John Hamp

Reply to I can't skin! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

White men can't skin?

Reply to 12 principals of 'the scene' in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Point of order; does it matter what someone like Miriku thinks? Worrying about Miriku's opinion is like the Prsident of the US worrying what some unregistered voter thinks.

Reply to That's it, I don't like computers anymore! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Would seem Craeonics and Frogboy have the same problem. I wonder how similar their HW is.

ALL COMMUNITIES are the SAME in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

With a wry bit of amusement I've seen Shogot's latest self destruction and the reactions from it about his imagined problems with the skin contest --aka gui olympics --. There is a silver lining. All successful communities have these problems. They are a natural result of human politics. It doesn't matter if your community is the PTA or church group or in the cyberworld. There are those who are leaders and create things for others. And there are those who are envious, petty and jealous

Reply to A tadpole has died. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

That's too bad. You think tadpoles are bad, try getting a gerbal for your kids. Cry-o-rama.

Reply to GUIOlympics Poll in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I'm making a skin for Betanews.

Reply to Game sizes out of control in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I only have a 9 gig hard drive. There is no excuse for games taking up gigs. There is no way they need all that space.

Besides computers..... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

So what do ya do with your free time besides use computers?

Reply to 12 principals of 'the scene' in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Reminds me of animal farm and the rules the pigs made. I've read the customize message board. Strange...no moderating of Shogots posts against Frogboy which exist just to offend. Some pigs are more equal than others...

Reply to The GUI Olympics! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I've been playing with skinning for a couple of months. This sounds like a lot of fun. I'll probably just represent 1 site since I won't have time to do more skins.

Reply to Immense Style XP arrogance! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

What shreds of credibility Shoggot may have had he has sure pissed away here. Stay with me here shoggot, company A tries to get people to buy their product based on what it does. company B tries to get you to buy their product as a way to show support for 'the skinning community'. That's because Style XP makers know that their patch doesn't do enough to justify a $20 price tag. So they try to deceive people into thinking that the $20 is supporting 'the skinning community'. If they paid

Reply to Immense Style XP arrogance! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Wow I made a hot topic! I did not say that there was no msstyles community. I just don't see how giving my money to a couple of guys who whipped up a hack as supporting it. If anyone should be collecting money it shoudl be websites you mention. That Stardock is paying for Wincustomize that in turn supports non Stardock programs just highights the difference between TGTSoft and Stardock. Fu

Reply to Immense Style XP arrogance! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

What "Community" do you speak of then, Mephisto Corugant? If I give TGTSoft my $19.95 for Style XP what community is that supporting? If I start up the Chris Hamp charity where the money goes to just me, is that still a charity? These guys are parasites in the truest sense. They don't have a skin site or pay for one. They don't even have a support forum for me to make my bitch post. And they make a program that profits off of Microsoft's engine. Style XP can be reproduced wit

Reply to What features does the next version of Windows need? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Needs better control over start up. Too much crap gets put into the "system" service. I want to know what is relaly running on my machine. It takes an eterntiy for my machine to fully boot up.

Reply to WB 3.1 IE Buttons in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Do you have a screenshot?

Immense Style XP arrogance! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

OK I confess I tried out Style XP awhile back. But today I got a shocker! An expiration dialog that they never mentioned poppped up. But if that wasn't shocking enough, the arrogance in their dialog: "Please support the skinning community by registering Style XP!" So paying TGTSoft, a company with no skin library of its own, no forums on its site, which just makes a patch is supporting the community? What arrogance!

Reply to O.K. Let's have some fun............. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

i threw up in the third grade. That was very embarassing. You never get to let that down until you graduate and move far far away.

Reply to My problems with WinStyles (long) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

shoggot says: "fair enough - I'll take that as a "we like control", IE, no. nice community support, eloquent response to this supporting app devs" Pot to kettle. Pot to kettle. For a guy who just got done calling people "evil".....

The StyleXP part is over? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Turns out that StyleXP ain't free afterall. It's now $20 and the version that they released last month secretly had an expiration date that times out telling you to buy. In other words, they knew they were going to start charging a month ago but didn't tell anyone so that they'd make as many skins as possible. Now they've pulled the rug out from under them. http://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8178

RIP to rippers in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Sad news, boomgames's ISP has pulled the plug. Some of you may remember boomgames as the site that gave Alexandrie and Jafo so much grief about getting PreLuna down. http://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7912 The site was great for game news but hosting skins seemed to have killed them.

What's the deal with WB3 and WB2 skins? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I checked out Deskmod today and they have a seperate section for WindowBlinds 2 skins? What's the deal with that? Why did they do that? Do they know something we don't?

Adobe Photoshop vs. Corel Photopaint in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

What is the best graphics package for making skins would you say? I currently have Corel Photopaint 10 but am thinking of purchasing Photoshop 6. Anyone out there have experience with both?

WHAT is a RIP? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

So what exactly is a rip? I'm getting into how to create my own skins and what is the threshold? Can you use someone elses graphics, modify them and then include in the readme credit for the original? Or is that taboo? Where do you draw the line?

Reply to competing visions of the community in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I skimmed the site yesterday night. It's like an alien world. Not surprising why it's just a bastion of weak wallpapers and screenshots. Who wants to spend hours making a skin for a site that treats people with so little respect? There's enough teeny bopper sites on the net.

Reply to Skinning tutorial in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Thank you integer.