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November 30, 2009 by Island Dog

The long holiday weekend is over, and whether you missed the Black Friday sales or not no worries, this is one Monday which you don’t want to miss!  Today we have the Impulse Cyber Monda y sale with many PC games and applications on sale starting at just $1.99!

The Impulse Cyber Monday Sale:

November 30, 2009 by Island Dog
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving holiday, and wonder if any of you braved the crowds on Black Friday to get some holiday shopping done.  This was a very long holiday weekend, so it’s pretty safe to say everyone is getting back into the swing of things today.  Even though it was a long weekend, the skins still flowed it, so lets take a look at some that came in over the last few days!
November 25, 2009 by Island Dog

The long holiday weekend is ready to be kicked off, and to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday we are having a HUGE sale on Impulse!  Since the holiday season is approaching, don’t forget you can easily make a purchase on Impulse for a friend or family member. 

Lets check out the Impulse Thanksgiving Sale!

November 25, 2009 by Island Dog
One of the best Christmas WindowBlinds skins out there received quite an update.  White Christmas v2 from Master Skinner adni18 has been updated with some new graphics, new wallpaper, and more.  If you are a WC Subscriber, you get 20% all Master Skins, so be sure to grab this one!
November 25, 2009 by Island Dog
The Winstep Nexus Dock is a free Windows dock application that provides fast access to your most frequently used applications, with flexible options allowing it to dock or float anywhere on the screen. Every feature you’d expect from a dock and much more, including widgets, mouse-over effects, skins, drag-and-drop, and even live icon reflections and support for Vista Aero Glass effects. Completely customizable, has thousands of backgrounds freely available online and is fully compatible with b...
November 24, 2009 by Island Dog
The Thanksgiving holiday is just a couple of days away.  This means lots of good food, time with family, and some well deserved time off.  Typically not a big skinning holiday, there are a few skins that occupy the gallery with a Thanksgiving theme to them, so lets take a minute to feature some of them. Happy Turkey Day!
November 23, 2009 by Island Dog
IconDeveloper doesn’t get as much attention as it should, but it is an awesome app that can do nearly anything you need to in regards to icons.  Just today I needed to grab the stock icon from an application, and using IconDeveloper I was able to do in just about a minute. Open IconDeveloper and select “Open Icon”. Now just browse to the application directory and from there I found the .exe which has the icon I need.  Selecting it opens it up in Ic...
November 23, 2009 by Island Dog
Happy Monday everyone!  Wow, there were a ton of skins submitted this weekend, including quite a few WindowBlinds skins.  Lets take a look at some skins from the weekend!  
November 20, 2009 by Island Dog
I’m just reposting this from the Sins news that Yarlen posted earlier: Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment are pleased to announce the planned start of Beta 1 for Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy on Monday, November 23rd. All Diplomacy pre-orders will be charged on Monday with access to the beta (which will not be fun, per our usual disclaimer).  Beta 1 will not be feature complete but will contain: New Envoy cruisers, Embassies, Diplomacy tech tree (much more to come...
November 20, 2009 by Island Dog
I have been busy today so I have just been reading bits and pieces, but if this is true then this is huge.  Michelle Malkin has a good roundup of what’s been going on so far. http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/20/the-global-warming-scandal-of-the-century/
November 20, 2009 by Island Dog

Good day Impulsers!  I hope everyone’s week is going fine, and welcome to this weeks re-cap of the happenings on Impulse.

Articles to check out:

New Releases on Impulse:

Updates on Impulse:


This weeks Impulse Weekend Buys!


$22.49

$14.95

$2.99

$12.50

$9.95

$22.49
November 20, 2009 by Island Dog
One of the newest Master WindowBlinds skin to hit the galleries this week is VXP 2010 by vStyler.  This is a complete redesign from the original VXP visual style from years ago.  Clean colors and a smooth design make this a definite winner.  WinCustomize Subscribers also get a 20% discount off on Master Skins, so grab this now!
November 20, 2009 by Island Dog
This has been an awesome week in the desktop customization community.  We had the big launch of WindowBlinds 7 which brings skinning to Windows 7, among the other cool features like Aero skinning, textures, etc.  You can visit our YouTube page to see several video examples of WindowBlinds in action.   Take a look !
November 20, 2009 by Island Dog
Good day fine WinCustomize folks!  Just to give a quick re-cap of this weeks activities, if you are a WC subscriber then be sure to check out the new subscriber skin called Tiki.  This was also a huge week for skinning as WindowBlinds 7 was released!  This enormous update brings skinning to Windows 7, and adds a ton of new features. Now for this weeks picks! WOM by jalentorn This is a very creative and cool cursor set for CursorFX.&nb...
November 19, 2009 by Island Dog
You might have seen screenshots and articles for the past couple of weeks showing off the hybrid .dream “Vintage”.  This is an elegant and subtle. dream with several layers that can be hidden to make the animated wallpaper even more subtle. The Vintage .dream is included with DeskScapes 3, which you can find more information here .  Also in the Vintage series we have the Vintage MyColors theme .  This theme stays true to the classic Vintage concept, and includes ...