MarkMcQ

Reply to My Fond Farewell in Community WinCustomize Forums

A load of drama over a load of nothing. It's just a website. Seems some folks are treating this like the second coming of Melrose place.

Reply to 10 Features Longhorn needs in Windows Vista WinCustomize Forums

I'm hoping they don't decide to carry over the endearing feature of explorer crashing when a folder is opened and it has jpg's set to thumbnail view. It's a known issue which they even mention on the MS site, yet 2 service packs down the road and unmpteen bug fixes and I still find myself having to delete jpg's from a command window just to access the folder.

Reply to Adobe in Beginners WinCustomize Forums

Paint Shop Pro is much cheaper than Photoshop and you can achieve excellent results with it.

Reply to Beware Beeping Bios in PC Hardware WinCustomize Forums

What do I do if it starts playing piano?

Reply to ObjectDock for MacOS X announced in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I'd prefer to see ObjectBar for the Mac. I'd love to have the OSX finderbar on mine....

Reply to Sorry Steve in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Hey, it's a free forum Tim. You should be free to voice any opinion on a skin you like. If the person who receives it is greatly offended, by what I feel was a perfectly valid comment, then the problem is theirs and their ego. Besides, unlike a lot of people out there who post throwaway comments on skins, you have years of experience, and you can back up your words with a huge tome of works which has a consistently high standard throughout. I wouldn't lose sleep over if if I was you, mate.

Reply to Faster start up? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

WOWFactor - Don't think for a second that others besides myself find your lack of the ability to type correctly annoying. Personally I find your jibes at others more annoying. Don't see what they have to do with the subject of the thread. And I'm sure that WOWFactor will be pleased to here that no-one besides you finds his/her typing annoying.

Reply to Faster start up? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Must've been a quiet day at the pot and kettle factory today.

Reply to Who Thinks... in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Chances are people would upload other's fonts as their own, which is harder to chase down than skins rips, since there's not too many font experts around these parts who can spot a 'borrowed' one right away. Or the most likely scenario these days "This is a font for 'insert OS, game or program here', ported by me".

Reply to Guitar/bass tab Widget in Requests WinCustomize Forums

I used to use Ultimate-Guitar.com too, although I use http://www.911tabs.com/ these days. Their engine searches all tab sites in one go, so you can almost always find what you need.

Reply to Prompt won't go away in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

If it's the 50MB download cap prompt you're reffering to, check your account options here on the site, and look for the option that let's you cross-reference your Stardock and WC accounts. Once you do that, you should have no further problems with it.

Reply to user-pic? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

if you open the Start menu and click on the user-pic, it'll open a dialog to allow you manually set one.

Reply to Star Wars windowblinds theme.... in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

There was a really excellent theme released for the Mac recently called Kamino which is based on Storm trooper armour. The way the skinning scene works, we can no doubt expect the WB port of the Msstyle port to be uploaded at some point soon.

Reply to So what Linux distro should I look into? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I would definitely reccomend Mandrake, Terry, if you haven't tried that yet. It's a great distro and very good for new users of Linux to learn the basics in. Plus it's also available as one of those 'live' CD based distro's as well, so you can try it before installing to see if it suits you.

Reply to What would be a great addition to an already great program. in Requests WinCustomize Forums

I'd like a beer tap in Photoshop.

Reply to Splitting taskbar in parts in Beginners WinCustomize Forums

I don't believe such an app exists, but if you're using Windows XP, in the taskbar options you can turn on 'taskbar grouping' which should help a bit.

Reply to Windows Longhorn & Stardock... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I saw a screenshot on Deviantart posted by ShockerTeam3D and he was using the PDC build of Longhorn and had ObjectDock+, Iconpackager and DX all running on it.

Reply to Hacker Skin in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

And using numbers instead of letters is just annoying and not at all 'elite'.

Reply to Litestep Skinning in Beginners WinCustomize Forums

You have to read the Litestep docs thouroughly before skinning it. The modular design of it means each module has a differing layout/configuration, so each dll will usually come with detailed text file explaining the processes for each. I've actually made 1 litestep theme by working through the documentation. It isn't too hard if you follow the directions as best you can, and it was also very enjoyable the first time I loaded the theme up and it worked.

Reply to Controversy in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I usually get my pizzas from Domino's, then put them in another box and resell them as my own, with permissions of course.

Reply to Specifically for Martin in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

It's virus e-mails, that are self replicating. Someone you know has been infected and their system, unkown to them, is replicating the virus and sending it out to people in their adress books, and it spoofs the senders adress using someone else's adress from the same book. If you opened the attatchments, you have been infected also.

Reply to Any PORT in a storm..... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I was speaking with someone yesterday on this subject, and I hope he won't mind me stealing his point of view, which I agreed with. Porting from something like Winamp and taking it to WB, or going from WB to Litestep, like in jafo's example, is a great way to port. But converting one format into a very similar format, like one desktop enhancer to another, or Msstyles to WB is really pushing it. And porting removes the incentive to improve your skills. How many porters out there have actually

Reply to Any PORT in a storm..... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

"this should be a community and there is no place for ego imo" That should be true, and it would be better for the skinning scene if it was, but it's like saying 'This is a big world and we shouldn't have wars'. It's a nice thought, but sadly it won't ever happen. As long as people can put stuff in the public domain, and receive those precious comments in return, ego will always come into it.

Reply to Think Desk in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Think Desk is a new forthcoming suite of applications that are designed to increase productivity in Windows. One of the programs is already available from the Stardock site, called Multiplicity, and it allows you to control a 2nd PC from another using only 1 keyboard/mouse and monitor.

Reply to Any PORT in a storm..... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

"I still value originality over imitation any day of the week" Amen to that. Even my dog can use marquee tools and copy/paste.