e-sushi ™

e-sushi information, e-sushi software and e-sushi design created and published by mike edward moras

2009-07-02

Hi there! OK, here is the deal: first, HostForWeb.com had DNS problems, then they forgot to update the expiration date of the e-sushi.net domain. These two factors have lead to the fact that the total uptime was limited to about 66% this month. So much for search engine positions and upsetting visitors who were looking for their download. What can I say but *sorry*? I just hope HostForWeb has all problems solved now so this will not happen again... at least not that soon. As said: sorry for the inconvenience! This site will be updated in the next few days... with new content. Just keep it bookmarked and come back in a day or two. Thanks!

2009-07-03

Update: If people do their best to correct the problems that have arised, I can only embrace them for that. HostForWeb gave me a free month of service to make up for the trouble I had. Great! Furthermore, I have to say that their service (while solving the issues) is suberb. I guess it was murphy's law or something... ;)

e-sushi information

who is e-sushi

My name is Mike Edward Moras. I was born on the 3th of March 1972 in Cologne, Germany, as the son of a female, belgian marketing professional and a male, german, self-employed industrial who ran his own international shipping company in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, until he retired. I attended school in both Belgium and the Netherlands since we moved a lot when I grew up. This had the advantage that I learned to think, write and speak natively in several languages. Also, the small but significant cultural differences between the countries I lived in, opened my mind for international trading, management and communication.

Today, I am a professional graphic designer (pixel shover) and software developer (code pusher) also known as e-sushi. Professionally, I use my knowledge and profound experience combined with native talent to provide technology and innovation mixed with creativity and artistry using any media available. My knowledge range includes: graphic design, industrial design, urban design, web design, broadcast design, print design, logo design, interface design, web development and software development.

If you think you could need a good designer that knows how to turn your product or service into a market leader, contact me. I will be happy to provide more information on what I can do for you and your business.

knowledge range

I have got the professional knowledge of both an experienced cross media graphic designer and an experienced cross platform software developer. The following overview will give you a small idea of what I am able to do.

graphic design

3D visualisation

audio production

video production

software development

web development

operating systems

more knowledge

languages

work references

As you will see, I have got international experience working together with various companies and institutions worldwide. The following is just a small overview of the numerous satisfied clients I have worked for.

print media

books

rom discs

websites

intranet sollutions

knowledge management systems

data mining systems

e-commerce

software production

interface design

e-sushi in the news

japan loves e-sushi

in August 2008, the Japanese Primary inc. features 50 gradient system icons in their Japanese Windows100% magazine and DVD-Rom.

Windows100% is one of the most well known japanese computer magazines with a focus on "accellerating your windows experience", both in a style and in a technology way. In other words: a magazine for novice users up to geeky computer gurus.

germany loves e-sushi

In November 2003, the German IDG Magazine Verlag GmbH features Enhanced Color System for Windows, version 2.0 in their German PC-WELT magazine and CD-Rom.

PC-WELT, the German edition of PC World USA, is a magazine for advanced users. With 495.777 sold copies (audited Q II/2003 by IVW) PC-WELT is the best selling monthly pc-magazine in Europe.

e-sushi origins

the name e-sushi

People on and of the internet mostly know me by the nickname e-sushi, which actually stands for electric sushi. It origins from my middle name (Edward) and a promotional project I designed and managed in 1997 for a big japanese industrial company (KAYABA ltd., Japan).

The way I have been able to handle it to the fullest satisfaction of my client resulted in the fact that the japanese management told me I am like 電気寿司 (electric sushi), being able to perfectly present raw content without additional overhead, using any media and any means available... always working faster and presenting results sooner than the client expected.

I felt so honored by this that I have been using this nickname ever since. Soon, I created a logo, a logotype and key visuals to go with it.

Since 1997, I am using e-sushi as a trademark to represent myself, my designs and my software productions.

the e-sushi hype

Just in case you are not aware of the fact: the term e-sushi was first used by me - Mike Edward Moras - in 1997.

That was long before sushi take-away restaurants started using the term to represent themselves and while I guess that it is a cool thing to create a hype, I am not convinced that the term they adopted really represents an appropriate or correct meaning. Why? Because I do not see where a sushi restaurant has something to do with electronics. Or do you know where I can download some sashimi?

Meanwhile, a whole e-sushi hype has emerged, resulting in more and more amateur people using the name... proving that a good name and a good background can do magic; especially online.

On the other hand, you should never forget that e-sushi is not a free name! I am the owner of all related rights, including the copyright.

So, do not let me catch you while you are commercially using e-sushi as a name or term to sell design, software or related audio-visual services. That is, unless you really want to meet the law firm that represents my interests.

license information

Unless noted otherwise, either on this site or in the individual documentation, e-sushi productions are published and distributed using a Creative Commons "Attribution, Non Commercial, No Derivatives" version 3.0 license.

Please note that no rights are granted in any logo, graphic design, trademarks or trade names, including the e-sushi name.

legal information

The name e-sushi, the e-sushi logos and related key visuals are copyrighted and trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Mike Edward Moras in Germany and/or other countries. All rights reserved.

e-sushi

e-sushi™
Copyright © 1997 - 2009 Mike Edward Moras. All rights reserved.
電気寿司™

Warning: the name e-sushi is protected by copyright law and international treaties. Unauthorized use of the name or any of the related key visuals may result in severe civil and criminal penalties, and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under the law.

contact e-sushi

Mr. Mike Edward Moras (e-sushi)
Bilker Allee 83
40219 Düsseldorf (DE-NW)
Germany

+49 (163) 2701892



lat/lon: 51.210739, 6.769225

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e-sushi software

windows software

calcchmod

CalcCHMOD by e-sushi helps you understand and calculate chmod codes as known from FTP programs or server scripting languages like PHP.

coolkeys

Ever wanted to hide the complete windows desktop but you did not find a tool to do it whenever you want? Ever got a flood of IE windows after surfing to the wrong website? This e-sushi software has the sollution for you! And... it also is a great tool when you are doing presentations for clients.

deepclean

This free software by e-sushi is based on the VacuBot engine. This tool does not delete, but whipes the data out of your system. This means that is overwrites deleted files with null-bytes to make recovery near to impossile.

disc tray toggler

Disc Tray Toggler by e-sushi offers a systray icon (and menu) that allows you to open and close the disc tray of your CD and/or DVD drive.

ecs - enhanced color system

ECS - Enhanced Color System by e-sushi - is a small but powerfull tool to modify your classic windows look. Save the look to files, load other ecs themes from files or exchange them with people around the world. Documentation and a small collection of color-files to get you going are included in the installation package.

estorage

A little, free software utility by e-sushi that will make your online life a little bit easier. It manages your online data and stores it’s data encrypted to disk.

ieclean

IEClean is a simple, yet effective cleaning utility by e-sushi. It is the fastest way to cleanup after yourself when you have used Internet Explorer on a computer, but do not want people to know where you surfed to. Or you can use this software to quickly reclaim some diskspace. Whatever your reasons for using it may be: it cleans what it says, whiping the data found from your harddisk by overwriting the disk-sectors with 0-bytes, making undeletion near to impossible.

ipower

Instantly logoff, reboot or shutdown from your system tray with this systray tool by e-sushi. After you start iPower, a small icon in the system tray awaits your double click to do the magic. The right-click menu allows you to configure what magic that will be: a logoff, a reboot or a shutdown.

lognamer

A tiny system tool by e-sushi, allowing you to modify the default user names winlogon stores. Neat if you do not want people to know who logged on the last time.

minibin

MiniBin by e-sushi is a recycle bin for your systray. This e-sushi software may come handy when you are hiding the recycle bin from your desktop (see Microsoft TweakUI software) or if you are using a replacement shell that provides a system tray but no useable recycle bin.

mykeygen

MyKeyGen is an easy-to-use key generator by e-sushi. This software comes handy when you are running out of inspiration while coming up with a somewhat secure password.

oemodify

Did you know you can add, modify and/or delete the OEM information contained in the system information dialog? No? Well, with this free software by e-sushi... you can!

run idle tasks

RunIdleTasks is an e-sushi software program that runs idle system tasks immediately, so the user does not have to wait until the system switches to idle mode to do so.

timebars

Timebars by e-sushi is a small dialog that shows the hours, minutes and seconds in form of a progress controll. It was the result of playing around with code, while thinking of design and best of all: it is freeware!

timebomb

TimeBomb is a tool by e-sushi to automatically logoff, reboot or shutdown your Windows operating system at a specific time without any nagging screens.

vacubot

Vacubot is the most powerfull freeware cleaning tool for windows I could ever come up with. This software enables you to set-and-forget more than a dozen of cleaning actions. This e-sushi software will autorun upon system start, or whenever you use the startmenu-link. It even overwrites the disk-sectors used by deleted data with 0-bytes, making undeleting those temporaty files near to impossible.

winzard

Winzard by e-sushi is a systray tool to handle your windows. It can minimize, restore, maximize or close all open windows. Double left-click will minimize all windows, right-click will open the menu. You can even use your own icon with it!

litestep software

I have released many litestep modules over the years, but due to the fact that I do not walk the Litestep path anymore, I did not archive them. So, if you are looking for something that is not listed here, you are on your own! I bet there are some litestep related websites and archives out there that still hug some downloadable modules made by e-sushi, but you will have to hunt them down yourself.

cleanup

Cleanup is a litestep module that cleans up your computer: the recycle bin content, the clipboard and the recent documents list.

crypt

Crypt is a cryptographic litestep module to encode/decode text-files using a password.

filemaster

Filemaster allows file handling in Litestep using bangs like !FILEEXIST, !FILEMOVE, !FILECOPY, !FILEDELETE, !DIREXIST and !DIRCREATE.

miniwall

MiniWall is a module that sets a wallpaper and then unloads itself. I created this module to supplement my themes with an auto-installing wallpaper to fit the litestep theme, without having to ask the user to set the wallpaper himself.

lsecs - enhanced color system for litestep

Enhanced Color System for Litestep (LsECS), a windowless Litestep replacement shell module (aka plugin) by e-sushi, that allows you to modify the way your classic Windows looks (colors, fonts, sizes, etc.). It even handles activation and deactivation of visual styles as known from Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Vista.

slimp3

SliMP3 is a simple mp3 player, commanded by simple bangs. No need for winamp or alike to play your MP3 files!

sushi-test

Sushi-Test will add a bang-command to test the stability of your litestep configuration. I used to use this litestep module frequently while coding and theming litestep themes to test the stability of individual themes and the modules used with them.

php scripts

random password generator

Whenever you are in need of an url-safe, random password; this PHP snippet will help.

javascript scripts

social bookmark script

This is a simple, yet effective javascript to implement a social bookmarking helper into your website.

To use it, copy the source code and paste it in your html document where you want it to show up. No configuration or setup needed. The script automatically fetches the URL and the TITLE from the document it resides in and uses that information to present smart social bookmarking links. It is that simple!

e-sushi design

audio design

music at youtube


morasmedia

icon design

50 gradient system icons

One day, I decided to take a look what a design with smooth gradients can do for a boring system icon and I ended up creating a total of 50 individual icons. Building time was 4 hours, starting from scratch using vector design, later converting each vector design to full, standard operating system icons using multiple tools.

These icons by e-sushi include the full, standard range of icon sizes and color depths used on Microsoft Windows operating systems:

(*) Vista ready using up to 256x256 icon size with PNG compression.

As a bonus, the original PNG files (256x256 pixels) have been included. Enjoy this free e-sushi design!

e-sushi at flickr.com

If you are looking for a desktop wallpaper or something alike, check out some of the e-sushi images at flickr.

e-sushi says:
„Minimalism isn’t about nothing!”

  © 1997 - 2009 Mike Edward Moras (www.e-sushi.net)

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