Download Aim Skin: BumpX

BumpX is the original Aim 6.1 black and green skin. You must be using Aim 6.1.41.2 to install the skin. If you are unsure of which version of Aim you have, click Help > About Aim to find out your version. The instructions to install this skin requires the knowledge of opening of two windows, the ability to open ZIP files, and you must be able to drag or copy and paste files. One should always backup their files incase anything goes wrong.  

F.A.Q

Q. What is Quick and Easy Installation?

A. These instructions will require you to overwrite files without inserting any codes. You may do this by copy and pasting over the original file, or drag and drop the file into the specified folder. This will install one theme only.

Q. How Do you Unzip or Extract a File?

A. This pages teaches you how to extact a file.

Q. What version of AIM should I be using and where can I get the right version?

A. This theme currently ONLY supports Aim 6.1.41.2, you can get this version at FileHippo.

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3 Reasons Why Your Myspace Got Hacked

There are simple ways to avoid your myspace from getting phished.

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Myspace Sex Viewer delivers MyInstaller.exe, Another Trojan..

Are hackers even trying anymore? Its getting even more blatantly obvious that your about to download a trojan. One of the biggest mistakes this one made is that it shows a pornographic image right on the myspace page. So basically this means they are too lazy to make their pages look legit and are trying desperately to get a few guys to click install. Now how long will this profile last with such a TOSable image sticking its booty straight at you. Anyways lets take a look shall we.

The image states "Unable to Run Video" "CLICK HERE TO INSTALL SEX VIEWER" and a woman’s Trap right inside a picture of the Myspace Video Player. Once you click the image you are redirected from the installer page to download MyInstaller.exe, then from there you are presented with a trojan using the Nullsoft installer engine. Thats as far as I can go. To keep things clean here on THIS blog the naughty bits have been removed.

TONIGHT WE DINE IN Long Term Relationships
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Fixing Debugging Error in Aim 6

Well this isn’t as frequent as other problems, but I think its time to mention how to fix this. Quite a few people get this error and it can be seriously annoying having to click OK plenty of times. So here are the steps you must do to get rid of the debug error popups in Aim 6.1.

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Creating Aim 6.0 Skins: Images and Icons

Aim 6.0 skins handles images a little awkwardly. Hopefully this will be changed in the end, but to be on the safe side we will follow its rules of making and using images. For the most part, your images won’t be over 32×32. So you have to think small and you also have one more thing going against you, Transparent PNGs.

Unless you have a good graphics program you probably won’t be able to create transparent PNGs. You don’t really have to use a transparent PNG but you’ll notice that you might get a white background distracting the title bar’s color of black, blue, orange, etc… If you have the skills to do so, please cut out the image your going to be using an icon. Otherwise, use a font and set that on another layer. When you create the actual PNG, make sure you have alpha layer transparency or use a background color similar to the skin. Please make sure this background color has blended with your icon.

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The T-Mobile Opera Mini Drama!

Its a low down dirty shame that T-mobile USA still refuses to fully support Opera Mini. It magically one day started working correctly and many rejoiced, however now T-mobile is back to their games by disabling it again. Even some users with T-mobile Web package, Yes, that expensive $29.99 doesn’t work. Some have unlocked their phones to change their settings around to get a better reception, while the rest of us poor souls are stuck with "Can’t Connect" error messages. What can we do? Well aside from the options above, not much. T-mobile has the power to turn those applications on. We still have to resort to P2KTools and that always doesn’t work

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Adobe CS3 Released, Silverlight Takes on Flash

Its that time of the year again. Its that time where once again, Photoshop is released at a ridiculously high price, which in turn forces people to pirate it, and the search for the code to crack registration. Yes I’m pessimistic but dang, how much people on DeviantArt do you believe actually paid for Photoshop. Can we ever get a nice cheaper version, and not just that student edition. One where you can still do a tutorial without having that certain special high priced version. But, you know thats what makes up the whole photoshop world, tutorials, tutorials, and more tutorials. Microsoft renamed its WPF/E [what?] to Silverlight [thankyou!], now Microsoft can be just as trendy as the rest of us. I will say that Silverlight will have atleast 20% marketshare against flash. Also remember that silverlight has to be installed, Microsoft gets the upper hand with that just because so much people use Internet Explorer 7.

Creating Aim 6.0 Skins: Gradients Lesson

One thing I noticed during skinning Aim 6.0 is that most of the buttons you see are not pictures. Infact "Boxely" the engine that renders the program has the capability to create gradients on the fly. If you had experience with making web 2.0 style buttons on the web, you’ll know already that the secret effect that gives a button its shine or glossiness comes from where colors are placed along a gradient. If your new to this or don’t understand what I’m talking about, I’ll show you a little demo of how colors are handled in Aim 6.0.

Solid Brushes
Aim 6.0 has a Solid Brush function. solidBrush tells the program that the particular ID of what your editing will have ONE color. The solid brush markup goes like this…

    <solidBrush id="textColor.defaultButton" fill="#000000" />

Note fill="#000000", this is where you place the HTML Color Code. #000000 is the color code for black text. If you want to change it to another color you would change the letters and numbers after the # sign. Also there must be 6 Letter/Number combination in order to work.

Linear Gradient Brush 
Aim 6.0 also has a Linear Gradient Brush. linearGradientBrush tells the program that the particular ID of what your editing will have multiple colors. The linear gradient brush markup goes like this…

    <linearGradientBrush id="gradient.aimWindow.windowContent">
        <rotateTransform center="50% 50%" angle="-90"/>
        <gradientStops>
            <gradientStop offset="0%" color="#121212"/>
            <gradientStop offset="100%" color="#363636"/>
        </gradientStops>
    </linearGradientBrush>

Ok woah what happened here!? This got way more complicated than the solid brush. Well a gradient needs more than 1 color to become an actual gradient. Most of the entries in your skins will use linear gradients. In theory all solid brushes should be able to convert to linear gradient and vice versa. Now there are a few rules with linear gradients though. It needs to have a gradientStops tag and that tag must be closed after your gradientStop offsets. You also must close the linearGradientBrush tag at the end of the particular ID. Another rule is that you should begin the gradientStop offset at "0%" and end at "100%". Your free to place whatever values you want between those two colors. Aim 6.0′s boxely engine will render the blending it will take to those positions.

GradientStop Offset.
This is particularly hard to visualize if your new to creating gradients in photoshop or paint shop pro. What you need to do here is start off with one color at "0%" and end at "100%". The percentage tells you where that particular color will start and continue to. At the same time that particular color will also blend with the next gradientstop offset unless you specify otherwise.

Now your not limited to just 2 colors, in my skin, I use 4 to 5 different gradient offsets. By positioning the colors in a certain way you can create an effect where the colors smoothly create a bump like effect, or abrupt colors that creates a sheen glass like effect. Lets take a look at one of the mistakes I used in my skin.

            <gradientStop offset="0%" color="#f3f8e7"/>
            <gradientStop offset="25%" color="#8cc110"/>
            <gradientStop offset="51%" color="#abd747"/>
            <gradientStop offset="100%" color="#abd747"/>

Now you may not see anything wrong here, but if your as picky as I am, you’ll notice that the send IM button’s colors does not match the bar beside it. Take a look at the markup. According to my percentages, these colors will blend smoothly. The farther apart the percentages are, the more smoother bump-like the colors are… [however this isn't always true since you can just use 2 similar colors at the top and 2 similar colors at the bottom to make use of the abrupt glass like effect.] Lets fix this up to create a similar style.

            <gradientStop offset="0%" color="#abd747"/>
            <gradientStop offset="40%" color="#8cc110"/>
            <gradientStop offset="41%" color="#D9FF82"/>
            <gradientStop offset="44%" color="#8cc110"/>
            <gradientStop offset="100%" color="#abd747"/>

Ok now you’ll see a major difference. Take a look at the markup, I’m using 5 gradient offsets to achieve this effect. Note that at  41%-44% the brightest color is used. Then it continues back to the regular gradient. This can be cleaned up better since its kind of redundant to have 5 colors doing that style when I could just fake it with 4 colors.

            <gradientStop offset="0%" color="#abd747"/>
            <gradientStop offset="41%" color="#abd747"/>
            <gradientStop offset="44%" color="#8cc110"/>
            <gradientStop offset="100%" color="#abd747"/>

There, nobody will notice the difference unless they have really keen eyes. Thats all for this lesson.

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X – My First Aim 6.0 Theme

Screenshots of X! The Aim Theme. Link to Instructions on how to download this Aim 6.1 skin is located below.

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Creating Aim 6.0 Skins! Tips and Tricks!

Finally, the ability to skin Aim 6.8 is here. After months of skinning AIM, here are some tips and tricks to get you started on creating your own AIM skin. After you have created your skin you’ll be able to save it and it will create its own folder at

C:\Program Files\AIM6\services\imApp\ver6_8_10_1\theme\ This blog entry will have additional tips and tricks dynamically added once its been found.

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Winamp Remote Drudges through Beta

Winamp Remote Launched in Beta proclaiming to be the new service to stream music over your computer to your mobile phone. The problem is the lack of information out there to complete the process. Infact Aol Mobile gives no indication to which phones it supports and without diggiing up some information your basically installing something that may not work at all. Winamp Remote uses Orb software to connect you to Music on the Go. It supports all Microsoft Smartphones, Phones with a 3GP Player, Nokia 6620 and 6680 with RealPlayer, and Nokia Series 60, Series 80, and N-Gage QD. Once thats out of the way, Winamp Remote still is buggy and has a long ways to go in order to be efficient. Don’t expect much technical support now, but wait a bit down the line when it gets more popular.

Google TisP BroadBand Toilet

Ha ha Ha… Very Funny. You had me believing it for a second until I saw the wires going through toilets. I was like ya..  Even AdultSwim’s version was awful, but I do like Perfect Hair Forever.