Happy Monday!  This is a short week for many of us, so lets get it going by featuring some of the fantastic skins that made their way into the WinCustomize galleries .

I can’t believe we are already halfway through the year!  July is here so among other things it means we have a new desktop screenshot thread.  Take a screenshot of your desktop and show off the skins and themes you are using. Post to the July desktop thread here - https://forums.wincustomize.com/427644

GameSpot has posted their review of Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion and gave it an 8.5 out of 10! “Rebellion puts a nice capper on the Sins of a Solar Empire franchise. While this is an excellent game, with loads of new options and an incredible amount of tactical depth” Read the full review at GameSpot. http://www.gamespot.com/sins-of-a-solar-empire-rebellion/reviews/sins-of-a-solar-empire-rebellion-review-6384904/

By now many of you have received the June Edition of the WinCustomize Magazine.  If you didn’t, you can view it here. WinCustomize Magazine – June Edition Be sure to manage your subscriptions so you can receive the magazine each month.

 

We have released a small update to WindowFX 5 today.  WindowFX is a unique program that allows users to animate windows and start menus with slick animations and effects. No other program gives you so many polished and reliable window enhancement capabilities including; animations, window resizing options and movement customizations. This update addresses issues people were having on unloading. If you have WindowFX 5 installed, you will need to uninstall via Stardock Central fir...

WinCustomize has a great variety of wallpapers available.  Everything from stellar photographs to 3D created images can be found and many come in a variety of resolutions, sometimes even resolutions for mobile devices. Lets take a look at 5 favorites that you can download now for your desktop! Follow @wincustomize 1. View Point by ernie leo   2. Life by dadoizvg   3. ElectroSexual by Vampothika   4. Tiny E...

Softpedia games review of Sins: Rebellion is up and they give it a score of 9 out of 10! “Ironclad Games has managed to once again deliver a game that has no rival in the space-based real-time strategy world and a universe that will end up occupying hundreds of hours of my playing time over the coming months.” Full review here. http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/games/pc/Sins-of-a-Solar-Empire-Rebellion-Review-277108.shtml

Welcome back to another edition of This Week in Skinning!  It’s nice to see that people aren’t slowing down much summer in regards to skinning.  Typically, summer is a slow time for skinning but that doesn’t seem to be the case as the uploads keep rolling in.  Hopefully we’ll have some more GUI Champs 2012 news coming up soon as we are hard at work behind the scenes getting things ready.  Follow @stardock   Now for this weeks picks! ...

I wrote yesterday how there’s lot of new WindowBlinds skin coming in.  If you are like so many other people who are also using ObjectDock, then don’t forget you can often find matching dock backgrounds to go with your favorite skins.  For info on how to add backgrounds to ObjectDock, click here . Here’s a few of the latest! ...

G4TV has their review up of Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion! “Rebellion is a perfectly satisfying way to quell your hunger pains for a long-form, hardcore RTS.” Read the full review from G4TV here. http://www.g4tv.com/games/pc/65998/sins-of-a-solar-empire-rebellion/review/

People have been quite busy this month as the skins keep coming in, especially in the WindowBlinds category.  The only problem we have is trying to decide which skin to use! Sumerge by madcat21   Flamingo by Lightstar   Phoenix 2012 by 2of3

Microsoft introduced Surface today which is a new line of tablet PC's for Windows 8.  They did a great job at keeping this hardware development under wraps, and Surface has some really nice features. Surface highlights: Software takes center stage:  Surface sports a full-sized USB port and a 16:9 aspect ratio – the industry standard for HD. It has edges angled at 22 degrees, a natural position for the PC at rest or in active use, letting the hardware fade into the background and the s...

We have released an update to CursorFX 2 with fixes for some issues that some users were experiencing.  CursorFX lets users change their bland default Windows cursor with one of thousands available for download. CursorFX 2.11 update: Fix for Flip3D mode Windows 8 installation is not recommended Current customers can update via Stardock Central or download via their account downloads page . Get CursorFX here - https://www.stardock.com/products/cursorfx/ ...

Grab your coffee and take a look at some of the featured skin picks from the last few days!  As usual there’s some awesome stuff and be sure to take a moment and share any skins or themes you like with your friends.   ...