Implementing FireFox support in SkinStudio and having to calculateeveryting carefully in the process I got pretty tired of being unableto tell how wide something is or having to run a separate app for it.Is there one actually? I guess there is... perhaps even skinnable. Butbeing where I am - I wanted it integrated and easy to use for myselfand for every skiner. available instantaneously. Seamlessly integratedinto Skinstudio. (This will be available in the next SkinStudiorelease),

So here's...

WindowBlinds 4.5 introduced two new cool tricks for window frames -

IE/Explorer special shell frames, and random frames. The two features are mutually exclusive, meaning that if you use random frames you cannot specify the special frames for the shell windows.
First of all - both features are only available in the UIS2 skins (Advanced WindowBlinds skinning format).

Now let me explain how you can use/access the features in SkinStudio and what exactly do they do:

1) Shell windows Th...

Today is the 60th anniversary of liberation of the Auschwitz concentation camp. Probably the last round anniversary with so many witnesses still alive. Auschwitz was a German Nazzis' camp of mass murder which took the death toll of about 1.5 million people. Most of them were Jews from Poland and surrounding countries, Poles, Gypsies and homosexuals and Soviet POWs. The leaders of 30 countries gather in Krakow, POLAND (near Oswiecim - polish name for German Auschwitz) today to honor the death of ...

Very important: Recoloring/converting or altering icons or skins does not change the original author's copyright, nor does it make such skin yours! If you recolor/convert or alter a skin or icon that has not been made by yourself you may not upload or share the modified skin or icon without the original author's permission.

Working on enhancing the porting filter in the most recent months I've been working with various msstyles authors (and a lot of them either ported or allowed to port the...

I am aware that this article is partially redundant. I've written similar article in about a year ago but it was concerning icons. IconDeveloper is fairly similar in this term to SkinStudio since they share a great deal of their code base. However there I suppose there may be a significant number of people not realizing that - hence the article.

So we have christmas again. I tell you - I love Mormegil's great ChristmasTime skin pack. Though Christmas do not necessarily come in blues for ...

How exactly do you create those criters? At first it may seem a tedious job but once you have all the frames, you're pretty much set.

First thing I did in my research was asking the experts. I've asked some of the skin authors and most of them uses a kind of workaround to this. The most detailed explanation I've received from one of the greatest WindowBlinds skinners - Mike Bryant:

The first thing I do is make an animated GIF. The GIF needs to be 272x60 pixels. The most important...

There's a lot of noise in the news sites (Slashdot.org, News.com and Neowin.net) about the Monday release of Konfabulator for Windows. But to be honest they just make me think that journalists today no longer care to be through and accurate and will chew in everything  that a PR department will send them. I do not personally rant about those kind of things, but this one got me going. Especially one thing Mr Alro said which is cited in about all of the sources:

'When you have a great idea...

The fourth part of the article already available here...

If you have used any mail program supporting HTML there is really not all that much new I can show you here. Writing blogs with Blog Navigator is a breeze. Simply select New Blog Article from the File menu from the main menu or:

from the main toolbar and Blog Navigator will create a new editing windows for you where you can edit your article in a WYSIWYG manner. Let's take a screenshot of this article being written... Ok, the screens...

Stardock Blog Navigator Professional offers a host of keyboard accelerators while you edit your articles.
Here you have a short summary of the most important keystrokes used by the article editor.


FormattingDescription (Command)KeyToggle bold formatting CTRL+BToggle italic formatting CTRL+IToggle underlining CTRL+UIncrease paragraph indent CTRL+TDecrease paragraph indent CTRL+SHIFT+T

Posting and file operationsDescriptionKeySave the edited article into a locally stored fileCTRL+SPost t...

First of all let me express how excited I am about the release of Blog Navigator. I think we did a good job on it and I am trully amazed at our approach to its release. 

Let me explain why.  Mind that Stardock kept a guy (that would be me ) on a payroll for a better part of a year to do this.

We've been discussing the Blog Navigator release yesterday and Brad actually decided to remove ALL the RSS related limitations from the free edition of Blog Navigator! What does t...

The third part of the article already available here...

Reading blogs is one thing, and alot of programs allows you to do that with better or worse results. What makes Blog Navigator unique is among other features (like search article monitors, baskets and search blogs) its ability to both read and write blogs.

Let's setup Blog Navigator Professional to use an account on JoeUser.

There's not much to show really... I'm not sure it could actually be easier. Let me add my JoeUser accoun...

First of all - the regular version may be just enough for most of the users.

IT'S FREE (as in Free Beer)It will not expire on you, it will not nag you to buy the Proffessionl version,it is spyware free (no mallicious aps or dll's)it won't show any addsand again... IT'S REALLY FREE.So as you see, we do not force you to buy the enhanced version, but you may want to do it if you need any of the following features:

1) BloggingBlogging is thre most obvious difference - the Professional version ...

Preparing to brand Stardock Blog Navigator.Contact sales@stardock.com to obtain your redistributable kit that you will be able to brand. //ToCustomize//Get your affiliate ID which you will be able to put in the purchase link for BlogNavigator Pro and profit from the users buying the Pro version from your branded build //ToCustomize//. Unzip the kit to a folder of your choice.

Branding Blog Navigator splash image.Replace the "splash.bmp" image with the branded one. The image must a bitmap of t...

If this blog appears on the stardockblog, it means that the sub-categories work. Pat fixed the subtitle problem so I have my subtitle retrieved ok now. Not sure why I cannot EditPost if the post is in , the server returns error 500 - I may be giving pat something wrong about the categories - looking into that now. One thing we lack is the categories on GetPost. For the moment I can live with that since they appear in GetRecentPosts. Also if thy are subcategories I need a full...

The Stardock Blog Navigator is a new tool Stardock is about to release. It's already available as a beta download.

The WindowBlinds Visual Style used in the article is Opulence - b0se submitted to GuiOlympics 2004.

Despite multiple RSS readers being already available out there The Stardock Blog Navigator allows for a number of features that are unavailable in the readers I have seen so far or scattered around some of them.

Do not let the program's nomenclature fool you, The Stardock Bl...