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Animated Wallpapers - May ‘08 Edition

Featured animated wallpapers from May. You can find links to all these .dreams at the link below.

http://www.wincustomize.com/Articles.aspx?aid=314098

Windows Vista is here, and regardless of whether you upgraded from XP, or just purchased a new PC with it installed, I’m sure you are ready to customize the way Vista looks.  Now we can go in all sorts of directions in customizing Vista, but I wanted to cover some of the basics as that is enough for most people.

Let me also take this time to cover a few questions about customizing Vista that you might have.

Q. Will it use many resources or “slow” Vista down?

A. By using the tools I will show you, your system performance should not be affected at all.

Q. Will this somehow “hurt” my computer?

A.  Not at all.  The methods used here are not system hacks, and the software I will show here is fully tested on Vista.

Q. Is this free?

A. Some applications are free, and some require a purchase after the trial period runs out.  The price of the applications are typically small and well worth the investment.

Changing the Vista Logon

The logon screen is basically the first thing you see when you start your computer.  Windows Vista has a nice default logon screen, but why not personalize it?  To do that, just go and grab yourself a copy of LogonStudio Vista and have at it.  LogonStudio Vista (free) lets you easily change a create the Windows Vista logon to any number of downloadable logons already available.  If you prefer to use an image of your own, it’s as simple as drag and drop to create your own.

Read the full Customizing your Vista Desktop article….

DeskScapes 2.0 was released today.  It allows for Vista users, no matter what version you are using, to have animated wallpapers on their desktop.

DeskScapes 2.0 brings video and dynamic Dreams to all Vista Users.  If you’re new to DeskScapes today with 2.0, then you have over 600 Dreams to choose from!  These range from fantastic 3D rendered scenes by community members such as TheMasterBaron, to dynamic Dreams that use virtually no system resources from Stardock Design.  If you haven’t given DeskScapes a try and you’re on Windows Vista, you’ve just run out of excuses not to!

DeskScapes 2.0, a component of ObjectDesktop, can also be purchased individually for $19.95.

Link: DeskScapes 2.0 Released - An Article by Zoomba

These are some of the most popular .dreams (animated wallpapers) submitted to Dream.WinCustomize.Com throughout the month of April.

This Cosmos .dream was made to go with the Cosmos MyColors suite, but it’s a fine .dream all by itself.  It’s very subtle, so this is perfect for people who don’t like a lot of movement on the desktop.  For Vista users with DeskScapes.

Link: Download

Object Desktop 2008 was just released, so I created a screencast which walks you through what is included with both Object Desktop 2008, and Object Desktop 2008 Ultimate.  Each application gets a brief overview, along with a look at Impulse.  This is great for anyone who might not be too familiar with the popular applications that are included.

Link: Object Desktop 2008 Guided Tour

This is a beautiful landscape based animated wallpaper (.dream).  This was created by brenopoubel and be downloaded from the link below.  Windows Vista and Stardock DeskScapes are required to use this.

Download: Poubel Vista

The preview release of DeskScapes 2.0 has arrived! 

Stardock is pleased to announce that the DeskScapes 2.0 preview version is now available.  DeskScapes allows users of Windows Vista to have animated wallpapers on their desktop. It runs the Stardock created .DREAM format which can contain videos as animated wallpapers or dynamically generated content.

The goal of the preview version is to evaluate the variety of hardware configurations out there running Windows Vista in order to see how well different types of Dreams run.  The three included Dreams were especially chosen to check out 3 very different types of capabilities.

Download: DeskScapes 2.0 Preview

Object Desktop 2008 is scheduled for a late March release, and today on WinCustomize, Brad showed off what Object Desktop 2008 will look like.  If you are not familiar with what Object Desktop is, it’s a suite of desktop enhancements to change the look, feel, and function of Windows Vista and XP.  What’s new in 2008 is that Object Desktop will be split into two.

• Object Desktop (WindowBlinds, IconPackager, DesktopX, DeskScapes, SoundPackager, MyColors)
• Object Desktop Ultimate (the above plus over a dozen other programs)

The exciting part is anyone with an active subscription to ObjectDesktop.net on March 31, 2008 will automatically get upgraded to Object Desktop Ultimate free of charge.

Link:  Object Desktop 2008 Guided Tour

One of the latest Master Skins from TheMasterBaron is Utopia Prime.  It has become one of my favorite .dreams (animated wallpaper).  It has a very subtle animation, but it looks fantastic on the desktop.

If you don’t have Vista, or would just rather have the static wallpaper image, you can find that here.

Link: Utopia Prime