I just discovered Pixel Delicioso, a delightful web site for desktop customization news!

This lovely blog presents new icons, wallpapers and docks from all over the web, serving you “a delicious selection of desktop candy” that can be digested both by Mac OSX and Windows.

A tasty treat for anyone who enjoys to customize their desktop! This is a mouthwatering resource if you are looking for some inspiration to create a personal and beautiful desktop by changing your desktop wallpaper or perhaps some icons!

Pixel Delicioso is brought to you by Senhorita Spencer in Portugal.

Tags: desktop customization

It’s December. It’s dark and cold and it’s been a long year. The holidays are approaching. I think most of us could do with some inspiration, some fresh energy and a sense of peace!

This month, the Big Peace December will present daily objectives or exercises as well as interviews with top experts to help you change your focus and create your own daily practice for a peaceful mind. For a brand new year!

It’s all about thinking differently!

The Big Peace December is brought to you by my fabulous coach and guru, Suzy Greaves.

Related Links

Suzy Greaves’ blog with the Big Peace December
Suzy Greaves’ coaching company the Big Leap
You can also follow her on Twitter!

Tags: peace, feel-good, personal development, motivation, coaching, events

Frenzic, is a fun and highly addictive puzzle game that only takes minutes to learn, but months to master.

This is an exceptionally beautiful game with a glowing, futuristic interface that sits right at home on the iPhone’s revolutionary touch screen.

The hypnotically jazzy music and sound effects are so dreamy that it leaves me wishing there was a version of the music that I could play when I wasn’t playing the game!

There is a dash of social networking built into Frenzic. If you like you can set up a player account at Frenzic.com. This enables you to make friends with other Frenzic players and gives you access to detailed high score statistics from players across the globe.

This gorgeously designed game will give you countless hours of enjoyment in your digital life and is the ideal application for showing off the amazing capability of your iPhone or iPod Touch!

Brought to you from The Iconfactory and ARTIS Software, Frenzic is now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch directly from the iTunes App Store for $4.99.

Tags: futuristic, bold, game, iPhone, iPod Touch, social networking, software

It’s not too late to invite your computer desktop to the Halloween party!

Every year the Iconfactory puts on its Halloween costume and presents an abundance of computer icons and desktop wallpapers to help you customize your desktop in time for the holiday!

New releases this year include Jack O Lantern, undead folder icons: Nimble Halloween and the 1970’s inspired Retro Masks.
Last but not least, the Halloween themed trash can icon replacement set Trick or Trash with pumpkins, caramel apples and creepy coffins!

As usual, all of the computer icons from the Iconfactory are available both for Mac and Windows or as a handy CandyBar iContainer.

Give your desktop some candy! Browse the crypts for even more Halloween themed desktop art from the Iconfactory!

Tags: Halloween, seasonal, desktop customization

This book review of Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth by Steve Pavlina will give you an overview of the book and then focus on how this book can be implemented to inspire and develop your digital life.

Pavlina has a background in developing computer games and a fascination with AI, artificial intelligence, in computer gaming. With his experience from gaming and successful blogging at StevePavlina.com his new book naturally relates to many areas of life, including your digital life. Continue Reading »

Tags: review, personal development, productivity, motivation

Here are eight Pink Ribbon icons, avatars and buttons in support of October, the Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

These pink ribbons are available both as desktop icons and as avatars as well as images or buttons that can be used for the web.

If you have a blog or a web site and you want to help support the Breast Cancer Awareness Month, you can use these pink ribbon graphics to help promote the charity.

Pink Ribbons come in pink and cerise and are designed in four styles. The styles range from elegance to boldness. From an iPhone inspired style to a watercolor brush stroke style.

So head on over to the freebies section to take your pick of Pink Ribbons!

Tags: pink ribbon, buttons, graphics, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Pink October, desktop customization

I came across this wonderful, funny, serious and free resource for female designers and thought you might be interested!

She Says is a group of female top designers who hold events and one-to-one mentoring by some of the industry's best. The organisation operates in the UK and the US, but is opening more chapters internationally. 

“The world is pretty much half men, half women. So why are there so few of them at the top on ad agencies, digital or not? We decided to stop chatting about it and do something - hold events, where top females in the industry would share their thoughts and help people to either get started or work their way up. To the attractive pay packets, private car parking spaces and buckets of champers at the top.”

Oh, and She Says will even feed you with wine, beer, and a black olive or three! So what are you waiting for!?

Tags: network, events, mentorship, design resources

October is the Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I want to show my support for the attempt to increase awareness of the disease and to raise funds for research into its cause, prevention and cure.

So October is pink at Marmalade Moon.

I am creating some pink ribbons, that will be available both as computer icons and avatars and as images that you can use on your blog or web site.

And there will be more surprises... Stay tuned for a pink October!

Related Link:
Pink Ribbon Inc - http://www.pinkribbon.org/

Tags: pink ribbon, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Pink October, events

We tend to spend more and more time at our computers, both at work and at home. Many of us even spend our entire working days at a computer and computer related hobbies or utilities are getting increasingly common.

We write and check our e-mails, surf and perhaps we make online purchases, chat with our friends and family, handle our banking online, organize and share our photos, post on forums, write our blogs, play video games, watch films on YouTube or browse our social forums in our spare time. The list of things one can do on a computer is endless!

This makes the computer desktop a really important environment! Imagine just what an impact your digital environment has on you for all that time you spend on your computer!

Lets take a close look at four benefits of customising your desktop.

Continue Reading »

Tags: productivity, declutter, folder icons, desktop customization, feel-good, motivation, usability, gui

My marvellous, inspiring coach, Suzy Greaves, is offering The Big Peace, a free 90 day coaching programme to find fulfillment when you’ve lost the plot and I am really thrilled to spread the word!

This pro bono coaching programme is practical and down to earth and is delivered in small, manageable chunks that you can implement directly.

Doing The Big Peace was the best thing I did last year! It gave me a ton of tools to make myself happier and more content. To see my own strengths and to feel less overwhelmed. To regenerate. To feel happy. To focus.

Something that definitely appealed to me, was the hands-on approach, and the fact that the programme helped me make a real change to the way I feel and to my art work and business, and in a short time too!

Suzy does simply fabulous work as a coach! Warm, brave, creative and supportive, she helps me stay on track and is a great inspiration!

On this 90 day journey you will:

• Create a daily practice for a peaceful mind.
• Create new feel-good tools to make you feel calm no matter what.
• Create new supportive beliefs about yourself and life.
• Listen to interviews with the top happiness experts in the world.

Check out Suzy Greaves’ coaching company the Big Leap or her blog. You can also follow her on Twitter!

Tags: peace, feel-good, personal development, coaching, productivity, motivation, events

“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” - Albert Einstein

I have been experimenting with Twitter. Poetic micro-blogging. Brief moments. A cup of coffee or bird song. Fleeting thoughts. Glimpses of my day. Often something that inspires me. Something that brightens my day. Small miracles.

If you are curious you can follow my twits, um, my tweets I mean. I hope they can inspire you!

This creative tutorial video “Twitter in Plain English” by Lee LeFever from Common Craft explains how Twitter works.



Of course you can be creative with Twitter. You don't have to report to the whole world your every move. It doesn't have to be a source of stress, yet one more thing to update, like a timesheet.

It is interesting to see how a great fear or awareness of George Orwell's Big Brother watching has been replaced by the current trend to voluntarily report one's activities! Without being too paranoid, I think it is a good idea to be aware that burglars and stalkers may take advantage of the information that people publish. Also, it might be a good idea to take into account that people like your business associates or your future employer could be following your tweets.

However, you can protect your updates so that only those you approve can follow your tweets. Maybe you only want your family and close friends to read your tweets. Maybe you are using Twitter to increase your productivity in work situations and only want your co-workers to follow your updates. You can even use Twitter as a tool just for yourself and not allow anyone to follow you. Then again maybe you want the whole world to read them! It's all up to you.

Some people use Twitter to be more productive and use it to network, promote their businesses and collaborate with co-workers. Or as a to-do-list. To ask a question. A shopping list. Or for themselves, for example to track exercises and calorie intake. Others use Twitter to report a stream of daily activities and thoughts or to vent publicly.

Some feel that answering the question “what are you doing?” is the ultimate way to use Twitter, whilst others feel that is the least interesting way.

I am experimenting with micro poetry. See what you can create with it... Maybe a small miracle!

Tags: poetry, social networking, Twitter