It may be hard to believe, but Winstep Software Technologies, the company behind Winstep, the integrated suite of Windows shell enhancement/replacement tools, turns 10 years old today. April 10th, 1998. Today we'd like to extend our congratulations to Jorge and crew on making something that really has stood the test of time. They survived the dot-com bust and are still going strong! As a thank-you to the community for a decade of support, they're offering Winstep Xtreme for...
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...
As the release of Twilight rapidly approaches, more previews are cropping up around the Internet. Last Friday, GameShark joined the party with their own impressions on the latest build of the expansion pack. Troy Goodfellow puts the game through its paces and shares what he found. Like just about everyone else, Troy paid special attention to the degree of customization and differentiation between the races. Unique tech trees for each race, unique structures, weapons and def...
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...
GFW Radio is a weekly free-for-all with the editors for Games for Windows Magazine. Every week they talk about what they've been playing recently, what's going on in the games industry, or in the case of this week's podcast the super-flu that has been kicking both Jeff Green and Brad's butts the last week or two. Together, the two of them spend the podcast working on creating the virus that will wipe out all of human civilization. Beyond crafting the bug that will kill us all, th...
GameSpy's Allen Rausch recently took the latest build of Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor for a spin to see what had been added to the game since he last played it back in November. After many hours with Beta 6, Allen found himself still consumed by the new, unique racial technology trees, and the implications they have on gameplay. "We played through several games as the Krynn and we discovered that we had actually underestimated the impact that unique technology tre...
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.