At this years Tokyo Game Show , Sony President Ken Kutaragi announced the price cut of the PS3 in Japan by 20%. The 20GB model will sell for $429 (U.S. dollars), down from the original $515. It was also announced both models will feature the high-definition HDMI connector, which was originally only slated for the higher end model. This price cut is currently for the Japanese market only, but there was wide speculation on whether this will translate into a price cut for the U.S. also. So...

Microsoft released Vista RC1 (build 5600) to users who participated in the Customer Preview Program today. If you participated in the Beta 2 release, you should have received an e-mail with information on the RC1 release. You will need to use the key given to you in Vista Beta 2 for this new release If you were not part of the Customer Preview Program before don't worry. Microsoft will be taking new participants soon, so check the CPP website for information on signing up. Vista Custom...

An EU review panel is investigating whether to bring antitrust charges for "unfair competing" against AMD. The Commission has been considering charges for months, but has been delayed because of doubts about the case. In the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission has shown little interest in pursuing this case. AMD has also sued Intel in the United States, and is also pursuing cases in other countries.

Since Vista will obviously not be released for this upcoming holiday season, they have come up with a coupon plan to ease the minds of new computer buyers. Microsoft reportedly plans to offer coupons with new PC purchases valid for either a free upgrade to Vista, or a discounted upgrade. The upgrade program will begin on October 26, and will run until March 15. Only PC's cabable of running Vista will be eligible for the upgrade coupons. So if you plan on buying a new PC for the upcomin...

Halloween Skins Halloweenisapproaching and I wanted to put a list together of some great Halloweeninspired skins.  Please feel free add any you think are"scary"enough.   Bootskins HalloweenHades Halloween CursorXP HalloweenPumpkins MyHalloween HalloweenCursors Creepers DesktopX CreepersDesktop HalloweenLights AeroHalloween 2004 ...

Google plans to build a solar-powered electricity system at it's Silicon Valley headquarters. When finished it will be the largest U.S. corporate complex powered by solar energy. The rooftop system will reportedly supply 1.6 megawatts of electricity to nearly a third of it's 1 million square foot complex. Read more at the article below.

A couple of months ago I posted a story about a researcher at the "Black Hat" convention who showed how to bypass some security measures in the upcoming Windows Vista. Joanna Rutkowska, a Polish researcher, tried her exploit on the recently released Vista RC2 and discovered it no longer worked. However, she apparantly feels there could be some problems with Microsoft's "fix". Rutkowska said on her blog, "This is good news, but it might hold some problems. Microsoft appears to have thwa...

Microsoft plans to roll out its "Office Live" service in mid-November. Office Live, which doesn't include any online Office programs, is a set of online business services such as e-mail and web hosting. Over 100,000 people have enrolled in the beta which was unveiled earlier this year. Office Live Basics (free) will include 500MB's of storage, and 25 e-mails accounts with 2GB of storage available. There are also several other paid plans which include extra services such as a business conta...

On behalf of WinCustomize I would like to take this time to tell everyone Happy Thanksgiving. WinCustomize is a great community, and we thank you all for your support and what you bring to the community every day! Have a great holiday, and enjoy your Thanksgiving feast!

Yesterday I showed you some Turkeys for your desktop wallpaper, well how about a Turkey cursor for today.  Keila made this CursorXP theme several years ago, but it's still a top notch theme.  Remember to "show off" your desktops in our monthly desktop screenshot thread .   Turkey by Keila

Holidays have always been popular as far as desktop customization goes, but for some reason Thanksgiving has never caught on too well.  There isn't enough Thanksgiving inspired skins to create a whole guide for, but there are some and I wanted to feature them over the next couple of days.   Thankxgiving by Apocalypse_67  Mr Tom Turkey by Frankief    If you know of any other wallpapers ...

Over the last week or so we have seen some fantastic .dreams appear in the galleries.  Browsing through the .dream gallery, I think I see the first winter holiday .dream submitted.  I suspect this holiday season .dreams will be very popular, and I know there are many great opportunities for some really cool animated wallpapers this season.

It's Monday, and I'm sure this is everyone's favorite day of the week. Many people take the weekend off, but that still doesn't stop people from creating and submitting some superb works to the galleries. So to celebrate this glorious Monday, take a look at some of the skins that caught my eye over the weekend. Is there any skins you liked some over the weekend? Feel free to post them here!

Stardock released TweakVista 1.01 today. It is available as a free trial and users of Object Desktop can now download the update application through Stardock Central. TweakVista is an enhancement application that helps users configure Windows Vista to meet their personal needs. The program has been designed to allow both casual, non-technical users to safely use it as well as contain a host of advanced features for power users to dig into the internals of Windows Vista. Tweak...

I think it's safe to say a great many of our members here on WinCustomize are users of Adobe Photoshop.  I started using Photoshop somewhere around version 6 and I'm currently on CS2, so this story I saw today really caught my eye (thanks to Hankers for the tip).  John Nack, Photoshop Product Manager, wrote some interesting tidbits on his blog regarding Photoshops future and a possible visual "overhaul". Nack stated, " We must make Photoshop "everything you need, nothing you do...