Tiles 1.1 Released

December 5, 2012, 4:27 pm

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The Tiles 1,1 is now available! Tiles works by creating a side-bar on a user’s display. At the top of the side-bar are labels for each page such as ‘My Tiles’ or ‘Documents’ or ‘Apps’. Users can then drag and drop programs, documents, or website URLs onto Tiles. When the program is inactive, it appears as an icon. When it is active, it appears as a live preview tile.

New in this beta update:

New UI Modern UI applications now show in the running applications list Opti...

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Christmas WindowBlinds Skins for Your Desktop

December 6, 2012, 3:39 am

≫ Next: GUIC 2012: Most Usable and Most Creative WindowBlinds Winners!

≪ Previous: Tiles 1.1 Released

The Christmas holiday is always a great time for skinning as there are so many options and a ton of skins available. Today we’ll take a look at some of the best WindowBlinds skin that you can use to decorate your desktop for the winter holidays.

First, get WindowBlinds at www.windowblinds.net

Then, come download these skins from WinCustomize.com.

Miricla Christmas by Mirsguy

Christmas 2011 by LightStar

Plastic Fantastic Chr...

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GUIC 2012: Most Usable and Most Creative WindowBlinds Winners!

December 13, 2012, 4:45 am

≫ Next: GUI Champs 2012 Overall Winners!

≪ Previous: Christmas WindowBlinds Skins for Your Desktop

Today we are excited to announce the winners of the Most Creative and Most Usable in the WindowBlinds category of the 2012 GUI Champs! Congrats to all the winners and thanks to the community who participated in voting for these great skins! Most Usable First place – NOIR by TomRichter Second place – Day Spa by k10w3 Third place – Crux by LightStar

Most Creative First place – Cimmerian by Xiandi

Second plac...

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GUI Champs 2012 Overall Winners!

December 13, 2012, 5:44 am

≫ Next: Animated Wallpapers for your Christmas and Holiday Desktops

≪ Previous: GUIC 2012: Most Usable and Most Creative WindowBlinds Winners!

Today marks the end of the 2012 GUI Champs as we are excited to announce the overall winners of the competition! We would first like to thank everyone who participated in the events and to the community who helped make this another great event.

Now for the winners!

Overall Winner in WindowBlinds

Galaxus 7 by roflmfaoo

$650 Cash, Official GUI Champs Medal, 1 Year Object Desktop Subscription and 1 Year WinCustomize Subscription

Overall Winner...

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Animated Wallpapers for your Christmas and Holiday Desktops

December 13, 2012, 11:07 am

≫ Next: Start8 1.1 Beta 2 Available

≪ Previous: GUI Champs 2012 Overall Winners!

We’ve taken a look at some holiday inspired WindowBlinds skin, and some wallpapers, so I figured next up would be some animated wallpapers (.dreams)! We have some awesome holiday animated wallpapers that look absolutely great on your PC desktop, and go especially well with some of the Christmas WindowBlinds skins we also have on the site.

To use these you will need DeskScapes. Get more info and the download here - http://www.stardock.com/products/deskscapes/

Here Com...

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Start8 1.1 Beta 2 Available

December 13, 2012, 12:49 pm

≫ Next: ghacks.net Review of Start8 [and giveaway]

≪ Previous: Animated Wallpapers for your Christmas and Holiday Desktops

Beta 2 for Start8 v1.1 is now available! This latest beta release adds more language localizations, UI improvements and more. Start8 is the “best solution” for the missing Start Menu on Windows8 by USA Today, Forbes, CBS News and Lifehacker!

Changes in Start8 1.1 beta 2:

Expanded the size of some UI elements to handle translations to more wordy languages Tweaked go to desktop feature further Jump lists now respect the OS setting for the number of entries shown S...

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ghacks.net Review of Start8 [and giveaway]

December 14, 2012, 7:30 am

≫ Next: "Tis the Sale Season" on Stardock Software!

≪ Previous: Start8 1.1 Beta 2 Available

Martin Brinkmann, owner and chief reviewer at the excellent site ghacks.net has done a very thorough review of Stardock’s newest winner, Start8.

I’m really glad to report that his review was extremely positive!

Please head on over to read about it here:

http://www.ghacks.net/2012/12/13/start8-windows-8-start-menu-review-giveaway/?_m=3n%2e0038%2e732%2ehj0ao01hy5%2er3p

Also, if you review it or leave a comment, you might win a free license.

Learn more about...

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"Tis the Sale Season" on Stardock Software!

December 17, 2012, 8:13 am

≫ Next: New Master Skin: Metropolis

≪ Previous: ghacks.net Review of Start8 [and giveaway]

It “tis the season” for our holiday sales, and we have lots of great stuff on sale for desktop customization and enhancement. Don’t forget these also make great gifts that are delivered digitally near instantly. All you need is their e-mail address, and here’s instructions on how to gift.

You can also see the sales here, and links to purchase.

http://www.stardock.com/holiday_sale/software.asp

Acoustic Bridge

Reg: $9.95 ...

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New Master Skin: Metropolis

December 22, 2012, 12:14 am

≫ Next: December 2012 Promotions

≪ Previous: "Tis the Sale Season" on Stardock Software!

We have another beautiful Master WindowBlinds skin added to the galleries this week from vStyler. A futuristic skin with 3D lighting effects making this a very unique design. Be sure to grab this one and don’t forget WinCustomize Subscribers get a 20% discount.

Metropolis by vStyler

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December 2012 Promotions

December 24, 2012, 11:23 am

≫ Next: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

≪ Previous: New Master Skin: Metropolis

It's the end of the year [holidays for some] Christmas time for all [and for those that it isn't....you know what I mean]......

Time to hand out some 'prezzies', as it were.

Congratulations to everyone.....

[I have it on good authority there'll be some new Masters shortly as well] ....

APPRENTICE:

c31marius :-

kimjosborn :-

MASTER APPRENTICE:

Neone6 :-

Ernie Leo :- http://ernieleo.wincusto...

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

December 25, 2012, 6:07 pm

≫ Next: 2012 Master Promotions

≪ Previous: December 2012 Promotions

On behalf of everyone at Stardock and WinCustomize we'd like to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Thank you for your support throughout 2012!

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2012 Master Promotions

December 25, 2012, 7:36 pm

≫ Next: Happy 2013

≪ Previous: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

As we wind down the year one of the last things on the agenda is WinCustomize member promotions. A few days ago Jafo posted our final promotions for the year, with the exception of Master Skinners. As you might know, we have a ranking system for skinners and members of our community which recognizes people who put lots of time and effort into skinning.

The Master ranking isn't always about the amount of skins you create, but it can also include contributions as a whole to...

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Happy 2013

January 1, 2013, 10:05 am

≫ Next: Back to Work Skin Picks!

≪ Previous: 2012 Master Promotions

To everyone from the gang at Wincustomize.com and Stardock .... wishing you all a Happy [and safe] New Year .....

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Back to Work Skin Picks!

January 2, 2013, 1:00 pm

≫ Next: Stardock Software Sale Ending Soon–Last Chance to Save!

≪ Previous: Happy 2013

After a nice holiday break we’re getting back to work and catching up on stuff from the holidays. It’s been a while, so lets post some favorite skins from the last couple of weeks as we get ready for another great year!

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Stardock Software Sale Ending Soon–Last Chance to Save!

January 3, 2013, 10:33 am

≫ Next: New Master WindowBlinds Skin–Indigo7

≪ Previous: Back to Work Skin Picks!

The holiday sale for Stardock software is ending tomorrow, so now is your last chance to save on some great software.

http://www.stardock.com/holiday_sale/software.asp

Acoustic Bridge

Reg: $9.95       Sale: $7.46 CursorFX

Reg: $9.95   Sale: $7.46 Premium Themes (All Themes)

Reg: $9.95  &...

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New Master WindowBlinds Skin–Indigo7

January 4, 2013, 5:26 am

≫ Next: Adobe Creative Suite 2–Free!

≪ Previous: Stardock Software Sale Ending Soon–Last Chance to Save!

Master Skinner LightStar has submitted a new WindowBlinds skin called Indigo7. This skin designed for Windows 7 has a beautiful color and design, which should please many users looking for a new skin for their desktop.

Download: Indigo7 by LightStar

WinCustomize Subscribers get a 20% discount!

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Adobe Creative Suite 2–Free!

January 7, 2013, 9:52 am

≫ Next: New Master Skin: Oberon 7 for CursorFX

≪ Previous: New Master WindowBlinds Skin–Indigo7

Yes, really free! Adobe released Creative Suite 2, which includes Photoshop for free online.

All you need is an Adobe account.

The site is getting slammed right now, so it looks like it’s down, but keep checking back.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?pid=4485850&e=cs2_downloads

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New Master Skin: Oberon 7 for CursorFX

January 8, 2013, 1:43 pm

≫ Next: Start8 v1.1 RC Beta Release

≪ Previous: Adobe Creative Suite 2–Free!

Oberson 7 for CursorFX is the newest Master Skin from Vampothika. This highly detailed cursor has some fantastic animations and matches lots of popular WindowBlinds skin as well. Don’t forget WinCustomize Subscribers get 20% off!

Download: Oberon 7

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Start8 v1.1 RC Beta Release

January 10, 2013, 9:30 am

≫ Next: Beautiful Nature Themed Wallpapers

≪ Previous: New Master Skin: Oberon 7 for CursorFX

We have released the v1.09.3 (1.1 RC) beta for Start8 today. Start8 brings back the start menu missing in Windows 8, and offers other customizations to help make Windows 8 work the way you want to.

Changelog for v1.1 RC:

Added new start button images Added option to disable multiple monitor corner stickiness feature of Windows 8 Added option to make right clicking the start button when at the bottom of the screen open the Win + X menu Modified custom places to support libra...

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Beautiful Nature Themed Wallpapers

January 11, 2013, 7:25 am

≫ Next: New Master WindowBlinds Skin–Innominatum

≪ Previous: Start8 v1.1 RC Beta Release

We have a wide variety of wallpapers on WinCustomize, but lately we’ve seen lots of nature themed wallpapers. These are a popular wallpaper category especially when people look for seasonal wallpapers to match the snow outside, or the sweeping landscapes of warmer months.

These are a few of the latest, and you can find more in our wallpaper gallery.

http://www.wincustomize.com/explore/all

If you are a Windows 8 user, these are also great to have as your start screen backgrou...

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