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 defau...

The great folks over at Windows7themes.net have been looking over Object Desktop 2010 , and have published their review of it. “The Object Desktop 2010 suite includes the best tools from Stardock to customize, organize, tweak and optimize your desktop. I love Object Desktop because it allows me to change my old, plain and boring desktop into a fancy, animated, organized 3D desktop that looks and feels totally different than the real Windows 7 desktop.” http://windows7themes.net/ob...

Fences has had a great year, and it’s definitely one of the most popular applications from Stardock today.  Lifehacker has posted the Most Popular Free Windows Downloads of 2009 and Fences is on that list!

“Like to keep items you want to access frequently easily accessible on your desktop but don't want to deal with the added clutter? Fences arranges your cluttered desktop icons into containers so you can clean up the mess into useful groups of shortcuts—or optionally hide them altogether.”

http://lifehacker.com/5426007/most-popular-free-windows-downloads-of-2009

The great folks over at Windows7themes.net have been looking over Object Desktop 2010 , and have published their review of it. “The Object Desktop 2010 suite includes the best tools from Stardock to customize, organize, tweak and optimize your desktop. I love Object Desktop because it allows me to change my old, plain and boring desktop into a fancy, animated, organized 3D desktop that looks and feels totally different than the real Windows 7 desktop.” http://windows7themes...

Well the uploads aren’t working at the moment, but that’s no problem for now, as there are plenty of skins from the past couple of days to keep you entertained.  Lets check out some cool skins from the past couple of days!  

Due to an issue in the uploading process, we have temporarily removed uploading to WinCustomize to avoid further issues with the galleries.  We hope to have this resolved as soon as possible. Downloading from the galleries should not be affected.

December just keep rolling right along, and as we approach the end of the month, we we will have more cool offerings on Impulse.  On that same note, be sure you have Impulse Now enabled.  This is the tray icon that is installed when you install Impulse.  Having this on will give you a chance to see some great deals on games and software.

Well there’s lots of stuff going on and plenty to check out, so lets get started!

Articles to check out:

• Impulse Holiday Gift Guide - Day 1 for Casual Gamers
• Impulse Holiday Gift Guide - Day 2 for the Desktop Customizer
• Impulse adding titles faster and faster
• Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity Announced
• WindowBlinds 7 Visual Walkthrough
• PC game developers mainstreaming themselves into oblivion?
  

New Releases on Impulse:

• Terror from the Deep
• Oddworld - Abe's Exoddus
• Three Musketeers
• Sins of a Solar Empire – Trinity (pre-order)
• Alganon
• Divinity II - Ego Draconis (pre-order)
• X-COM: UFO Defense
• Crysis Warhead
  

Updates on Impulse:

• Gratuitous Space Battles 1.27

 

This weeks Weekend Impulse Buys!

The second day in the Impulse Holiday Gift Guide is going out to those individuals who like to take their desktop above and beyond the normal look and feel.  Whether it’s an application to help organize your desktop, or a complete package to change the entire theme of your desktop, Impulse has the goods.

Buy some for yourself, give to your friend, share the holiday love!

Gifts for the Desktop Customizer:

DeskScapes 3 Put some animation on your desktop with DeskScapes 3.  This application gives you the ability to have animated wallpapers on XP, Vista, and Windows 7.
WindowBlinds 7 Tired of same old default look of Windows?  Maybe you just want to be different?  No problem, WindowBlinds 7 lets you change the complete visual style of Windows, and can now even skin Aero.
ObjectDock Plus Use ObjectDock Plus to organize your desktop shortcuts, icons, programs, and more into a “dock” that resides on your screen.  ObjectDock Plus features tabbed docks, multiple docks, and much more.
CursorFX Plus You stare at that cursor all day, why not make it fun?  CursorFX lets you change your cursor to one of thousands available, and CursorFX Plus adds effects, adjustable size, animation, and more.
Object Desktop This is the ultimate desktop transformation package.  This includes WindowBlinds 7, DeskScapes 3, IconPackager 5, Tweak, and many more applications.  It also includes a year of free updates.

If you wanted to learn a bit more about the recently released WindowBlinds 7, which now offers support for Windows 7, then take a look at the latest WB7 Visual Walkthrough.

The time has come once again the WinCustomize Mods to give us their picks for their favorite skins from the past month.  As always, this is a difficult task with the huge amount of skins we receive, but they tough it out and give us their picks from November! WOM picks The Beauty of Water by OutdoorPictures, “The blend of colors is awesome.” HG_Eliminator chose Flex texture by i-Umami, “A stunning new blind by some of the Original skinning legends, Pixtudio. It do...

I see that Adobe released Photoshop Elements 8 recently.  Has anyone purchased and tried this?  I heard there were some significant improvements and wanted to hear some opinions on it. http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/  

If you are new to WindowBlinds 7 , it’s pretty easy to pickup and start using right away.  Although, you might have some questions on what a specific feature is or where to find it, this visual walkthrough should help.  To get WindowBlinds 7 visit www.windowblinds.net .

We are getting closer and closer to the Winter Holiday, and I’m seeing all types of great Christmas inspired desktops being posted.  Here are some holiday skins to help decorate your Windows desktop. Get to decorating!  

I have decided to extend the contest to December 31st.  This should give some extra time to get some great .dreams in throughout the Holiday break.  Be sure to check out the grand prize sponsored by our friends at AMD! Winter Holidays .Dream Contest Sponsored by AMD Contest runs from November 30th to December 31st.  Entries will be accepted until 12pm EST on Thursday, December 31st, 2009. WinCustomize Mods and Admins will decide the winner, and will announce soon afte...

If you are a premium subscriber to Ars Premier 2.0 , you can participate in a live chat with Stardock’s Brad Wardell this Wednesday. “Stardock President Brad Wardell, live and answering your questions this Wednesday, December 9 at 8pm ET/5pm PT. He'll be tackling your questions about digital distribution, digital rights management, Sins of a Solar Empire, Impulse, and the upcoming 4X strategy title Elemental: War of Magic. Mr. Wardell created the gamer's bill of rights ...