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MyColors 2.5 Released

Island Dog — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:13:34 -0500

Stardock has released MyColors 2.5 today. MyColors is a software program that includes everything you need to change everything about your Windows experience. MyColors changes your Windows visual style, icons, wallpaper, and even adds gadgets to your desktop. These gadgets can range from media players to weather forecast gadgets depending on the theme. It doesn't modify any system files and enables users to easily switch between themes and back to default Windows with just a few clicks. To help kick off the release of MyColors 2.5, Stardock is including the new "Think Green" MyColors theme. This theme has a beautifully animated start menu, a detailed set of icons, and a matching weather forecast gadget. The Think Green MyColors theme can make your desktop a little bit more "environmentally friendly" http://www.stardock.com/products/mycolors/wincustomize/index.asp

Talisman Desktop 3.0 Beta 2

aist — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:24:29 -0500

Talisman Desktop 3.0 Beta 2 is available. Talisman Desktop" (Talisman) is a desktop alternative and shell-replacement for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista. Detailed information about the new version: http://www.lighttek.com/talisman.htm Download URL: http://lighttek.com/download.htm

SkinStudio 6

Island Dog — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:35:38 -0500

SkinStudio 6 has been released! SkinStudio is a free application designed to easily create skins for WindowBlinds for both Windows XP and Vista. SkinStudio 6 is re-designed to provide skinners a step-by-step way of creating their own Windows visual styles that, upon completion, can be applied with WindowBlinds. SkinStudio 6 is a free program. SkinStudio Pro 6 adds an animation editor, code editor, and synchronization tools and is $19.95. Download: http://www.stardock.com/products/skinstudio/

FOUR 08

Imrik — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:40:55 -0600

We are proud to announce FOUR08 FOURIMPRESSIONS.NET V4. This release is really something special. First of all i would like to introduce our new member naalo. With AMANA he really proves to be the best choice for the team! Furthermore we have new features, sections and presents for you. Thank you for all the mails about asking for the Soundtrack. Nuuro as the creator made a new original Soundtrack featuring a full length song which is available on our new blog. So welcome to FOUR 08 and enjoy your stay! http://www.fourimpressions.net

CursorFX released!

Island Dog — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:58:15 -0600

Stardock is pleased to announce the official release of CursorFX. CursorFX is a free program that allows users to customize their mouse cursors in ways far beyond what Windows is capable of doing on its own. CursorFX updates the Windows mouse cursor engine to support fluid animations, alpha blending, effects, real-time shadowing, user-action mouse states, mouse cursor resizing on the fly, color changing, trails, and much more. CursorFX is a replacement to CursorXP which only ran on Windows XP. CursorFX runs on Windows XP and Windows Vista and includes dozens of new features and tweaks over CursorXP. CursorFX is a free program. A plus version is available for $19.95 that adds more features. To learn more and to download, visit: http://www.cursorfx.com

PerfectClock 2.5.1 released

PerfectClock — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:07:13 -0600

ALSEDI Group releases PerfectClock 2.5.1. PerfectClock is a program that displays an unlimited number of World-Time clocks on your desktop. Perfect clock is about the only program that displays professionally designed clocks right on your Windows desktop wallpaper or in Screensaver mode. Those beautiful wallpapers created by famous design studio Vladstudio. PerfectClock is built on a high quality scriptable skin engine. This makes skins to look perfect at any size over any background. Smooth edges and arrows, skin schemes and large amount of skin specific options are available for each skins. Sure, PerfectClock has Alarm & Reminder feature to keep you tasks and appointments and ensure that you do not miss anything important in your life. Latest release added Render Label feature. Each clock can have a customizable label, it can be located even bellow or above clock face. Just add “London”, “Chicago”, “Home” or any other text label and you will never be mistaken about the time in corresponding place. Our skin collection is growing! We currently offer more than 60 clock skins – digital, analog and casual. We create skins imitating real watches by Swatch, RADO and other famous companies. Our partner Vladstudio offers more than 110 Wallpaper clock skins. Perfect clock is shareware program. It is free to try without any functional limitation. There are two editions available Standard Edition – $16.95, Professional Edition (with Wallpaper clock and Screensaver support) – $23.95. PerfectClock site: http://www.perfect-clock.com PerfectClock screenshots: http://www.perfect-clock.com/index.php?page=features-screenshots PerfectClock skins: http://www.perfect-clock.com/index.php?page=download-perfectclock Vladsutio Wallpaper clock skins : http://www.vladstudio.com/wallpaperclock/browse.php

WindowBlinds 6.02 released

Island Dog — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:56:49 -0600

Stardock has released WindowBlinds 6.02. WindowBlinds is a program that allows users to change the look and feel of Windows XP and Windows Vista by applying a new visual style. WindowBlinds 6.02 is a maintenance release designed fix some reported bugs, improve skin changing speed, and add support for MyColors themes. WindowBlinds is a free download at http://www.windowblinds.net. Users can purchase an enhanced registered version which adds additional functionality for $19.95 (or get it as part of Object Desktop which adds several additional programs and costs $49.95). Download: http://www.windowblinds.net

Featured Items

Max — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:09:14 -0600

Due to my busy schedule and the amount of submissions coming through to the site, I am not always able to feature some of your loves/likes or other things you think are feature worthy. If you see something worthy, please send me a PM. Try to find 3 subs, new or old and I will try to feature it, if it shows effort, is not quickly produced, and the artist has potential for growth or has produced great things in the past. Thanks

Rainlendar 2.3 released

moshi — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:15:59 -0600

Rainlendar 2.3 has just been released. There have been many changes in this new version, mostly bugfixes. You´ll best take a look at the changes.txt file that comes with the download. I´ll only mention a few here: - A second default skin that shows the power of Lua scripting. - Calendar List. With this you can toggle the visibility of calendars if you use multiple of them. - Image rotation is now antialiased. - Scaling images down uses now bicubic resampling (i.e. the result is much better than before). - Added native transparency support for Linux. Rainlendar 2.3 is available here: http://www.rainlendar.net btw: Learn the new skinning format! I did and I can assure you it´s worth it. After all this point and click skinning from the old version is far to limited for reshackers and script monkeys. ;)

CursorFX Beta Preview

Island Dog — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:16:32 -0600

The first beta of CursorFX has been released. CursorFX is the successor to CursorXP that allows users to create and change their Windows cursors. Very cool cursors can be used and created as CursorFX takes advantage of the visual effects features in both Windows XP and Vista. There will be both a free version, and Plus version with additional features. Keep in mind this is a beta preview release. More information and the preview download can be found at http://www.cursorfx.com/.

WindowBlinds 6.01 Released

Island Dog — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:44:09 -0600

WindowBlinds is a program that allows users to completely change their Windows XP or Windows Vista visual experience. It does this by applying system-wide skins called visual styles. WindowBlinds 6.01 is largely a maintainence release fixing reported bugs, tweaking performance, as well as adding support for 64-bit Windows XP (registered version only). WindowBlinds is a free download and can be registered for $19.95. Users can also get the registered version as part of Object Desktop, Stardock's complete suite of desktop enhancement utilities. http://www.windowblinds.net/

GIMP 2.4 released

moshi — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:44:41 -0500

A new version of the best free graphics editor is out. It has plenty new functions and a more polished interface. Release notes: http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.4.html btw: the new GIMP splash has been designed by Mattahan (Buuf icons)

WindowBlinds 6 Released!

Island Dog — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:44:37 -0500

Stardock has released the highly anticipated WindowBlinds 6 today. WindowBlinds is a utility that allows users to change the look and feel of the Windows desktop experience by applying skins to the user interface. WindowBlinds 6 adds the ability to have “blurred glass” window borders on Windows XP which allows artists to make skins that could make Windows XP look virtually identical to Windows Vista. WindowBlinds 6 adds full support for customizing Microsoft’s new Windows Vista operating system. Users who purchased WindowBlinds 5 after February 1, 2007 receive WindowBlinds 6 for free. The enhanced registered version is $19.95 or can be purchased as part of Object Desktop. More information can be found at: http://www.windowblinds.net

DeskScapes 1.02 Released

Island Dog — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:49:13 -0500

Stardock DeskScapes allows users of Windows Vista Ultimate to have dynamic, animated wallpaper. It works as an extension to the Windows DreamScene Ultimate Extra that is available to all users of Windows Vista Ultimate. Deskscapes now has a power saving feature that automatically turns off the animations when running on battery power. If you’re ever working on a laptop, this feature will especially come in handy as it will extend battery life, without having to remember to shut off the Dream animation manually. A new Copper dream will also be available for all users. More information and additional .dreams can be found here. http://dream.wincustomize.com/

Replacing the system font

uac marine — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:04:38 -0500

Alright, some people wanted to know how I changed the font of utorrent. The trick is to change the whole system font, so there's a bit of registry editing required. I don't know which fonts are suitable, I've tested HaxrCorp 4088 and kroeger, and there are no problems so far. But remember to make a backup of the registry settings. Firstly, go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes] and change the values of MS Shell Dlg MS Shell Dlg 2 Helv Helvetica Times Tmns Rmn to your desired font. Take the name as it appears in the fonts-directory, not the filename. Then, create 3 new strings MS Sans Serif Microsoft Sans Serif Tahoma and again, change the value to your custom font. Secondly, remove those fonts from the fonts-directory: Microsoft Sans Serif MS Serif MS Sans Serif Tahoma Put them somewhere where you can easily bring them back. And the last step is to go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts] and to change the value of Tahoma Bold (True Type) to your desired font. This time, take the filename (!) instead. After restarting you should see your custom font everywhere (even in some websites). The font names and such may differ because I have a german version of xp. Hope that works :) PS: If you need to change the system font more often, you can speed things up by just writing .reg files that contain the code of various fonts. So then you got a .reg file for kroeger, one for calibri etc...

TuneUp Style Contest – Grand Total $8,000

TeamTuneUp — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:44:46 -0500

TuneUp Software - one of the brand leaders in Windows customization and optimization - launches the ultimate contest for Windows Vista™ styles. Boost up your reputation by getting YOUR design published together with the award-winning software TuneUp Utilities and win one or more of the great prizes! There are FOUR stand-alone contests for you to compete in. Every contest has its own great prizes and is judged independently by TuneUp. Take part in one or more contests and post as many designs as you like. It's even possible to win multiple prizes! Once judged to one of the 50 best designs of each contest, thousands of people will see your very special style in the trendsetting TuneUp Utilities software. Make yourself known by the masses. This is your chance. The contest will end at the 14th of August. The winner will be announced at the 21st of August on the contest site and personally informed by e-mail. Face the challenge at the TuneUp contest site and get started!

WindowBlinds 6 Beta Released!

Island Dog — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:58:44 -0500

WindowBlinds 6 Beta has been released for subscribers of Object Desktop. WindowBlinds 6 represents a whole new generation of Windows skinning with advanced new features such as animation overlays, blur glass effects on both Windows Vista and Windows XP, user created sub-styles, full font control, explorer backgrounds, complete Windows Vista skinning, faster performance, and much more! [http://www.stardock.net/islanddog/diamond.jpg|Screenshot 1] [http://www.stardock.net/islanddog/wb6_collage.jpg|Screenshot 2] More information can be found here.

GAIA.CUSTOMIZE.ORG online

Imrik — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:03:37 -0500

Climate change and the conservation of our planet is one of the most important issues facing us today. Inspired by Live:Earth, a group of Customize.org members tried to find a way of contributing their own part. But how could a website about desktop customization help to combat global warming? Go to gaia.customize.org to find it out. Enjoy the release!

Rainlendar 2.2 released

-rainy- — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:00:25 -0500

A new version of the customizable desktop calendar has been released. New features include the much requested full support for Google Calendar. Get it at http://www.rainlendar.net

WindowBlinds 5.51 Released

Island Dog — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:14:23 -0500

Stardock has released WindowBlinds 5.51 which adds 64-bit support for Windows Vista. WindowBlinds is a program that can change the entire look and feel of Windows XP or Windows Vista by applying a new "skin" to the Windows user interface. These skins (also known as visual styles) can change title bars, push buttons, the Start bar, scrollbars, and nearly every other part of the Windows interface. WindowBlinds 5.51 not only adds support for running on 64-bit Windows Vista (32-bit support already available) but also adds support for Vista Aero shadows even on skins that don't explicitly support shadows. WindowBlinds