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November 17, 2011 by Island Dog
Stardock has released the public beta for Tiles today.  Tiles is an application that lets users organize their desktop applications into pages of tiles.  You can quickly view and manage your running applications with Tiles as a customizable sidebar.  The look of Tiles can also be customized further with additional themes, background images, and more . The beta version is fully functional with the company looking for feedback from users on additional features and usability th...
November 16, 2011 by Island Dog
This was in the Sins news, but wanted to cross-post it for everyone else to see.   Stardock announced today that its PC strategy titles are hitting Steam starting with the real-time strategy hit Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity ($19.95, http://store.steampowered.com/app/201290 ) The Sins of a Solar Empire series has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide and swept many of the top gaming media awards, including IGN’s overall PC Game of the Year award. Steam and Gamestop PC D...
November 16, 2011 by Island Dog
Stardock announced today that its PC strategy titles are hitting Steam starting with the real-time strategy hit Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity ($19.95, http://store.steampowered.com/app/201290 ) The Sins of a Solar Empire series has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide and swept many of the top gaming media awards, including IGN’s overall PC Game of the Year award. Steam and Gamestop PC Downloads are featuring Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity at a 25 percent off discount this week. ...
November 15, 2011 by Island Dog
Hard to believe Christmas is just over a month away.  I wanted to start featuring some of the best Christmas wallpapers we have on WinCustomize, and any of these are perfect for your desktop wallpaper. Now is also a good time to remind everyone of our WC Holiday contest . 1. Christmas RedGlass by FrankieF   2.  ..it’s Christmas 2010 by Ton-K300   3. Christmas Tree at Night by Island Dog   4.  Where Chri...
November 14, 2011 by Island Dog
Recently RTSGuru.com gave users the chance to ask questions that would be answered by the team behind Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion.  The interview is now complete and RTSGuru has it posted! Read the full interview at RTSGuru.com !
November 11, 2011 by Island Dog
We are approaching the holiday season and this has always been a popular skinning holiday as decorating a desktop is almost as fun as decorating your house for Christmas.  We already have a great gallery full of holiday themed skins, but lets reinforce that with some fresh new designs.  This time we are just going for a free-for-all casual contest where any skin type is welcome as long as it’s available at WC for download. The rules: Contest runs from November 11th t...
November 9, 2011 by Island Dog
Stardock has released SkinStudio 7.3 today.  SkinStudio is an application that lets you create visual styles, also called skins, for Windows 7, Vista, and XP.  These skins are applied using WindowBlinds and can change the entire look and feel of the Windows user interface.  This upgrade brings several enhancements to the default skin and content settings. Update includes: Updated included template skin for improved Windows 7 support for new skins Updated set...
November 9, 2011 by Island Dog
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. ...
November 8, 2011 by Island Dog
Of course you should know that already, but hey, just in case you didn’t a reminder is always good!  We have a wide selection of desktop wallpapers here on WinCustomize, with new ones being added daily. Take a browse and download one, or two, or many more! https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/wallpapers Here are some recent popular wallpapers! ...
November 7, 2011 by Island Dog
Well the title of this thread says it all.  These are skins you might have missed this past weekend, so take a quick browse and check them out!
November 4, 2011 by Island Dog
Happy Friday!  Enjoy the latest edition of This Week in Skinning with another week of great looking skins and themes for your PC desktop! This Week in Skinning-November 4th
November 4, 2011 by Island Dog
Hey everyone, hope you had a great week and have some fun things planned for the weekend!  This was a busy week with updates coming for both DeskScapes and CursorFX .  Lots more good stuff is coming up so now is a great time to tell your friends and family about things like Object Desktop and WinCustomize.  Spread the skinning word! Now for this weeks picks!   Raum by Libardo This CursorFX has some beautiful details and solid animations.&n...
November 2, 2011 by Island Dog
If you need to change your bland or boring Windows cursor theme, come check out CursorFX from Stardock.  There are literally thousands of skins to download that can be applied with CursorFX.  CursorFX Plus adds effects, trails, resizing, color changing, and much more. New in this update: Fix for cursor disappearing over taskbar thumbnail previews Fix for sometimes requiring a double-apply to enable a new cursor CursorFX Plus is available for $19.95, and a f...
November 2, 2011 by Island Dog
Today we release DeskScapes 3.5 which is an application that lets users have animated wallpapers on their Windows desktop.  These animated wallpapers (also called .dreams) can be video-based or dynamically generated for a wide variety of content.  DeskScapes can also apply effects to .dreams and static wallpapers as well. New in DeskScapes 3.5: Added four new wallpaper effects (blue colors only, green colors only, red colors only, and desaturate) Added option to keep only a ra...
November 2, 2011 by Island Dog
CursorFX has been in the spotlight in the last few weeks, and there have been some really amazing CursorFX themes submitted here recently.  I have featured most of them, but wanted to call out a few again in case you didn’t see them. Remember, get CursorFX here - https://www.stardock.com/products/cursorfx/ Black Widow Halloween by theAVMAN Y BLOO by ah...