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Skinning Tools

• Iconico.com’s Screen Tracing Paper and the Free License Program.
• FontEditor BitfontMaker
• Adobe steps into the color-coordination scene.
• Pixel, the Image Editor – Photoshop without the Photoshop.

Skins

• PixelGirl’s icons and walls for PC’s and Macs

Skinnables

• ObjectDock v1.5 from StarDock.
• WinStep xTreme
• Alwact Skinnable Clock for windows.
• 8Start – Another skinnable launcher for Windows.

Mac Beat

• ShapeShifter by Unsanity
• Menuet – Skin iTunes.
• GIMPShop dot net 2.2.11
• GUI Scaling in Mac OS X, NOW!! Vista, you wish!
• Make your OS X windows transparent easily
• Get OS X’s speach recognition to work for commands YOU specify.

PC Customization

• Launchy – It’s like QuickSilver for Windows.
• Total Commander
• QuickRunner PC optimizer by Iconico.com.
• Taskbar Mods
  • Taskbar Shuffle
  • Visual Task Tips
• Virtual Dimension – Free VWM for Windows

Linux Beat

• The Portland Group
• Krita 1.6

Fun

• Get your creativity back
• BumpTop concept desktop
• GUI Gaffs
• MS’s Vista Ribbon-bar derived from Adobe’s, only chunkier.-

Download MP3, 27:09min, 13 MB

Intro

• Trinoids2.0 and the Goat-Demon take the podcast into their own hands…
• Update on Skinyourscreen.com hacking.
• Update on Nerio:
  • Recovering from major accident.
  • House fire.
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Skinning News

• Mac OS X-like Expose features on WINDOWS:
  • TopDesk – $9.99
  • Entbloess2 – $7.99
  • WinPlosion – $9.99
• DockFun and StickyWindows
• Make your WinXP look and kind of work like Mac OS X
• Cool free textures for skins and web-design
• ThemePark – The StyleXP of Mac OS X
• Skin iTunes with iPodWizard
• Automatix: Make Ubuntu Linux more Windows-like
• FreshDiagnose – free system diagnosis tool for Windows
• Demo software SAFELY under a Windows virtual layer
• 3.2.1 Skinning Contest at DeviantArt
• Round-up of free mini-pixel icon sets
• Yahoo Widget Engine 3.1 the best freeware widget engine gets better
• Hack the Mac OS X login screen.

Download MP3, 32:47min, 15 MB

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Trinoids gets an upgrade.

Skinning News

• Blender 2.40 freeware 3D modeler.
• WinT's DIY Windows GUI mods.
• Cell-phone compatible web-pages.
• RocketDock 1.1.3 Beta 1 freeware Dock.
• FlyAKiteOSX v3.0 GUI pack - make your Windows system look and act like OSX. and more info here.

The Shell Beat

• NeX Shell updates.
• Go Shell.
• New LiteStep experimental build.
• XobLite BlackBox RC1.
• bbLeanSkinMod 1.16y plugin for BlackBox.
• xPopup 1.2 plugin for LiteStep.
• Wez's Evil Shell.
• LiteShell.
• SharpE CVS6

Other OSes

VWMs for Mac OS X.

• Desktop Manager.
• Virtue.
• Build the perfect desktop with KDE (Linux).

Download MP3, 25:42min, 11.8 MB

I’ve been sitting on this recording for over a week. Finally decided to release it.

Skinning News

• Algorithm to decipher Wardellian intentions.
• We like Rafael Rivera!
• Another Skinning Primer 2006 – www.uZable.com
• WB5 is released, what are people saying?
  • azdruid’s comments
  • Sacrat’s take on WB5
• Konfabulator is Yahoo Widget Engine.
• Iconico’s new releases.
• What the shell?
  • SharpE’s got an imminent new release.
  • NeX shell released.
• Paint.NET 1.0 (no more beta).
• Beautiful free icons.
• IconEditor2.
• TweakWindow 1.2.
• Speed up XP – it needs it.
• Operating Systems – a GUI history.
• SkyOS 9 Beta released.
• Skinning your cell-phone interface.
  • Skin your Motorola.
  • Skin your Sony/Ericsson.
• Skinning the Web with CSS.
• Get down to business in Linux.
• Skin your car.

Product review: DeskLoops by Xilokit

• Brand new beta VWM.
• Interesting concept.
• A bit buggy for my use, but REALLY COOL!

Download MP3, 35:42min, 23.3 MB

Skinning News

• Happy Thanksgiving!
• New Tutorials at Skinyourscreen.com by Nerio and KaRaZyJeW.
• A Windows Skinning Primer at Wincustomize.
• liqachu interview at Customize.org.
• 7zip new version.
• Nerd Proliferator.
• Good Color Harmony Generator.
• SNES powered tunes, baby!
• DotWidget RC.
• PodXP widget engine download available.
• Free goodies for Photoshop.
• Linux ain't just a terminal

User Feedback

Stardock CEO writes in some good, some lame points of comparison between WindowBlinds and StyleXP.

Download MP3, 32:24min, 25.8 MB

A Windows Skinning Primer

A Windows Skinning Primer

Problems with the Windows Skinning Primer

Problems with the Windows Skinning Primer.

Interview with liqachu

Interview with liqachu at customize.org

7zip

7zip new version.

Nerd Proliferator

Nerd Proliferator.

Color harmony generator

Nice color harmony generator

SNES music sux

SNES music sux.

DotWidget

DotWidget RC

Download PodXP

Download PodXP widget engine.

Free goodies for Photoshop

Free goodies for Photoshop.