Seabass has been playing with particles and animation again, and looks like he decided to take some of them and turn them into cursor themes for CursorFX . The two latest cursor themes are E-cube and World Fair. Both have some fantastic animations, but I especially like the rocket ship design! Drill'n Boss also brings us a cursor theme from the "League of Extraordinary Skinners" suite, that was started at Skinartistry.
One of the things I like to see here at WinCustomize is the members coming together and participating in a community project. The latest project that quite a few of our members helped create is the "One Hundred: A Trubute to BoXXi", which as the name says, is a tribute to long-time WC member and Master skinner BoXXi. This project was organized by community member TheD2JBug , and started a couple of months ago. Today we have the release of the project and it includes quite a few s...
The 4th of July is not typically a big skinning holiday, but there are a few skins out there that you decorate your desktop with. I took a quick browse through the galleries and here are some that I found.
We have made it to Episode 11. This episode is a short one, just under 10 minutes, and features myself going solo this week. No problems though, as this episode re-caps some news on WinCustomize, a member spotlight, and a small bit about the GUI Champs with a community questions at the end. Episode 11 - The Ramblings of ID Download MP3 Subscribe to this podcast: News Reader: iTunes: Show notes: SiteChecker ...
Even though it's technically summer, it's still hot out there, so this theme for MyColors should fit right into the warmer season. It has a beautiful theme, wallpaper, icons, and weather gadget. Read through the full tour to see some more detailed screenshots.
Every once and a while I like to do this, as it gives a fun look at what people are doing throughout the day. So stop what you are doing, take a quick screenshot of your desktop showing what you are doing. Keep it clean people!
The Winstep Start Menu Organizer is a FREE application designed to help you organize and clean your Windows Start Menu. Over time, as more and more applications get installed, the Start Menu can get so cluttered that you end up spending a lot of time simply trying to find the program you want to run. This is where the Winstep Start Menu Organizer comes in: it allows you to quickly group your Start Menu shortcuts into a specific set of categories (e.g. Utilities, Internet, Office, etc...) t...
We have such good stuff coming in on Fridays, it’s almost hard to keep up. But hey, you have plenty of reading for the weekend, right? Well since it is Friday, Zoomba has crawled out from his secret lair to give us the weekly Impulse updates. The big news this week is the impending release of THQ titles on Impulse, and we also have some teaser screenshots of game rankings and achievements through Impulse.
What a long week it has been. The final preparations are in for the GUI Champs ‘08, and we are set to begin in just a few days. Halloween inspired skins are starting to make a big appearance, and skins in general are rolling in strong. I think the rest of the year is going to be superb! Anyways, it is Friday and this weeks edition of This Week in Skinning is up!
Have you been to Impulsedriven.com in awhile? Well if you have, you'll notice that we've done some redecorating to not only the website but the store itself. We've made the website much more informational with the homepage now adding a featured title section highlighting a major software or game, a latest news section showing off recent releases, and a recent articles section authored by people from the Impulse community. You'll also find the navigation t...
We always like to show some love to the other skinning communities out there, and we wanted to say Happy Birthday to WinModify.com . WinModify has been around for 5 years, and many of our WinCustomize members, including myself, upload their works there as well. WinModify also helps us by promoting news and things of that sort for us, so I wanted to take a moment to thank them for their contribution to the community. From WinModify: “To celebrate this, we've opened up 2 sec...
The new month means it’s time for a new edition of This Month in Dreams. September saw a great amount of submissions to the .dream category, and it was very difficult to pick out the featured picks. I’m sure we are going to see some really phenomenal .dreams submitted to the GUI Champs, and I also bet we will se some really cool Halloween .dreams coming. Check out This Month in Dreams .
As some of you might know, every month our dedicated moderators put together a list of their favorite skins from that month. It’s always interesting to see what are the favorite skins of the people who are “behind the scenes”. We have some really great picks this month, so here we go! Bebi Bulma picks Wraith by SKoriginals “There aren't that many black blinds out there, and even then they're difficult to get done right. This one is very usable and has that "sinister" ...
Halloween is approaching, so I wanted to start featuring some Halloween inspired skins to help you get your “spooky” desktop going. There are a great amount of Halloween skins in the various galleries, but I thought I would start off with cursor themes for today. To use these themes, you will need to download CursorFX, which is the best way to change the Windows cursors.
In last weeks poll we asked, “Would you like wallpapers to be in mobile sizes?”, and many of you seemed to like the idea. That does bring up another question, and that is how exactly would you like this to be implemented? I don’t think a new gallery section is warranted, but I think it would be beneficial to allow people to upload packs of mobile sized images, or at least include them in a bundle. Now this is by no means a requirement, but just another option to appeal to a wid...