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November 26, 2008 by Island Dog
This is a short week for most of us, so I wanted to just give a quick re-cap of some news we had this week.  Although it was a short week, we had a lot going on in the world of skinning.  Have a great Thanksgiving! News of interest:  GUI Champs – Dream Voting Christmas/Winter Holiday Winky Challenge Thanksgiving Skins BootSkin Pro Walkthrough Popular WB Skins in November Thanksgiving vacation for support Nightlit Master Skin  
November 25, 2008 by Island Dog
The Thanksgiving holiday is approaching for many of us here, and although Thanksgiving is not a “big” skinning holiday, there are still plenty of skinners who contribute some holiday inspired works. So if you are looking to Turkify your desktop, take a look at some of the skins below.  They will certainly get you started.
November 24, 2008 by Island Dog
Not a bad Monday considering this is a short holiday week for many of us.  The popular gallery right now is the new Bootskin gallery for Windows Vista.  You can get Bootskin Pro now by becoming an Object Desktop subscriber.   Take a look through my weekend picks and tell me what was your favorite skins from the weekend.
November 22, 2008 by Island Dog
It’s the weekend!  Instead of going outside and doing stuff, take a browse through the wallpaper section and give your desktop a fresh look for the upcoming week.  Here are my picks, what are yours?
November 21, 2008 by Island Dog
Time is starting to wind down on the deadline for the Most Usable and Most Original Dream categories in the 2008 GUI Champs.  At 11:59pm EST tonight the doors for submissions will be closed.  After this point, and until user voting ends on these events on November 30th, you will not be able to upload new dreams, or edit existing ones on the site.   So if you have any last minute work to do, you better submit it soon! The judging will happen over this weekend, and t...
November 21, 2008 by Island Dog
This weeks WinCustomize Member Spotlight goes to a fairly new member of WinCustomize, but  has been doing some great work and really getting noticed around the site.  This weeks spotlight goes to jester382 !  Jester382 has been a member since July of 2008, but as his profile states, he has found a new hobby of skinning.  He’s also been off to a great start. Jester382 has submitted skins in a few galleries including WindowBlinds, ObjectDock, and CursorFX.  His Windo...
November 21, 2008 by Island Dog
This Week in Skinning took a very short break, but it’s back with an extra long feature list.  We have had a bunch of new skins come in over the past week or so.  This weeks TWiS includes WindowBlinds skins, wallpaper, bootskins, logons, and more! TWiS is a great way to catch on skins you might have missed, and also feel free to pass it along to friends and show them what they have been missing as well.
November 20, 2008 by Island Dog
One of the prizes in the 2008 GUI Championships is an ATI Radeon 4850 video card sponsored by AMD.  Zoomba took the time to run the card through a series of benchmarks and real-world testing to give everyone an idea of how this card performs. Whether you are a gamer, or just someone who wants some great graphics performance for editing, video, etc., then check out this review. Link: A Look at the ATI Radeon HD 4850  
November 20, 2008 by Island Dog
With yesterdays big release of Object Desktop 2009 came a few new and updated applications.  One of which is the long awaited BootSkin Pro which enables you to skin your Windows Vista boot screen.  Users of BootSkin Pro will be able to create bootskins which can then be uploaded to the new BootSkin gallery here on WinCustomize. Check out the new Bootskin gallery here . BootSkins for Windows XP are still there , it’s just called BootSkin XP now. Stardock Design and s...
November 19, 2008 by Island Dog
Stardock has released the 2009 edition of its popular desktop experience suite Object Desktop. Object Desktop is a set of utilities that enables users to completely transform the desktop experience of Windows XP or Windows Vista. Object Desktop includes 6 utilities that focus on enhancing a particular aspect of Windows. These are: WindowBlinds . A program that enables users to completely alter the look and feel of the Windows GUI by applying "skins" to it. These skins can make Window...
November 19, 2008 by Island Dog
With the pending release of Object Desktop 2009, we have taken the time to update several of the Stardock Design .dreams to take advantage of the new features in DeskScapes 2.5.  The latest update is the popular Photo Dream .  The Photo Dream take your favorite images and randomly displays them on your desktop with smooth animations.   This update adds: Dynamic .dream updated to work on XP and Vista Supports multiple monitors New Static Wallpaper mode Other ...
November 18, 2008 by Island Dog
If you need to record and share video demos of your skins, .dreams, etc., then there isn’t a better way than to do it with Camtasia Studio.  I took some time today and wrote an article on the basics of Camtasia, and how you can use it to really show off your skins. We are also proud to have TechSmith as a sponsor for this years GUI Championships currently taking place.  Link: Using Camtasia Studio to Record Skin Previews
November 18, 2008 by Island Dog
More entries to the 2008 GUI Championships are coming in, and they are just fantastic.  I went through last night and downloaded some more Icon packs, and the quality of these entries are just amazing.  You need to head over to www.guichamps.co m to see all the great skins being submitted over there.  Here are just a few of the latest.
November 17, 2008 by Island Dog
What happened to the weekend?  It went by way too fast, but this week is going to be great as it’s going to be a super busy week for skinning.  In case you haven’t been keeping up, the 2008 GUI Championships is going on right now at www.guichamps.com .  The entries so far have been fantastic, and I know there are a ton more that are in the works.  Send to the link to your friends and family, and let them know they are missing out of some really great skins. If you spent...
November 17, 2008 by Island Dog
In last weeks WinCustomize poll we wanted to know what your favorite 2008 GUI Championships category was.  This year we have Icon Packs, Dreams (animated wallpapers), and WindowBlinds skins.  It was close but WindowBlinds had a bit of a lead over Icon packs, and Dreams came in third.  You can view the current entries at www.guichamps.com . With all the recent news about Windows 7, we wanted to know what your future operating system plans are.  Do you plan to s...