Must be some evil plot to confuse the unwary... but your good mate and mine, Quentin has redefined himself and is now... Wizop ArileenDesign So, when you see the new nick it's just the same old bloke afterall... Quentin [oops] ArileenDesign is intending to launch his own site in the near future and felt a make-over was in order....

Each month. during/after the Mods' meeting [held in IRC] we get to propose people for advancement....and I get to do the honours. Congratulations, one and all.... Apprentice wilians   http://wilians.wincustomize.com/ Master Apprentice Nimbin   http://nimbin.wincustomize.com/ Journeyman causticFX   http://spyderbytegraphx.wincustomize.com/ Po' Smedley    http://posmedley.wincustomize.com/

It's always fun to do these.....sometimes there are people even I haven't noticed myself....[which isn't always a bad thing.... ] Congratulations, one and all.... Apprentice MountainHawk http://mountainhawk.wincustomize.com/ OFFICA WoD http://offica-wod.wincustomize.com/ OutDoorPictures http://outdoorpictures.wincustomize.com/ Stephenvw https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?acid=850353 TOMPCpl http://tompcpl.wincustomize.com/ Ton-K300 htt...

It's promotions time again.  Congratulations to all those who have been noticed doing their 'thing' by the Moderators here at Wincustomize .... Apprentice - CarGuy1 haptork Imzadi Littleboy noiram rickalot Master Apprentice - bilbo1930 Harrellj sydneysiders

I'm still getting an odd/interesting selection of 'copyright-issue' walls....simply extracted from submitted [unobstructed] screenshots.  This one [the wall] was a quick crop of the taskbar and icons on the left...leaving an odd size...but a simple non-linked resize [stretch] and I had a quaint 1680x1050 wallpaper.  [even the 'distortion' wasn't an issue....looks like it was already wrong to begin with and now looks more 'right']... These screenshots are still regula...

OK, so I started moderating 6.5 years ago ....about time we had a 'regular' update news/thingie on what we 'do' and what we're seeing in the queues.... One section I look at is screensavers.  [I personally never use them....my screen goes blank after ten minutes of disuse....[like my brain], so there's no 'point']. What intrigues me is how one saver can be a simple 'scr' file of half a meg....and look good with it....whilst others are 36 meg installers [exes] and to use the cute Engl...

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 ....

August.....this time next month I'll be tripping round Canada... the long way round to visiting the folks at Stardock... But this little job is just as much fun. A new bunch of promotees, and congratulations to one and all...   Apprentice: cacbig - http://cacbig.wincustomize.com/ Doubird - http://users.wincustomize.com/3270744/ neyali - http://neyali.wincustomize.com/ skyzyk - http://skyzyk.wincustomize.com/ Sagorpirbd  - htt...

Life is a box of chocolates .... [it gets soft and squishy in the heat?].... Silly quote, innit?.... There's always something that gets betwixt me and thee [where 'thee' is this News post], but good things come to he who waits. Congratulations to this month's promotees.... Apprentice: Anakey -   http://users.wincustomize.com/3365617/ gmc2 -   http://gmc2.wincustomize.com/     Master Apprentice: Sed -   http://se...

In the latest edition of the WinCustomize Member Spotlight, we have another valuable member of the community to showcase.  That person is jazzymjr !  She has been a member since March 2004, and has been a big contributor to the WinCustomize community, especially in the WindowBlinds gallery.  Going back and looking through her gallery, I seen a great variety of WindowBlinds skins that while they have a varied style, it always has a signature “jazzymjr” look. Ta...