Pile and Sway.

Finding inspiration in the Alaskan Landscape At Night, r. von zimmer treats to a colourful render of the northern lights.



Icons of an icon, the Macintosh Plus, come to us courtesy of the gang at The Wacky Pixel Company.

Leslie Sigal Javorek is proud to present an icon series in honour of the Lakota Sioux tribe from the Badlands of South Dakota. These icons were inspired by many of the symbols in the Lakota Sioux culture; the rich colors of their landscape, the beauty of the art, and the dignity of their spirits. Today's sets are Lakota Health and Lakota Heart.

Wednesday 15th February 2006
Snapshots | REALbasic

Tuesday 14th February 2006
User Contributions

Digging through 270 pages and 3 years worth of cursors at WinCustomize, Jay Lehrer's "Project CursorXP Port 2006" has a goal to port the best of the best WindowsXP cursors over to Mac OS X for use with Unsanity's Mighty Mouse haxie. Fully authorized by the original artists, these cursors all sport a great mix of style and class. With a trio of excellenct cursors (Azar, Defcon II and Matrix Xtreme) Apocalypse_67 is our featured artist of the day.



Scare yourself every time you start up with this silly boot image from Dai Evans, Sad Mac.

Calvin and Hobbes find themselves captured within a version 4 cell phone theme for the Sony Ericsson Z520a, contributed by wilwarin.oron.

BlindWithCrayons shares an iTunes skin, Version Zero, that is somewhat reminiscent of the Bondi Blue iMac G3.

Theme News
A duo of updated guiKits find their way into the archive, let's have a look!

Mintar offers up version 2.3.3 of Gershwix, a multi-flavoured Platinum-esque theme for people who feel more at home in a Mac OS 9 interface or for those looking for a nice alternate to Apple Aqua.


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Adam Bucci plays the update game with version 3 frankentheme. Stripped down, (sorry, no desktops or icons, and sadly no iTunes skin) this time the creature walks in two flavours, frankentheme and frankentheme junior.


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Monday 13th February 2006
Software Update | Snapshots | Desktops & Icons | wwwSpotlight

Roll into Monday with 4 new desktops and 2 new icon sets.

A somewhat perplexed littel creature inhabits The Hills, an illustrated desktop from Andy Symonette.

With Valentine's Day fast approaching, it's time to head to the Love Tree. This 1024x768 jpeg from Peter Grosett has fewer calories than a box of chocolates and lasts longer than a dozen roses.



Alan Sherwood unleashes a new quad-pack of desktops from his "Motheaten" series, Cocaine is the first image from this collection of stylish renders.

Paying homage to the great Bill Watterson, Ford Prefect sent us a large series of desktops featuring Calvin and Hobbes. The front cover of Yukon Ho! wraps up the collection. All copyright credit for these images go to Bill Watterson, Universal Comics and Scholastic Books.

A pair of folders bearing the likeness of Harrison Ford in his Firewall role are shared by The Wacky Pixel Company, Firewall Folders.

Is it puppy love? Or perhaps a wounded heart? No matter, Eugen Buzuk from www.IconDrawer.com covers all the bases with this set of Happy Valentine's Day icons.

A feature story that explores future of graphics communication workflow and an article on Inclusive Design are presented by Erik Vlietinck.