Stardock has released ObjectBar beta 0.50 onto its Object Desktop Network (ODNT). ObjectBar is a powerful yet easy to use Start bar replacement. Nearly every OS has some sort of dock, wharf, bar, finder, center, what have you either docked onto the edge of the screen or free floating. Each OS's equivalent has its own strenghts. ObjectBar takes all the strengths of those various bars and combines them into a single program. With it, users can easily create their own bars that can ha...

The Administrators of Deskmod, one of the best skin sites on the net have hung it up. After the recent hard drive crash at Deskmod, the team at Deskmod faced starting over largely from scratch or going on to new things. According to their website and IRC session, they've decided to go on to new things. A few moments of silence for the passing of a truly great site. Visit their website to keep updated on the latest happenings.

Deskmod is temporarily down due to a hard drive crash. They expect to have it up in a couple of days! Stay tuned!

Brian Clair, publisher of one of the premiere game websites, Avault, has written an article outlining the collapse of advertising revenue and what it means to net users everywhere.

Brad’s E3 2001 Report © 2001 Brad Wardell ([email protected]) Introduction and Plugging This is the 4th E3 report I’ve done. At the end of this report are links to the past 3 E3 reports. I work for a company that makes games – Stardock (Stardock Entertainment being the part that makes games). I was there to meet with people from the press to talk about our three upcoming games: LightWeight Ninja – a really cool new side-scroller with per-sprite alpha blending and Interne...

Green Reaper, author of skin bench, has put together a guide on how to make better WindowBlinds skins.

I received an e-mail to give permission to use my skins on this site. http://www.musicex.com/mediajukebox/mini_skins.html I have no skins posted anywhere that I know of and became weary about the site. When I checked it out, Dangeruss and Treetog's Winamp Skins are being featured. I'm not sure if they gave permission, or if the site is just posting their work.