WindowBlinds 4.51 has been reviewed been reviewed on the Extended64 web site. The conclusions? * Installation: 10/10 * Ease of use: 9/10 * Performance 10/10 * x64 Compatibility: 10/10 Extended64.com Application Overall Rating: 9.75/10 Extended64 is "the first community website devoted to the Windows x64 Platform." According to Administrator Ryan Hoffman "Our goal is to provide you with the latest news,
Stardock has released WindowBlinds 4.51. WindowBlinds is a program that enables users to change the look and feel of their Windows GUI by applying new skins called "visual styles" that can change nearly every aspect of the Windows interface (title bars, push b
Spring has arrived and Stardock makes a cool little known program called Natural Desktop. When run, it looks at the time of day, year, and weather conditions and applies a wallpaper, plays background sound, and shows the current weather in a portal. The natural sound track was created by well known composer, Mason Fischer so that your indoors can sound like the ideal outdoors. Check out this article to see some of the highlights in it.
For strategy gamers who want a sneak peek at what in store with Stardock's next generation strategy game, Galactic Civilizations II, the beta has just been made available to users who have pre-ordered it. Stardock is taking feedback from customers to ensure that the final game, due out in nearly a year, is everything users are hoping for.
DesktopX is a program that super-charges the Windows desktop to support a whole new range of content. Now there's a video tour that shows off how much you can enhance your desktop with DesktopX as well as how easy it is to create your own stuff.
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 demonstrate
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
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’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 tha
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 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, Mi
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 Star
How Stardock's Partnership With Samurai Works Helps The Community Samurai Works is Stardock's partner in Japan and represents Stardock's interests in Asia. Not only has this relationship benefited both companies, it creates new opportunities for the skinning community. - Skinners from the US and Europe can reach new audiences. - With the forthcoming localization of SkinStudio into Japanese, we will see an influx of Asian skinners. - Corporations in
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 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
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 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.
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
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
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!
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
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).
First there was the Spider-Man Suite . Then there was The Incredible Hulk suite
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.
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 typical configuration would be 2 or 3 computers,
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