New Master WindowBlinds Skin: Dream Skin

April 20, 2012, 10:37 am

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Master Skinner adni18 has submitted a new Master WindowBlinds skin called Dream Skin.  This is an elegant and minimal skin that can be used everyday on your desktop.

http://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/7666/

If you are a WinCustomize Subscriber, remember you get 20% off!

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Adobe Releases Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud

April 23, 2012, 12:52 pm

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Adobe has officially released Creative Suite 6 and the new Creative Cloud.  CS6 includes the popular line of applications from Adobe such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Premiere Pro, and many more.

The new Creative Cloud is a new service that - for a monthly fee - allows you to have access to all the applications in Creative Suite 6 and a host of other features as well.

Creative Cloud features:

Great Tools. Members can download and install all of our CS6 tools and can use them...

New Windows 8 Consumer Update Coming In June

April 26, 2012, 2:41 am

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Via Neowin:

http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-release-preview-coming-first-week-of-june

Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows Division, took the stage for the first day of the Windows Developer Days conference in Japan to announce the Release Preview of Windows 8 will launch during the first week of June. The news confirms previous speculation that the Windows 8 release candidate would be called a "Release Preview." Microsoft's Building Windows 8 Twitter acc...

Monday Featured Skin Picks

April 30, 2012, 8:21 am

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After some ups and downs this weekend we are starting the week off fresh.  To begin with we will take a look at some of the skins that made their way to WinCustomize this weekend.
















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Ways to Download/Update Your Stardock Apps

May 1, 2012, 7:24 am

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You might have received an e-mail that Impulse will no longer support download for Stardock software such as WindowBlinds, IconPackager, etc.  I know many of you already know this and have already downloaded the beta, but I wanted to put out another reminder for those who don’t visit the forums often. 

There are now two ways in which you can download and update your Stardock apps.


Stardock Central (beta)

SDC is the new downloader for your apps.  It offers a qu...

HDR Wallpapers Hit WinCustomize

May 2, 2012, 2:59 pm

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HDR images are becoming quite popular as if done properly brings out some beautiful details and color in photographs.  I use it often especially when taking images of landscapes.  WinCustomize member c31marius has been sharing some spectacular images along with some other members.  Keep up the great work, these look fantastic!








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WindowFX 5 RC1 Now Available

May 3, 2012, 8:43 pm

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We have released RC1 for WindowFX 5 today. WindowFX 5 lets Windows users add animated effects and advanced window controls to your Windows desktop!

New in this update:

Over 30 animated effects for window actions (Windows 7 required for the most effects) NEW Open menu animations with the WindowFX RC build Animation substyles/tabs for different animation types Included presets and ability to save custom user presets for animation options NEW Compiz-style wobby window anima...

Adobe Creative Suite 6 Available Now

May 7, 2012, 9:22 pm

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We have been talking about this for a while, but today marks the official release of Adobe Creative Suite 6. 

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 software. The CS6 product line includes powerful new releases of Photoshop®, InDesign®, lllustrator®, Dreamweaver®, Adobe Premiere® Pro, After Effects®, Flash® Professional and other products as well as four suite versions – Creative Suite 6 Design & Web Premi...

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Follow Stardock on Twitter!

May 8, 2012, 6:22 pm

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We often talk about the WinCustomize Twitter page, but one that has a lot more followers and interaction is our Stardock page.  If you are on Twitter, give us a follow.

http://twitter.com/stardock

 

 

Friday Featured Skins

May 11, 2012, 4:18 pm

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We end the week on WinCustomize with featuring some skins from the past few days.  Hope you all have a great weekend planned and lets see some skins come in this weekend!

 

Top WindowBlinds Skins

May 17, 2012, 3:49 am

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Lets take a look at some of the most popular and downloaded skins for WindowBlinds in the past month or so.  If you are stuck looking for a new skin to change to, checking out the top lists are a good way to get some fresh content.














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Windows 8 Bringing Improved Multi-Monitor Support

May 17, 2012, 3:12 pm

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For those of us who use multi-monitors, this will surely be a good reason for Windows 8.

Via Neowin:

http://www.neowin.net/news/huge-multi-monitor-enhancements-coming-in-windows-8

For improved wallpaper support Microsoft is adding a few new features. Firstly, multi-monitor users will be able to select different desktop backgrounds for each of their monitors, and where needed and configured (for example with different monitor sizes/resolutions or even orientation) Windows will shuffle th...

Monday Desktop Skin Picks

May 22, 2012, 6:15 am

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Welcome to another Monday!  While you sip on some of that delicious coffee this morning take a look at a sample of some of the skins coming in to WinCustomize over the past few days.


Another Se7en for WindowBlinds


Digital for WindowBlinds

  
Amen Ra for sysMetrix


Andromeda 1 in Wallpapers

  
Hay in Wallpapers


Natures Colors 12 in Wallpapers

Building the Windows 8 UI

May 25, 2012, 7:28 am

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Microsoft has a huge blog post from the head of the user experience team for Windows 8 about the UI changes and some ideas behind them.  It’s long, but an interesting read.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/18/creating-the-windows-8-user-experience.aspx

“So what is the role of the desktop in Windows 8?

It is pretty straightforward. The desktop is there to run the millions of existing, powerful, familiar Windows programs that are designed for mouse and keyboard. ...

New Master WindowBlinds Skin: Midas Touch

May 25, 2012, 9:04 am

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Master Skinner adni18 has shared another beautiful Master WindowBlinds skin with us today called Midas Touch.  This skin has a great texture and includes the wallpapers and Dock background as well.

Midas Touch

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New TWiS!

May 25, 2012, 10:11 am

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Before we head off to a long holiday weekend, be sure to checkout the latest TWiS!

This Week in Skinning-May 25th

Check Out the May Edition of WinCustomize Magazine

May 25, 2012, 12:50 pm

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It’s been hitting your inboxes so many of you have already seen the May edition of WinCustomize Magazine.  You can view it at the link below but be sure to signup to get it delivered right to your inbox.

WinCustomize Magazine for May

Update your mailing subscriptions here.

http://www.stardock.com/subscriptions.asp

Long Weekend Desktop Skin Picks!

May 30, 2012, 4:12 am

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I hope you had a great holiday weekend, and we’ll kick off this shorter week with some of the skins that came in.  I wasn’t expecting much to come in, but I was pleasantly surprised to see a bunch of them.  Keep up the great work!














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WindowFX 5 Released!

May 30, 2012, 2:54 pm

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Stardock announced the fifth iteration of the ultra-popular WindowFX desktop enhancement program today.

WindowFX is a unique program that allows users to animate windows and start menus with slick animations and effects. No other program gives you so many polished and reliable window enhancement capabilities including; animations, window resizing options and movement customizations. WindowFX 5 not only makes the windows experience look cool but, it also helps you focus on what is important wi...

A Look at Dell’s Windows 8 Tablet

May 30, 2012, 4:23 pm

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Via Neowin:

http://www.neowin.net/news/this-is-dells-windows-8-tablet

The fine folks over at Neowin have obtained the specs and some more information about an upcoming Windows 8 tablet from Dell. 

“As you can see from the slide above, we are looking at a 10.8 inch tablet, 1366x768 resolution, dual core Atom processor, fingerprint reader, Intel graphics (x86 tablet folks), 2 GB of ram, 128 GB SSD and of course it will be running Windows 8. We should note that it looks a lo...