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August 8, 2017 by Island Dog
Fences  organizes your Windows desktop, improves your workflow, and makes your important applications easy to find at a glance. These shaded areas on your desktop can be completely customized (color, size, transparency, roll up options, and more), but there's a lot more to this program than just that! Here are a few quick tips that will help you get the most out of Fences. Tip #1 – Quick hide the desktop icons If you ever need a blank desktop space for any ...
July 25, 2017 by Island Dog
It's back to school season! For some of you college-bound grads, it's "first time at a new school" season. If you're worried about how to keep track of all the new syllabuses and assignments you're going to have, stay productive, AND manage all of your budding social engagements on top of that, we have something for you. The productivity apps in the Object Desktop suite will make organizing the stuff piling up on your computer just a little bit easier, and the added customiza...
September 13, 2017 by Island Dog
Fences  and Start10  are two popular apps from Stardock. Fences is an app that lets you organize your desktop icons into customizable fences. Start10 is an alternative Start menu for Windows 10 that brings additional options over the default Start menu. Both of these are also included with an Object Desktop membership. One of the great things about having both these apps is they work wonderfully together and Start10 has an integrated feature with Fences which allows you to show ...
March 6, 2017 by Island Dog
This is a question that gets asked quite frequently, so with the help of Zubaz I wanted to put together this quick how-to on backup and restore your Fences layouts. You can restore your snapshots if you are having issues with your current layout, or want to move them to another PC. Layout snapshots In the Fences configuration you can see your snapshot settings and a display of your current snapshots. You can also set Fences to take daily snapshots or manually take one. S...
February 24, 2017 by Island Dog
If you are a Windows 10 user, we have a great set of apps that can help you customize and enhance your user experience. The best part is, this can be done for under $10 each! Below is a quick overview of each app and what it can do to improve your Windows 10 experience. Fences Fences lets you organize your icons and shortcuts by placing them into fences, which are customizable shaded areas located on your desktop. You can even create folder portals, which gives you easy access to ...
February 17, 2017 by Island Dog
Fences, Stardock’s desktop organization app, has become quite a fan favorite since it was first released. The app lets you automatically organize your desktop icons and shortcuts into fences to keep your desktop area clean and organized. The latest version, Fences 3, added several new features, including compatibility with Windows 10. Get Fences here . Fences has lots of cool features to help you organize your desktop just the way you want it. I’m going to share my top 3 ...
November 2, 2016 by Island Dog
If you are a Windows 10 user, we have a great set of apps that can help you customize and enhance your user experience. The best part is, this can be done for under $5 each ! Below is a quick overview of each app and what it can do to improve your Windows 10 experience. Start10 Start10 is one of Stardock's most popular apps for Windows 10. It is an alternative Start menu that brings additional customization and functionality to the Windows 10 Start menu. If you prefer ...
October 26, 2016 by Island Dog
Microsoft is having a Windows 10 event today at 10am ET. You can watch the livestream here. http://news.microsoft.com/microsoft-event-2016/#2Ezje2dEX13dMFI8.97 Here is some info on what to expect to be announced and shown today. https://www.neowin.net/news/heres-what-to-expect---and-what-not-to-expect---from-wednesdays-windows-10--surface-event  
September 27, 2016 by Island Dog
Ever since Windows 8 came out with the missing Start menu, Start8 has been a very popular Stardock app because it brought users back to Start menu they were familiar with. Even when the Start menu eventually returned, Start8 remained popular since it still offered Windows users a variety of options and customization. Fast forward to today and now we have Windows 10 with its own take on the Windows Start menu. That’s where Start10 comes in, and just like before, gives Windows users th...
July 29, 2015 by Island Dog
Windows 10 is here today  and we’ve seen lots of questions about compatibility with  Stardock software . I wanted to take the time to post a chart with compatibility so you can know what to expect when you update to Windows 10. Now is a great time to be an Object Desktop subscriber. Learn more about Object Desktop here . Note : Please note that even though we say it’s working on Windows 10 doesn’t mean full compatibility or supported and there is a...
March 19, 2015 by Island Dog
Lots of Windows 10 news has been coming out lately, and a new technical preview build was also released yesterday. http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/03/18/windows-10-technical-preview-build-10041-now-available/ Some of what's new: Improving the Start experience Improvements to Virtual Desktops Cortana is expanding into new markets on the desktop New network fly-out from the taskbar Enhancements to the Photos app New Text Input Canvas Experimenting with the Lock s...
March 19, 2015 by Island Dog
Many thought it would be later in the year for the holiday season, but apparently Microsoft is confident that Windows 10 will be ready for a summer release. "We continue to make great development progress and shared today that Windows 10 will be available this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages. Windows has always been global with more than 1.5 billion users around the world and here in China hundreds of millions of PCs operate Windows today. That’s why it was particularly fun ...
February 23, 2015 by Island Dog
I'm using a Microsoft wireless 2000 keyboard which I've had for a while now.  It has actually been real good for everything I do including gaming, but this one needs to be replaced and I'm looking to see what to get next. Looking at the Logitech wireless illuminated keyboard . Like it because it works with the Logitech unifying receiver, but not sure I want to spend that much. Not really a big fan of wires, but also looking at the Logitech G105 gaming keyboard.&...
February 21, 2015 by Island Dog
We had server issues today which affected many of our sites and services since early this morning and throughout the day.  We have been working to get everything restored and as of this posting, everything should be working as normal. We apologize if this caused you any inconvenience, and appreciate your patience while we worked this problem.
February 17, 2015 by Island Dog
If you follow my posts you might have seen I planned and recently finished my new PC .  Putting together a new PC is a bit of work, at least assembling all the parts together and making sure everything works.  That's only one part of it though, as you also have to install Windows, install all your apps and games, and then get your data moved back. My new PC doesn't have an optical drive, so I loaded up my Windows 8 ISO onto a USB drive and installed it.  It didn't ...