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Reply to Skin Primer 2002 (rough draft) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Goood feedback crae. With regards to the history, the term skins did come from Quake. Nullsoft has said this themselves on occasion. That's where they borrowed the term. Gotta put in customize.org. Forgot. Regarding "principle" ways of changing the windows GUI. Since the target audience is the casual user, when someting has 99.99% of the market, it is effectively the principle way of doing something. eFX and Chroma are no longer developed and are today used by so fe

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Reply to Alexandrie is a genius in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

We have given that some thought. The consensus is that she has an inter-dimensional portal generator or IDPG for short. She uses is to step out side "reality" as we know into a dimension in which time is meaningless. When she has completed somethign she's working on, she merely re-enters our local dimension with the results. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if she's in another dimension as we speak.

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Alexandrie is a genius in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

It has to be said. She's been working on these incredible skins that are only available internally at Stardock right now as we decide what to do with them for the WindowBlinds 3 launch. But these skins are just plain incredible. She's the one who is making skins like XP Charcoal, XP Platinum, XP Copper, XP Cobalt, XP Emerald, Lemon. Now one might think that it's just a matter of taking one of the existing XP skins and changing the hue or something. It's not. She's really done some amazing

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Skin Primer 2002 (rough draft) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

https://www.stardock.com/stardock/articles/skinprimer/skinprimer2002.html A couple of years ago I wrote a skin primer to help pitch Wired magazine to do an article on the skin community. It was kind of shabby and quickly done up. It's pretty out of date now. This evening (after Survivor and the President's press conference) I went and rewrote it from scratch. Obviously I'm not the ideal person to write a skin primer since I work for Stardock. But hopefully the information cont

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A thanks to our volunteers in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I want to publicly thank the people who keep WinCustomize going on a daily basis. They are humble and don't often make their presence known to others. Make no mistake, without their help, this site couldn't go on. Please give a big hand to.. JAFO who viligently and thanklessly goes through and helps keep the wallpaper section sane. DavidK who also helps moderate the sections and helps users out when in need. Treetog, who has helped many people and also mod

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Reply to The War Against Terrorism Has Begun in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Earthquakes and floods are "acts of god". Ramming airplanes into buildings are acts of man. And did I say I bay for war? No. But those who disagree with US policy should at least put together an alternative that is going to be EFFECTIVE. And I don't think I need to be shot at in order to have an opinion on the matter. Our military, btw, is a volunteer force. If a person comes in and kills my family, I think it okay for me to demand that the policy do what is necessary to bring the mur

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Skinning Windows XP! in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Stardock is putting all its energies into getting WindowBlinds 3 ready. WindowBlinds 3 represents the most significant rewrite to WindowBlinds since the earliest betas (0.39 for those old timers). Its new design is based on WindowBlinds XP, a Windows XP specific version of the program (the

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Reply to The War Against Terrorism Has Begun in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Fix, you should be thankful that we Americans did not feel that way in World War II or you would not have the freedom you enjoy today. Germany never attacked the United States but we still liberated France because it was the right thing to do. I am not sure what has happened to the French but they have a distinct lack of loyalty and to be perfectly candid, a distinct lack of courage in their national character. Appeasement has been the foreign policy of France since Charge De Gaulle lef

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Reply to Bye bye WinCustomize in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hehe, well if banner ads were economically feasible, we'd definitely go with them. But having an ugly banner on every page that would slow the site down for people (banners add 3 to 5 seconds to a page download for a modem user) would need to generate quite a bit of revenue to be worth it.

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Reply to Bye bye WinCustomize in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

D'mer, could you email alexandrie or T-man ([email protected])? I'm sure they can straighten out your account. As for the issues you raise, ultimately doesn't it really boil down to a simple "Who is going to pay for the bandwidth?" The nuts and bolts go something like this: Stardock reserved a server and X megabits of bandwidth for WinCustomize. WinCustomize needs a lot more than X megabits of bandwidth and so in June Stardock provided an additional Y megabit

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Reply to Successful marraiges in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

My wife and I have been together for going on 10 years now. We rarely argue and it's really been quite blissful. I think it's because we complement each other so well. I've very intense and obsessive and compulsive (as you all should be able to guess by now) while she's very laid back, stable, and very wise (she is a "big picture" type person). And we have enough shared interests that we just like to be together a lot. It also helps that my job lets me have them around a lot

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Reply to Bye bye WinCustomize in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

We know because we track how many megabytes each account has used. We took a statistical sampling of the user base and looked at how much they downloaded and looked at how many of them were in the customer database.

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Reply to Does the west lack the fortitude and courage to stand up for itself? in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

The United States has a lot it needs to learn from UK. The UK has a pretty good record in the 20th century for standing up for what is right. They have spent countless blood and treasure in the name of principle and the world is a better place. Let us remember that the UK went to war with Germany to DEFEND Poland. Great Britain had the moral courage to stand up to evil even when it meant a lot of suffering on their part. The question I have for my fellow Americans is this: Do we,

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Reply to Bye bye WinCustomize in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I've read what you've written, Gorman. With regards to "charging for content". WC isn't looking to be a profitable business, it is hoping that it doesn't keep costing thousands of dollars more per month than it brings in. SOMEONE has to pay for the bandwidth. Stardock is willing to pay for (as Tandis put it) X amount of the bandwidth. Where X is greater than the bandwidth skinz.org used at its height. Right now though, the site uses X + Y bandwidth. We have to get

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