Rockpapershotgun.com has an interview with Brad Wardell about Stardock’s upcoming title, Elemental: War of Magic.  The interview covers a few things, including a chat about user-generated content and more! “Brad Wardell: The in-game tools of Elemental are designed to let players create their own items, their own worlds, their own graphical elements to the world, their own creatures, their own races and pretty much anything else they might want to expand the game. They&...

The latest edition of This Week in Skinning is up!  Friday is the day we scour the WinCustomize galleries looking for the coolest and most popular skins from the past week.  It’s a great way to check out some skins that you might have missed normally.

It’s Friday, and another busy week is just about over.  As I said in another post, the galleries had quite a bit of activity this week, especially in the WindowBlinds gallery.  I got a great response for the new format for TWiS, so I think I will keep it like this, at least for the time being. Don’t forget to show TWiS to your friends, and show them what types of cool stuff they are missing out on. Now for this weeks picks! Logons (XP and Vista) ...

PC Magazine has a featured article listing their picks for the “Best free software of 2009”.  They have a variety of categories, and coming in at number two on the list in the App Launcher category, we have ObjectDock ! If you don’t have ObjectDock, go get it.  Next, we have a huge gallery on WinCustomize for custom dock backgrounds and icon packs to use with ObjectDock.  Link: PC Magazine

PC Magazine has a featured article listing their picks for the “Best free software of 2009”.  They have a variety of categories, and coming in at number two on the list in the App Launcher category, we have ObjectDock ! If you don’t have ObjectDock, go get it.  Next, we have a huge gallery on WinCustomize for custom dock backgrounds and icon packs to use with ObjectDock. 

Since the first of the year, we have been getting a steady stream of WindowBlinds skins in.  Maybe everybody decided to finish off their skins during the holiday break.  Well no matter the reasons, I’m glad to see them coming in. These are just a couple of my favorites, but I would love to hear which ones you are using.

I’m happy to announce the promotion of Vlad of Vlad Studios to Master Skinner here on WinCustomize.  Vlad is one of the most talented and creative wallpaper artists I have ever seen.  Many of his works are done by hand, and he often takes a very unique approach to designs.  Vlad has been a member of WinCustomize since 2001, and think this promotion is a long time coming.  Visit his gallery on WinCustomize for a small sample of the works that he has created and share...

I’m a little late on posting, but the January Desktop Screenshot thread is open in the forums.  Being a new year, many will wipe their desktop completely and start fresh, so have you made that commitment yet? Our members have been showing off some super cool looking desktops with a variety of skin combinations.  Head over to the screenshot thread and post your desktop, and be sure to let everyone know what skin you are using.

With a short time before the chosen one is inaugurated, democrats which now they now have full government control, are in-fighting about the incredible amount of money that Obama wants to spend on his so-called stimulus package.  It’s hard to keep track of numbers, but last I read it somewhere near the $1 Trillion dollar amount.  Along with this, Obama now claims “he” can create 4 million jobs with this package. Without a doubt, with democrats in full control we are going to see s...

I’m still enjoy Windows 7 so far, and I have been playing around with it ever since I got it installed.  I wanted to share some screenshots for those who are going to test the beta.  I’m also trying out the photo gallery feature in Live Writer. View Full Album

We have had a few Master skins come in over the last couple of days, and in case you missed them, here they are.  Don’t forget that if you are a subscriber to WinCustomize, you get a 20% discount on any Master skins.

I like to keep my PC’s well maintained.  That meaning I don’t any excessive system clutter, temp files laying around, and things of that sort.   I had a chance to give System Mechanic and System Mechanic Professional a try, and it’s definitely one of the best utility suites out there.  System Mechanic has been around for a while, and that experience shows in this latest version. One of the things I like about a suite like System Mechanic, is that it has a bunch of tools ...

Well apparently the President doesn't.  Recently,  Rep. José Serrano [D-NY]  proposed an amendmentl to repeal the 22nd Amendment.   "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President." Now doesn't this politician have anything better to do than this?  What is the point of it?  

In case you missed the news, Paradox Games has joined Impulse and the first titles are available on Impulse today!  Hearts of Iron , Supreme Ruler 2020 , and its expansion, Global Conflict are now available for download. The rest of the Paradox catalog will be added soon! Hearts of Iron   Global Conflict

Well look no further.  Community members Spartan, Luckmann, and landisaurus have taken some time and created some very cool looking avatars with resources from Elemental: War of Magic. You can use these as your forum avatar on the Elemental forums, or other forums as well.  There are a bunch of choices, and we thank them for taking the time to put them together for the community. Check out their post which has all the avatars .