Apocalypse_67

Apocalypse_67

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Reply to WinCustomize Skinning Contest in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

It was suggested at the beginning of the contest to appoint judges to pick the winners, but this has a potential to create more controversy. Example: Let's say JJ Ying (a most recent popular author) and John Doe (a new-comer and unpopular author) are head-to-head on a competing category and the panel of judges pick JJ Ying as the winner. We'll then have half of the community blasting the judges for picking a more popular author just because he is

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Reply to WinCustomize Skinning Contest in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I understand your point Bushman, but just to clear some of your concerns here is what comes into play. -There are no judges on the contest. Winners are determined by download counts. -None of the sponsors are competing. -The contest is limited by the amount of prizes donated by the sponsors. In order to have a novice and expert levels on the contest more sponsors are needed. With only 6 sponsors I can only arrange a single level c

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Reply to News Submission System seems to be Broken in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Just as NT pointed out, the method used to determined the winners is by download counts from registered users. Registered users are those people that have created an account on WC and are loged into the site at the time of the download. These will be the only downloads that will count for final judgement.

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Reply to Skinning Contest Update in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

NT I try to remain neutral or rather reserved on comments regarding any particular author during the contests but I must agree that JJ is showing his great talent on this contest as he did on the past contest. And I also agree with you CW. Just as the surprise 1st plac

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Reply to going to reinstall XP in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Ahhhh, the magical wonder (because you always wonder if it's gonna work or messed it all up ) of formating and fresh installation. Did that last weekend. Im stil installing programs

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Reply to Curious question in Community WinCustomize Forums

How many hours are in these 'week(s)' that you work on the skins? The Azar skin https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=4692&LibID=1 took me about a week, working an average of 5 hrs a day

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Reply to Curious question in Community WinCustomize Forums

what is the level of competence/experience that some of you better known uploaders have. I've been skinning for a little over 2 years now (graphic design about 6 yrs) Were you able to create these great WBs just from the tutorials provided by Stardock. The tutorials helped me a lot to understand the mechanics of the programs (margins, tiling, etc) but I learned most by studying other artists work. H

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Reply to Rusty Rooster in Suites WinCustomize Forums

Congrats on 4 years of outstanding work Sorry to hear about your disk crashed, but I'm glad the lost was minimal. Keep up the exellent work

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Reply to Winblinds "Buy Me" pop up on start in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

I might in the future but not now, only just started using this site and not ready for the investment just yet. That's understandable, but you will be running into another problem soon. As a non-subscriber to this site, you will reach a download cap soon, which means you won't be able to downloa

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