We are getting ready to close out another month and not a better way to finish it off than with a new edition of This Week in Skinning.  It’s been a pretty good week for skinning as we had several Master skins released along with a bunch of other skins in the galleries.  Now for this weeks picks!     Alice the Madness Returns by Vampothika I don’t need to go into much detail here.  Beautiful design as always. &nb...

We are halfway through the month of March and we end the week as usual with a new edition of This Week in Skinning.  If you missed some of the news this week, we released Beta 2 for WindowFX 5 which include improvements to the UI and new options to check out. Now for this weeks picks!     Wand Magie by Casperrr This is a unique CursorFX theme with some fun animations.   Parisienne by BoXXi There’s lots to like...

Welcome back to another edition of This Week in Skinning!  Lots of talk this week going on about Windows 8, and if you have downloaded the consumer preview, then be sure to check out our newest app, Start8 . Now for this weeks picks!     Oan by CountryYokel This is a matching CursorFX theme for his WindowBlinds skin, both with a cool design.   Black Diamond by AceMatrix This is a fantastic set of icons for IconPackag...

Happy Friday everyone!  This was a great week as we saw the first beta release of the very cool WindowFX 5, which you can get more info about here . I have been having a great time with it on my PC’s and I really like the start menu animations.  Otherwise we had another good week of skins including a new Master skin from Xiandi . Now for this weeks picks!   Nitro tech by Libardo You are missing out if you are not using CursorFX and downl...

Oh my, we have halfway through December and Christmas is just right around the corner.  We are also wrapping up our 2011 Holiday skinning contest , and so far we have received a nice variety of skins.  Now for this weeks picks!     Season’s Greetings by amitsaran This is an awesome animated wallpaper for the holiday season.  A great snow effect and beautiful background!   Cubicals by pinchecl A new ad...

This has been an exciting and busy week!  We have the public beta of Tiles out now, and of course we can’t forget the WC Holiday contest going on.  This opens up lots of opportunities for skinners as we expect a big increase in usage of Tiles and for people looking to use different skins.  Now would be a good time to learn how to skin it. Now for this weeks picks!   Lethal Industry FX by neone6 A cool, nicely detailed theme for Curs...

I’m sure you saw the news of DeskScapes 3.5 and the four new Dynamic animated wallpapers that were released not too long ago.  These four .dreams are pretty awesome, and they have been very popular since release.  However, I wanted to point out that these .dreams have settings that let you adjust various parts of the .dreams for some customization of how they look. ...

Welcome to another edition of This Week in Skinning, the web’s best and only weekly guide to skins, themes, and any other desktop customization skins you can find.  Being it’s October, we are seeing some more Halloween skins roll in, but lets try to get that number even higher over the next week or so!  Now for this weeks picks!   Cybergoth FX by neone6 A dark and animated CursorFX set, that is truly a unique style.   ...

The end of September…..oh my!  We are winding down this year awfully quickly and I hope to see some cool Halloween desktops this month.  WinCustomize got a slight update this week just adding some social networking buttons and moving the upload button to a more prominent position in the navigation bar. Now for this weeks picks!   Mask Icons by ernie leo With Halloween approaching, I can see some fun uses for these.   Ti...

At long last it is the weekend and as usual we end it with a roundup of the hottest skins and themes submitted to WinCustomize.com.  Now for this weeks picks!     Techno Mi FX by H4RDSTYLER A real nice CursorFX theme with great animation.   Mist by Discovod This is a very subtle animated wallpaper, but even with a small amount of animation makes it go a long way.   Shroom by Richard Mohler ...

Hey everyone!  So much going on behind the scenes that it is getting crazy again.  Along with the actual skins themselves, we have had some interesting posts on WC along with great community involvement.  Check out the Object Desktop: Status Report 2011 here! Now for this weeks picks!     Lollie Pop Swirls by ahabkaba If you are looking for a colorful and fun set of dock background for ObjectDock, look no further.   ...

We are just grinding our way through August with another strong week on WinCustomize!  A nice variety of skins were rolled in this week, and we also had some lively discussion on the WC forums. Now for this weeks picks!     Parallax by BoXXi A great looking CursorFX set to match an upcoming WindowBlinds skin.  Can’t wait for it!   Birth – Blue and Greens by DEVJIT The wallpaper alone was excellent,...

And another week down, and another week of WinCustomize being filled with skins!  Now for this weeks picks!     Blacklight Rebel FX by neone6 This is a great dark design that works well with the matching WB skin, or any other dark skin.   Learning Key Pad by theAVMAN This is very, very cool.  This gadget made with Desktop X will help kids learn the alphabet.  Fantastic!   Bangkok Thaila...

Hey, it’s the first TWiS for August!  Not a lot of news to report on this week, but we did have a steady flow of skins of which a few we will highlight today. Now for this weeks picks!     Alien Space by amitsaran Space scenes almost always make fantastic .dreams, and here’s another to add to that collection.   BubbleDock by B2R This is a clean set of ObjectDock backgrounds with a nice use of transparency....

Among the many capabilities of Stardock’s DeskScapes , one of them is the ability to manage wallpapers on your PC.  One feature in particular is DeskScapes applying random backgrounds at set intervals.  There’s so many great wallpapers out there, there’s no reason to keep just one on there all day! Select Random Background from the wallpaper library. Selecting this gives you a new tab to select wallpapers both animated and static.  You also have a new configura...