Polls. We do polls around here sometimes... I think. It's hard to remember anymore isn't it? Well, my to-do list says that I have a poll to update and some results to post so here we are. Hi! How've you been? Seen any good movies lately? Read any good books? Oh, right... poll... got it. Not much for small talk are you? Fine, here are the poll results from last week's poll where I asked how involved you were in this year's GUI Champs competition....
For those of you who own Essorant Skin Pack #1, there is an update now available (free to all those who purchased the skin pack). The updated skin pack now makes use of the per-pixel alpha-blending in WindowBlinds 5. To download the updated pack you can use Stardock Central and just click on the "update" button, or you can go to https://www.stardock.com/support and enter your e-mail address. This will geneate an e-mail that includes your account information and download links for all of ...
Some of you may know that every few weeks, we here at Stardock do a little podcast we like to call PowerUser.TV . Recently it has shifted from a weekly audio show to a once a month video, once a month audio show. Well, this shift didn't please the fans too much. Despite the fact that they can now SEE Brad, Kristin and Derek make faces at one another, take shots of vodka mid-show and stare blankly off into space while the someone else is talking, they couldn't stand that they ...
Despite all the fanfare over the GUI Champs, life does go on here at WinCustomize. So it's another week, and we're back again with another poll. Last week I just wanted to take a poll to see whether or not the daily news that I've been posting to the front page has been worthwhile and enjoyed by you, the reader. We got a lower vote turnout this week than usual, but that may be because the poll is no longer directly displayed on the front page. 111 of you voted, and it see...
When the GUI Champs '06 were announced late this past August, we made mention of some premium sponsors that would be handing out some of our top competition prizes. Much was made about how these were some sweet prizes and definitely worth competing for. We've already announced NVIDIA/EVGA sponsoring the prizes for the Most Original Visual Style and Most Original Icon Set, so that only leaves one prize, and thus one more premium sponsor to reveal. We are extremely happy to anno...
Yesterday in the GUI Champs '06 , we closed user voting on the second wallpaper event; Most Original. Today we enter the official Judge Vote phase for wallpapers, with results being announced for each event later this week. The judges will be presented with a list of the top-ten user voted entries in each event, they will rank them 1-10 and give them each their own relative score (again, 1-10). Head over to the competition site to see the top ten in each event!. Congr...
Is it ready? That's the question a lot of people are asking themselves right now as Microsoft runs ahead full-steam towards declaring Vista "done" and going RTM (release to manufacturing). This past Friday, Release Candidate 2 was pushed out the door to the hordes of developers and tech enthusiasts to hammer away at in the hopes of finding and squashing those final remaining bugs that are blocking the operating system from release. Vista has had a very rocky road since it went ...
Late last week, the rumors began to fly that Google was thinking about buying Internet video site, YouTube for the princely sum of $1.6 Billion. Well, the New York Times went and confirmed the rumors on Friday after talking with several people close to the deal. It is stressed that the deal is in the very early stages at the moment and nothing is definite. Google is just the latest in a parade of companies to visit and chat with YouTube in recent months. This is just the...
In case you've been waiting to vote on Most Original Wallpaper until the last minute, well, time is running out! At midnight tonight (Eastern Time) voting will be closed for Most Original Wallpaper. The next time you'll be able to vote on a Wallpaper event will be in November for the Best Overall event. So get moving and vote if you haven't already! When Wallpaper voting closes tonight, voting for Most Usable Icon Package will begin. Currently there are 37 submitted ...
If you mosey on over to the GUI Champs website, you'll see a pretty exciting announcement at the top of the page; our first premier sponsor! So far we've announced prizes being offered up by Stardock (software, a pile of cash and some XBox 360s), as well as what some of our friends in the community are pitching in ( Microangelo Toolset 6 , DeviantArt 1yr subscriptions). We made a fair number of veiled references to some mysterious "premium" sponsors but have been pretty quiet ab...
Today, Google Labs released a beta for a new search service targeted at computer programmers; Google Code Search . This new service will crawl the vast stores of publicly available code (mostly open source) to provide programmers with an easily searchable index of code to help find solutions to various programming tasks. Google expects this new search tool to be mostly used by students trying to learn complex programming languages, while being an occasional resource to more season and ...
The GUI Champs '06 marches on! Since Monday, you've been voting on Most Usable Wallpaper. Today, we're shifting gears a bit and begin voting on Most Original wallpaper. Most Original Wallpaper Usable was all about, well, usability. The Most Original Wallpaper event doesn't have anything to do with easy of use, icon readability or any of that other fuzzy feel-good sort of stuff. This event is all about pure "cool". What is the most outlandish, a...
Another week, another poll! Last week, you were asked to give your impressions of ObjectBar 2.0. Some formatting changes to the poll have moved it off the front page for the time being, and that may have impacted our vote numbers, but for those of you who did respond, the results were pretty positive, with only 8 or so of you claiming that the software was responsible for killing your inner child. 126 votes were count this time. For those interested, as always, here are t...
Back in August, I kicked off what was supposed to be a monthly segment highlighting a great skinner in the community I think everyone should take a closer look at. Well, we missed September obviously, which was entirely my own fault. So here we are trying to get things back on track with the October Skinner of the Month: 47songs Known best for her icon work, 47songs has released hundreds of icons in the form of IconPacks, ObjectDock icon sets and misc. icons since sh...
Think that RC1 wasn't even close to ready for release? Well, turns out that contrary to previous Microsoft statements, there will be a second full Release Candidate made available for testing. Vista RC2 will be made available to testers this coming Friday. This will be numbered build 5743, staying within the 5700 range, reserved for the eventual RTM copy. Reports from Microsoft say that the current bug count in RC1 is down to 1400 bugs, but they have to hit 500 or lower befo...