HP announced earlier this week the ‘Beats’ line of premium Notebook PC’s in collaboration with Dr. Dre and Jimmy Lovine. The laptop achieves superior audio technology, and includes tools for mixing music as well. To top that off, Stardock’s MyColors is used to apply a custom Beats theme to the new line of Notebooks. Link: HP Beats
The folks over at the PC World blogs grabbed a copy of Fences from Stardock, and gave it a run through on their desktop. The quote below sums up everything pretty well. “It wasn't five minutes after installing this program that I realized I'll be using it for the rest of my computing life. It's that good.” PC World Business Hacks on Bnet.com, also has a quick video demo showing Fences in action. See the video here .
The folks over at the PC World blogs grabbed a copy of Fences from Stardock, and gave it a run through on their desktop. The quote below sums up everything pretty well. “It wasn't five minutes after installing this program that I realized I'll be using it for the rest of my computing life. It's that good.” PC World Business Hacks on Bnet.com, also has a quick video demo showing Fences in action. See the video here .
Better late than never, we have the favorite skin picks from the WinCustomize Moderators! As usual, we get to see some of the favorite skins they pick, and these are the people who see the majority of the skins that come into WinCustomize! Take a look! WOM picks Midnight Sochi by OsyaMont ” This one caught my eye, lovely pic.” Snowman went with Subsecret by MikeB314 “A true MASTER skin.” Erk chose Nano Docks by ...
It’s been a while in the making, but lets all give a big shout to our newest Master Skinner, Vampothika (aka Kitty)! She has been a WinCustomize member since 2006, and since then has become one of the most well known for her unique and beautiful wallpaper and WindowBlinds designs. Her hard work and dedication has earned her the rank of Master Skinner, and we are proud she makes WinCustomize her skinning home. Congratulations on...
With DeskScapes 3 just around the corner, you have been hearing a lot about the new hybrid .dream format, which is good because it’s an awesome feature. Basically, it allows you to take static wallpapers and apply animations to it. This gives more people a chance to create animated wallpapers without having to know how to use 3D applications. It’s really easy to create subtle animations without having to render a huge video file, and it uses very little resources. It does...
The hybrid .dream feature is very cool, and it is quite easy for people to create as well since the focus is on static wallpapers. This will open up more opportunities for people as they won’t have to worry about 3D renders to make a great animated wallpaper. Here is a video I created showing off the Vintage hybrid .dream. You can get access to the beta now by becoming a subscriber to Object Desktop. Get more information at www.objectdesktop.com .
I was very excited to see the UPS truck roll up, and out comes my Windows 7 party pack box! It’s full of great stuff for the party, and I can’t wait to give most of this stuff out to the party goers.
Here is a quick un-boxing:
Yes I have coffee on this Monday, and to really kick it off I have pumpkin coffee! What a great way to start an October Monday. I spent some time over the weekend modding some of the galleries, and I couldn’t wait until Monday to share what I found. Check out the weekend picks!
Fences 1.0 was released this week, and I wanted to put up a quick tutorial so new users can get setup quickly without much fuss. Grab the free download here , or via Stardock’s Impulse . Installation should take just a moment and then we can start getting our desktop in to some type of order. Lets create our first Fence! Right-click your mouse and drag an area across your screen with the size you want your Fence to be. It doesn’t have to be perfect, you can ad...
Friday is finally here, and I’m sure many of you have been anxiously waiting for it. It’s been a fantastic week overall on WC, and I can’t wait to share this weeks edition of TWiS with you. So here you go!
Oh what a busy week this week. WinCustomize subscribers got another premium WindowBlinds skin which looks great, we have a holiday community project going strong, and a bunch of submissions. Thanks to everyone making all this happen! Now for this weeks picks! Yin Yang by Xuton I really like the texture of this CursorFX theme. Well done! Boxes by Ausvet A very nice looking .dream with a variety of colorful effects. ...
As the weekend is approaching, so many of us wait in anticipation for what deals we will find in this weeks Impulse Weekend Buys. We had another phenomenal week on Impulse with the edition of more EA titles such as the Battlefield 2 Collection, which is a super fun game. We also had new additions like CSI: New York, Meridian4 Driver Bundle, Buccaneer: The Pursuit of Infamy, and more.
Lets check out this weekends sales!
 | Sins of a Solar Empire just $19.99 |
 | Gratuitous Space Battles for just $19.95 |
 | Sins of a Solar Empire Bundle, which includes Sins and the micro-expansion Entrenchment for $29.99 |
 | Restaurant Empire 2 on sale for $13.99 |
 | Cellblock Squadrons is just $4.99 |
 | THQ Classic FPS Bundle which includes Red Faction, Red Faction 2, Full Spectrum Warrior, and FSW: Ten Hammers on sale for $29.99 |
Get your free download of Impulse at www.impulsedriven.com.
We have another new premium WindowBlinds skin exclusively for our WinCustomize Subscribers . Precision is a beautiful skin with a darker look and some great color contrasts. Current subscribers can find this WindowBlinds skin in the Subscriber Resources area, and it’s not too late to subscribe and get this and many other premium skins. Subscribe now !
Fences 1.0 was released this week, and now it makes the Download of the Week on MaximumPC.com! “Desktop maintenance is perhaps the most frivolous form of organization, but it’s just as important as matching together pairs of socks in your clothes dresser. Fortunately, there are free applications like Fences to help aid the chronically disorganized and transform their desktops into grids of art. Previously in an beta, version 1.0 of Fences has just been released by Stardock, with impr...