DavidK

DavidK

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It's probably just a minor glitch in the new CIA spy software your ISP is running. The word 'deviant' triggers in a higher level of scrutiny and causes it to momentarily loose the connection while it switches your priority to an upper Echelon tier of monitoring...

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As I said in the thread at skinz a year ago, it amazes me that Apple (with less than 10% of the computer market, mostly accounted for by graphic artists and related industries) would go after graphic artists that try to emulate their OS design and their functionality. They should thank them for their efforts and give them a free Mac... I'm not arguing their right to protect their property, I just think from a marketing point of view it's a stupid reaction....

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btw - that's in the ObjectBar's properties dialog. If you want to test it with an XP style bar, select the clock and apply it there. Or create a new section in the taskbar for it, it's really a neat trick.

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tHAT'S eASY fOR yOU tO sAY..... and - as for the menu thing, I don't think it removes the menu from the app but rather, puts the app's menu in the ObjectBar. To do this you select the item under "Behavior/Special Functionality" that says "Replace this section's content temporarily with the menu items of the currently active window when applicable".

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I used to live in a community where one of my best friends was the police department's chief investigator. Being a 'detective' with some political aspirations and being an incredibly cool guy with great taste in music, a gourmet kitchen and an awesome house out in 'the valley' he had many epic parties. My friend had a rule about his parties, he didn't care what you did as long as if it was illegal, you were kind (smart) enough to not do it in front of him. He'd say, "really, I don't want to know

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That's a very interesting article. I would never have guessed that the Mac was so far behind a PC in web surfing speed. _________________________ snipped from the article; "I spent $1,800 on a computer that's slower than the $400 eMachine it replaced," one iMac user wrote in an e-mail Several correspondents asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation by Mac zealots, who have been known to e-mail 1,000 or more harangues to the work addresses of those who criticize t

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The fact is (for me anyway) no matter how pretty you can make WinXP with an MSStyles theme, it still will never compare to the advantages of running Windowblinds. I have become addicted to being able to roll up a window with a right click on the border. I love having a clock in the window, being able to play MP-3's from controls on the window border, launch an app... etc. Plus, for my money, WB looks so much better than XP themes it's not even a fair comparison. The added benefit of skin suites

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what's it doing Sylva? One of mine (Seti green) had problems with the auto OB thing so I made a stand alone skin. The problem was with the taskbar graphics and I found an easy way to fix it on my machine but it was too complicated to suggest for everyone else. So maybe your problem would be easy to fix too. Can you post a screenshot of it?

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If you're using Object Bar you can load any skin that's made for it. So, you have access to the 3 that come with it and the 79 that are on this site plus you can make your own. The XP style taskbar and start menu is only one style of Object Bar. But without XP it's the only way to do that. It will also emulate a Mac with the finder bar or you can invent your own style.

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If you're using the auto-WB convertor then the Object Bar is taking it's settings from the Windowblinds skin. Skin Studio won't help in that case because there's no OB skin to work with.

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The effect you get on your computer should be exactly what you see in the preview image for the skin. When you apply a Windowblinds skin it can change the backgrounds, colors etc. to match the skin. You might need to tell WB to change those things by checking the boxes in "settings" in the Windowblinds configuration window. I can't remember what the default settings are. Object bar works the same way, just load a downloaded skin and it should give you the same result as in the

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Logons have a lot of different states in different conditions. So far, I've only seen one state since my configuration doesn't ever change. You can change all those extra images but I don't think it will show up anywhere except on a logon screen. The image files are in a logon directory. So, there's a good chance you'll never see them at all.... (but at least, you'll know they're there, ju

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oh god... don't extract the file to your system32 folder... bad idea. A Windowblinds skin can have 150 files in it. Leave the file in the state you download it in. That's usually the best file format for the program to use. (program? what program?) ahh... glad you asked. Every skin section here has a link to the software you need to run to use the skins in that section. It's in the titlebar of the skin. For example, if you download a Windowblinds skin, to use it you must downl

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I used to benchmark my system almost daily but haven't been that bored for years... Whatever happened to the Landmark Speed Test? I'd love to test it if someone knows a good benchmarking utility (that doesn't take hours to run). It would be interesting to see how fast different skins are too.

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