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February 28, 2005 by Stardock Central
PC Magazine has reviewed Multiplicity 1.0. Their Conclusion: "If your desk is holding up more than one PC, you need this product." Multiplicity lets users take multiple computers in their office and control them all from a single keyboard and mouse. It then provides a universal clipboard between the machines so that users can treat them all as a single unit. Stardock also makes Multiplicity Pro which adds the ability to copy files and folders back and forth between machines sea...
February 28, 2005 by Stardock Central
LIVONIA, MI (February 28, 2005) - Software developer Stardock Corporation released Multiplicity today. Multiplicity is a program that enables users to control multiple local computers with a single keyboard and mouse. Multiplicity works by having a primary computer with a keyboard, mouse and monitor connected to it and multiple local secondary computers that still have a monitor connected to them but no keyboard or mouse. When the user moves their mouse cursor from the primary computer ...
February 25, 2005 by Stardock Central
Stardock has set the official release date for DesktopX 3 as Tuesday, March 15th.  DesktopX 3 is a major update of DesktopX over past versions. In addition, we've put together a quick tour of the major changes in DesktopX 3 over previous versions. DesktopX 3 has been in development for many months, we hope you like what you see.
February 18, 2005 by Stardock Central
The Pro-Regi Award is a prestigous honor awarded to outstanding software programs. This is the second time that WindowBlinds has been honored by Vector in Japan. Previously, WindowBlinds was chosen for the 2004 Winter Pro-Regi Award in the Amusement segment, but this time it was honored as Number One software of 2004 across all segments. The competition included well-known software programs such as Acronis True-Image and Norton Internet Security. The editors selected WindowBlinds. An Editor's co...
February 17, 2005 by Stardock Central
Stardock has released a trial version of RightClick.  RightClck is a program that lets users extend or even completely redesign the Windows desktop right-click mouse menu.  When a user right-clicks on their Windows desktop, RightClick's custom made menus comes up.  Users can add short-cuts, tasks, system commands, and much more to the menu. It's also fully skinnable and can be set to automatically inherit the user's current WindowBlinds visual style.  For users who normal...
February 15, 2005 by Stardock Central
WindowBlinds lets you do some great stuff to jazz up your Windows desktop. Traditionally, you downloaded special themes called "skins" (also called "visual styles") that change the look and feel of the Windows GUI. But where before you were, as a practical matter, limited to the color choices that the artist made, now you can use the hue/saturation featurs of WindowBlinds 4.5 to give your themes a whole new lease on life! Check out this article to learn more!
February 10, 2005 by Stardock Central
At long last the "BandVWM" has gotten its much needed, long overdue overhaul.  For something like 50 years (something like that) we've been telling people that a version 2 is "in the works".  Well, now you will be able to see what we've been working on. This is a complete, 100% rewrite. Stardock Virtual Desktops enable people to split their single monitor into having  multiple "virtual" desktops.  What's new in version 2 over previous incarnat...
February 9, 2005 by Stardock Central
ExtremeTech has taken an in-depth look at the newly released WindowBlinds 4.5. WindowBlinds is a program that lets you completely customize the look & feel of the Windows graphical user interface.
February 9, 2005 by Stardock Central
LIVONIA, Mich.----Feb. 9, 2005--Software developer Stardock Corporation announced a brand new product today, Multiplicity, a program that allows users to control multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse. For users, it's much like using a multiple-monitor setup - when the user moves their mouse to a monitor connected to a different PC the user is then controlling that computer. It is not a remote control solution. A typical configuration would be 2 or 3 computers, each with its own...
February 3, 2005 by Stardock Central
Samurai Works Seeks Object Dock Authors   A Chance to Gain Far East Exposure   Samurai Works is Stardock's business partner in Japan and the Far East . Last year, they licensed WindowBlinds for localization for the Japanese market and created the Japanese site https://www.wincustomize.jp   They have now licensed Object Dock and are seeking the permission of skin authors to post your dock icons, docklets and backgrounds on their Japanese langua...
November 10, 2004 by Stardock Central
ObjectDock is a freeware program that does both program launching and task management with style. When the user s mouse is over a dock item, it can zoom up in size. Stardock also provides ObjectDock Plus which adds support for tabbed docks, system tray displays, multiple docks, multiple monitor support, fly-out menus, and much more. ObjectDock 1.05 addresses a host of issues reported by users from previous versions and tweaks performance and memory usage further. Download at ...
November 5, 2004 by Stardock Central
ATI™ has always provided outstanding support for the PC customization community by participating in activities such as the GUI Olympics. Now ATI is offering skinners the opportunity to design the user interface for the Catalyst™ Control Center” The Catalyst Control Center was made skinnable through the integration of DirectSkin from Stardock. DirectSkin integrates easily into programs and allows software developers to use WindowBlinds technology to create new user interfaces for thei...
November 3, 2004 by Stardock Central
Famed icon designer, Paul Boyer, who created the Orion icons suite 2 years ago has been hard at work at creating follow-up to it that would live up the to high expectations his work always generates. We think he's succeeded with the Utopia icons suite. When applied, it changes over ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY of your Windows icons. And it comes in 4 different colors as well. It's only $9.95 (just a bit over a penny per icon). It's well worth it and looks fantastic on your desktop. We'll...
November 2, 2004 by Stardock Central
This year we had the GUI Olympics, a contest in which many of the top skinners, icon authors, and Winamp skin creators put together some of the best skins ever. We've taken all those skins and put them together onto a single CD with a slick user interface. If you're into skins or icons and such, you'll definitely want this CD.
October 28, 2004 by Stardock Central
LIVONIA, MI (October 29, 2004) — Software developer Stardock Corp. released Blog Navigator 1.0 today. Blog Navigator is a program designed to make it easy for users who enjoy reading blogs (short for “web logs”) to read and organize them. Blog Navigator works by reading RSS feeds and displaying them in a clean, easy to understand way. It includes a host of different news and blog sites for users to read through. Blog Navigator is arguably the most advanced program of its kind and i...