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!

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...

Everybody’s favorite day is here.  To help get your over the stress of Monday mornings, I put together a list of some of my favorite skins from over the weekend.  So if you don’t feel like browsing through the past couple of days, no worries, I got up real early this morning just to do it for you.  Check out the weekend picks! 

The 2008 GUI Champs are just over a week away from kick-off!  The excitement is ramping up, and I know many, many skins are in the works for the competition.   It’s not too late to get started, and you can read the rules and get more detailed info at www.guichamps.com . We have some of the best prizes lined up, including a Cintiq 12WX graphics tablet from Wacom , Sapphire HD 4850 Video Cards from AMD , copies of SnagIt 9 and Camtasia Studio from Tech...

It’s Friday and This Week in Skinning is up!  We have a bootskin, DX widget, .dream, wallpaper, WindowBlind skin and much more.  In case you got busy this week, TWiS will give you a quick heads up on what you might have missed otherwise.  Read the full This Week in Skinning feature.

I can’t believe it’s already October, where did the summer go?  Every month in the forums on WinCustomize, we have a thread where members can show off the really cool desktop they have put together using a wide variety of skins.  It’s a fantastic way to see the combinations others are putting together and using.  Being that it’s October and Halloween is coming up, maybe we could do a simple Halloween desktop giveaway, what do you think? Check out the October Desktop threa...

JJ Ying is back with a new Master Skin called Zing!  This is a really slick and minimal skin, and a great overall design.  I personally really enjoy darker skins, and this one is also very easy to work with.  JJ Ying also includes a wallpaper, rainlender skin, and CursorFX theme with this Master Skin.  The Zing! WindowBlinds Master skin is for both Windows XP and Vista, so there’s no reason not to grab it.  WinCustomize Subscribers get a 20% discount, and can b...

NeXuS is a multi-dock system, which as well as holding traditional bookmarked icons can also hold any combination of widgets, clocks, mail checkers, weather indicators and system performance meters within multiple levels of sub-docks. WorkShelf is a tabbed dock, better suited for complex organizational duties like organizing documents, URLs, movies, work projects, applications, etc... NextSTART is the menu system - and takes care of all your task management needs as well. Winstep Start Menu Orga...

The latest WinCustomize Master Skin comes from famed skinner MikeB314.  I was very excited when I saw this skin for submission, and using it throughout the day was even a bigger pleasure.  I think this skin has one of the coolest start menu animations I have seen so far, and really shows what is capable using WindowBlinds and SkinStudio.  The rest of the skin is just as great, with a slick design with a great use of color, this is another must-have WindowBlinds skin. The Gr...

Wulfn1 brings us her latest desktop setup with her Skin Thoughts and Reviews article.  I really enjoyed this issue as she is saying "so long" to  summer with this desktop.  One of the things that really caught my eye was the beautiful wallpaper she chose. Read the full Skin Thoughts and Reviews for Sept. 29th .