Well my monthy edition of Windows XP: The Official Magazine published by Future Publishing Limited arrived today. Interesting that a British Company is the sole authorized publisher of a Microsoft magazine, they also publish one for Vista by the way. Wonder why MS couldn't find a US publisher? Hmmm.  

What's interesting is that it's included disk this month has a section for Customization which includes, get this, ObjectDock and WindowBlinds.    How about that sports fans! (I just loved Mel...

Okay, so I'm sure those of us that customize their desktop have come up against this question once or twice. Before we get going, yes, I'm talking just about Stardock program.  

So my question centers around ObjectDock (Free or Plus), Right Click and ObjectBar. If you look at them you can say that they do the sames things in different ways, they give you an alternative to the Taskbar, Start Menue and more.

Do you use just one, two of them, or all of them?   

I was going through the libraries this morning seeing what new and fantastic things had been downloaded and I stopped in and looked at Screen Savers. If you haven't noticed there are alot of nice new very animated additions.

This got me to thinking about how the Vista folks have dreams to enjoy and I started to think how us XP people, and for that fact everyone, might enjoy Screen Savers a little more and use them in a different way.

I kept thinking about the picture frame widgets/object...

Ever since the first WB6 Beta came out I've been toying with the thought of looking for a different sidebar program. I'm currently using Desktop Sidebar and it is a nice program, lots of skins to choose from (many go with the WB's in the WC library) and enough addins to make anyone happy.

With the transparency and blurring capability now in WB6 and seeing how good the Magic Suite looks especially with that Vista Sidebar I'm considering downloading Thoosje Vista Sidebar 2.3. From what I can ...

Just started to use this program, I have downloaded what's in the library. Yesterdays update seems to have deleted Basketball and Football, is that correct?

Can the sounds under Sound Schemes be used or do they need to be converted or changed to work?  

Well hopefully that pulled a few people in.   

It's not ofton there is money left at the end of the month so instead of saving it why not spend it!   Where else but at Stardock, right.

I currently have a subscription to Object Desktop (expires Dec '09) and WinCustomize (expires Oct '08). Not a games person. Computer has XP Home and not looking to upgrade. I customize my desktop, I leave the skinning to those of you that have all the talent.

In checking out the prgrams it looks like O...

Okay, here's another one of my general questions.

We have been provided many tools to change our desktops from Stardock such as WindowBlinds, Wallpapers, IconsPackager, DesktopX Objects, Widgets and Themes to name a few.

So for the nonskinners out there, how many of the programs or in what combinations of them are you using to customize your desktop? Why really isn't important unless you want to pass on some knowledge to rest of us.

For the skinners out there, when you are putting toge...

It doesn't seem to difficult but I do have a couple of questions.   

1. Do you need any special software to create the Preview Image or can I just use Print Screen, open Paint, bring in the image and save as a .jpg?

2. Does the image need to be a certain size?

3. How do I do a Screen Shot File, is it the same as Preview Image?

4. How do Tags work?

I'm only looking to put screenshots on my personal gallery because you folks are way to good for me to try and compete with.    It...