Catch all the links to the software (and more) on our del.icio.us account! 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.- File Download (27:09 min / 13 MB)

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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. Catch all these links via del.icio.us 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. File Download (32:47 min / 15 MB)

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Catch all these links at del.icio.us. 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). File Download (25:42 min / 11.8 MB)

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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! File Download (35:42 min / 23.3 MB)

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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. 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. File Download (32:24 min / 25.8 MB)

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Skinning News Cool Vector Wallpapers. Media Player Comparisons. AltDesk 1.6 Copying Aston settings between computers. DIY: XP Login Screens Fontcard 1.3.2 Microsoft's XPS vs. Adobe PDF. and here. MS Singularity OS. Remove Root-kit viruses (like Sony's). Make XP shutdown faster. Widgetarium. CSS & Dreamweaver templates and tutorials. WinCustomize going through the changes. Run Apple's Front-Row software on any Tiger Mac. Features Try Linux, then skin it. StyleXP Review and comparisons to Stardock's WindowBlinds. Hack VMware Player :: Install any OS under the free VMware Player. VMware Player :: Free VMWare Player. Skin Linux :: How to create and use Linux skins and themes. StyleXP :: TGTSofts StyleXP. WindowBlinds :: Stardocks WindowBlinds. File Download (55:30 min / 43.2 MB)

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This podcast is in bookmarked AAC format (M4A. You’ll need something that can read Apple iTunes format files to listen and use the bookmarks. Skinning News The original, skinnable Quicknotes. Sacrat’s GUI and skinning blog. AveDesk 1.3. Rainlendar 0.22 beta. Stick. dotWidget 0.8.1. RKLauncher. Unsanity Haxie updates. New version of RabidVWM for LiteStep. LOSI. KDE on Nokia phones. Skinning a Sony Network Walkman. Rokey.net. Wierd marketing movie. YellowTab.com. VMware Player. allSnap. iPodder made a special category for us! 21 Questions at Skinning.net. kde-look.org. Candy skin by Hippy. Review: Flock Browser New brogging/RSS/Flickr enriched browser based on Mozilla Firefox code. Keep all your bookmarks online! Feature: So you wanna start skinning Would you sell your soul to be a better skinner? Trinoids and mrbiotech confront the Goat-Demon, who tries to sell ‘em on the idea.File Download (35:27 min / 33 MB)

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Skinning news: Despite the slow week in skinning, here’s a few tidbits: New Media-Center-like iMacs from Apple have a built in camera, remote, but still the same price. Color iPods do video now, still called “iPod.” Video out port, larger screen, download TV shows and music videos for $2 apiece. Still same price. PunkSoftware’s UberIcon 1.0 – Add effects to your desktop icons for free. WinCustomize.com skinning contest extended to October 21st. QuickNotes 1.0.0 – a freeware personal Wiki. Ghostmenu by same developer of QuickNotes – An ALT-TAB-like menu. Journal 1.0.0 – client-side blogging composer. Tiddlywiki.com – A freeware microContent, Wiki-like HTML file (that’s right, a whole wiki in ONE FILE. GameBoy Micro – IT ROCKS!!! MobiBlu 1gig MP3-player – World’s smallest MP3 player… it’s tiny, and a LOT of fun. Palm release new Z22 and TX planners – good price point. Esthetika.com reviews the SkinYourScreen.com Podcast… I done got interviewed by Paul Boyer (mormegil) of Stardock – good times, good times… Review: jEdit Java-based text-editor/programmers assistant. It’s Java-based, so it’ll run under Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, etc… Context-sensitive highlighting really works well. Start-up load ain’t quick. FANTASTICALLY expandable… great amount of well-developed plugins for coders, developers, and piddlers. Bean-shell to evaluate expressions in the text. Sure beats Emacs and Vim for useability and learning curve. Yup, it’s totally free! Apple :: Check out the new iMacs and video-enabled iPods. PunkSoftware :: UberIcon freeware icon-enhancer. QuickNotes :: Interesting freeware personal Wiki. TiddlyWiki :: Very cool AJAX-based, single-file, HTML Wiki thingy. GameBoy Micro :: I'm loving my new GameBoy Micro. You should too. World's smallest MP3 player :: The MobiBlu is incredibly tiny, but feature-loaded (and the wife is loving it). Palm Z22 and TX :: Palm has some new PDA's, and they FINALLY added WiFi. Esthetika.com :: Review of the Skinyourscreen.com podcast on a french customization site. Under-The-Skin :: Paul Boyer (mormegil) interviews mrbiotech 'bout this podcast. File Download (33:39 min / 30.8 MB)

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Wow! What a week for Skinning news! Many new version releases, lots to cover… Check out the links for specifics. This week’s featured content: VWMs, What’s on your desktop? What are VWMs, how do you use them, and what are some fun skinnable VWMs available for your use? AltDesk BandVWM Virtual Desktop VirtuaWin A Themer's Blog :: See several old OTS1 LiteStep themes completely rebuilt. Snarl Notification Manager :: Add skinned popups to your messenging programs under Windows. dotWidget 0.8 :: Quick, light freeware widget engine. Samurize 1.63 :: Freeware system metering/widget engine. Rainlendar 0.22 RC1 :: New version of the freeware calendaring widget, Rainlendar. WindowShadeX 4.0.2, LabelsX 1.7.1,and Silk 2.1.1 :: Haxies for to enhance your Macintosh. Corel PaintShopProX :: Download the latest version of PaintShopPro(X) for $89. Pimp Windows with freeware. :: Pimp out your Windows system with some freeware goodies that go a long way. File Download (41:41 min / 38.2 MB)

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User Feedback Skinning News: Kapsules 0.9.9 U3 Consortium ProjectBlackDog WindowBlinds 5 Preview FruitMenu Little Skinnables You’re Gonna Love: AltDesk RightClick ScreenCalipers, ScreenCompass, and ScreenProtractor RainLendar, RainMeter Sysmetrix Kapsules :: Kapsules, a free widget engine for Windows. U3 :: Carry your preferences AND software on a USB thumb-drive. ProjectBlackDog :: A USB thumbdrive/server/biometric scanner/independent processor ultimate gadget... WindowBlinds5 :: WindowBlinds 5 preview image. Fruitmenu :: Fruitmenu for Mac OS X. AltDesk :: AltDesk, a VWM for Windows. RightClick :: Get that alternate-shell feel without the alternate shell. Iconico.com :: ScreenCalipers, ScreenProtractor, and ScreenCompass. Rainy's :: Rainlendar skinnable calendar and Rainmeter, the skinnable system meter. Sysmetrix :: Sysmetrix: the system-meter gone ultimate data-aggregator. File Download (23:14 min / 21.3 MB)

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