Thursday [my time....horridly early] was the Monthly Moderator Meeting where pontifications and promotions are pondered. [I promise no more awkward alliteration, absolutely]. Congratulations, Guys.... To Apprentice: SG Mirsguy Ausvet DEVJIT Life is a Game mommaTee To Journeyman: jazzymjr TYCUS

A few months ago I went in search of an early email about some skinning issue or other...and found these.... -----Original Message----- From: Johanne Chaine [mailto:xxx@stardock.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 3:31 AM To: Paul Martin; iMike; shoggot@xxx ; Renato de Carvalho Veras; Patrick Ford; Migellito; David Knott; Brad Wardell; Kris Kwilas; Snoopsoft; Angela Marshall Subject: Welcome to our new wizop   He is already a leader in the...

It's a little later than usual....[July 4 festivities, etc]...but here they are..... Congratulations to one and all.... Apprentice: ahabkaba    Link Floina    Link Atomnet    Link Wizard1956    Link sAArge    Link PixelZ01    Link Daiwa    Link Master Apprentice: WeatherBound    Link   QX9    Link &nb...

Ah.... a new month....a new bunch of people to be 'noticed' and upgraded by the Moderators. Congrats, one and all.... Apprentice: MrMiner      Link PuterDudeJim     Link Unseenrage      Link zakai1369      Link   Master Apprentice: wulfn1     Link

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, everyone.... Apprentice Shelbygt      Link Brickhead      Link BigDogBigFeet      Link Xiandi      Link CountryYokel      Link Master Apprentice 2of3      Link Drill'n Boss      Li...

For me it all started before Windows....in Dos ....and a proggy called Xtree , XTPro and finally XTGold . Great stuff...but as computers got bigger it hit the 640k limit and went belly-up in 32 bit Win Vers. Then there was ZTreeWin ....a one-man development that had 'no limits'...still a 'text' file manager...but if you were used to Xtree ....you were at home with this one. Alternate shell users [particularly Litestep ] never wanted to inadvertently invoke the dreaded Exploder s...

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....

My old scanner died...so I got myself a new one....CanoScan LiDE 600F Fun thing is the CD doesn't autorun to show the setup/install menus.... Not on this box...or on my Lappy....but it does on my wife's machine. There's no autorun.inf ....and the files there are all appear to be for a Mac.....and not apparently executable. I dl'd the driver and toolbox...but I still need the OCR and editing stuff ...but can't get the disc to 'do anything'....short of throwing it frisby-style.... ...

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...