Stardock updated CursorFX today with a minor update to make it able to use CursorXP themes a bit more seamlessly. Thanks for everyone's feedback. www.cursorfx.com  

Stardock is pleased to announce the official release of CursorFX.  CursorFX is a free program that allows users to customize their mouse cursors in ways far beyond what Windows is capable of doing on its own. The default Windows mouse cursor technology is the same today as it was in 1993 when Windows NT 3.1 was released. It lacks functionality and visual effects that are easily possible with any remotely modern PC. CursorFX updates the Windows mouse cursor engine to support fluid anim...

In a few hours, our friends at deviantART will hit their 50 MILLIONTH submission (deviation). But for me, the most amazing thing about deviantART is its popularity.  It is now in the top 50 most visited websites in the world.  Let me put that in perspective. deviantART is more popular than MSNBC.com, CNET.COM, MTV.com, Gamespot, IGN, and many other extremely well known sites.  In fact, more people go to deviantART.com on a typical day than CNN.com.  That's how popu...

The latest free skin from Stardock Design arrives for WindowBlinds 6.

In March the next-generation edition of Object Desktop becomes available. Check out some of the changes coming...  

For those of you who are interested, tonight (in like 5 minutes) I'm on G4's X-Play demoing Sins of a Solar Empire .

For years, power users have been customizing their Windows desktop by applying skins, themes, icon packages, wallpapers, widgets, etc.  To the new user, the number of steps in order to achieve a completely new desktop has often discouraged them from getting into it.  How do they get their normal desktop back if they want? What programs are free and what programs aren't? Do I have the latest versions of the various programs? The answer for most users to those questions has bee...

The cliche "beauty in the eye of the beholder" is so overused but is so universal. A better phrase would be that value is in the eye of the beholder.This past week, Apple updated the iPhone and the iPod Touch. Apple is charging existing users $19.95 to get some of the new features. Thus ensued a lot of bitching and moaning about the price.  Maybe it's because I'm a sick, scummy, evil capitalist who eats babies when I'm not on here flaming web hippies but what is it with non-producer...

DeskScapes provides animated wallpaper for all users of Windows Vista. Animated wallpaper isn't just for Windows Vista Ultimate users anymore.  With the release of beta 1 of DeskScapes 2.0 on Object Desktop, all users of Vista can use the hundreds of available .DREAM files here on WinCustomize as their animated backgrounds. Object Desktop users also get some exclusive animated wallpaper content including four dynamic dreams (Water Dream, Earth Dream, Water Color, and Box Sample).&...

 Stardock has released WindowBlinds 6.02. WindowBlinds is a program that allows users to change the look and feel of Windows XP and Windows Vista by applying a new visual style. Users can download thousands of free visual styles from websites such as WinCustomize.com, deviantART, SkinBase, Customize.org, and more. Thanks to years of optimization, WindowBlinds not only won't slow down your computer, it is faster than Windows XP or Windows Vista is by default thanks to making use of vid...

Stardock Design has released another free WindowBlinds 6 skin. This is the first in a series of Aero-derived visual styles for Windows Vista and Windows XP. [Get it here]

In the next couple weeks Stardock will begin officially rolling out MyColors 2008.  This may be the single most significant event in skinning in the past few years. Check out the tour below.  

Stardock has been showing off MyColors at CES to several of its key partners. MyColors combines Stardock's core custmization technologies into a single package.  Rather than people buying the software, they simply purchase a theme and the software is part of the package. Stardock Design has already begun releasing licensed MyColors themes for the NBA, NHL, NCAA, General Motors, and others.  Many more themes are in development. Later this month, Stardock plans to release MyCol...

After many moons of effort, the efforts of Stardock Design are starting (and I emphasize starting) to be seen publicly. The first free new skin from Stardock Design for WindowBlinds this year is called Elegance. Designed by Alexandrie, Elegance shows her eye for detail and subtlety in a world that seems increasingly dominated by "glass". Learn more about it: View Article Download Elegance  

Here are 10 things I think Stardock must do in 2008: #1 Make Object Desktop 2008 vastly more polished and usable to new users and then cater to power users with Object Destop Ultimate. #2 Get MyColors EVERYWEHERE. #3 Create BootVista so that people can change their Windows Vista boot screens more easily - and safely. #4 Make sure CursorFX is bullet proof and ready for wide release. #5 Continue to improve WindowBlinds this year, especially in the area of font handling (both in...