In the weekend of the 27th and 28th of october a meeting will be organized for the European skinning community in Brussels - Belgium. In the following link you will find price info of various hotels, youth hostels and bed & breakfasts in that city. For more iformation, email [email protected].

THE PLANNED $25 billion merger between Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer is unlikely to be completed, according to an assessment issued Wednesday by market analyst Gartner. Gartner believes that too many difficulties exist for the two companies to successfully bring off the merger. These include the following: Regulatory approval. End-user customers of the two companies will have to plan ahead on inadequate information, since neither company can finalize a merged product line until app...

ftp://ftp2.jasc.com/pub/docs/704readme.doc to get to the Docs about the update http://www.jasc.com/patches.asp to get to the update page. Just some patches to update your PSP...get 'em while they are hot...

ObjectBar has been designed with utility value as its highest concern. The fact that it can be made to look beautiful so easily is practically a miracle. Looking at the attached screenshot, one gets an idea of how far ObjectBar has come. Feature wise, it's got some great utilitarian features such as: 1) Bars can be hidden until you move your mouse to the edge of a screen at which point the bar can slide out. 2) Tear off menus 3) Complete and seamless system tray integratio...

First screenshots of WindowBlinds 3 released: https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/wb3/wb3-1.jpg https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/wb3/wb3-2.jpg https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/wb3/wb3-3.jpg After months of development, Stardock is preparing to announce WindowBlinds version 3. WindowBlinds is a program that turns Windows into having a skinnable user interface. Version 3 is going to be based off of the beta of WindowBlinds XP. The ne...

A new section has been added to the DesktopX tutorial. 'Building Blocks' is a guide to building a theme from the beginning. Several sections are already completed, and the rest are coming Visit it here: https://www.stardock.com/products/desktopx/tutorial/build/build.htm

Due to problems with old location, Stardock are now kindly hosting my DesktopX tutorial site. You can find it here https://www.stardock.com/products/desktopx/tutorial/ Thanks to Kris for sorting it out (several times) _Martin_

Multi-part downloads, integration with Go!Zilla Search, completely skinable interface, and more!

The Register has investigated on some suspicious things regarding the recently spread news of GeForce 3 Titanium and here's a snippet from their article: Superficially, the document appears genuine. The text contains all the appropriate trademark signs and appears to be in Nvidia house style. However, the company logo and the contact details at the bottom seem to be taken from crude screen grabs. Then we received an email suggesting that Microsoft's own Hardware Quality Labs had inadverten...

Microsoft has now confirmed it has a team of more than 10 engineers - part of a hardware group employing some 200 people - working on chipset design. The new range of MS mice incorporate a home-grown chipset built from the ground up at MS replacing the one bought in from Agilent for earlier rodents. Mr Softee`s engineers are based in Redmond and Fort Collins and designed the new IntelliEye technology used in the latest versions of IntelliMouse Optical, IntelliMouse Explorer and the new Wireles...

Thanks WinOSCentral The cost of coping with the Code Red computer worms that were unleashed on the Internet in July and August has reached about $2.6 billion, an independent research firm said on Friday. While hefty, that was just a part of the total cost of attacks on computer systems this year. The cost of virus attacks on information systems around the world reached an estimated $10.7 billion so far this year, according to Computer Economics of Carlsbad, California. That compares with...

Today was released updated version of SkinMem. What´s new in 0.40: Now can display statistic for Physical, Virtual and PageFile Memory Some bugs are fixed (Always on top...) Removed from taskbar

Toon Amp renders realtime 3D cartoon scenes that react to your beats. Choose from 8 different combinations of effects. Works best with Geforce3 cards or high end processors! Requires a 3D card capable of multitexturing (2 textures in a single pass)

Apologies all but there seem to be redirection problems. The tutorial site is therefore currently unavailable at the mis-online address but can temporarily be found here www.martinconroy.freeserve.co.uk

Who would of thought! PT is thumbs up with WPA after all! If you buy a new PC with Windows XP installed on it, you WON'T have to deal with Windows Product Activation (WPA)! That's because the version of XP that ships with new PCs will be tied only to that PC's BIOS, which means that you can swap out every hardware component on the system (including the motherboard, incidentally, as long as you use one the same PC maker supplies) as often as you want, and XP will never ask you to reactivate i...