It's the start of a new month, so once more I polled the moderators for their favorite skins of the month that was. It's a short list this month as many mods are taking some time off for vacations, holidays etc. Dracon by Libardo " Libardo's latest Rainlendar (first in two years) is an outstanding skin. Real art imo. Hope to see more matching skins. " - Snowman Sunsets Too by OutdoorPictures " A real montage of sunsets. Each could...
Welcome back from the long holiday weekend everyone! I hope everyone had a fun, restful few days (I know I did). Now however, it's back to work, emails, conference calls and meetings. So to help ease you back into the working world, here are some of my favorite skins from the long weekend. Enjoy!
Island Dog is back with yet another helpful and informative screencast. This time he's showing off how to change windows explorer backgrounds with WindowBlinds 6. It's a quick video, clocking in at nearly 4 minutes, but it covers virtually every feature related to the background changing features. So if you wanted to see exactly how to change out your explorer backgrounds, give the video a look. On a side note, ID recorded this screencast using his brand new Samson C01U USB M...
As June is now over, it's time for Island Dog to go through the vast number of Dreams uploaded to WinCustomize and pick out some of the best to feature in his monthly video montage. June had some terrific Dreams to choose from. This month we have Dreams from G47, Agustsigurdsson, Muckyman, CarGuy, Seabass, and TheMasterBaron. Hit the link to check out the video and links.
Welcome to Monday folks! If you're in the US, this is a nice short week for you with the Independence Day holiday on Friday. So to get the week started, I'm back after a week off with my picks for some of the best content uploaded to the site over the weekend. Enjoy! Yeah, that last one is a CoolPlayer skin...
Tekzilla, a weekly vidcast from Revision3, staring Veronica Belmont & Patrick Norton put out Episode 38 today, where they show off ObjectDock. ObjectDock is their featured Freebie Download of the Week and they show off how you can use it to jazz up your Windows desktop. They show a number of shots of the dock in action, and you will probably recognize a few of the wallpapers, dock backgrounds, icons and maybe even a certain website in the video. The Freebie of the Week segment sta...
Rockstar is an upcoming MyColors Theme from Stardock Design. WinCustomize Subscribers will be able to download the WindowBlinds skin for free!
Wow, it's been a busy week around these parts! On top of Impulse and The Political Machine, there's been a ton of great skins posted to the site over the last few days. To help wrap up the busy week, Island Dog once again comes up with his picks for some of the best work submitted over the week. It's a fantastic selection this week too; DX Theme, Dream, icons, a RightClick skin, phenominal wallpapers and two top-notch WindowBlinds skins. Click through to the full article a...
It seems that often skinners put out dark, glassy, techy skins. The number of Aero clones we saw when the Vista interface was first revealed is just one example. But now and then we see some very light, airy and bright skins uploaded to the site that provide a nice contrast to or normally dark PC screens. Here are a few of the more recent light-colored skins uploaded to the site you may want to check out... ...
One of the great features of SkinStudio 5 was the ability to directly import XP .msstyle themes and convert them into WindowBlinds skins, giving you access to the many .msstyle themes out there, but allowing you to retain the ease and power of using WindowBlinds. Unfortunately, that feature isn't present in SkinStudio 6. But never fear, there is actually a free, stand-alone tool to do just that! Get the XP .msstyle importer free!
Why are things so quiet today? Well, we're getting all of our ducks in a row in preparation for the big Impulse launch later today. So for the time being, amuse yourselves. Read a magazine. Maybe take the dog for a walk. Run any errands you have to do today, because once we flip the switch, it's going to be hopping around here for the rest of the day!
Happy Friday the 13th folks. Hopefully your Friday is free of bad lick, ill omens, or serial killers in hockey masks! But if it is, we do have something to take your mind off of all of that (well not the killer part, it's hard to forget about that part). As he does every Friday, Island Dog rounds up some of the best skins submitted over the course of the week. This week it's a selection of cursors, dreams, icons, wallpapers and WindowBlinds. Check out his article for ...
Since 2005, skinning community site Customize.org has hosted the Desktopography project, an annual exhibition of stunning wallpaper art that is simply some of the best wall work I've ever seen. Participation is by invite-only, but because of this the results are always top-notch. The idea is that our moods can be heavily influenced by what we see every day, and for many of us we spend our days staring at a computer screen. While it's hard to get a good nature look to your Windo...
We're quickly coming up on the full launch of Impulse, our next generation digital distribution, software management and community tool. Impulse, as pretty much everyone should know by now, is the successor to Stardock Central, and will eventually replace the aging download tool entirely (though not immediately, it's going to be a phased retirement). Since early this year we've had first a private group of testers hammering on Impulse, and then the larger community in an open beta t...
Every month the moderation staff here at WinCustomize is asked to pick their favorite skin submitted in the previous month and to give a bit of explanation on why they liked it. Here are the mod picks for May: Igloo by kittymalone "It's the third month in a row I'm picking a creation by kittymalone. I'm sorry, but I can't help it. I'm hooked on her fabulous, easy-to-use-on-a-daily-basis creations. In my opinion one o...