It's looking like Neowin is down for the foreseable future.

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Here's a full list of changes: What's new in 2.5 over 2.1? --- - maps creation tool got mask brightness gamma correction trackbar. - recoloring tool got new brightness gamma correction trackbar. - recoloring can be saved as presets on third tab. - recolouring settings can be exported/imported to/from file for reuse on another computer. - SkinStudio is themeaware now - thanks for your help Dru! - the "Visibility Options" tab on the "Buttons" tab have been moved to a separate f...

For the past 3 months Paul Boyer has been working on a whole new set of icon suites. The new set of suites is called the Orion series, a set of incredible looking premium icons that work on every version of Windows as well as support Windows XP alpha blending. There are 1,500 icons at 6 different sizes (so actually 9000 icons). The suite comes with 6 different color variations with each color having a special bonus pack of additional icons for changing other parts of the OS. They'...

Stardock has had ObjectDock floating around internally for a long while. But with the recent releases of a host of "dock" programs we figured it was time to go ahead and let people give it a try. ObjectDock is a task manager / program launcher that does it with style. It was created to test out new Object Desktop technologies for seeing what could and couldn't be done reasonably on Windows 2000/XP. It's inspired by the dock on MacOS X (which is one of the reasons why we've never made ...

Stardock has released WindowBlinds 3.41. WindowBlinds is a program that allows Windows XP to support additional visual styles. And it turns Windows 98, ME, and 2000 into fully skinnable operating systems. Version 3.41 has been designed to provider greater compatibility for Windows 98, ME systems. On Windows XP, closer integration to the OS has been achieved so that the classic title bar no longer shows up when a program is not responding or is hung. WindowBlinds is part of Object ...

Stardock has had ObjectDock floating around internally for a long while. But with the recent releases of a host of "dock" programs we figured it was time to go ahead and let people give it a try. ObjectDock is a task manager / program launcher that does it with style. It was created to test out new Object Desktop technologies for seeing what could and couldn't be done reasonably on Windows 2000/XP. It's inspired by the dock on MacOS X (which is one of the reasons why we've never made ...

Stardock Entertainment develops games and beta 3 of Galactic Civilizations (which I'm the lead developer on) is now available for the beta team.

The first WindowBlinds skins began being submitted to the library at the beginning of 1999. My first few skins were ports (with permission) of Kaleidoscope skins on the Mac (www.kaleidoscope.net). It took 2 years for WindowBlinds to get up to that first 1,000 skins. And about a year and a half to get to the second thousand. That comes out to be about 1.5 skins per day with the amount being somewhat higher in 2002 than in 2001 which goes to show that skinning is becoming much more mainstre...

For those of you into strategy games, Gamespot is running an article on Stardock's upcoming space strategy game, Galactic Civilizations.

Stardock has released WindowBlinds 3.5. The new version integrates Skincast, a new way of being able to install new visual styles directly from display properties. The new version also supports the skinning of sliders and has numerous tweaks to increase compatibility. WindowBlinds has recently been used by such companies as Nintendo, nVidia, and Microsoft to provide visual styles based on their products. To download, go to www.windowblinds.net

ObjectBar is a program that allows you to extend the Windows interface to have additional menus, bars, and program items. You can easily build pretty much any type of desktop user interface with it. What's unique about ObjectBar is how practical it is. The interfaces one creates with it really work well. While ObjectBar can look really cool, it's really designed about making you more productive. A few example features in 1.5: 1) You can replace the Windows right-click desktop m...