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November 19, 2009 by Island Dog
Today we release a new premium WindowBlinds skin for WinCusomize Subscribers.  This skin is called Tiki, designed and created by Hippy.  As the name says, this skin is all about the tiki, and makes use of beautiful colors and bamboo textures.  Bring a bit of paradise to your desktop with this skin. WinCustomize Subscribers can grab this skin now from the Subscriber Resources area.  If you are not a subscriber, it’s not too late to join and get great skins like t...
November 19, 2009 by Island Dog
Duncs Web has a video review of the recently released WindowBlinds 7.  He takes a walkthrough of just about all the features of WB7, and the performance running on his Windows 7 machine. www.windowblinds.net
November 18, 2009 by Island Dog

One of my all-time favorite features in WindowBlinds is the ability to chance the opacity of the skins in Windows.  Depending on the wallpaper I use, I might prefer a lot of transparency, or just a little.  Either way, it’s as easy as adjusting a couple of sliders.

Check out this video demo.

 

www.windowblinds.net

November 18, 2009 by Island Dog
Each year, like most companies, Stardock puts together an internal business plan that sets up goals, objectives, and challenges that the company must address. Part of our internal business plan includes analysis of the state of the products/services we make as well as the results of our customer survey. Last year, we made this report available to the public and based on the positive response we got for doing so, we’re doing the same again this year. View: Stardock 2009 Cu...
November 18, 2009 by Island Dog
Take a closer look at Fences, and all its essential functions with this new screencast walkthrough of Fences.  After the video, be sure to head over and grab your free download of Fences. https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/
November 17, 2009 by Island Dog
Stardock released WindowBlinds 7 today. WindowBlinds is a program that allows users to customize the user interface of Microsoft Windows. By applying “skins,” WindowBlinds can easily change nearly every element of the Windows experience including the task bar, Start menu, window borders, scrollbars, push buttons, and much more. WindowBlinds 7 includes a host of new features and adds native support for Windows 7. Amongst its new features is the ability to “skin Aero.”  WindowBlinds 7 in...
November 17, 2009 by Island Dog
November 17, 2009 by Island Dog
WindowBlinds 7 is going to be released very, very soon.  To kick it off Frogboy has created a thorough walkthrough of WindowBlinds 7 and how it has progressed from version 6.  Tons of new features are included, and this article gives a great overview of them. WindowBlinds 7: A guided Tour
November 16, 2009 by Island Dog
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November 16, 2009 by Island Dog
I hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend!  It’s Monday, so as usual we want to start the week of right with a recap of just some of the skins that were submitted to WinCustomize over the past couple of days.  I see a wide variety of skins have made it in, so be sure to check out the galleries to see what else is new. Check out the weekend picks!
November 13, 2009 by Island Dog
Master Skinner DanilloOC has created a new guide for WindowBlinds 7.  This guide outlines how to manually add shadows to Aero.  This is another great resource for skinners, and a big thanks to Dani for taking the time to put this together. Download: WB7 guide – DWM – Aero Shadows  
November 13, 2009 by Island Dog

Happy Friday to everyone out there, and welcome to another edition of the Impulse Weekly Roundup.  It goes without saying that this was another busy week, with a bunch of updates coming out this week!

Articles to check out:

New Releases on Impulse:

Updates on Impulse:


This weeks Impulse Weekend Buys!


$14.99

$11.25

$12.99

$12.50

$14.95

$7.49
November 13, 2009 by Island Dog
As with just about every Friday, we have the roundup of the coolest skins and themes available.  If you couldn’t browse the galleries this week, just check out this weeks TWiS for the highlights of the galleries! Check out This Week in Skinning!
November 13, 2009 by Island Dog
I hope everyone had a great week, and have an even better weekend that is quickly approaching.  This week in skinning news we had a big release of DeskScapes 3 which bring animated wallpapers to Windows 7, and of course continues with Vista and XP.  If you don’t already have DeskScapes through Object Desktop, it’s on sale this weekend only for $14.95.  If you are a WinCustomize Subscriber, be sure to head over to subscriber resources and grab the new premium s...
November 12, 2009 by Island Dog
DeskScapes 3 was released this week with a bunch of new features and improvements.  The highlight being bringing animated wallpapers to Windows 7!  If you don’t have DeskScapes now is a great time to pick it up for yourself, or as a gift for a friend or family member.  DeskScapes 3 is part of this weeks Impulse Weekend Buys, in which it is on sale for just $14.95. http://impulsedriven.com/deskscapes3