Ode to Neoplanet

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I was surfing the web doing fact checking for the upcoming issue of WinCustomize Magazine when I discovered this:

http://www.neoplanet.com

Now, I don't know how many of you have visited Neoplanet in the past but it's always been pretty apparent that it was a company in the market to sell services to companies in various forms.

Now...though it seems as if they're pretty much gone. Another victim of the .COM fallout. Their website is pretty much "Here's our browser, we're done."

Neoplanet was there at the beginnining of skinning. They were one of the first companies to get involved.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I took a look at it. I did not realize that there was another browser. I heard of Opera and ... I forget the other ones name, and Netscape.

I'm downloading it now to see what it is like to use a different web browser and to check and see if my site works on it.

I also like the skins for it too.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Joe, it's really just a front end for IE.

I started skinning on NP. Till I found out there were other programs to skin I thought I could never do without it. If I hadn't run across WB I'd still be skinning it (if the newer versions didn't crash my computer, that is).


I just hope no one can find those skins anymore.... Just the thought of those coming back to haunt me gives me the shakes... eww....
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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I used to love using Neoplanet, and swore by it untill they added that bizarre search feature thingy, that loaded on startup and you couldn't close it.

I'm feeling nostalgic now, maybe I'll download it again for old times sake.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I loved Neoplanet. When they stopped updating things I wrote to ask them why. They said they were working on other projects at the time. Then when I installed XP it conflicted somehow. If you skinned for Neoplanet, I probably used your skins sometimes. Hmmm.... I'll have to dig around, I think I was doing somthing and transferred all those skins into another folder, dono if I ever deleted that thing...heh
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I used to set it to load a random skin every time. Sometimes, I wished that windowblinds would do that. Then I wasn't sure.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oh, and when they wrote to say that they were involved in other things, they said that they would be back one day... I guess not.

One time I had a problem, and the guy who was helping me told me that IE had upgraded and they were in negotiations with microsoft. I wish I remembered more. It seemed that some of the new features they couldn't get a license to use anymore or something. Does that make sense?
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Neoplanet is how I discovered skinning. A skin called Wired, I think, had links to Custo, and skinz.org.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm using Neoplanet right now. Works fine on Xp, doesn't stop responding like IE6 and seems quicker. The skins are naff though... Most of them are lacking a progress bar.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yeah, I used to love NP before it started getting in the way of things I found indispensible, such as Gator (okay, I was naive at the time). But it was definitely cool in its day.

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Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I liked Neoplanet. It had a decent idea. They tried to hire me actually, I think they thought at the time that Stardock was basically something run out of my house.

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Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Neoplanet was the first program I used that was able to change the way it looks.

Before Neoplanet, I thought that a "skin" was just mucking around with the colours on the windows display panel, to make the colours look better than windows standard (come to think of it, I failed every time, but that's beside the point).