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Alienware's New Suite and Desktop Marketing in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The latest Alienware desktop theme will be posted today. In addition to Alienware and Stardock, the Alienware theme will also be made available to visitors of NVIDIA's NZONE site. This week also saw the release of announcements by Autodesk and the Microsoft case study of Stardock and ATI's DirectSkin project. This underscores how desktop customization has emerged as a highly successful tool for marketing new technologies, movies and entertainment and games. As demonstrated by the succe

Essorant Skin Pack available in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Long-time skinner Essorant has teamed up with Stardock to release the Essorant Skin Pack. This pack of premium 5 skins show off many of the best elements of WindowBlinds and just look fantastic!</p

Creating Skinnable Applications With DirectSkin in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

A Microsoft Case Study shows how ATI was able to reduce costs and accelerate the development cycle of the Catalyst Control Center by using DirectSkin from Stardock to create a skinnable user interface.

Autodesk Selects DirectSkin for New User Interface in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Autodesk's MAP 3D 2006 software connects CAD (Computer Assisted Design) and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) by providing powerful creation and editing tools and is used by top engineers, mapping professionals and CAD technicians world-wide. Having a modern, attractive and flexible user interface was an important part of the product's development. Autodesk selected DirectSkin from Stardock as its user interface development tool. DirectSkin is an ActiveX control that integrates into so

DesktopX 3 released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Super-Charge your Windows desktop with DesktopX 3 Visually design applications and desktops, export them for others to use LIVONIA, MI (March 15, 2005) - Stardock, the world's leading developer of desktop enhancement software for Micr

DesktopX 3 released in TGN News JoeUser Forums

Super-Charge your Windows desktop with DesktopX 3 &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Visually design applications and desktops, export them for others to use LIVONIA, MI (March 15, 2005) - Stardock, the world’s leading developer of desktop enhancement software for Microsoft Windows, released DesktopX 3.0 and DesktopX Pro 3.0 today. DesktopX is the revolutionary program that made it possible for users to add new types of content to their Windows desktop. By default, Micro

PC Magazine Desktop released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

PCMag.com has released the PC Magazine Desktop. It is a program that when run, changes the look and feel of the Windows GUI to have a PC Magazine look and feel. It includes a new PC Magazine visual style and a wallpaper. The PC Magazine desktop makes use of Stardock's <

New Opportunities For Skinners in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Given Japan's penchant for new technologies, the success of Object Desktop should not be surprising. Beginning with WindowBlinds, which was localized last year, and continuing forward with DesktopX, SkinStudio and ObjectDock Plus, have been embraced by the Japanese public and corporations alike. One of the benefits to this is that we are establishing new communities. In addition to the https://www.wincustomize.jp site, Samurai Works has also established the MySkins site a

5 Features operating systems should have in Game News JoeUser Forums

Think operating systems are getting a little dull? What new features do you think they should have in them? Stardock's Brad Wardell has written an article giving five specific features that he believes operating systems should have today. Distributed computing features, component based design, universal accounts, and more. Read the whole thing.

5 Features operating systems should have in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Think operating systems are getting a little dull? What new features do you think they should have in them? Stardock's Brad Wardell has written an article giving five specific features that he believes operating systems should have -- today. Distributed computing features, component based design, universal accounts, and more. Read the whole thing.

PC Magazine reviews Multiplicity in Game News JoeUser Forums

PC Magazine has reviewed Multiplicity 1.0. Their Conclusion: &quotIf your desk is holding up more than one PC, you need this product.&quot Multiplicity lets users take multiple computers in their office and control them all from a single keyboard and mouse. It then provides a universal

PC Magazine reviews Multiplicity in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

PC Magazine has reviewed Multiplicity 1.0. Their Conclusion: "If your desk is holding up more than one PC, you need this product." Multiplicity lets users take multiple computers in their office and control them all from a single keyboard and mouse. It then provides a univers

Stardock Releases Multiplicity in TGN News JoeUser Forums

LIVONIA, MI (February 28, 2005) – Software developer Stardock Corporation released Multiplicity today. Multiplicity is a program that enables users to control multiple local computers with a single keyboard and mouse. Multiplicity works by having a primary computer with a keyboard, mouse and monitor connected to it and multiple local secondary computers that still have a monitor connected to them but no keyboard or mouse. When the user moves their mouse cursor from the

Stardock Releases Multiplicity in Political Machine News JoeUser Forums

LIVONIA, MI (February 28, 2005) – Software developer Stardock Corporation released Multiplicity today. Multiplicity is a program that enables users to control multiple local computers with a single keyboard and mouse. Multiplicity works by having a primary computer with a keyboard, mouse and monitor connected to it and multiple local secondary computers that still have a monitor connected to them but no keyboard or mouse. When the user moves their mouse cursor from the

Stardock Releases Multiplicity in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

LIVONIA, MI (February 28, 2005) - Software developer Stardock Corporation released Multiplicity today. Multiplicity is a program that enables users to control multiple local computers with a single keyboard and mouse. Multiplicity works by having a primary computer with a keyboard, mouse and monitor connected to it and multiple local secondary computers that still have a monitor connected to them but no keyboard or mouse. When the user moves their mouse cursor from the primary co

DesktopX 3 release date set in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Stardock has set the official release date for DesktopX 3 as Tuesday, March 15th. DesktopX 3 is a major update of DesktopX over past versions. In addition, we've put together a quick tour of the major changes in DesktopX 3 over previous versions. DesktopX 3 has been in development for many months, we hope you like what you see.

WindowBlinds 4 Honored in Japan in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The Pro-Regi Award is a prestigous honor awarded to outstanding software programs. This is the second time that WindowBlinds has been honored by Vector in Japan. Previously, WindowBlinds was chosen for the 2004 Winter Pro-Regi Award in the Amusement segment, but this time it was honored as Number One software of 2004 across all segments. The competition included well-known software programs such as Acronis True-Image and Norton Internet Security. The editors selected WindowBlinds. An Editor's co

RightClick released in Political Machine News JoeUser Forums

Stardock has released a trial version of RightClick.&nbsp RightClck is a program that lets users extend or even completely redesign the Windows desktop right-click mouse menu.&nbsp When a user right-clicks on th

RightClick released in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Stardock has released a trial version of RightClick. RightClck is a program that lets users extend or even completely redesign the Windows desktop right-click mouse menu. When a user right-clicks on

Custom themes for the desktop in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

WindowBlinds lets you do some great stuff to jazz up your Windows desktop. Traditionally, you downloaded special themes called "skins" (also called "visual styles") that change the look and feel of the Windows GUI. But where before you were, as a practical matter, limited to the color choices that the artist made, now you can use the hue/saturation featurs of WindowBlinds 4.5 to give your themes a whole new lease on life! Check out this article to learn more!

Stardock Virtual Desktops 2 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

At long last the "BandVWM" has gotten its much needed, long overdue overhaul. For something like 50 years (something like that) we've been telling people that a version 2 is "in the works". Well, now you will be ab

IRC chat with Stardock on Friday, 4PM EST in TGN News JoeUser Forums

Tomorrow (Friday, February 11th) Stardock will be hosting a live chat with users on its IRC server. You can reach it by going to irc.stardock.com and joining the #stardock channel. If you have Stardock Central, you can reach it by simply connecting to the built in chat and typing "/join #stardock". The chat will be held at 4PM EST (Eastern Standard Time).

X-Men Desktop Suite released in TGN News JoeUser Forums

First there was the Spider-Man Suite . Then there was The Incredible Hulk suite , and finally, there is the X-Men premium sui

ExtremeTech reviews WindowBlinds 4.5 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

ExtremeTech has taken an in-depth look at the newly released WindowBlinds 4.5. WindowBlinds is a program that lets you completely customize the look & feel of the Windows graphical user interface.

Announcing Multiplicity in TGN News JoeUser Forums

LIVONIA, Mich.----Feb. 9, 2005--Software developer Stardock Corporation announced a brand new product today, Multiplicity, a program that allows users to control multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse. For users, it's much like using a multiple-monitor setup - when the user moves their mouse to a monitor connected to a different PC the user is then controlling that computer. It is not a remote control solution. A typi