What happens when you take the skinning talent of one of our Master Skinners and combine it with one of the most active members of the community? Chances are it's a skin of exceptional quality that's built to meet the needs and interests of users rather than just the skinner themself. Today, we have a prime example of that: Crystalline by SK Originals . Built with constant input and direction from Bebi Bulma, Crystalline combines SK's skinning talent and Bebi's creativity, style ...
I can't believe it's already May! 2008 has been flying buy and now we're getting close to the half-way point. So much to do and so little time! To kick May off, Snowman has picked up the torch and started this months Desktop Screenshots thread. So far there are only 5 shots posted, but it's only a few hours into the month so I guess I can forgive it. Head on over now and post your desktop shot for May. It's always a lot of fun to see what people are running on thei...
The year is 1999, IconPackager brings simple icon switching to Windows and the world erupts in joyous cheers! Well, maybe not. But artists did set to work on creating new custom icon sets to save everyone from the horror of the default windows icons. Here are just a handful of the very first IconPackager sets uploaded to WinCustomize. Dark Mel Broyce Cyber RS Martin Eriksson Suzi Wong Albie Wong Kid ...
Zubaz revives his "Ask a Master" series from last year for a great interview with SK Originals, one of our most talented community skinners and takes the time to answer nearly a dozen questions about skinning, his creative process, why he skins etc. Check out the full interview .
Today, Stardock is pleased to announced the release of KeepSafe 2.0. KeepSafe is the ultimate real-time data protection technology that is as simple as set-and-forget it. It's designed to work in the background and be as seamless as possible. Anyone who has ever lost that all important document due to a drive crash, corrupt save, overwritten, etc., then users will appreciate what KeepSafe can do. This new version of KeepSafe features several new features: Improved User...
If you're a forum junkie, I'm sure you've already seen the updates we made today to the Stardock forums. But in case you haven't, or in case you're not sure exactly how all the new bits work, there's a quick tour through of the new features and how to use them. Click on through to check out the new features!
Sure we're a Windows customization site, and Windows users are roughly 99.99% of our daily traffic, but I sometimes wonder what alternative OS choices you all make. Do you dabble in a bit of Linux on the side? Does your spouse/roommate/friend have a Mac that you find yourself using from time to time? Do you have a dusty Solaris workstation in the corner you run a file server on sitting in the closet? So, in addition to Windows, what else do you use?
Sometimes we get some really crazy skins uploaded to the galleries. These are themes, skins, walls etc that are definitely "out there" in just about every respect. They're not low-quality by any means, they're just very unique in color choices, textures etc. Here are a few of the crazy skins we have on the site: Proof that you can go off...
Well, we managed to churn out a second episode of the WinCustomize SkinCast! This week we take questions from the forums and just sort of goof off in general (do I detect a theme?). This week we managed to stay in the 15-20min time frame too! Remember, you can subscribe to us via iTunes and receive updates as soon as we publish them. Download them, sync them up to your iPod and go. In misc news on the podcast, Episode 1 received over 1,000 downloads in the last week!&nbs...
Good Morning everyone! I hope everyone had a fun filled weekend and got a bit of sun. While we were all out and away from our PCs, folks were once again slaving away on skins, icons and more. Here are my picks for some of the best stuff uploaded over the weekend.
As some of you probably have noticed, we've begun moving some of our Premium Suites over to MyColors. And if you've purchased the Pirate or Magic Desktop Premium Suites recently, you'll soon be receiving (if you haven't already) an email explaining that your purchase has been upgraded to the MyColors version of the suite, which have been tested to work in both Windows XP and Windows Vista. What does this mean for Premium Suites overall? Well, they're being replaced entirely b...
It's Friday, so that means it's time again for Island Dog to take a tour through the galleries to pick out some of the best the last week has to offer in skins, walls, icons and more. This week there are bootskins, cursors, a DX theme, a Dream, Dock backgrounds, a Sysmetrix skin, wallpaper, and even a WindowBlinds skin. Click the link to see the full list with screenshots and commentary.
Well, just a short while ago, we crossed the 500th listener to Episode 1, and this morning we were listed on the iTunes Podcast directory (you can even search for us). Not bad for a 30min deal we barely managed to put together in time for Monday! Tonight we're going to record Episode 2 and we'd like to get a few listener questions for the session. Episode 2 will just be Island Dog and myself, as we haven't had a chance to line up any skinners just yet. So keep that in mind whe...
Island Dog is back with yet another Screencast. This time he takes users through the paces with MyColors. He talks about the differences between MyColors and Object Desktop 2007, how to download, install and apply themes. In the demo he shows off Diamond, the free theme that comes with MyColors and talks about some of the other themes you can snag here . If you're curious about what MyColors is and how it works, head on over and check out the video .
It's always fun, and a bit eye-opening to see what's currently the most popular content on WinCustomize. Here's a sampling of the most popular stuff over the last 30 days... These aren't all of them, and they're not really in any order, I just picked out ones that caught my eye. And yes, that is Eminence, a 2006 skin, still in the most popular list.&nbs...