From technology to politics to video games; these are the random thoughts of a geek with too much time on his hands

If I had to pick three things that Stardock is incredibly good at, of course I'd start off with skinning/desktop experience software like WindowBlinds, IconPackager etc, and then I'd have to say PC strategy games.  But those two sit on top of our third strength; community building.

We've taken the lessons learned from WinCustomize, and Brad's own years of running BBSes "back in the day" and applied them to our gaming communities surrounding Galactic Civilizations, Sins of a Solar Empire and soon Demigod, and now we're getting ready for a completely new community site attached to Impulse, our new digital distribution tool, and our next major step in community services

ImpulseDriven.net is currently in beta along with Impulse itself.  Using the technology we developed initially on JoeUser, we've smoothed out a lot of rough edges, improved the UI and have what we feel is a great community discussion site centered around games, skinning and technology in general.

There are two ways you can access the site, either from the Community tab within Impulse, or by pointing your web browser to ImpulseDriven.net.  It's important to note that you will need IE7 installed to properly view it within Impulse.  IE7/Firefox 2 will work equally well if accessing the site directly.

Let us know what you think!  And remember, this is just the first pass at it.  There are a lot of plans for expanding and improving the site over the next year.


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on Apr 17, 2008
OK IRB here is Dragon 1st
Cosmos is the next one
They both work just fine here with IE7 in WB

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on Apr 17, 2008
Nothing inside IE is skinned.
Compare to IE7 in Vista:

on Apr 17, 2008
Nothing inside IE is skinned.


Thank you Zubaz...I thought maybe I was going crazy...or worse yet...wrong.  
on Apr 17, 2008
Hmmm, I thought everyone understood that parts of IE7 in XP were hard coded. They will never be skinnable 
on Apr 17, 2008
Thank you Zubaz...I thought maybe I was going crazy...or worse yet...wrong.


I've used your skins . . I think it's clear that you *ARE* crazy (and maybe a little bit wrong) but not in this case.      
on Apr 17, 2008
OK IRB then you need to buy Vista and get caught up with the rest of the world. But I still say it is skinned just as much if not more than FF is by any means. Not saying you can't add more stuff to your FF. But it does not compare with the right ways of using the net as with IE or for that matter IE7. Here is what I see with my FF in the same skins being used and or with Vista and FF and IE7...
on Apr 17, 2008
I just checked out Impulse Driven. Sweet. I may never use JoeUser again. I like this set-up much better.
on Apr 17, 2008
Hmmm, I thought everyone understood that parts of IE7 in XP were hard coded. They will never be skinnable
I just do not see why that would be so - seeing that they did so damn much to protect Vista and all that. Why would they do that with XP and not with Vista? Oh I know what it is they figured everyone would buy Vista if it did what XP could not do and such the like. But none the matter - The new update for the Impulse has some really nice stuff in it! Must say I'm gona be using this program a lot more for a lot of good reasons. Hope the line breaks are changed back now... heheeeeheehhee ... SGT  
on Apr 17, 2008
One little request...

How about an icon for the toolbar? And one for JoeUser, too. I hate seeing that little blank image for Impulse and JoeUser.

on Apr 17, 2008
Check out the latest Impulse update, there are buttons on the bottom of the community page.  

They don't work yet, but something is up.   
on Apr 20, 2008
I get a 'Configuration Error':

tried to put the error message in here, but it didn't work

Vista Home Premium SP1, Firefox 2.0.0.14

on Apr 20, 2008
Same (at the moment):

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