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Windowblinds 5 Sensation!

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Despite Windowblinds 4 being released this week, it was announced today Windowblinds 5 development is well under way. Unlike its predecessors Windowblinds 5 will use a new skinning technology called 'virtual skinning' to complete the Windows skinning experience.

Tired of that bland coloured monitor frame? Well Windowblinds 5 will use its vitual skinning technology to expand the skin outwards to cover the monitor frame. The skins will also employ smart buttons for those of you with monitor controls.

With the latest version of SkinStudio now available some of the top skinners are already working on WB5 skins.

It's not known yet if virtual skinning will extend to peripherals. A Stardock spokesman was unable to comment further.

More information to follow...

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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"...skin outwards to cover the monitor frame.."

what is that anyway???
Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top
bah, crap. I'm beta testing it and maybe the skinner didn't turn off anti-aliasing in photoshop. I have some hair and eyes, buyt everything from the shoulders down is 'great pink'!
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Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top
please make your skins 7.4 compatible, ive got magic pink all over my house!

see

http://www.geocities.com/spinal_cord//index.html
Reply #54 from WinCustomize Forums Top
just a warning... be really careful if using Smart Buttons with WB 5.1. I changed the plugin (still only 4?) from rollup to lock on top before unrolling my monitor and now it's stuck on the ceiling...
Reply #56 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Dave....that's a serious 'issue'. My bet is there is a dll hack for chairXP that will enable you to lay on your back to see the ceiling monitor.

donarumo...your problem is that you used Kazaa to get your WB6.1a......what you should have done was use Kazaa to DL a pirate copy of Napster....and use THAT to access the filez. It seems those Aussies coded Kazaa upside-down [bloody typical]...so what you actually got was MB9.1g
Reply #57 from WinCustomize Forums Top
bug report: port 1337 is being left open by the newest build of WB 9.1a. I am using the 'hunky brazilian goucho' skin, and when I went and looked in the mirror I found that I had been the victim of an exploit. I will say, though, that the 'Margaret Thatcher' skin is very, *gulp* lifelike, but I am not crazy about the big 'U R 0wn3d' tattoo on my, well, forget it.

When do you think devart will get a section for this? I'm hoping they will be a little lax on the moderation...
Reply #58 from WinCustomize Forums Top
wait... is this a joke thread... so it doesn't "...skin outwards to cover the monitor frame.."

I thought maybe the monitor frame was some part of the OS in XP that I didn't know about...

Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Joe...no, it's for real.
Apparently as early as WB4.5 BOTH SIDES of a window will be skinned, meaning if you were to look behind your monitor you'd see the exact same skinned effect as current WB releases do, only from behind them.
It means the skinns will need to be double-sided.

Very hi-tech...
Reply #60 from WinCustomize Forums Top
...and wait 'till you get a feel of the keyboard. It will either reach out and touch you, reach out and grab you, or reach out and hurt you.. whichever skin you install. Watch those rips, though. There was this coding error... RIP
Reply #61 from WinCustomize Forums Top
sooooo....

this monitor thing isn't real.
I'm so confused.

oh well.

but it sounded so cool though.
Reply #62 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Press release to the world today april 3, 5050. WindowsXP for automobiles was out on store shelves today, by evening 15 billion copys were sold. How everby late evening Microsoft found codeing errors in the program and had to release it's first service pak. It seems the car would develope DLL errors and lose it's tire on the drivers side, and hood would always fly open. Microsofts workaround for this until it releases SP1 is call a cab or take a bus. In other news today WB 500.673a has now added planetary skinning and Stardock is working on adding black hole skinning with in the next 2 to 3 weeks.

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Reply #63 from WinCustomize Forums Top
First report of "out of computer experience" as would be hacker overshot the latest build of windowblinds and actually broke out into real life. Said the hacker on his return... 'It's cold and scary out there. There is no back button, no refresh. Popup control doesn't work and speech and reason is the only option when actually meeting other people."
Reply #64 from WinCustomize Forums Top
jtb, be patient, when stardock brings out wb 5.0 you will find out, just make sure you won't use ANY BETA VERSIONS!!
there are a lot of bugs in them, and the part of the keyboard... reach out to you, touch you, HURT you
Reply #65 from WinCustomize Forums Top
In version 5.2.017.001 the bugs are skinnable...

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Reply #66 from WinCustomize Forums Top
oh goodie! I like ladybugs!
hmmm...... can they be animated? I'd like an animation of a caterpillar morphing into a butterfly. *s*
Reply #70 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Help!..I accidentally applied the wrong skin to my girlfriend and now she's my ex-wife.... AAAaaarrgggghhhhh......

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No problem, JM... simply re-apply the emergency divorce lawyer skin included in the pack!
Reply #73 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm hoping one of these new betas will incorporate odour skinning. I'm sick of my brother's shoes stinking up the house.
Hmmm... imagine an odourSkin smartbutton outside the toilet so you can press it before you go in and is time to turn off 5 minutes after you leave.
Reply #75 from WinCustomize Forums Top
and to go along with WindowBlinds 5.0 HoverDesk XP-ME will actually make your desk hover... eliminating the need for legs on it hover desk 5.5 will make you hover eliminating the need for legs on anyone LMAO

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