Worth watching. Seriously.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/229

The new Dragon visual style from Stardock Design doesn't just look great, it's fast. For most users, Dragon makes Windows faster than the default look of either Windows XP and especially Windows Vista. On top of that, it has stunning animation on the Start menu at full 30fps. And did we mention it does this without slowing down your PC?  This is what happens when you develop a technology that integrates seamlessly into the native Windows display engine while taking advantage of advances in ...

 

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The Stardock Design website has gotten a re-design. But what should the About page say?

I was thinking something like this:

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Stardock has long been a pioneer in developing first-to-market technology for the PC market.  It was the company that essentially created "skinning" technology on the PC with products such as WindowBlinds, DeskScapes, DirectSkin, DesktopX, IconPackager, ObjectBar, and more.  Through Stardock's technology, Windows users cou...

 
Object Desktop 2008 Guided Tour

Introduction

Object Desktop is the defacto standard when it comes to changing your Windows experience. If you want to take control over how Windows looks, feels, and functions, Object Desktop is the way to do it.  Since its original release for Windows back in 1999, Object Desktop and its components have garnered millions of users worldwide.  Parts of it have been licensed to virtually every major technology company you can think of at one time or other.

Over the years, Object Desktop got bigger..and bigger...and bigger to the point where it had dozens of programs that came with it. Needless to say, it became a little unwieldy for the average user.  So for 2008, Stardock has split the product into two versions:

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We have something pretty cool being cooked up for The Political Machine 2008. It ties in with www.joeuser.com as well.

Check out http://beta.politicalmachine.com

Another year has passed!  It's that time of the year again where we look back on last year and do a post mortem on where skinning has been and where it's going. You can see last year's here. 2007 was a pretty big year for skinning. A sucky year but big nevertheless.

What is skinning?Skinning is the process of customizing the look and feel of something to your personal taste.  If you could change the shape and color of your car, you could say your car was skinnable.  Over the pa...

At the end of the day, the people who "do stuff" will always have the advantage over the people who "don't do stuff".  Pirates are slowly motivating ever increasing levels of DRM and in time, I hate to say it, DRM is going to win.  That's because the people motivated to make the DRM work (the people who do stuff) greatly outnumber the motivation of the people who don't do stuff. 

One can easily picture a future in 5 years in which the telecoms, the PC makers, the OS makers, and...

The security issues in Vista make me want to cry.

 

Beta 5 allows users to create their own custom races and choose their own tech tree.



Ship textures further updated with higher quality images that use less memory!

 


Players can have the computer AI design combat ships for them automatically.

 

 
A new victory condition is in the game. If enabled, 5 ascension crystals are scattered throughout a map. Building a starbase on one provides 1 ascension point per turn. When 1,000 ascen...

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Running a blog community as well as a multiple sites that involve people submitting articles has taught me one thing: most people do not know how to use word processors or web editors correctly.

Programs like Word, Expression, DreamWeaver make it relatively easy for people to communicate with words very effectively provided that you know how to use them.

Today, I'm going to write a brief set of rules on communicating effectively on the Internet.

Rule #1: Use TagsIf you find yourself sel...