For lack of a better thing to write about today, I’ll post up a preview of my Nintendo 64 Icon that I’ve been working on. This thing is getting near it’s finishing stages, but it’s been difficult to find time to work on it. This thing is on its way, though.

Well, over at one of my favorite  based communities, there’s a new trend going around. Believe it or not, I actually like this one. “What is that trend?” you might ask? Well, it is putting DVD covers inside of a DVD case, and making that the icon for your movies. That way it looks like you’re shuffling through a real library of DVDs in CoverFlow. Over at MacThemes there are a couple people with templates, but nobody has released theirs yet. I took the template provided by the gracious Laurent Baumann and stretched it out to make it into a DVD Case. I’ve saved that .PSD and I’m releasing it here today. Hopefully I’ve got permission from Laurent. When he posted the PSD, he said, “Here is a resource I made. You can use it wherever you want (icon, skin, etc), as soon as you credit me ,” So I hope I’m ok. Hit the jump to see the icons in action and a Download Link.

Album Art Thingy is a great app that is sort-of like an add-on for iTunes. It sits up in your menu bar and every time you play a song in iTunes that doesn’t have album art or lyrics, this app will go out and retrieve that data and automatically add it into itunes.

This is my first icon in a long time, and I had a lot of fun making it. I did a LOT of pixel work with the pencil tool, and that was the really fun part Click the image to download the ZIP file.