The holidays are almost here. Putting together a New Years eve party and looking for more people to invite? WinCustomize has a Frappr community that gives the locations of many WinCustomize users. Find out what potential friends may be living right down the street! Add yourself!
Editorial: deviantART is possibly the most popular art community on the Internet. Its community has been friends with our community since the beginning of this site. Its adminstrators have hung out here and WC's admins have hung out there. With milliosn of visitors a month, dA seems on the precipe of huge success. But last week, the company that owns deviantART fired the popular community founder Scott Jarkoff (aka "Jark"). More troubling has been the seemingly rewriting of history. Mos...
Many WinCustomize.com users use Macs as well. MacOS X Tiger has a new widget enabler called Dashboard. But as Mormegil pointed out, Dashboard has some limitations with its widgets. Link . But thanks to a new program called Amnesty, Dashboard widgets can now run on the desktop much like Konfabulator or DesktopX letting Mac users decorate their desktops with Dashboard widgets. If you have a Mac, check it out.
Here's a site that has its own view on how computer UI might be done. Check it out.
Is realism something you really want in a space-based strategy game? Because here's the thng, space is big. Really big. GalCiv designer Brad Wardell talks about what realism would mean to a typical space strategy game.
SkinYourScreen.com has an indepth interview with Stardock's CEO, Brad Wardell.
When: Sunday, October 13th 3:00-5:00pm Where: Trippers 354 Frandor Ave Lansing, MI 48912 (517) 336-0717 Speaker: Stardock's Brad Wardell Stardock's Brad Wardell will discuss the ins and outs of being an independent game developer (in Michigan) from both a game design point of view and an economic point of view. How to make a living having fun. Bio: Brad Wardell founded Stardock in 1993 while in college. Stardock's first game was a turn based strategy game for OS/2. Stardock...
When Nintendo wanted to to encourage their customers to register with them, they came up with a novel idea: Let users create a Nintendo desktop. So Nintendo licensed Object Desktop Lite which includes WindowBlinds + IconPackager + WinStyles integrated together. And when they wanted to find the top suite designers out there, they picked Pixtudio to create a Gamecube desktop and a Super Mario Sunshine desktop. Screenshots: http://www.pixtudio.com/preview2.php3?id=52 http://www.p...
Websites everywhere are grappling for new ways to pay the bills in the post dot-com era. Stardock's Brad Wardell has begun a new series of articles to answer the question "Can websites make money on the Internet?" over at Avault.
Stardock's Brad Wardell's column at Avault this month focuses on how to generate revenue via the Internet.
Stardock's news server is so active and so popular that it's archived by Google Groups (formerly DejaNews). Whether it's politics or technical support you want to discuss, it's there. WindowBlinds Support news://news.stardock.com/stardock.windowblinds Object Desktop Support news://news.stardock.com/stardock.od.windows.general General Discussion news://news.stardock.com/stardock.discussion Politics news://news.stardock.com/stardock.discussion.politcs Technology news://...
Saudi intellectuals published a paper citing the US as the source of most of the world's evils. Clash of cultures? Saudi Arabia friend of US or just another nasty middle eastern despot?
Saudi intellectuals published a paper citing the US as the source of most of the world's evils. Clash of cultures? Saudi Arabia friend of US or just another nasty middle eastern despot?
OSNews has an interesting interview with Stardock's Brad Wardell.
Stardock's Brad Wardell writes a monthly column for the game website, Avault. This month he writes about how trademarks are being increasingly abused on the Internet.