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Log In Sign Up and Get Started Blogging! JoeUser is completely free to use! By Signing Up on JoeUser, you can create your own blog and participate on the blogs of others! Popular Channels This is why mass mail-in voting was a bad idea In Politics forum 'ban game' two In Everything Else Berlin startup company, Wonder, raises $11 million for new video conferencing program In Personal Computing Get Your Desktop Ready for Christmas! In WinCustomize News It's been a long time In Blogging PC Game Deals Thread In PC Gaming A day in the Life of Oddities... In Current Events Fallen Enchantress v2.51 In Elemental Dev Journals Featured Articles WC Community Question: What's Your Favorite Skin or Theme? December 11, 2020 by Island Dog on ID's place to speak Happy December! The holiday season is here, and we've been talking about holiday skins for the past couple of months. Now that many of us have our holiday desktops in order, let's find out what the favorite holiday skins of our community are! What's my favorite? There are many wonderful holiday WindowBlinds skin out there, but I always appreciate the design of Christmas Holidays by adni18. Post a link or image of your favorite holiday skin or theme in the comments below and lets ... In OS Customization 2 Comments Read More Remember IconX? Let's check it out! December 10, 2020 by Tatiora on tatiora Sometimes, my blog writing has me diving back through years of Stardock’s history from the development and evolution of WindowBlinds, to the evolution of the Drengin in Galactic Civilizations III, and even all the way to a history of desktop icons. This time, I’m taking a look at one of our old products, one that was here long before me: IconX. A screenshot of IconX on Windows XP, pulled from the program's original website.First, let’s talk a little bit about what IconX is... In Stardock Blog 1 Comment Read More Berlin startup company, Wonder, raises $11 million for new video conferencing program December 9, 2020 by Tatiora on tatiora An image taken from Wonder's website showing off their new appThere is no substitute for organic mingling and in-person interaction. Planned calls on Zoom or Teams isn't the same as mingling with your friends or coworkers at a social event, no matter which way you slice it, but Wonder, a Berlin startup, has built a platform for people to come together in video-based groups. How is this any different from Zoom, Teams, or the multitude of other video chat options there are out there now? This... In Personal Computing 1 Comment Read More Get Your Desktop Ready for Christmas! December 8, 2020 by Island Dog on ID's place to speak Just a few weeks left until Christmas and the holiday season, but still plenty of time to get your Windows desktop all decorated! Christmas is the top holiday for skinning, so we have quite a large variety of WindowBlinds skin, DeskScapes animated wallpaper, CursorFX cursor themes, wallpapers and much more available to change nearly every aspect of your PC desktop. Once you get your PC all ready, head over to our December screenshot thread and show us how you decorated your desktop! Here a... In WinCustomize News 1 Comment Read More Fun with Fences: Using Fences on Multiple Monitors December 3, 2020 by Tatiora on tatiora A recent surge in coronavirus cases here in Michigan sees me once again working from home. Fortunately, the work I do at Stardock is pretty easily taken remote, but that doesn’t mean that certain tools don’t make that transition easier. I am, of course, talking about Fences. In a previous blog, I gave a rundown of a bunch of the really cool customization options that Fences has to offer - but I couldn’t cover everything. I wanted to share a little bit about how I separate my... In Stardock Blog 1 Comment Read More Remember that Monolith in Utah? Yeah, it's gone now. December 2, 2020 by Tatiora on tatiora By the time I publish this, it'll probably be "old news" and, oh, I don't know, maybe the aliens will have landed by then, but seriously: what the heck, 2020!? The monolith discovered out in the middle of Utah's Red Rock Country about a week ago disappeared on Saturday. Heck, for all we know, it disappeared before then, but Saturday is when the federal Bureau of Land Management's Utah office announced that the monolith had been removed by an "unknown party." Unknown party, huh? I'm just go... In Life, the Universe and Everything 7 Comments Read More WinCustomize Monthly Wrap-up - November Edition December 1, 2020 by Island Dog on ID's place to speak Can you believe it's December already? I'm excited as the weather is getting cooler here and we're officially in Christmas season! But before we get ahead of ourselves, let's look back at the highlights of November. Here's a wrap-up of some new, articles, forum posts, and skins you might have missed! Community Posts You Might Have Missed: Getting an Early Start on a Christmas Themed Desktop! Inexplicable Monolith Discovered in Utah's Red Rock Country For Workflow Efficiency, Loo... In WinCustomize News 1 Comment Read More Revisiting a Christmas Skinning Classic....ChristmasTime November 27, 2020 by Island Dog on ID's place to speak I was searching through WinCustomize looking at some Christmas skins and I came across what I think is one of the most classic skins of Christmas. That of course would be ChristmasTime by mormegil! The WindowBlinds skin was first released way back in 2003 for the Stardock 2003 Christmas Suite. At that time, WindowBlinds 4 was the latest version and it was later updated to support WindowBlinds 5 which brought support for per-pixel alpha blending, toolbar button changing, progres... In OS Customization 8 Comments Read More Fences: Making Desktop Customization Work for YOU November 26, 2020 by Tatiora on tatiora We make a lot of software here at Stardock, and while all of it is wonderful and useful in their own ways, there are just a couple of programs that I consider my “ride or dies” for my PC experience. Fences is absolutely at the top of that list (followed very closely by Groupy). The basic functionality of organizing my icons, folders, and programs into fenced in areas on my PC desktop is great enough on its own, but the more I explored Fences I began to realize that there was quite... In Stardock Blog 12 Comments Read More WC Community Question: Roasted, Fried, or Smoked Turkey? November 26, 2020 by Island Dog on ID's place to speak Happy Thanksgiving! If you partake in Thanksgiving what's your favorite way to cook the turkey? Roasted, fried, smoked? Let us know your cooking plans and have a safe and wonderful day! In Life, the Universe and Everything 0 Comments Read More Inexplicable Monolith Discovered in Utah's Red Rock Country November 25, 2020 by Tatiora on tatiora Everyone loves a good mystery, and officials in Utah recently stumbled upon a doozy. On November 18, the Utah Department of Public Safety discovered a shiny metallic monolith in a remote rural area of the Red Rock Country while surveying herds of big horn sheep by helicopter. The monolith is eerily similar to the one found in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, though it doesn't come with its own iconic background music track. Officials have no idea who may have placed ... In Life, the Universe and Everything 11 Comments Read More A Timeline of the Evolution of Content in Galactic Civilizations III November 24, 2020 by Tatiora on tatiora Galactic Civilizations III launched in 2015 just a month or two before I joined the team at Stardock. From my first day here, this particular title was my training ground as I navigated my new job and learned all of the products the marketing team is responsible for. It feels appropriate, then, as I pass my 5 year Stardock anniversary, that I take a look at GalCiv III and all of the expansions and DLC we’ve released over the years to continue making it a vast, enjoyable, exciting ... In GalCiv III Dev Journals 2 Comments Read More Happy Thanksgiving Week, ...