Graphical User Interfaces....... It's what we're all about....and this site has them 'all' from Amiga to Xerox Star. http://www.guidebookgallery.org/guis   What's equally interesting are the 'splashes', etc....images that pop up when a proggy loads...ther's lots on this site too....EG Winamp and the Llama's ass.... Every skinner NEEDS to take a wander through that site....see how primitive it all 'was'....and how we're 'getting it right' now.... [Site images didn't want to...

"The program features the following: retouch tools; built-in conventional and adaptive filters for noise reduction and edge extraction; red-eye removal; user-specified filters in spatial and frequency domain; resize, rotate, crop and warping of images; and scanner, camera and printer support. It supports reading and writing of BMP, ICO, CUR, WMF, EMF, JPEG, PNG, PCX and JPEG 2000 images. It supports the reading of RAS, PNM, PGM, PPM, HIPS and Matlab files."   Sounds like fun....anot...

For those eager to modify/alter everything they can...here's another tool for fun.... All sorts of 'tools' exist for manipulating your Windows Experience. I can't say I've used this one....[can't even remember which proggy I used to make my own custom cursors that I still always use - was a fair few years ago now]... but it looks like it's worth a 'go' ....

Recently Zoomba posted he had just reached 5 years with Stardock...and it got me thinking about when I started fiddling with OS Customizing [originally on sites such as Customize.org  and Litestep.com ...and later skinz.org]. The first 'release' of Litestep I came across was called 'b21' or more accurately 1.0 b21 dated 25 March, 1998 ....though the first I actually messed with was b23 a little time after that....but probably just on 10 years ago. Litestep was thought up by a guy...

A few people tripped up in our collective consciousnesses in the past few weeks....so some advancements are in order.... But in no special order... Congratulations to a gaggle of new Apprentices.... Chu99g Pumakitten57 BookChick muckyman Jimbo9294 And.... to Master Apprentice.... Bandit4edu Welldone, guys [where 'guys' is generic]....

Possibly many don't notice that skinners are like "normal" people....have faces and all.... [some, I'm told have a Real Life [tm]] !!!! Koasati ...one of the 'old crowd' set this up ages ago ....but there's a whole swag of people you'll know by nick. Check 'em out ....

.....and JJ Ying's famous....hit number #3 on the search results.... Two Million, eight hundred and ninety thousand plus results......that's almost one per each site member [well, a wee bit more than one per]. There was a time when 'googling' Wincustomize might just have popped up one question...."did you mean 'wincustomise'?"..... How things have changed.... http://jjying.wincustomize.com/  

An interesting display in treeform of 'all' the Windows shells [GUI Interfaces], past and present. Knock your socks off... http://desktopian.org/shelltree.html

Shell City is one of 'THE' must-go-to's on the net. Nary a day goes by that there's not some new quirk, tweak, gizmo, thingie that will whet your appetite with its 'possibilities'. Go there, or be rhomboid...

Actually, Island Dog claimed to be under the weather so the Moderator meeting was put off so he could fill his hot water bottle... It's a great bunch of people....all deserving our cheers and wishes, etc.... Apprentice: Domat -   Link Kittycat670 -     Link eddyhaze -   Link mrs starkers -   Link jojo25 -   Link Winstar4 -   Link PiscDong -   Link Master ...

I blame the holidays [gonna have some one day]....so we're a wee bit late this month... [OK, so I was slacking off] Congrats to one and all....   The best is worth waiting for....   Apprentice casualtraveller    Link hallv5     Link matteeo     Link oAREAo    Link thuglifejunior     Link Imstein     Link k10w3     Link ...

To all the wonderful people who make Wincustomize.com a 'great place to be' ....have a Happy New Year.... ...and a safe one, From all the guys and gals at Stardock. [I get in first becase I'm in the 'Twilight Zone' of an alternate universe......the other side of the planet. It's currently 12.04am....2009.....here....

Again, Island Dog steals the thunder with the new Masters..... .....but I get to announce the ones that really count.... Congratulations, one and all. Apprentice:   DaveBax   http://davebax.wincustomize.com   RobJK   http://robjk.wincustomize.com Philmar83  http://philmar83.wincustomize.com   madcat21   http://madcat21.wincustomize.com   jester382   http://jester382.wincustomize.com  &...

Island Dog has already listed the new Masters for the month...[it's something that's 'done' from within site-access to the coding....so from ten thousand miles away my arms are too short]. Here's the other ones, however, and congrats to all.... Apprentice: Angus1949   http://angus1949.wincustomize.com/ Butch123   http://butch.wincustomize.com/ Goldwing http://goldwing.wincustomize.com/ Master Apprentice: AtomArts   http://atomnet.wincusto...

OK, the Mods have been out and about noticing people....[it's called 'collision avoidance'] and gave me a list of people to promote this month..... Congratulations, one and all.... Apprentice: Cplair  http://cplair.wincustomize.com/ AlMonty  http://montyxp.wincustomize.com/ BK13Garbageman http://bk13garbageman.wincustomize.com/ Master Apprentice: Littleboy http://julien.wincustomize.com/ Journeyman: Skinhit  http://mylogic.wincustomize.com/