What a great week for skinning, as this is the second WindowBlinds Master Skin this week.  This time we have Wraith by SKoriginals .  This is a darker skin for both XP and Vista, with a Lite sub-style added as well.  It’s very clean and usable, and one of his best so far. You can purchase Wraith for $4.95, and WinCustomize Subscribers get a 20% discount.

Let me see if I have this right. Sarah Palin is unfit to be the Vice President because her 17/yo daugher is pregnant. However, it's OK that the Presidential nominee, Barack Obama, did cocaine at 17/yo, that is not a problem.  

The betas for WindowBlinds 6.3 and SkinStudio 6.3 are now available on both Stardock Central and Impulse .  This comes at a perfect time as the 2008 GUI Champs starts in just over a month !  The most notable feature in this release is the new skinning option for layer blends, and the improved tree view and maximized edit windows in SkinStudio.  Other features and improvements in this beta are: Support for a number of blending modes for layers Breadcrumb bar text posit...

The betas for WindowBlinds 6.3 and SkinStudio 6.3 are now available on both Stardock Central and Impulse .  This comes at a perfect time as the 2008 GUI Champs starts in just over a month !  The most notable feature in this release is the new skinning option for layer blends, and the improved tree view and maximized edit windows in SkinStudio.  Other features and improvements in this beta are: Support for a number of blending modes for layers Breadcrumb bar...

I have been waiting for this one for a while.  I.R. Brainiac has released ecoLogical for WindowBlinds !  This Master skin has a clean and unique look that is true to I.R. Brainiac’s style.  The skin includes four sub-styles, a dark and lite version for both XP and Vista.  There are also quite a few matching accessories in the galleries as well. ecoLogical is available for $5.95, and WinCustomize Subscribers get a 20% discount.

Long weekends are fun, until they are over.  One good thing is we get an extra day to check out the skins that were submitted over the break.  A lot of good stuff came in, and here are some that caught my eye.

A new month is here, and today also happens to be Labor Day here in the U.S.  Every month on the WinCustomize forums we have a thread dedicated to posting your desktop screenshots for everyone to see.  Anyone can participate, just take a quick screenshot of your desktop, and post the image to the thread. 

Joystiq.com got a hands-on preview of Demigod at PAX 2008 this weekend.  You can read the full preview at Joystiq , but here is a quick excerpt: “Following an interview with Gas Powered Games at PAX 2008 , we got some hands on time with their newest creation, Demigod. The first thing we noticed while watching it running on glowing, envy-inducing PCs was how deliberate much of it looked. Everything from the unit/map design to the ease-of-use control scheme oozed hours...

This is coming from the same people who accuse the GOP of being "liars" and "smear merchants". From Newsbusters : As I reported earlier ,the scurrilous claim that McCain vice presidential pick Governor SarahPalin faked her pregnancy with a Down's Syndrome child is beginning tospread among the lowest of the nutrooters. Now, the unhinged, smearsite DemocraticUnderground.comhas boosted this lie to their front pages. Naturally, since these hatesites feed into each other, the spurious sourc...

Stardock has partnered with AMD to offer a free MyColors theme inspired by AMD’s gaming website, GAME.AMD.COM . Powered by MyColors technology from Stardock, the desktop theme features a new visual style created by Mike Bryant for Stardock Design and wallpaper featuring AMD’s digital superstar, Ruby. With one quick easy download, users get everything needed to transform the look of their PC desktop. The AMD Game MyColors is intended to inspire a whole new group of PC enthusiasts and will...

Stardock has partnered with AMD to offer a free MyColors theme inspired by AMD’s gaming website, GAME.AMD.COM . Powered by MyColors technology from Stardock, the desktop theme features a new visual style created by Mike Bryant for Stardock Design and wallpaper featuring AMD’s digital superstar, Ruby. With one quick easy download, users get everything needed to transform the look of their PC desktop. The AMD Game MyColors is intended to inspire a whole new group of PC ent...

The latest edition of This Week in Skinning is up for August 29th.  We have a bootskin, cursor theme, .dream, wallpapers, and more.  TWiS highlights some of the most popular skins from the past week on WinCustomize, just in case you didn’t have time to go through all the galleries.

She will be the VP pick.  Great move McCain!  

I forced myself to watch the spectacle last night, and I have to admit I was expecting a much better speech.  It really wasn't that great as it was a typical liberal speech filled with DNC talking points, and all about what the government should be doing to take over every aspect of your life. So lets analyze some of his speech. "Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harderfor less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watchingyour home values pl...

This weeks member spotlight comes from a recommendation from Zubaz, and a great choice it is.  This week we feature WinCustomize member and Journeyman, Cavan1 .  Cavan1 has been around WinCustomize since August of 2004, and has a huge gallery in many categories such as WindowBlinds, Wallpapers, Cursors, and much more. His latest release is a WindowBlinds skin by the name of SeaBlue .  I most recognize Cavan1 by his contributions to the RightClick and Wallpapers gallery, and ...