Right on time as usual, we have our monthly feature from the WinCustomize moderation team. They hand over their favorite skin picks for the month, so you can get an inside look at what the WC team is liking. WOM picked Skinning Dot Net – A Skinner’s World ”Really captures the site.” Snowman went with Melture for WB6 ”Though it's not a 100% perfect it's still an awesome skin!! I see a future Master if lypnjtu continues this line of work!” Lantec ch...
August has already gotten off to a start, but I did want to remind everyone of our August Desktop Screenshot thread. This is your opportunity to show off your daily desktop and highlight what themes, skins, icons, wallpaper, etc. you are using. I use it to see what skins other people are using, and you can almost always find some themes you missed in the galleries. Post your desktop in the forum thread here. https://forums.wincustomize.com/360558
Last Thursday I was able to finally grab the Windows 7 RTM off of MSDN and get it installed without any issues. I spent a great deal of Friday and the weekend reinstalling my applications and games, and restoring backups. After all that was done I did made a disk image of the install, and everything was just about done. Here is my desktop after all that. I haven’t had time to add any customizations, that will come this week.
I had a lot of house work to do this weekend, so gaming was a bit lighter than usual. I also did a clean install of Windows 7, so I spent the rest of the weekend reinstalling my games, which by the way is so much easier installing via Impulse than looking for a bunch of CD’s. Anyways, I played a bit of Battlefield 1943 this weekend. Can’t wait for the PC version. What did you play?
It’s the typical Monday morning for most of us, just trying to get this week started off and catching up from over the weekend. To help that process along, I want you to check out these skins from the weekend. Here ya go!
Violence of course. Remember how democrats are trying to accuse people who oppose ObamaCare of being a mob. Well what do you call the democrats here?
On Fridays we always look forward to items like This Week in Skinning, but we cannot overlook another important weekly article that keeps everyone up to date on the goings on with Impulse. That is Impulse Weekly by Zoomba! This is a great edition this week with lots of sales, pre-orders, updates and all types of goodies. Check it out!
Another Friday means it is time for the latest edition of This Week in Skinning. TWiS is the only article of its kind that highlights the best skins, themes, and whatever else in between that has been shared throughout the week. We have a nice variety of skins this week, and I’m sure all of you will find something you like from these picks. Check out TWiS!
I almost forgot it was a Friday. That’s a tough day to miss for sure. This was an awesome week for skinning, as many of you got a taste of the WindowBlinds 7 beta that was released. Along with many getting the Windows 7 RTM this week, I’m pretty confident skinning is going to get a great boost in the next few months. Now for this weeks picks! Expandercal by gef This is a slick DX object that expands and has a smooth look to it.
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Ustream.tv released a new iPhone app that allows you to record video on your iPhone 3GS, and upload it to their streaming site. While live streaming isn't available yet, it's still a cool way to share videos. Here is a quick test I did, with a quick tour of my home office.
We at WinCustomize and Stardock wanted to say Happy 9th Birthday to our friends at DeviantART . On August 7th, they will celebrate 9 years and still going strong. DeviantART has always supported us with things like the GUI Champs, and we want to wish them a Happy Birthday and congratulations!
If you are a subscriber to either TechNet or MSDN, then you are now able to download the Windows 7 RTM! The downloads went live around 1pm EST and I can only imagine how many people are currently downloading at this moment. I still have about 2 hours to go at the time of this posting, so hopefully by later tonight I will all be set up. How many of you are downloading?
IGN.com has a feature called ‘Cheers and Tears’ which highlight games that “Five games that challenge your tactics, and five that challenge your patience.” This edition is all about strategy games, and both Galactic Civilizations II and Sins of a Solar Empire are featured! What Civilization IV did for the historical 4X game, Galactic Civilizations II did for the space empire games. The team at Stardock had already resurrected the genre with the original Galactic Empire...
Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor has received an update bringing it to version 2.03. This also applies to the Ultimate Edition and Endless Universe as well. Updates can be downloaded now via Impulse . Change log: Minor adjustments to tech tree costs Arceans more aggressive at colonizing Terrans build up military sooner Fleet window crash bug fix Misc other updates and fixes You can find out more about Gal Civ II at w...