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Reply to Is this a rip? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

True. Lots of things are technically illegal. But in practice, what are you going to do? If Joe schmoe tkaes one of your skins and starts parading the net calling it his own, what are you going to do? I always take the view that kindness and reason will win out 9 times out of 10 and threats and nastiness will fail 9 times out of 10. I try never to make threats or take a hard line unless I'm in a position and willing to back it up with action if necessary. It's much

Reply to Total Package? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Soon - Convergence will be put onto Object Desktop next week.

DesktopX user reviews...the...pain... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-1461990-100-6582676.html?tag=sptlt Those of you who have registered DesktopX or have Object Desktop have no need to go to download.com to get DesktopX. This creates a problem in that the only ones voting on a program over time become just those who don't register the sofware. This tends to make user reviews biased towards being lower user reviews. When reading through the reviews on download.com, it's very painful to see how many u

EXTREME Traffic! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hi gang, well, Stardock + WinCustomize had over 75,000 visitors in a single day yesterday. This kind of traffic would put us within the top 500 most popular websites worldwide if we maintained that level. Luckily for our bandwidth, it won't stay that high. But it does represent a sneak peak of what is likely to occur once Windows XP ships. But as a result, during these peek hours, we're going to start requiring those who wish to use the skin library to create an account (which is free

WinCustomize T-shirts in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Which 3 t-shirt ideas would you guys like to see made first? If you could go over to the T-shirt section and comment, rate, whatever the T0shirt ideas and comment in this post, we could get an idea of which ideas are liked the most and start making T-shirts.

Reply to Poor Connections On This Site! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Already does that now -- after 10 megs of downloading, users have to create an account.

Reply to That's a new one! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Yea, we're getting twice the traffic we usually get today. One possible solution is that when these times happen, to only allow people with accounts on the site (which is free).

Reply to Poor Connections On This Site! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Couple problems happening. 1) That worm virus -- targeted skinners. Guess which company is listed in a ton of those people's address books? The server has gotten bombarded by virus emails. 2) The release of DesktopX has caused traffic to skyrocket this week, it should go down in a few days.

Reply to DesktopX crashes in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Should only be on that default one. What kind of crash are you getting on others? Keep an eye on resources though.

Reply to Does Skin Studio support Taskbar Skinning? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

WindowBlinds does and SkinStudio makes WindowBlinds skins so yes.

Reply to DesktopX crashes in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Yea, the default one has a resource leak with that CPU object. Kill that CPU object at the top right of it and resave the theme. You should be fine from there on.

Reply to VIRUS CURE in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Thanks!

Reply to The article on content and backlash in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Good discussion guys. I was talking to Gorman on this very issue. The reason it's a problem now is that unlike 5 years ago, there are a TON more people on. And those people are using a lot more bandwidth than they used to. That's the variable no one brings up. The Internet has exploded in # of users and now it takes a ton of bandwidth. Let's use WinCustomize as an example. Compared to skinz.org, it has hardly any skins. Skinz.org had a ton more skins. But this month

Reply to Wincustomize suggestions in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Searchable MP3! (just kidding)

Reply to Immortality bad for the brain in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I just wonder how long we could live before going insane of boredom. Seriously. Give me 200 years of health and I could probably do pretty much everything I'd ever want to do.

Windows XP head to toe? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I was wondering if anyone would be interested in a lengthy article that *really* told what to expect with Windows XP? Something detailed that targets "Regular people" and not just techies or corporations. If there's enough interest, I'll try to take a few hours this week to write up smething that tours Windows XP and talks about how it compares with win2k and Winme and all that. Let me know if you're interested.

Immortality bad for the brain in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The more I read up on it the more I am convinced that within a few hundred years, humans will essentially be immortal. That we'll have figured out essentially what causes aging and have technology to stop it. But what would happen? All "world population explosion" theories aside, what do you think would change about society if we lived forever? I tend to think that humans would become increasingly obsessed with finding new ways to entertain themselves. Can you imagine living

Reply to Issue 5 of Teknidermy, Online Skinners Ezine, out now. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

That would be a good thing to put in your main about area as it's a really good description. I think we probably need a second skin magazine that focuses on people who make skins and use skins.

Reply to I'm getting bored to be censored !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The worst part is, he's wrong. I just looked in the DesktopX theme section, his theme is the first one. Uploaded on July 3. I do know that Aqua stuff is banned on Stardock skin library but they don't always get moderated here (but probably should).

Reply to OK... that's it. The Time has arrived. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Congrats!