Tweak7 from Stardock was recently released as a beta at the time of this posting, and I wanted to start making a visual guide for it so users can learn how to personalize Windows 7, and improve its performance. Start off by downloading the Tweak7 beta from www.tweak7.com . If you are a subscriber to Object Desktop Ultimate you can download it via Impulse. When you start Tweak7, the first screen you will see is the Welcome Screen. This is a starting point where you will see r...
I am always looking for new icons to place on both the desktop, and in ObjectDock. They range from everything from site links, applications, to games. Default icons can sometimes be nice, but they hold nothing to what some icon artists come up with. Here are some new icons from the WinCustomize gallery!
Well Mr. Hope and Change is making more friends in Congress, this time on his own side . President Obama has irked close allies in Congress by declaring he has the right to ignore legislation on constitutional grounds after having criticized George W. Bush for doing the same. Four senior House Democrats on Tuesday said they were "surprised" and "chagrined" by Obama's declaration in June that he doesn't have to comply with provisions in a war spending b...
Paradox Interactive is celebrating its 10 year anniversary this week. With that they are having a 50% off sale on all catalog titles in the Impulse Store. Now is a great chance to pickup some fantastic games for a low price. Link - http://www.impulsedriven.com/paradox_sale.aspx Note: The sale does not include pre-orders
Stardock is excited to announce a new application, Tweak 7, which is designed to allow users the opportunity to optimize the performance and behavior of Microsoft Windows 7. Tweak7 was created with both casual users and power users in mind. Tweak7’s key features include performance optimizing, start-up program management, program identification, benchmarking, security tweaking, Cost of Use reports, Carbon Footprint analysis and user profiles. Features include: Securi...
I have been a big fan of the Anno series since the beginning, so I was very excited to hear about Dawn of Discovery , and even more excited when I found out it was coming to Impulse. Right now I’m playing through the campaign, but the open gameplay is also very fun. If you press F1, you can go into a “postcard” mode which will take some beautiful screenshots as shown below.
Stardock is excited to announce a new application, Tweak 7, which is designed to allow users the opportunity to optimize the performance and behavior of Microsoft Windows 7. Tweak7 was created with both casual users and power users in mind. Tweak7’s key features include performance optimizing, start-up program management, program identification, benchmarking, security tweaking, Cost of Use reports, Carbon Footprint analysis and user profiles. Features include: ...
We haven’t a skinning contest in a while, and since this summer is literally heating up, I thought a wallpaper competition would fit right in and be fun. The premise is simple, create a Summer wallpaper with your interpretation of the summer. It could be vacations, tropical islands, scenery, the sun, etc., it just needs to have that “summer” feel to it. How you create it is up to you. 3D, vector, drawing……show us what you got! Remember, this is about quality, not...
We haven’t a skinning contest in a while, and since this summer is literally heating up, I thought a wallpaper competition would fit right in and be fun. The premise is simple, create a Summer wallpaper with your interpretation of the summer. It could be vacations, tropical islands, scenery, the sun, etc., it just needs to have that “summer” feel to it. How you create it is up to you. 3D, vector, drawing……show us what you got! Remem...
Is this one of those Mondays, or is this one of THOSE Mondays? It’s too early to tell, but I do know we have some phenomenal skins to check out from over the weekend. Check’em out!
This weekend sale on Impulse is still going, and you still have a chance to pickup some great games at a great price! You really don’t want to miss out on the Red Faction Guerrilla Special Pre-order, which also includes Red Faction 1 & 2 for free! Check out this weeks deals. $9.95 $19.95 $49.99 $70.00 $4.99 $9.99...
This week Stardock released an update to it’s popular desktop icon organization application, Fences. This update brings a number of fixes and compatibility updates. Most notably we have drastically increased the support and performance of Fences on Windows 7. Regardless of which version of Windows you are using, Fences is the ultimate way to keep your desktop organized. You can download Fences for free via Stardock’s Impulse, or at the link below. https://www.stard...
A couple of days without internet, and I miss all the good skins coming in. Well once again, it’s time to play catch up and I’m really liking what I’m seeing so far. Here are some featured skins from the last few days.
TechRadar UK has published an article detailing 50 customization tips for Windows Vista. They cover all aspects of the Vista user interface, and of course they included several Object Desktop components and the best place to get skins for Vista….. WinCustomize.com ! In particular, they mention DeskScapes which is used to enable animated wallpapers on all versions of Vista, and WindowBlinds, which changes the look of Windows by applying different themes, or skins as we call them. ...
As some of you may have noticed, I have been offline for a few days. It seems on Tuesday while I was working in the middle of the day, my internet and TV went out. Figuring it was just an outage I took the family to dinner expecting it to be on when we returned. Oh, was I wrong. It was still down, so a quick phone call later I was told our ISP “discontinued” service to our entire community. Are you serious? Well yes they were. After another call to the HO...