How To...Firefox Skins

Firefox theme is now available for you, Firefox enthusiasts. This theme uses a plugin named Persona, a lightweight theme engine that is easy to be managed. This particular plugin can be downloaded here. The installation of Persona is not a mandatory but recommended for easy management of your themes. Alternatively, you can just follow the link provided in every Firefox theme posts.

To use Persona, you must have a Mozilla Firefox installed on your computer and set Mozilla Firefox as your main means of browsing. To download Mozilla Firefox, you can click on the link here. After you have Mozilla Firefox, you are set to download any Persona skins that are available in this website.

To use our Persona theme, you can select the skin from the list provided here. Once you click on the link, you will be brought to the post with a link that will direct you to the Persona theme you intended to uses. Just click on the “Wear this Persona” button and you are set to go with your new Firefox skin.

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How To...Winamp Skins

 You can get your Winamp by clicking here.

To install the skin on Winamp, after you have downloaded the skin file, just double click on the file and agree on the whole thing that Winamp are spouting about 

One additional note, once you have install your winamp skin, the skin will be copied to the Winamp’s skin folder. If you are installing it in a default option, you can find your installed skin at C:\\Program Files\Winamp\Skins.

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How To....Google Chrome Skins

Another additional feature of this blog is the Google Chrome Theme extensions. Download if you like or you want some variations to your web browser application.

You have to have Google Chrome browser to use this theme. After the download progress has finished, just double click it on the download list and the theme will be installed.

An additional note if your computer don’t detect crx file, just right click on the file and pick “Open With”. If you install Google Chrome without editing the path, the application will be on “C:\Users\KazaSOU\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application”. Note that KazaSOU is the current user who installed the google chrome. Anyway, pick chrome.exe as your default program for opening crx file and then you can just double click again to install the theme.

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How To.... Rainmeter Skins

Introduction

First things first, Rainmeter is an application for desktop enhancement. If you are on Windows Vista, you might know that there is an application called Sidebar where you can customize what widget you want to use on your desktop. Rainmeter do the same thing except with minimal user interface. Rainmeter is a rather lightweight application that can do the similar thing from displaying your CPU usage to displaying random pictures in your folder.

Rainmeter is very flexible and the most important part is it is editable to our taste. Just see the sample picture there if you get confuse of what I’m saying. Rainmeter can be run in Windows environment (So far, I’ve run Rainmeter application in Windows XP,Windows Vista, and Windows 7 without any problem at all).

Getting Started

To use the Rainmeter skins in this blog, firstly you have to download the Rainmeter application. You can search it on Google or alternatively click this link.  After you have downloaded the application, install it in your system. If you want the Rainmeter to start whenever the Windows started, you have to check the “Add shortcut to startup folder” option on. If you have installed it, run the program and you will see a Rainmeter logo in your tray icon (It’s on the bottom right with “water drip” logo). To select the existing skins, right click on the logo and highlight “Config”. You’ll see the available skins that you can use. Select the “.ini” file of that skin and you are set to go.

Importing Skins

To use the skins that are posted in this blog, firstly you have to extract the RAR file that you have downloaded from my blog (Just right click on the RAR file and choose “Extract Here”). If you don’t know how to extract RAR file or you don’t have the application to extract RAR file, just go to this link. Now, you have to copy the extracted folder to your Rainmeter skin archive. If you use the default installation, it will be located inC:\Program Files\Rainmeter\Skins\ or if you are using Rainmeter version 1.0 or above, the default installation will be on My Documents\Rainmeter\Skin\. Otherwise, right click the Rainmeter program in the Start Menu and choose Properties->Open File Location. If you have found your Rainmeter skin archive, copy the extracted folder to the skin archive and your skin is now ready to be used. To use the skin, right click again on the Rainmeter logo, click “Refresh”, and then right click again on the Rainmeter logo one more time, and highlight “Config”. The new skin that you’ve extracted is now available to be used. Enjoy!

Winamp Capability Skins

Most of the skins I created can play music from Winamp application. This skins can be easily spot on with their play button and such or the text of the music you currently are playing. To activate this capability, first you have to have a Winamp application (of course). If you want to download the application, you can download it onhttp://www.winamp.com. By default, the skins should point to the default installation directory of winamp, which is on C:Program FilesWinamp. If you installed the Winamp application there, then there would be no need for modification. However, if you decided to put it in a different file, then you have to change the WinampFolder in your .ini file of the skin. Change the value of WinampFolder to the path of the directory which your Winamp application resides. If you done that, try refreshing the skin (Right Click -> Refresh All, on the Rainmeter icon on the taskbar) and now you should have the ability to play music from your Rainmeter skin.

Other Media Player Capability Skins

From March 23rd 2012, skins will be added more media players to be observed. The following media players that are supported in the skin are: AIMP, FooBar2000, andWindows Media Player. For FooBar2000 users there is a required pre-installation to be done that is available in the skin file you downloaded. Make sure to follow the instruction to get your Rainmeter skin connected to your FooBar2000 application.

Picture Frame Skins

You need to configure the .ini file  before getting the skin to display your pictures. First, change the “ImagePath” variable to the address/ directory which you want the skin to display your picture. Don’t forget to add a backslash () at the end of the directory (Example: C:Pictures).If you want the application to crawl the subfolders of the current directory, put the “Subfolders” variable value to “1″. Now, to set the length of time on changing between pictures, you need to set “Update” value (in terms of miliseconds).

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Installation Notes

The game listed in this page are PC games and works on Windows platform. Since the games mostly come from Japan, you have to set your computer to support Unicode (or Japanese character set). Here’s what you have to do (This instruction is done using Windows 7 platform):

1. Go to the Control Panel and click Clock, Language, and Region
2. Click Region & Language
3. Go to the Administrative tab and click on the Change System Locale
4. In the System Locale, change the current system locale to Japanese

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