After weeks of voting, at last we present to you the full list of winners.  These skins and skinners were nominated and voted on by the community. 2007 Skinner of the Year: It was a tight race, with the lead swapping between several skinners throughout the week, but after all was said and done, one skinner came out ahead and can be crowed the WinCustomize Skinner of 2007: Night Train 2nd Place: Quentin94 3rd Place: I.R. B...

Welcome to Monday folks.  After two peaceful days of rest and relaxation, you're back at work once more.  As has been my habit for the last few weeks, I'm back again with my picks for the best content uploaded to WinCustomize over the weekend (Friday - Sunday).  Enjoy!  

Another week gone, so it's time for another round-up by Island Dog.  This week we have wallpapers, cursors, DesktopX goodies and a new WindowBlinds skin.  If you haven't been around much this week and want to know what's hot and worth downloading, check the article out.

Ok, you've got Deskscapes 2.0, you've gone through some of the great free content we have on the site, but you still want more.  You want something a little more fancy, with a little more polish than you can normally get.  And maybe you want to play with those Dynamic Dreams, the ones that use far less CPU and RAM to run.  If so, here are some Dreams for you to consider: Dynamic Dreams Winter Snow Snowflakes drift ...

Island Dog continues his fine series of tutorial articles on how to get the most out of your Windows skinning products with a detailed how-to to guide you through the process of changing skin fonts in WindowBlinds 6.  Hit the link below for the full story

Yesterday, the beta for DeskScapes 2 went out to Object Desktop subscribers, opening up Animated Wallpapers to virtually all Windows Vista users.  So now that you can use Dreams, I'm sure you're asking yourself which ones you should try first.  Well, we have a year's worth of Dreams in our gallery, which is a lot to sort through.  To make your life easier, here are a handful of the absolute best Dreams on the site.  I've been moderating and testing Dreams since the gallery we...

Wow, it's like we've been transported back in time to 2001 and the Windows XP launch.  Who here remembers what that was like?  Every tech-head online and offline was going on about how XP was just an incremental upgrade to 2k, but rife with incompatibility issues, and forcing users to relearn where basic system utilities were.  No one was going to upgrade.  Windows 2000 and 98 were going to be it forever.  Those all worked just fine for what everyone needed... and didn'...

Every day here, we talk about Windows customization.  Skinning the Windows UI, changing icons, tweaking performance, adding animation, giving everything a different look and feel.  However, there's an entire world of customization out there beyond your PC.  In the past, I've posted about cool case modifications, hand-made mice, weird desks etc.  We've seen all the cool stuff OTHER people do, but I'm wondering what all YOU do that isn't Windows skinning. Do you mod you...

iGoogle is Google's answer to the seemingly ubiquitous portal page competitors like MSN and Yahoo toss at their users.  A single page for the user to collect all their most used and referenced information, links and content.  I personally use mine for RSS feeds, weather information, daily comics and more.  It's a great tool. Plus, it's almost completely customizable.  Content on the page is broken up into blocks, which you can rearrange, reassign etc.  Recently, Goog...

2008 means it's time for another Presidential Election here in the US.  So far, Iowa, New Hampshire, Wyoming and Michigan have cast their votes for the primaries, with South Carolina, Nevada and Florida coming up shortly.  For those of us who are into politics, things are just starting to get interesting. To help fuel things, Island Dog has put together a countdown gadget to mark the days until the 2008 US Presidential Election in November.  There are two versions available, o...

While WinCustomize is mainly about skinning, it's also about community, where people contribute their knowledge and ability to make the experience better for all of us.  Everything we've accomplished is because of our community. When it comes to community contribution, there's nothing bigger than Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that is editable by anyone with a web browser and some free time.  Since its launch on January 15th, 2001 , Wikipedia has seen over 9 million entries cr...

So yesterday you heard about Aero Executive , a new Stardock Design skin that gives Windows a polished wood grain look.  If the comments are any indication, this skin has been very well received so far!  But like any good skin, after using it for a while you realize how much things like your cursor or dock stick out. Well, J. Aroche and messiah1 are here for you.  To go along with the WindowBlinds skin, you can get your hands on a matching ObjectDock and Cursor theme. ...

Shortly after Thanksgiving this year, we announced the Create Your Alienware Dream contest .  Talented animation artists from all over the US had a chance to show their stuff and compete for three really great prizes; a $3,000 Area-51 7500 Desktop PC, $1,000, and $500 cash.  Outside of the GUI Champs, this is the single biggest contest (in terms of prize value) we've run. Last week, the judges voted, and after contacting each of our winners, it's time to let everyone else in on who...

Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Windows Live Spaces, the list goes on.  These are the sites that everyone has been going bananas over for the past year or so.  Tons of money have been poured into these systems, and a lot of ink has been spent philosophizing over what they mean for the future of technology and how they're the Brave New World of personal information sharing and management. The Social Networking site is the media darling of 2007 the way Blogs were the "big thing" in 200...

Do you remember those TV remote control watches from the 90s?  You know, the stealthy wrist-watch that could turn a TV on or off without ever being caught (well, unless you snickered).  A great prank to pull when you were in middle school and there happened to be a TV in the corner of the room or something. What if you had the updated equivalent device?  Able to turn off any modern TV or IR-controlled display?  Imagine the fun that could be had with one of those. Ok, ...