Island Dog's Articles for November, 2020
November 27, 2020 by Island Dog
I was searching through WinCustomize looking at some Christmas skins and I came across what I think is one of the most classic skins of Christmas. That of course would be ChristmasTime by mormegil! The WindowBlinds skin was first released way back in 2003 for the Stardock 2003 Christmas Suite.  At that time, WindowBlinds 4 was the latest version and it was later updated to support WindowBlinds 5 which brought support for per-pixel alpha blending, toolbar button changing, prog...
November 23, 2020 by Island Dog
For many of us, Thanksgiving is this week, so we wanted to send out a Happy Thanksgiving to all of you and a big thanks to our community. No holiday needed, just wanted to say we appreciate you! Although it's a weird time in the world, we do hope you have a nice holiday. Let us know if you have any holiday plans, or if you just have a nice weekend lined up. Let us know in the comments below!
November 9, 2020 by Island Dog
We have had some really awesome CursorFX themes added to the WinCustomize galleries over the past week, and I wanted to highlight a few. One is even the first CFX theme they have created, and it turned out great. We love to see new people submitting so be sure to check them out below! MODEL-6IX by BONEHEADdb fly by NIGHT by pelaird   Light Load by Gemmee
November 26, 2020 by Island Dog
Happy Thanksgiving! If you partake in Thanksgiving what's your favorite way to cook the turkey? Roasted, fried, smoked? Let us know your cooking plans and have a safe and wonderful day!
November 20, 2020 by Island Dog
Happy Friday! I was sitting here trying to straighten up my work area before the work week ends and thought maybe that should be the part of the topic for this week's question. I have my main desktop PC which I mostly use for gaming and design work. My Dell XPS laptop is really just dedicated for work stuff, and I also have an iPad on my desk for casual web browsing and keeping up with emails.  We have a desktop workstation thread here on the forums, and we've seen some really cool ...
November 17, 2020 by Island Dog
Christmas is one of the top skinning holidays on WinCustomize. We have a bunch of Christmas and winter holiday themes for a complete holiday transformation of your desktop. WindowBlinds skin, cursors, wallpaper, animated wallpapers.... you can usually find it with a quick search. We'll also be featuring more holiday themes to make it easy, and today we'll start the season with a few of our favorites. If you have a favorite holiday or winter theme, let us know in the comments! Christma...
November 12, 2020 by Island Dog
I've been updating some of my countdown gadgets for Christmas, and I always had a lot of fun making them. They seem to work just fine on Windows 10 and I still see people using them and other gadgets like my Christmas lights when screenshots are posted around the holiday season. So that brings us to weeks question. Do you still use desktop gadgets, and if so, do you have any favorites? Share them in the comments below.
November 2, 2020 by Island Dog
Can you believe we are already in November? Has the cooler weather hit your area yet? We had lots going on in October here on WinCustomize as Halloween is always a popular month.  Here's a wrap-up of some new, articles, forum posts, and skins you might have missed! Stardock News: Groupy v1.44 is Now Available Featured changes: Groupy crashes if turned off quickly after being turned on Windows with a blank caption now paints the close tab button correctly I...
November 4, 2020 by Island Dog
I came across this post today and it's a good reference for aspect ratios and screen resolutions. https://www.displayninja.com/what-is-aspect-ratio/
November 2, 2020 by Island Dog
In 2015 I wrote a blog post here showing my PC build that I was working on. I've had that PC ever since and it's been one of the best PC build I've ever done. It would run many of the latest games at ultra settings, and has been a great PC to edit videos and just do general work with.  I've added a couple small upgrades such as doubling the RAM to 16GB, adding another SSD drive for games, and replacing smaller hard drives for bigger storage.  Lately though, games are runnin...
November 23, 2020 by Island Dog
Is there really anyone here who isn't tired of the sounds when using Windows?  In comes SoundPackager . I always relate SoundPackager to IconPackager simply because both use "packages" to change their respective items. One of the best things about SoundPackager is that not only does it change a bunch of system sounds at once, it also allows you fine tune the sounds and easily add or delete specific sounds if you wish. Now that you have heard all that good stuff, let's go through usin...