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Reply to The evolution of Neoplanet in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I wonder if someone will ever make a Neoplanet skin (a good one) for WebBlinds. It could acutaly do a pretty good immitation of it too. As for Neoplanet, the .com crash happened to them. Their website looks nothing likehow itused to be. It used to be very flashy and slick. Now it looks corporate generica.

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SkinMem arrives! in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

SkinMem is a freeform skinnable system resource monitor. The program displays the percentage of the current RAM being used by your PC as well as the available RAM left in Mbs. One difference between this system monitor and other similar programs is the realtime updating of the information. The

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Reply to Heroes of the skinning in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

All your base are... Okay okay, seriously. Anyone want to add to the list? There's a ton of others who definitely were critical. Would love to hear how different skin authors affected you guys.

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Reply to The evolution of Neoplanet in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Russ, yea, they wanted to hire me as a VP of development. It was tempting, it was summer of 1999, WindowBlinds was still in beta. But I couldn't shake the feeling of wrongness in having that many people making what amounted to a skinnable IE control. As you probably know, they had an entire grpahics team there in their offices. Their graphics team was bigger than our entire graphics dept at Stardock still today and we make video games too. They've managed to hang in there through the

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Heroes of the skinning in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Many of you reading this have been around since the beginning. Which skinners, past or present, would you say were instrumental to making skinning evolve from being a technogeek hobby into something that is done by millions of people? I'm going to name a few people from the really old days that I think were absolutely crucial. This is by no means a complete list, please add your own. DAK. (Dimitry). He made the WBMania series of skins and they were amongst the first sk

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EVIL Elmo in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Anyone seen that video of Steve Balmer running around screaming "Woooh!" or the one where he repeats "Developers! Developers! Developers!"? My 4 year old saw that and asked me if it was evil elmo.

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The evolution of Neoplanet in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Anyone here use Neoplanet? It is a skinnable browser that a couple of years ago was gathering quite a following. I flew out to Arizona where they're located and visited them once. It was an amazing experience since it was so different than where I work (Stardock). They had resources. I mean REAL resources. $50 million in venture capital, incredible hardware on everyone's desk. They were at the time 4 times larger than us even though they only made the browser which is ultimately an

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The Macintosh skinning community in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Some of you may hang out on the Kaleidoscope (a skinning program for MacOS) mailing list. If you do, then you know what I'm about to say probably. Things aren't going so well in the customization community on MacOS. Why? Apple's shut and locked the door. MacOS X may be neat but it's much less flexible than MacOS 9 and earlier and it appears that Kaleidoscope will never work on it. This is a real bummer because what really is skinning? It is the idea of people of diverse ba

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How fast of a computer do you REALLY need? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

My office machine died last week. One of the CPUs went bad (one of two). Ticked off, I started looking at getting a brand new mega machine. My current work machine is a dual (now single) 650mhz P3 setup with 512MB of RAM. So I go over to Dell's site and look at the top of the line workstations - 1 gig RAM, dual Xeon 1.7Ghz P4's, etc. Then it dawned on me. Have computers simply lost their umph or has software simply not advanced fast enough to make getting such a mega system

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Reply to pros and cons of "censorship" in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

For the record, I think Doreen did a good thing in creating this post. People should feel free to ask questions. We just ask that the people asking the questions be who they say they are. And Paxx, sure, everyone who agrees with me is actually just an alias of me. It's part of my super human abilities of typing long posts as me and as lots of other alias's as well. It couldn't possibly have to do wi

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Reply to all things to all people in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I have to disagree. Skinbase has an incredible set of features to it. LotsOfSkins is getting a pretty good collection and has a lot of features. And DeviantArt has a TON of really cool features and tons of skins. And as I mentioned in another post, users who have a vision as to what the ideal website is should have no problem putting up their own site. Chaz of LotsOfSkins had a vision and at 16 has been able to code up his own site and put it on his parent's cable modem to create qui

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Reply to pros and cons of "censorship" in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

His post was: 1) Totally off topic 2) It was inflammatory, and 3) It was incorrect. Bottom line, if you're a fake user, you're walking on thin ice. If people think that fake users are just fine to use, then they're free to go to some other website. When I started with BBSes, we coudln't evne post until we were validated. Validation required a phone call from the Sysop of the BBS. So hearing someone complain because we're not letting fake users hijack other people's posts to ta

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Reply to pros and cons of "censorship" in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

We don't delete posts arbitrarily or simply because we don't agree with someone. Otherwise we'd have wiped out quite a number of posts. What we don't like, and I speak generally here as I've spoken at length to other message board admins over the years over this delicate issue is what is called user spoofing. That is where someone creates a new persona (a fake user) in order to post inflammatory remarks without the baggage of it affecting the person's "real" reputation. When

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Reply to what is "litestep" is it the same as windowblinds? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Topic "censored" to put it back onto the original topic which was a question by a user asking what the difference is between Litestep and WindowBlinds. Hope no one is offended, just trying to keep the message board on topic. If someone wants to talk about other topics (including the pros and cons of "censorship") they can create a new topic. Thanks!

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