WindowBlinds 6 Beta Preview Video

Video demo on Windows Vista

from WinCustomize Forums

Well the long awaited and much anticipated WindowBlinds 6 beta has recently arrived.  With the arrival there have been many requests for additional screenshots and videos of the much talked about "Molten" animation.  I created a video of some of the key features of WindowBlinds 6 that I think people will be very interested in.  This video does not show all the new features, but it will give you a general idea of what WindowBlinds 6 is all about.

The video demo shows the following:

  • Demonstration of the Molten skin start menu animation
  • Ability to adjust transparency of start menu, window borders, etc.
  • Using XP .msstyles on Vista and adding transparency
  • Changing skins on the Vista Sidebar

This video was done on Vista, but I will make another soon showing off the skins in XP as well.  Please note that WindowBlinds 6 is currently in beta, so things you see may or may not change upon final release.  This is just a preview I wanted to give showing some of the really cool features.

Right now the beta is available to subscribers of Object Desktop.
 

 

[digg]http://www.digg.com/software/WindowBlinds_6_Beta_Preview_Video[/digg]

 

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Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
That's really neat, I completely forgot about the Sidebar changing.
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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Greetings , Island Dog !

Sorry about this, bud , But I have a little problemmete with the video ~ all I see is a little box in the top left corner ..

I have WMP11 and the Apple Quicktime installed .. do I have to install another player ?
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Not sure what the problem is, but you can check out the video on YouTube also.  The quality isn't as great, but it should work.



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Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
this is nice
But it would be nicer to be able to see the words to read what you on clicking on
and sound would be good too.

and move a little slower for us (me)newbies
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

OxygenHazard-1: If you mouseover the video you should see a > icon at the top right.  If you click this it will play the video full screen and you can then see the options he is clicking on.

I have also made the video window in the initial post bigger as it was smaller than the video itself.

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Great video. I was unaware of some of the new features, WB6 almost makes Vista usable

It's nice to have those transparency settings. It means you can make a solid skin and add transparency without any fuss   

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks for making this IslandDog, looking forward to the XP one. Thanks for increasing the size Neil, much much better

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Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Neil Babfield

thanks.

I must be Blind. Did not see the full Screen button the first time.

I Must need new glasses.
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I don't know if you guys have hear of compiz, but I think windows and now windowblinds are just way out of the game, that stuff is so damn sweet, I 'm kindda dissapointed in this preview, transparency to everything? that's it? come on, even microsoft made a nice looking tool like flip3d. guess windowblinds is just interested in shading windows.

check out compiz WWW Link
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

varomix: WindowBlinds is designed to skin windows.

For other features you can use applications like WindowFX.

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
guess windowblinds is just interested in shading windows.


Its a little more than shading, WB is not a program to add weird squiggly effects, as Neil said its strictly for skinning the interface.