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Reply to New Star Trek Theme............ in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="TYCUS" reply="18" id="2103047"] Designed for Microsoft for the launch of Windows Media Player 7 now that's old..., i at that moment i was like in a apocaliptic atitud....[/quote] More than you know. I laugh when someone points out a "older than you on WinCustomize!" forum post on IRC. I predate WinCustomize. Hell, I predate StarDock as a Windows ISV (at least publicly, I remember the talk of "that new company with the beta window

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Reply to New Star Trek Theme............ in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Heh well I was talking mainly on the forum side, the skinning side I remember quite a bit of those names. I did four skins for the initial WMP7 project (I was originally contracted for two, but had to pinch hit for two other slots due to two others unable to meet deadline). They were Main Street, Club America, Executive, and HardLine. IIRC I was also contracted to code a couple others since the format was a little obtuse for non-programmers. I also remember

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Reply to New Star Trek Theme............ in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Bob Green is likely fake, much the same way my "real name" was sometimes Estuego Videa, considering the era. I don't remember Miriku as a serious participant in any debates, he was mainly the comic relief with the whole parent thing and not backing anything up. The heavy hitters I remember were Shoggot, Brad, and myself (there were of course others, but memory gets fuzzy after well over a decade passes, and we three were by far the most prolific and verbose.

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Reply to New Star Trek Theme............ in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

By the way, Jeff, the name you were trying to recall earlier was Miriku, King of Custo (after it died and everyone left), famous for claiming everyone was wrong in any debate because his parents worked in that field (to the point where we all made jokes about his parents not being able to hold a job for more than a day).

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Reply to IP library questions/concerns in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I just want it on the record that unless I personally say otherwise (as in, I email or speak to Brad, Alexandrie, or JAFO myself), none of my work, in whole or part, is allowed on this or any of the other skin sites. Goes for everything: skins, icons, etc. So if someone swears up and down that they have my permission, trash their account :> Didn't skinz.org have a similar system near the end, where the author themselves had to email shoggot or something? Don't think I'll get to see what

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Reply to "Real" Windows XP Themes in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

It's shameless marketing because this thread is about Visual Styles, not WindowBlinds. Do you honestly expect me to believe that you couldn't have possibly discussed the problems in Visual Styles without flaunting your own product? Look long and hard at this thread, Brad. Look at your posts. You aren't discussing problems, you're saying "why not use my product?!" over and over again. We don't forget that you run Stardock, you know. When you act like this all you do is make yourself and

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Reply to "Real" Windows XP Themes in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

And for only one easy payment of $19.95, you too can use this amazing and fantastic invention! Tell your friends, they'll thank you for it! (Hurry, supplies are limited) Welcome to WinCustomercial. Prepare to be spammed.

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Reply to "Real" Windows XP Themes in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

"In short, why bother making a .msstyle formated skin even if you could? They're no more "native" than .UIS skins on Windows XP." So everyone with Windows XP gets a free copy of Windowblinds XP?

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Reply to Inspiration for art in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

crea has the proper viewpoint. There's not a "place for inspiration" aside from everywhere. For example, my "Clean Living" icon set is inspired by home appliances. Look at things around you from an artistic standpoint... look at EVERYTHING like this. Who knows, your next "great work" may be inspired from the pattern on the box of your TV dinner.

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Reply to The Macintosh skinning community in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

http://www.workthatmouse.com/ Arlo Rose is the other half the K dev team. Following is an email from the list, from Eric (the "Kaleidoscope Evangelist", who manages the KSA, and the K List): ---------- on 8/17/01 9:28 PM, brian pink at [email protected] wrote: > from workthatmouse.com: > > The last version of Kaleidoscope we released was 2.3.1. While we still > support it, and encourage people running pre-Mac OS X machines to download<b

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Reply to The Macintosh skinning community in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

www.resexcellence.com "No one mods on the mac! nopenopenope!" And Aqua was not designed by Kai Krause, adni. It's a joke (originated by me, no less), a crack about Aqua being designed by Kai Krause on (insert drug here) and locked in a room with nothing but a computer with PS and Eye Candy. Mainly made up cos it has all the properties of one of his interfaces (pretty, but godawful to interact with), only much, much worse. And why is this topic on a Windows customisation

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Reply to Web Hosting... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Reading documentation is your friend. "$9.95 a month" is if you buy in 2 year blocks ($238.80, in other words). Look for good server setups. I personally am hosted on Zeus 3 on a Sparc box, which is quite nice. Ask them how they handle upgrade requests, things like that. Don't look for a host based on how much they cost, do it based on the quality of their services.

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Reply to Photoshop tutorials links in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Mark is a twink. Be sure to stop by and tell him to shove his amazing CD up his rump (Yeah, I bought one. No, you shouldn't. Punching him in the mouth is a much more satisfying experience.). NAPP (yes, it's P, not U. Replace "Users" with "Professionals".) has tutorials. Lots of other great things too. But of course you have to pay the membership fee to get to it. Considering you get a print mag, access to special deals and discounts, a site with a lot of goodies, and are made a member o

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Reply to A Geek's Dream Come True in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

hmm... spend like ten grand on a desk and chair that looks like it was designed to milk dotcoms, or buy a nice comfy chair and a good desk for $1k, and pump the other 9 into a workstation... hmmm...

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Reply to EMAIL VIRUS alert in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Anyone checked for info on that major virus site whose name eludes me at the moment (they don't sell software, so I'm not talking about Norton and McAfee or the others)?

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