Zoomba

Zoomba

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Reply to Ubuntu general question in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I would suggest going the LiveCD route first like MasonM suggested, that way you can see if you like the OS before installing it. Making the switch to a dual-boot system can be difficult. Chances are you'll need to format your hard drive, repartition it so you can get the linux boot partition on your main drive, and then install each of the OSes separately. You'll want to install Windows first, then Ubuntu (this is for bootloader purposes, so you can choose OSes at startup

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Welcome to the WinCustomize SkinCast! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Hey, remember that poll about whether or not you ever listened to the PowerUser.TV or Under The Skin? Well, that was a bit of a prelude to a project Island Dog and I have been working on. After some technical glitches, a lot of slip-ups and other complications we're finally ready to unveil the WinCustomize Skincast! Where PU.TV was a longer podcast that covered a lot of topics, and UTS was a

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Poll Results: Podcasts Long Gone in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

PowerUser.TV and UnderTheSkin were two moderately successful podcasts run by Stardock/members of the community that covered everything from skinning to tech news and gaming. However, both are more or less dead now, with PU.TV going off the air at the end of 2006, and UTS hasn't had an episode for well over a year. Last week's poll was to see if you listened to them, and if you did how you liked them. Turns out that the overwhelming majority of you who voted said you didn't

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Zoomba's Weekend Picks in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I had an absolutely wonderful 3-day weekend, and now I'm recharged and ready to tackle the week. To start with, here are my picks for some of the best content uploaded to WinCustomize over the weekend. While it was nice, sunny and warm out and everyone was probably enjoying the start of Spring, these folks were working on, and uploading skins for you to enjoy. <A id=ctl00__Conten

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wulfin1's Skin Review in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Community member wulfn1 this morning posted a detailed and lengthy review of a handful of skins recently posted that she found interesting. In her review she talks about skins ranging from I.R. Brainiac's phenomenal Rogue Proton Gold skin to great wallpapers by inception8, a soundpack by RobJK and a "quirky" IconPack by KerLoong. T

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ObjectDock Icons to Check Out in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

ObjectDock is one of those incredibly useful tools that can help you organize your mess of icons and start menu shortcuts into something simple and easy to manage. But often when you add an application to a dock, you see some ugly, pixelated icon that just doesn't fit with the beautiful aesthetic of your desktop. The problem is that most application icons, at least prior to Windows Vista, are small a

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Reply to Gnomedex: The $600 Blogger Conference! in Virtual Communities WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Um well, how much lower do you think the conference price would need to be? I can kick in some. Maybe we can take up a collection here.[/quote] I appreciate the offer to collect money, but I have to decline :-D The post wasn't about begging for the cash to go, it was more a rant on how silly the price for something like this can get. And how being on the other side of the country from the "main area" of your field can affect things.

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Reply to JoeUser vs. ImpulseDriven in Virtual Communities Stardock Forums

Even though I spent many months working with Andrew on JoeUser, I absolutely think that ImpulseDriven is the far better design & layout. I guess we could think of it as JoeUser being v1, with ImpulseDriven being v2.

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Reply to Gnomedex: The $600 Blogger Conference! in Virtual Communities WinCustomize Forums

A $1600 or higher price tag is a pretty hard sell, especially with something of such an intangible value. If the conference price were lower, I could probably sell it though. That's the real kicker about this one. It would have been much more likely if the pass itself wasn't so expensive.

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Are You Running Impulse? Check Out the Impulse Community Site in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

If I had to pick three things that Stardock is incredibly good at, of course I'd start off with skinning/desktop experience software like WindowBlinds, IconPackager etc, and then I'd have to say PC strategy games. But those two sit on top of our third strength; community building. We've taken the lessons learned from WinCustomize, and Brad's own years of running BBSes "back in the day" and applied

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Stee03 Becomes Skins & Themes Gallery Director at DeviantArt! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The skinning community is a pretty tight-knit group of people, with a lot of us spending time on multiple sites, working with the community sites spread across the web. Earlier this month, one of our own here at WinCustomize was promoted over at deviantArt. You know him as Stee03 here on WinCustomize, but over at dA he goes by the name mrrste and as of a few weeks ago, he is now the Skins a

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Gnomedex: The $600 Blogger Conference! in Virtual Communities JoeUser Forums

Now, I'll admit that I'm definitely on the outside looking in of the blogging/web 2.0 community. While I manage very large sites with a ton of users and reach, I'm still on the periphery. Why? Well, I live in Michigan. Not exactly a state known for it's thriving IT industry. If you go beyond IT services that support manufacturing compa

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