It has been said on occasion that a true skin portal needs to be created. One has been created by Jumbles! Go check it out!

Stardock has released ObjectBar beta 0.50 onto its Object Desktop Network (ODNT). ObjectBar is a powerful yet easy to use Start bar replacement. Nearly every OS has some sort of dock, wharf, bar, finder, center, what have you either docked onto the edge of the screen or free floating. Each OS's equivalent has its own strenghts. ObjectBar takes all the strengths of those various bars and combines them into a single program. With it, users can easily create their own bars that can ha...

For those of you who are interested in the latest greatest video cards, ATI is about to release the Radeon 8500 that is effectively as fast or slightly faster than the GeForce 3. But Nvidia hasn't been standing still either. Oooh it's exciting!

PocketBlinds is the first program for the PocketPC that fully skins Windows CE. It is essentially WindowBlinds for the PocketPC. With it, you can skin the title bar, menus, push buttons, and more. And it's free!

SkinMem is a freeform skinnable system resource monitor. The program displays the percentage of the current RAM being used by your PC as well as the available RAM left in Mbs. One difference between this system monitor and other similar programs is the realtime updating of the information. The skins can be any size or shape and the placement of the text details is totally up to the skinner as well. The skin can have a transparent colour and requires only one bmp image with the ini fil...

After years of almost being a major player, OS vendor BeOS has hung it up. They've been sold for $11 million (in stock) to Palm. Ironically, Be turned down a $125 million offer from Apple some years ago (doh!). It is believed that Palm will possibly use Be as a potential PDA OS. The desktop OS future looks grim though.

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AltDesk is a virtual desktops' manager for Windows with skins' support. AltDesk lets you to add more functionality to your computer's desktop. It can create many virtual desktops which can be placed as you want. It has neat skinnable interface. So you can build your skins. Features included: - Neat skinnable user interface. - Fully customizable hotkeys (Win key included). - "Boss" key. - Program can be easily moved from one desktop to another. - All its elements are fully customizable. ...

This month we saw our traffic sky rocket as Stardock merged their skin library with ours as a way to cut costs and make things easier for users. This has had quite an impact on the application sections here. For instance, Th etop 3 Litestep themes got over 100 downloads yesterday. This ironically makes the place where the most Litestep themes are currently being downloaded. Other apps listed here have received a similar boost. Overall, the site was visited by over 580,000 *uniqu...

If you want to join us on IRC, load up your favorite IRC program and go to irc.stardock.com. There is a #stardock channel and a #wincustomize channel. Hope to see you there!

ObjectBar has been designed with utility value as its highest concern. The fact that it can be made to look beautiful so easily is practically a miracle. Looking at the attached screenshot, one gets an idea of how far ObjectBar has come. Feature wise, it's got some great utilitarian features such as: 1) Bars can be hidden until you move your mouse to the edge of a screen at which point the bar can slide out. 2) Tear off menus 3) Complete and seamless system tray integratio...

First screenshots of WindowBlinds 3 released: https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/wb3/wb3-1.jpg https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/wb3/wb3-2.jpg https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/wb3/wb3-3.jpg After months of development, Stardock is preparing to announce WindowBlinds version 3. WindowBlinds is a program that turns Windows into having a skinnable user interface. Version 3 is going to be based off of the beta of WindowBlinds XP. The ne...

Having been to the World Trade Organization on numerous occasions, I find myself completely stunned by the events. To imagine that gigantic building full of people simply gone is just horrifying. At the same time, the civilized world seems to have come together to join the United States in what may become a coordinated crusade to eradicate terrorism. Such a thing seems impossible but consider this: If the United States and the world community can retaliate in such sufficient force,...

Some people, mostly outside the United States believe that the US response is going to be a single or brief set of air strikes against some designated enemy. That is not the case. There won't just be a strike. The United States is mobilizing for war as we speak. The government just activated the reserves today. There won't be a single strike, it is going to be a prolonged campaign that will likely take years. Colin Powell yesterday basically set up the way it's going to work. Cou...

Stardock has released version 0.60 of ObjectBar onto Object Desktop. ObjectBar is a skinnable program designed to let users create their own Startbar alternatives. 0.60 is much easier to use, faster, and more stable.