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Impulse Holiday Gift Guide - Day 2: Tools/Utilities

Day 2 of the Impulse Gift Guide is focusing on Tools and Utilities to make your PC more productive, and easier to work with. Impulse has a wide variety of applications, everything from backup programs to maintenance applications. Check out the Impulse Holiday Gift Giving Guide. Day 2Tools/Utilities Continue

Added by Spencer on December 23, 2008 at 10:20pm — No Comments

GUI Champs: Most Usable Dream Winners Announced!

The first round of winners for the 2008 GUI Championships have been announced! For a week, users were able to vote for the Most Usable Dreams, and we are happy to announce the winners for this category. Click to see the winners! Winners: Most Usable Dreams Continue

Added by Spencer on December 2, 2008 at 8:29am — No Comments

Santa Sleigh Christmas Countdown

I have been getting so many requests to update this gadget for this year, I finally had the time to sit and get it done. This is a gadget for your desktop that should run on any Windows PC. It will countdown the days until this Christmas. I have more gadgets coming, so be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed so you don’t miss them. Link: Download

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Added by Spencer on November 16, 2008 at 10:09pm — No Comments

The 2008 GUI Championships Have Begun!

The GUI's is the ultimate Windows Graphical User Interface (GUI) competition. Graphics designers from around the world will be competing in three primary GUI categories; WindowBlinds, Icons and Animated Wallpapers. This year's competition has a prize pool of nearly $15,000 with prizes from AMD/ATI, Wacom, Corel, TechSmith, DeviantArt and WinCustomize! Starting today, October 14th, 2008, skinners will be able to submit their work to the competition website (http://www.guichamps.com/), with the f… Continue

Added by Spencer on October 14, 2008 at 1:49pm — No Comments

IGN Blog: Building a Demigod

The latest update in the Demigod blog at IGN comes from Dru Staltman and NateSimpson from Gas Powered Games. They talk about the process of creating the characters featured in Demigod. "Imagine Hercules and Achilles locked in combat. The two heroes trading blow for blow in an epic melee. The heroes tossing each other through buildings, chasing each other across the fields of antiquity, and eventually a crushing defeat and valiant victory. This epic combat is something that would be fantastic to… Continue

Added by Spencer on September 25, 2008 at 5:19pm — No Comments

GUI Champs '08 - It's Almost Time

The 2008 GUI Championships start in just a few weeks, and we have been working hard getting everything ready, and I think it’s safe to say, this will be the biggest one yet. The new website is just about done, and today we unveil the splash page for the GUI Champs website. You can now go to www.guichamps.com and see all the details about the contest, including sponsors and official rules for entry. Just… Continue

Added by Spencer on September 25, 2008 at 7:27am — No Comments

GUI Champs '08 - Pre-Kickoff! Over $10,000 in Prizes

Well folks, now is the time to start the real countdown to this years GUI Championships, the largest GUI customization competition around, and to give some more details about the competition. Let me first start off by thanking all our sponsors for this years event, I have no doubt this will be the best one yet! The GUI Champs ‘08 will officially start on Monday, October 13th. The judging and more detailed schedule will be posted soon, but this is when we will start accepting entries. Prizes (… Continue

Added by Spencer on September 15, 2008 at 1:42pm — No Comments

DeskScapes 2.5 to Bring Animated Wallpapers to XP

Shortly after the release of Windows Vista last year, Stardock introduced DeskScapes to users of Windows Vista Ultimate which added featured like dynamic .dreams, triggered .dreams, etc. We also launched Dream.WinCustomize.Com which is the official site to find more animated wallpapers (.dreams) for use with DeskScapes. Later, we launched DeskScapes 2.0 which brought the ability for nearly all Vista users to have animated wallpapers on their desktops.… Continue

Added by Spencer on September 12, 2008 at 7:18pm — No Comments

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