If you already have, or are looking into purchasing WindowBlinds 6, then this new tutorial might be useful for you. WindowBlinds is well known for its ability to change the visual styles in Windows Vista and XP, but it can also change and manage your wallpaper collection. Read the full article over at WinCustomize.
It’s Friday so once again it’s time for “This Week in Skinning”, which is a regular article on WinCustomize that highlights some of the best skins and themes that were submitted throughout the past week. Got a real nice variety this week with cursors, animated wallpapers, wallpapers, and more!
I’m solo on this weeks edition of the WinCustomize SkinCast as Zoomba is off doing real “work”. However, I did have a great guest this week and that was Jorge (JcRabbit) who is the developer of WinStep. I talk with Jorge about the development of WinStep and how Vista has affected the work. We also touch on what we might see in the future from WinStep.
I was looking for a new skin for Vista and it just so happened vStyler released Vienna 3. Staying true to the Vienna series, it’s very detailed and gives a sleek new look to Windows.
Congrats to the Red Wings for Winning the Stanley Cup. Show some team pride with the Detroit Red Wings MyColors theme. This theme will replace your visual style, icons, and wallpaper with team inspired graphics licensed by the NHL.
The latest edition of the WinCustomize SkinCast is now up. This week we talk about the ‘06 GUI Champs, and give some info about the 2008 GUI Champs. If you are a graphic designer, skinner, or artist, you will definitely want to start keeping track of this topic.
Every two years the GUI Champs makes its appearance, and we see artists and skinners from around the world converge on this one event to showcase their works and compete for thousands of dollars in prizes. The ‘06 GUI Champs were a huge success and we had categories for Wallpapers, Icon Packs, and WindowBlinds skins. Hundreds of entries were received and the quality of those entries are nothing less than stunning, and many of these skins are still used today.
Well the time has finally come for us to start planning the GUI Champs 2008 which will come sometime later this year. So with that being said a bit of a “teaser” was posted today about some of the changes coming to this years event, and first up will be a new website.
One thing people probably don’t realize is how much planning has to go into even a relatively simple site like the GUIC one. It’s not as simple as throwing together an upload page, news page, gallery page and skin page and call it done. For the 2008 GUIC Site, we have to design and implement over a dozen completely unique pages, each with very different tech requirements.
Here are a few of the big improvements that are currently being talked about. Keep in mind we’re still in the design phase of this, so it’s all subject to change. But I wanted to tease everyone a bit with this to get some interest going in the competition, and to get some feedback on what you’d like to see in the site.
To help count down the days until the release of the upcoming PC game, The Political Machine 2008, I created these gadgets for your desktop. One gadget will run on any XP or Vista desktop, and the other is for the Windows Vista Sidebar.
Episode 5 of the WinCustomize SkinCast is up, and this weeks guest is David Roman (aka RomanDA). We talk about several things, but the main topic this week was DesktopX. We cover several DesktopX topics including the new community project site at www.desktopx.info.
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