Today is Island Dog day.  After putting together his monthly Dream montage he went though the gallery in search of the greatest skins posted over the last seven or so days.  As always, he digs up some really cool stuff that you might not have noticed otherwise.

With April now over, Island Dog pulled together some of the best dreams of the month and cut them up into a video montage for your viewing pleasure.  There's a great selection this month to check out so hit the link below to watch the video. My favorite is probably Sunny Beach by Alex Morgan.

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!

As you've probably already noticed, we put out an update to the central Stardock Forum system today that comes packed with fixes, plus a handful of very useful new features.  Instead of letting you guess randomly at what's new and how it works, I thought I'd give everyone a quick run-down of the new features. Forum Announcements Return of the Report Button Go to Top of Thread Button The New Karma System Forum Announcements In the past, we've been unable to let everyone know wh...

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...

I-Mod Productions , one of the top community sites for Galactic Civilizations II mods and modding recently launched a brand new modding wiki .  The goal of the I-Mod Wiki is to create a central knowledgebase for modders of virtually any game to come and share their knowledge, or benefit from the knowledge and experience of others. To start things off with a bang, they've launched the wiki with a huge modding guide for Galactic Civilizations II, with contributions from the I-Mod develo...

So yesterday I went out to my local Best Buy and picked up a copy of Mario Kart Wii for my Nintendo Wii.  Like all Nintendo consoles, it seems my game library is dominated primarily by Nintendo developed titles (Zelda, Mario, Smash Brothers).  So it just sort of makes sense that I'd go out and get the latest Mario Kart game.

Now, I have a confession to make.  In all of the previous Nintendo consoles I've owned (NES, N64, GC, GBA, DS) I've never owned a Kart game (was there even one for the NES?).  Sure I've played them from time to time at parties or at a friend's house, but I've never had enough time to really become proficient at the series.

This also means I don't come to the game with a favorite in the series to compare it to, and can't look at the game and say "Well, the driving physics aren't quite as good as they were on the N64 version, and the item management really needs to go back to the way it was in the DS title..."  So I'm basically as end-user as it gets when it comes to Mario Kart Wii.  So with that in mind, here are my thoughts after a few hours with the game yesterday...

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.