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Still can't post pictures from my cam, but I came up with a good alternative for "Show off my geek side!" day. Everybody remember Winamp?! Damn, I loved me some Winamp. Simple, basic player (at least until Winamp3 came out, GRRR FUCK WINAMP3), easy to use, blah blah blah, like that shit mattered. What really mattered were the skins.
I had like eleventy billion skins, you guys. I looooooved Winamp skins. In fact, a few years ago I booted up Winamp for the first time in ages and was all, "WAIT, THESE ARE NOT ALL OF MY SKINS! I AM MISSING SKINS. WHERE ARE MY SKINS?!" and proceeded to waste the better part of a day tracking every last one of them down. (I succeeded, because I am a DETERMINED BITCH.)
You must know where this is going.
The simplest one. Pretty straightforward, no fancy bells and whistles or cute little touches like custom cursors. But it's of my girl. ♥
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alicornmoon, you'd be all over this one! I'm pretty sure this is the only Him skin out there. Not a fan of the... bubbly (HA) 3D look to it; I prefer flat designs, but I adore the claw details on the Equalizer.
This is one of my favorites. Source image is fantastically integrated, buttons don't interfere with the image, and the maker even went to the trouble of skinning the Minibrowser, which I'm pretty sure no one used EVER. The best part? The totally in-character Titles on the separate windows.
Pink was a popular color for the PpG skins; most of these are. Another fairly straightforward one; the lines on the images unfortunately aren't that clean. The maker did a second version...
... which is much better! (Although still ridiculously pink.) The 3D look is more subtle and actually looks really nice here. The little details are great too, like the multi-colored stars on the Playlist window, the Hotline, and Him, of course. Another of my favorites. Very well-made. Oh! Something neat about both this and the previous one are the mouse cursors - your mouse cursor turns into one of the Girls depending on which window you mouse over. Unfortunately that great little detail doesn't show up when you prt+scrn.
I always want to like this one more than I actually do. I like the non-pink color scheme, but I think the transparency comes off as a little gimmicky rather than cool. It only looks cool when you move it around and can still see your desktop underneath. Although I don't doubt that it was a pain in the ass to get the transparency to work.
Another pink skin.
And another.*
MY GODDAMN FAVORITE. Primarily pink, yes, but there's so much else in there that the pink doesn't dominate. The use of a BG from the show as the base image is awesome, the layered look is so much love (love Bubbles under the control buttons but over the playbar), plus there's the integration of the PpG title font from the show and other non-essential details, like the stars on the equalizer rotating when you adjust the bars. Love. Love all over this skin.
More pink! More 3D! (Sorta!) Even though it's a bit out of place, I like the use of notes on a music staff for the control buttons, and Blossom's eyes change direction depending on whether you turn shuffle and repeat on/off. (Turning them both off results in her eyes looking in two different directions, allowing for a brief moment of amusement.)
*Note that I have nothing against pink. I actually love pink! But here it's just refreshing when someone chooses a non-pink color palette.
I had like eleventy billion skins, you guys. I looooooved Winamp skins. In fact, a few years ago I booted up Winamp for the first time in ages and was all, "WAIT, THESE ARE NOT ALL OF MY SKINS! I AM MISSING SKINS. WHERE ARE MY SKINS?!" and proceeded to waste the better part of a day tracking every last one of them down. (I succeeded, because I am a DETERMINED BITCH.)
You must know where this is going.
The simplest one. Pretty straightforward, no fancy bells and whistles or cute little touches like custom cursors. But it's of my girl. ♥
alicornmoon, you'd be all over this one! I'm pretty sure this is the only Him skin out there. Not a fan of the... bubbly (HA) 3D look to it; I prefer flat designs, but I adore the claw details on the Equalizer.This is one of my favorites. Source image is fantastically integrated, buttons don't interfere with the image, and the maker even went to the trouble of skinning the Minibrowser, which I'm pretty sure no one used EVER. The best part? The totally in-character Titles on the separate windows.
Pink was a popular color for the PpG skins; most of these are. Another fairly straightforward one; the lines on the images unfortunately aren't that clean. The maker did a second version...
... which is much better! (Although still ridiculously pink.) The 3D look is more subtle and actually looks really nice here. The little details are great too, like the multi-colored stars on the Playlist window, the Hotline, and Him, of course. Another of my favorites. Very well-made. Oh! Something neat about both this and the previous one are the mouse cursors - your mouse cursor turns into one of the Girls depending on which window you mouse over. Unfortunately that great little detail doesn't show up when you prt+scrn.
I always want to like this one more than I actually do. I like the non-pink color scheme, but I think the transparency comes off as a little gimmicky rather than cool. It only looks cool when you move it around and can still see your desktop underneath. Although I don't doubt that it was a pain in the ass to get the transparency to work.
Another pink skin.
And another.*
MY GODDAMN FAVORITE. Primarily pink, yes, but there's so much else in there that the pink doesn't dominate. The use of a BG from the show as the base image is awesome, the layered look is so much love (love Bubbles under the control buttons but over the playbar), plus there's the integration of the PpG title font from the show and other non-essential details, like the stars on the equalizer rotating when you adjust the bars. Love. Love all over this skin.
More pink! More 3D! (Sorta!) Even though it's a bit out of place, I like the use of notes on a music staff for the control buttons, and Blossom's eyes change direction depending on whether you turn shuffle and repeat on/off. (Turning them both off results in her eyes looking in two different directions, allowing for a brief moment of amusement.)
*Note that I have nothing against pink. I actually love pink! But here it's just refreshing when someone chooses a non-pink color palette.
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surfing the internethomework) unless I had an outlet nearby.I'm admittedly not a huge Apple fan, but I do like the ease with which you can create playlists in iTunes and share them on a network (handy/fun at work), not to mention the easy access to podcasts. I did use to fuck with the EQ a lot, which I think is easier to do off the cuff in Winamp than either of the other programs. On my home PC, I think I'm one of the few people in the world who still uses Winamp.
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With my MacBook Pro (which I currently use), I haven't had that problem, either. But it might be because I have a sizable memory card (4GB, fuck yeah). Or maybe Apple just designs their programs to work better with their own OS. They would do that...
Like I said, I prefer the ease of organization more than anything else with iTunes. Unless WMP has changed drastically since I last used it, you had to import track names/album artists manually and didn't have the handy option to toggle "Show All Duplicates" so it was such a headache to keep things neat.
Hey, well, at least you're keeping the program alive, haha XD Though from the looks of their webpage, they've got enough users to bother with frequent updates.