Friday it is!  The end of the week means one thing....other than calling it day and going home.  TWiS!  This Week in Skinning is a weekly roundup of featured skins from WinCustomize.com.  Check out this weeks edition!

Whether you use icons on ObjectDock or on the desktop , WinCustomize has plenty to choose from.  Some of my favorite types of icons are ones that are designed as replacements for application icons.  Some applications don't have very appealing icons, and I'm always happy to see an icon creator give their own version of the icon. Here are some of my recent favorites from the galleries. ...

The planning for Object Desktop 2009 has begun!  The great thing is that we are looking for your input on what you would like to see.  Feedback is always important, and we want to hear your opinions on things like: Looking for a feature? Looking for a new product? Want something changed? Give us your input! Object Desktop 2009 Suggestions  

We are now at the third week in Mormegil's "Icon-A-Day 2.0" tutorials.  At Day 11 Mormegil gives us the "down low" on the downloads folder.  I'm following these tutorials very closely and I have to say he makes this look so easy.  I also wonder if anyone is following him as well and making their own icons now.  Does anybody have some works to show off maybe? Link : Day 11 Link: Icon-A-Day Index

Episode 16 of the WinCustomize SkinCast is up, and this is an extra special one!  About two weeks ago we posted that Darren McPhee from AMD will be our guest, and we will be giving away 3 prizes, one of which is an ATI 4870 video card courtesy of AMD/ATI.  The other two prizes are a copy of Sins of the Solar Empire , and the upcoming Demigod game.  We received a bunch of great questions, and although we had a difficult time narrowing...

Another week goes by, and another Monday is here.  As usual this weekend was full of good stuff on WinCustomize, so here are some of my favorites from the weekend.

For this weeks member spotlight I wanted to pick one of the most popular creators of wallpapers here on WinCustomize.  Say hello to kenwas !  Kenwas does some beautiful work in wallpapers with Vue 6, and I know he has inspired many others to do the same.  He is a Journeyman at WinCustomize and is number 2 in downloads in the Wallpaper gallery with nearly 1 million downloads since joining in 2003. If you ever pick up a 3D magazine such as 3D world, you might...

This weeks edition of This Week in Skinning is now up!  We have another great selection of featured skins including a cursor theme, a .dream, wallpapers, WindowBlinds skins, and more.  Head over to this weeks article and check out the skins!

Impulse continues to grow, and there are so many ideas and features that are being floated around, it's almost crazy.  However, one thing that we at Stardock take pride in is listening to our customers and even potential customers on how to improve upon what we have built.  Community feedback has played a big role in shaping how game updates have been made, and now we can do the same thing in regards to the future of Impulse. Frogboy wrote a more extensive article on this, so...

RightClick is an application that doesn't get mentioned a lot, but it's still one of the coolest out there.  It allows you to customize your right-click menu and add all types of functions including DesktopX gadgets! It's also skinnable, and we have many talented skinners that take the time to create matching RightClick skins to match WindowBlinds skin, but also ones who create original themes for it.  Here are some of my recent favorites. ...

I have been getting quite a few e-mails lately about the subscriber skins available for WinCustomize subscribers.  If you are a current subscriber you can find the current skins in the Subscriber Resources link.  Let me also mention that a subscription to Object Desktop , is not the same as a subscription to WinCustomize . Here are some of the latest WinCustomize subscriber skins available for download. Boulder     RockStar  &n...

I wanted to post the final reminder about the contest for the ATI Radeon 4870 Video Card.  You have until this Wednesday night to get the questions in, and please submit the questions in the original news post . The next episode of the SkinCast, we will be talking with Darren McPhee, the Sr. Marketing Manager in Gaming for AMD .  We will be discussing several topics with Darren including AMD/ATI products, graphics, gaming, and much more. We will also be taking user-sub...

We are now at Day 6 of the new "Icon-A-Day 2.0" tutorials from renowned artist Mormegil .  This time Mormegil has created an index so it's easy to keep up with the series, and so you can navigate to the tutorial you need. I also wanted to take a minute to give a brief overview of where Icon-A-Day is currently at. Day 1 - System Folders Day 2 - Basic File Types Day 3 - Closed Folder Day 4 - Open Folder Day 5 - Live Folder Day 6 - Looks like we need a new index...

If you are a fan of the Molten or Dragon WindowBlinds skins by Stardock Design, then this .dream will especially appeal to you.  This animated wallpaper is just fantastic, and the animations are well designed, and not too distracting, and highly detailed.  Created by ChaNinja, the Dragon Dream is a must-have download. If you have Vista and ever needed a reason to get Stardock's DeskScapes , then this .dream could probably convince you.  

So everyone, how was your weekend?  I took a trip to Sea World Orlando, and aside from playing a few games, I was downloading a bunch of skins off WinCustomize.  Lots of good stuff this weekend, so here are a few picks to start off your week.