Zoomba

Zoomba

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Weekly Poll: Desktop vs Laptop in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

This week, a less controversial poll. This one comes from Snidely Whiplash on IRC: Do you primarily use a Desktop PC or a Laptop? This question was inspired by the Show Your Computer Setup thread and the surprising number of laptops shown off. Results will be posted on Tuesday (office is closed Monday). <IMG height=70 sr

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Poll Results: More Galleries in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Last week, as a follow-up to the poll regarding a cell phone theme gallery, I asked what everyone's feelings were on adding new galleries in general versus focusing in more on the galleries we already have. The results of the poll were pretty clear and help explain the results of the cell phone theme poll. The results were 2:1 for focusing on our existing galleries before adding anything new. One thi

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Zoomba's Weekend Picks in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Monday is here, but it's St. Patrick's Day! It's also a short week for us here at the office with a 4-day weekend for Easter. Yes, I do think this is possibly the best week of the year... So lets get this short week started. Here, as always, are my picks for the best work uploaded to WC over the weekend. A single green skin in the mix, but oddly not a single Easter one yet.

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Monthly Moderator Picks - February in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Every month I ask the WinCustomize moderators to go through the skins submitted over the the previous 30 days and pick out their favorites and provide a little bit of explanation on why they like it. Here are the Moderator Picks from all skins submitted in the month of February... <SPAN class=DynamicDrop

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Island Dog's Week in Skinning in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I have to say, 2008 has been a great year so far for skins. Dreams have been steadily improving, and Island Dog's weekly roundup has highlighted some of the best work I've seen in ages. This week is absolutely no exception either! This week we have Unity by Tiggz, one of the best icon packages I've seen on the site in ages, two outstanding wallpapers, two top-notch WindowBlinds skins and more. Any kind of drought we were going through for good skins in months past se

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Reply to Poll Results: Cell Phone Themes in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

You completely misread what KarmaGirl was trying to say with her comment. Perhaps put another way: A feminine skin is not outstanding work to be featured simply because it is feminine. It has to stand on its own merits regardless of style, author or intended audience. If a feminine skin happens to be released the same time a vlad wallpaper comes out, or a new MikeB skin is released, it has to compete with those to get noticed for featuring. (I use MikeB and vlad as exampl

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When Did You Join? How Did You Find Us? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Since we've been around for seven years, we've seen a lot of people come and go from the userlists. As I've said, in that time we've seen several million folks stop by long enough to create an account with us. In those years, the composition of the community has changed greatly. A lot of the prominent faces around today weren't here back in 2001, and a lot of the folks from 2001 have since moved

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Reply to Personal Galleries in Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

We've been discussing better ways to handle content moderation & the presentation of content to users for the next major site update. We want to place much more control in the hands of the individual users as to what content they see on their screens. Better integration of the Personal Pages with the rest of the site, filter settings, a change to how we moderate and separate out content have all been discussed. It's just not a quick fix or addition to the site though, and

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Skins from March, 2001 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

With WinCustomize turning 7 today , I thought it would be interesting to browse through the gallery archives to see what sort of skins people were uploading back in March of 2001, with the launch of the brand new site. When WC launched, there were only a small handful of galleries: WindowBlinds, IconPackager, DesktopX Objects, ObjectBar, PocketBlinds, LiteStep, WinStep, Wallpapers, Windows Media Player, Winamp,

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Happy Birthday WinCustomize! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

According to what I've been able to dig out of the Internet Wayback Machine, today is WinCustomize's 7th birthday! Originally launched on March 13th, 2001 in the aftermath of the dot-com bust that took out many popular skinning sites, specifically the original Skinz.org, WinCustomize is now the largest site on the Internet dedicated to GUI Customization with over 1 million pageviews per day, serving visitors from

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Reply to WC Uploading problems? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Are you using upload.aspx or upload2.aspx? Also, double-check to make sure the jpg is in the preview field, and the logonvista is in the skin field. I've swapped the two by accident before.

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Reply to I think it was my last wall in Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

The issue originally raised by the thread has been addressed. At this point nothing constructive is being discussed. Wallpaper moderation policies have been debated at length many times, with the result being that no decision will please everyone (and each option proposed seems to piss off an equal number of people). I'm closing the thread.

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