On Computers is an Internet radio show that reaches over a hundred thousand IT professionals. This past Wednesday Larry Kuperman answered questions from interviewer Deepak Midha about how DesktopX can benefit corporate clients. The interview focused on two areas of opportunity for corporate customers. DesktopX Professional can help small companies create Desktop objects and easily export them as executibles, when these same companies would not in the past be able to afford the developmen...

Stardock has released Icon Developer 1.0. IconDeveloper is an icon creation program designed with mainstream users in mind. It makes it incredibly easy to create icons. While other icon editing programs come with their own built in editors, IconDeveloper assumes that people making icons are going to either make their images in Photoshop or take an existing image (PNG, JPG, etc.) to turn into an icon. As a result it only takes a few steps to take a graphic file and turn it into an ico...

IconPackager is a program that allows you to change all your Windows icons in a single click by applying "packages" of icons. There are hundreds of icon packages available on the Internet including on WinCustomize.com. It is the world's leading program for changing your Windows icons. IconPackager 2.5 has a host of new, useful features including:A more thorough preview window for showing all the major icons in a selected icon package Full integration with IconDeveloper allowin...

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Gamespy has awarded Stardock's Galactic Civilizations as 2003 Game of the year in the category of turn based strategy. From the award page at Gamespy: "Galactic Civilizations was a labor of love for Brad Wardell of Stardock Systems (who continues to update the game with free expansions). Thank goodness for that, because GalCiv rescued turn-based strategy gamers from a pretty mediocre year with one of the best "4X" games on the market. In GalCiv, players start with one small planet an...

SkinStudio is the world's most powerful skin creation tool. It has hundreds of features that are unique to it that make it possible for non-techies to be able to create skins for various popular skinnable programs including WindowBlinds and Microsoft's Media Player. When SkinStudio 4 is loaded, a user is given the option to create a visual style (change the GUI of Windows itself), Convert .Msstyles into Stardock's new Universal Skin Format (USF) which can then be made into a Windows M...

WindowBlinds is a program that enables users to "skin" the Windows GUI (title bars, the Start bar, push buttons, radio buttons, sliders, scrollbars, etc.) by applying "visual styles". Version 4.2 runs on Windows XP, Windows 2000. The enhanced registered version also runs on Windows 98 and Windows ME. There are thousands of visual styles to choose from available for download on sites such as WinCustomize.com, deviantART, Skinbase, Customize.org, ArtUpRoar, and elsewhere. New in v...

Stardock has released a new enhanced version of WindowBlinds 4 that supports Windows 98 and ME (Windows XP and Windows 2000 were already supported). WindowBlinds is a program that allows users to totally skin Windows. Title bars, push buttons, radio buttons, scrollbars, the Start bar, and a whole host of other pieces are all skinned by WindowBlinds. The enhanced version of WindowBlinds is $19.95 or can be purchased as part of Stardock's Object Desktop suite of desktop enhancements ...

Stardock has released ObjectDock 1.0 today. ObjectDock is a freeware program that combines program launching and task management into a single "dock" that does it with style. ObjectDock allows for dock items to react in many different ways to mouse overs and supports "Docklets" which can add new functionality to the dock. New in ObjectDock 1.0 over the previous beta: 1) Mormegil's LaST images and default dock included 2) Added "Load ObjectDock on startup" option 3) Updated Dockl...

Stardock has re-designed the website for Drengin.net. Drengin.net is Stardock's gaming network in which people who purchase it get all of Stardock's games that already exist plus what is created for 18 months after purchase. Drengin.net includes such games as Galactic Civilizations, The Corporate Machine, LightWeight Ninja, Stellar Frontier and more. New games such as The Political Machine will be coming out for it next year and the upcoming expansion pack, Galactic Civilizations: Al...

For Immediate Release: DesktopX Pro allows developers to create and distribute desktop objects as stand alone programs Stardock releases DesktopX 2.0 Professional LIVONIA, MI (November 19, 2003) — Software developer Stardock Corp. released DesktopX Professional today. DesktopX is a program that allows users and developers to create powerful desktop objects that can perform a variety of tasks. These objects can be combined together to build entire desktops or be used on their own. ...

The full DesktopX User Manual is now available as a PDF manual (Adobe Acrobat). The manual is over 50 pages long and gives users a thorough explanation of how DesktopX works, how to create things with it, and how you can put it to use. DesktopX is part of Object Desktop. Stardock is in the process of creating PDF manuals of all the major components of Object Desktop in preparation for the Object Destop 2004 CD snapshot (which will be available to all Object Desktop users).

Every wanted to put cool objects and widgets on your desktop? How about make some yourself? You can do this and much more with DesktopX, a program that makes it easy for end users to completely redesign their desktops to look, feel, and function however they want. The Media Guide goes over what is possible to do with DesktopX. DesktopX 2 is a free download at http://www.desktopx.net. The Media guide is at http://www.desktopx.net/media

BootSkin is a new program that lets you safely change the boot screen of Windows 2000 and Windows XP. This freeware program allows you to download boot screens in .bootskin format from a variety of websites including WinCustomize.com. Beta 1 is now available of BootSkin. The new version supports changing the boot screen on Windows 2000 as well as brings up the boot screen faster on Windows XP.

IconDeveloper is a new program that is part of Object Desktop that makes it incredibly easy to create your own Windows icons. All those .PNG files (or JPG or BMP, etc.) can quickly be turned into standard Windows icons of various sizes. Visit the IconDeveloper home page to learn more about it. IconDeveloper is expected to go 1.0 before the end of the month.