The holiday break is here, but there is always time to feature some of the awesome skins that come in over the weekend. It’s good to see some of you are skinning instead of braving the shopping crowds! Check out the featured picks!
Happy Holidays everyone! This will be the last Impulse Roundup for 2009, and what a huge year it was for Impulse. So many new games, new publishers, new features, and 2010 will be even bigger!
We hope everyone has a happy and safe holiday, and the Impulse roundup will see you next year!
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The final edition of This Week in Skinning for 2009 is here. This edition is filled with holiday skins, but due to the uploading issues this week, the uploads weren’t as full as other weeks. Still, we have some great skins to check out, and I’m looking out for some cool holiday desktops to feature. Check out this weeks TWiS!
Happy Friday, and this will be the last regular edition of This Week in Skinning for 2009! This was an interesting and exciting year for skinning. The uploads on WinCustomize increased in times where normally they decrease, and we have seen many new skinners enter the community, but unfortunately, we have also seen some leave as well. Over the next couple of weeks we will take a look back at some of the highlights of skinning throughout the year, so if you have some suggestio...
Stardock is excited to announce the release of IconPackager 5. IconPackager lets users change nearly every icon in Windows including the use of “icon packs” to change all at once. It has gained nearly 4 million downloads on Download.com, and is the easiest way to change your system icons. You can view a full visual walkthrough of IconPackager here . The IconPackager 5 update includes: Supports Windows 7 and Windows 7 specific icons Optionally will restart Explorer...
Brad Wardell has put together a quick video demo of Beta 2 of Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy. You can get into the beta by pre-ordering Diplomacy now at https://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/ . Check out the video.
GameStooge.com has published the first part of their “50 Great Games of the Decade”, and Sins of a Solar Empire has made the list at #48! “Adding to the deep strategy was the look of the game; it is one of the most visually stunning strategy games of all time. Planets were varied in their composition, and every change the player made had an affect on the planet and ships. Zooming into a planet with many cities, for instance, revealed traffic air lanes zipping through ...
Fences Pro was released this past week, the follow-up to the extremely popular freeware Fences. The Download Blog on CNET takes a look at Fences Pro.
“Fences Pro ($19.95) largely answers our request; or at least it tries to. Fences Pro's settings menu not only lets you name a default folder in which all newly installed icons should appear, it also showcases a list of rules you can configure to deposit specific types of icons (images, music videos, etc.) into any of your "fences." The icon installation rules worked well in our tests, saving pictures we downloaded from the Web to our specified "Pics" fence, and application shortcuts to "Programs."
Read more at The Download Blog.
I’m sure you heard all about this in the news…….sorry, I couldn’t say that with a straight face. This is the thug “Chicago way” of doing things. “How desperate has the White House become to get anything passed under the name of health-care reform? According to Michael Goldfarb’s source on Capitol Hill, the Obama administration has targeted the last remaining Democratic holdout, at least among moderates — and they’re willing to damage national security to extort his support. The W...
Brad Wardell, aka Frogboy, has created a video tour of WindowBlinds showing it in action, and showing some of his favorite skins from the WindowBlinds galleries.
SkinStudio 7 has been released today. SkinStudio is an application that allows users to create and modify visual styles, also known as skins, for Windows 7, Vista, and XP. These skins can then be applied using WindowBlinds . WindowBlinds 7 was also recently released, and SkinStudio 7 now supports the new features that were included in WB7. Some of these include: Support for new WindowBlinds 7 features Overhaul of the user interface Easier access to layers, impro...
SkinStudio 7 has been released today. SkinStudio is an application that allows users to create and modify visual styles, also known as skins, for Windows 7, Vista, and XP. These skins can then be applied using WindowBlinds . WindowBlinds 7 was also recently released, and SkinStudio 7 now supports the new features that were included in WB7. Some of these include: Support for new WindowBlinds 7 features Overhaul of the user interface Easier access ...
SkinStudio 7 and SkinStudio 7 Pro have been updated recently, and I wanted to give a quick visual tour of what the new SkinStudio 7 looks like, and point out some of the new features.
You can get more info about SkinStudio 7, and downloads, at www.skinstudio.net .
Fences Pro is a program that helps you organize your desktop and can hide your icons when they are not in use with the simple click of your mouse. Fences Pro is the follow-up to Stardock’s popular freeware program fences which has become the most popular desktop enhancement on CNET’s Download.com since its release earlier this Fall. Fences Pro adds a number of compelling new features to give users more control over their desktop icons. These features include: Having a default fenc...