These are some of the most popular WindowBlinds skins downloaded from WinCustomize for this month so far. Some are new skins, and some are older but still are very popular. View the entire WindowBlinds gallery at WinCustomzie.com .
This weeks WinCustomize Member Spotlight goes to a fairly new member of WinCustomize, but has been doing some great work and really getting noticed around the site. This weeks spotlight goes to jester382 ! Jester382 has been a member since July of 2008, but as his profile states, he has found a new hobby of skinning. He’s also been off to a great start. Jester382 has submitted skins in a few galleries including WindowBlinds, ObjectDock, and CursorFX. His Windo...
Since Christmas and the upcoming holiday season is one of the most popular for skinning, I wanted to start a thread where everyone can post ideas, requests, works in progress, etc.
This Week in Skinning took a very short break, but it’s back with an extra long feature list. We have had a bunch of new skins come in over the past week or so. This weeks TWiS includes WindowBlinds skins, wallpaper, bootskins, logons, and more! TWiS is a great way to catch on skins you might have missed, and also feel free to pass it along to friends and show them what they have been missing as well.
Well it’s Friday, and after a short break This Week in Skinning is back! There has been so much going on lately its really been hard to keep up with it all. The two biggest things in regarding to skinning are definitely the release of Object Desktop 2009 and the 2008 GUI Championships . If you haven’t checked either of them out, now is the time to do so. With the OD 2009 release, we also have a new gallery here on WinCustomize….BootSkins for Vista! ...
Pollster Zogby is under fire for a recent poll which shows some interesting results post election. They had to release this statement. “ We stand by the results our survey work on behalf of John Ziegler, as we stand by all of our work. We reject the notion that this was a push poll because it very simply wasn't. It was a legitimate effort to test the knowledge of voters who cast ballots for Barack Obama in the Nov. 4 election. Push polls are a malicious effort to sway public opini...
One of the prizes in the 2008 GUI Championships is an ATI Radeon 4850 video card sponsored by AMD. Zoomba took the time to run the card through a series of benchmarks and real-world testing to give everyone an idea of how this card performs. Whether you are a gamer, or just someone who wants some great graphics performance for editing, video, etc., then check out this review. Link: A Look at the ATI Radeon HD 4850
With yesterdays big release of Object Desktop 2009 came a few new and updated applications. One of which is the long awaited BootSkin Pro which enables you to skin your Windows Vista boot screen. Users of BootSkin Pro will be able to create bootskins which can then be uploaded to the new BootSkin gallery here on WinCustomize. Check out the new Bootskin gallery here . BootSkins for Windows XP are still there , it’s just called BootSkin XP now. Stardock Design and s...
Stardock has released the 2009 edition of its popular desktop experience suite Object Desktop. Object Desktop is a set of utilities that enables users to completely transform the desktop experience of Windows XP or Windows Vista. Object Desktop includes 6 utilities that focus on enhancing a particular aspect of Windows. These are: WindowBlinds . A program that enables users to completely alter the look and feel of the Windows GUI by applying "skins" to it. These skins can make Windows l...
Stardock has released the 2009 edition of its popular desktop experience suite Object Desktop. Object Desktop is a set of utilities that enables users to completely transform the desktop experience of Windows XP or Windows Vista. Object Desktop includes 6 utilities that focus on enhancing a particular aspect of Windows. These are: WindowBlinds . A program that enables users to completely alter the look and feel of the Windows GUI by applying "skins" to it. These skins can make Window...
Stardock announced a huge free update for Sins of a Solar Empire today, the award-winning title from developer Ironclad Games. Additionally, fans that pre-order the expansion will be included in the upcoming beta for “Entrenchment”. Fans can pre-order the expansion at www.impulsedriven.com . Highlights from the 1.1 change log include: Alloy Networking Technology – allows for seamless multiplayer without needing to deal with port forwarding or other router settings ...
With the pending release of Object Desktop 2009, we have taken the time to update several of the Stardock Design .dreams to take advantage of the new features in DeskScapes 2.5. The latest update is the popular Photo Dream . The Photo Dream take your favorite images and randomly displays them on your desktop with smooth animations. This update adds: Dynamic .dream updated to work on XP and Vista Supports multiple monitors New Static Wallpaper mode Other ...
If you need to record and share video demos of your skins, .dreams, etc., then there isn’t a better way than to do it with Camtasia Studio. I took some time today and wrote an article on the basics of Camtasia, and how you can use it to really show off your skins. We are also proud to have TechSmith as a sponsor for this years GUI Championships currently taking place. Link: Using Camtasia Studio to Record Skin Previews
in my work, I need to be able to record high-quality videos of my desktop without a lot of hassle, and have flexible options on what to do with that video when done recording. One of the most common tasks I do is to create videos of .dreams, or animated wallpapers which are used by Stardock’s DeskScapes . I use Camtasia Studio 6 from TechSmith to create these videos, and I wanted to share some tips with users. They are one of our prize sponsors in the 2008 GUI Championships ,...
More entries to the 2008 GUI Championships are coming in, and they are just fantastic. I went through last night and downloaded some more Icon packs, and the quality of these entries are just amazing. You need to head over to www.guichamps.co m to see all the great skins being submitted over there. Here are just a few of the latest.