retiredmaster

retiredmaster

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Reply to The GUI Olympics begins MONDAY in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I think it's time to set discussion like this to one side. Let's just try and enjoy the competition. To those who are entering - good luck To those watching - enjoy the show (To everyone else - bugger off.) (just kidding! heh.)

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Reply to GUI Olympics 2004 Details in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

My interpretation is... poweruser skin = a skin with as meany features available as possible (e.g. smart buttons, compound skin, plug ins, different colours, toolbar icons, widgets galore, animated buttons) minimalist skin = as much a design statement as anything - unobtrusive, un-fussy, no fancy extra bits, pared down to the essentials. (I don't think that 'power user' refers to the 'user' really. - it's more about the skin. 'Power Skin' would be closer to it.)

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Reply to Mini-Premium Suites in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I agree with davad70 - these are good guys who have made plenty of free stuff in the past and invested hours of work into their designs. I've sold a few skins myself, and for the customer it's their choice of whether or not to pay extra to get a 'complete' desktop with the wallpaper and icons. (Interestingly, of the $5 paid for the skin pack, I know that 25% of that is lost in the costs of handing the e-sales alone! Skinners are not about to become millionaires...)

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Reply to I feel old now. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I'm just at the point of needing to grow my hair longer, so I can comb it back up over my head and cover the thin spot. (I use lard to paste it down on windy days...)

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I feel old now. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Just noticed that I've cracked my million downloads. Thank you. Watch out for a new $5 3-skin WindowBlinds pack which is nearly ready, plus two skins in the GUI Olympics! (Don't I get a tiepin or badge or something?)

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Reply to Had to uninstall ZIPPO theme... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Sounds like Windows Media Player Zippo skin that's the problem rather than the WindowBlinds stuff. Does the WMP skin have animations? I know that WMP can have scripts running to do lots of clever stuff (which is on a per-skin basis - different skin, different scripts).

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Reply to GUI Olympics 2004 - It's Official! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Ooh... count me in. (and hello Treetog...) To avoid possible 'skinner spotting' influencing people's voting (or judge's voting - not sure if there is to be a "people's choice"), would there be a way in which skins could be submitted anonymously? Then the skinner revealed after the marking? The other thing is, everyone has their own strengths. I can see how well I would do in the icon category!! <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/surprised.gif" border=0

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Reply to Object Dock hints and tips thread! in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

Finally, after a totally clean install of ObjectDock, the menu function finally works right! Which menu function? I've been using kkmenu, but it just isn't fast enough for me. Can OD now treat folders as menus/submenus all on it's own?

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Windows Animations - how? in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

I expect this will have been asked before, but I wasn't paying attention... The new skin format allows you to add custom animations. What software do you use to create/edit them?

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Reply to Comp Mgr vs. Stardock Central - files missing? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Thanks for all that info IPlural. Unfortunately I can't tell you much about the firewall - I'm on a corporate LAN and the firewall isn't anything I can see or touch. A list of ports might help, but I expect they will be monitored anyway. I can certainly give it a try. (Glad you like the site!)

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