It's not often that we talk about a specific MyColors Theme here on WinCustomize, but today it's a little bit different. Cosmos is one of the new Inspired Themes from Stardock Design's PixelPirate, one of the best known and most talented skinners in the community.  It's a great theme with a space/futuristic look, perfect for anyone looking for something sci-fi for their desktop.  While it's a great theme, what makes it worth mentioning here is what PixelPirate did with all the sk...

Every month, I poll the moderation team here at WinCustomize for what their favorite skins of the month are.  They have to pick one, and only one, skin and give a brief explanation of why they picked it.  Here are the mod picks for March, 2008.... Rise of Mezzanine Vista kittymalone " Yet again kittymalone raises the creative bar with this stunning WB. Finally, someone who's leaving the boring Vista look in the dust (where i...

Another month has come and gone, which means it's time for Island Dog to round up the best dreams from the community and cut them together in a nice video montage.  The whole video comes in at about 1 minute and showcases seven great dreams.  Hit the link for the full list and video.

Sorry I didn't have this poll up yesterday, but I was a bit busy with a few other things and lost track of the time.  But never fear, I have not forgotten you and your weekly polls!  This week's poll follows up on Brad's Frog Blog post, specifically the new Object Desktop website .  What are your thoughts?  Love it?  Hate it?  Think it's just OK?  Vote in the poll, leave your comments below. Results next week.

Last week I asked what part of your UI you change the most often.  Was it wallpapers, skins, icons or app-specific stuff like ObjectDock or RightClick?  Personally, I figured wallpapers would win out by a wide margin, with skins coming in a distant second.  Turns out I was wrong... Skins won out, with wallpapers following very closely behind.  Icons and application skins shaved out only a small percentage in terms of frequent changes.  With folks changing skins so ...

I don't know about you, but I had a fantastic weekend.  Here in frosty Michigan the weather was warm, sunny and generally great.  It's almost a shame to be back in the office while it's still so nice outside (high near 70f here today!).  But while I'm here, looking longingly out the window, I figured I should share with you some of my favorite uploads from the weekend now gone...

Sometimes I like to go back through the archives of a gallery to see what people were uploading to the site "back in the day" and I'm discovering that, in some cases, that some things were better back in "the good old days".  Wallpapers being chief among them.  Well, more specifically, the wallpaper gallery back when Nuvem was still on the site. It was Koop who turned me on to Nuvem's wallpapers back when I first joined Stardock two years ago.  His work is of such stunning qual...

Another week down, and Island Dog is back once again with his weekly feature on what's cool and great in skinning for the week.  This week we have a wide selection of skins ranging from a Xion skin, to OD Backgrounds, a Sidebar Gadget, Wallpaper, DX Theme and more.  Give the list a look and see if there's anything that catches your eye.

It's been a while since I featured any individual skinners here on the front page, and I thought it might be time to trot out another one. Today, I'd like to direct you to Nimbin, Apprentice and member of WinCustomize since January 2006.  In his over two years with the community, he's taken on a role as one of the more prolific RightClick skinners on the site with nearly 50 RightClick skins submitted since late 2007.  He also has contributed a number of BootSkins, Wallpapers and a p...

Sometimes someone makes a gadget that's just so useful and cool that I have to feature it here on the front page.  MikeB314 yesterday put up just such a gadget. Sidebar Player is a video player for the Windows Vista Sidebar that lets you load in any online streaming video feed and watch it either on your sidebar directly, or expand it to a larger window on your desktop. Originally made to watch NASA TV, you can sub in any video stream, or play local audio/video files. Probably t...

A new month, a new Desktop Screenshots thread!  This month, TheD2JBug kicked things off with his desktop shot showing off Diamond WB, Arzo icons, Position Cursors and a matching Aero dock background.  There are also a few screenshots from RickJP and Diafragma. Have a killer shot you want to share?  Head on over to the thread and get to posting!  You only have 28 days left.

After three years away, long-time skinner APB has returned to WinCustomize with a brand new WindowBlinds skin! Canvas is a very clean, simple WindowBlinds skin built with SkinStudio6 and fully optimized for Windows Vista and WB6 users.  If you're looking for a great skin, with soft colors, great highlighting and easy to read buttons, you definitely want to take this skin for a spin. Hopefully this marks APB's triumphant return to WinCustomize!

In case you didn't already figure it out, the news stories today were jokes, all meant in good fun.  And on the off-chance there's any confusion left... We're still WINcustomize.   No Mac or Linux stuff here, no plans for it.  Put down the torches and pitchforks folks No Apple Dashboard Widgets There is no plan to add Dashboard widget exporting to DX.  The story and screenshots were 100% fabrication (though Island Dog did make a Dashboard widget version...

2008 April Fools Joke  This morning we announced that WinCustomize was expanding to cover the Mac and Linux customization scene .  As a follow-up, today we're incredibly happy to also announce the first of our products to support the new cross-platform effort... One of the great new features of DesktopX is the ability to export your widgets/gadgets to run on the Windows Vista Sidebar.  While 3.5 is still receiving its finishing touches we've already begun the plannin...

2008 April Fools Joke  For seven years, WinCustomize has been the home for Windows GUI Customization.  Users from around the globe come here every day to download skins, icons, wallpapers and more to change the way the Windows Operating System look, feels and behaves.  While Windows remains the dominant operating system in the world, we've been watching the steady growth of both Apple's OS X and Linux as alternative OS choices. As both have matured and grown in popu...