Your Desktop & Screenshots

[BladeRnR]

Given the nature of my recent present to you all I think it's a great idea for everyone to start posting their screesnhots. Hopefully you've availed yourselves and downloaded WindowBlinds 4.1 et all.

Probably my favourite Stardock product to date would have to be ObjectDock. If any of you have ever played with a MaC, G4, G5 or Notebook you'll have experienced Apple's fully accelerated OpenGL Desktop (In OS X 10). The Dock is one of the most brilliant and aesthetically pleasing things I've ever seen on a Desktop and some bright spark at Stardock has replicated it. It acts and performs just like an Apple Dock and whilst is still in Beta is extremely stable. It's also very smooth and fast. If you don't know what Apple's Dock is well (And for lack of pictures at the moment) I'll try and describe it for you. You know how you can have Icons in your QuickLaunch bar in WinXP? Apples is a floating bar with the Icons on it. When you Mouseover the Icons grow in size! The effect is just brilliant IMHO. Once I saw and started using ObjectDock I decided to jump onto a very popular bandwagon and that's turning your PC desktop into a MaC replica. It's not as cheesy as one would first think (I certainly thought it was odd at first). The dedication to these conversions is astonishing - there are even people writing fully-fledged application replicas of Finder & iTunes that really work! The other nice thing about ObjectDock is it's support for .PNG based Icons. For any of you non-graphic types PNG allows you to scale your images to huge sizes without any pixelization at all. Very nice.

I'll try and get some pictures up of my Desktop shortly. For those of you who want to pursue a MaC theme the following site will really get you started:

Aqua Soft (http://aqua-soft.org/)

For those who have changed their desktops with some of the new Stardock Tools you've now got how about you post some screenies for all to see? I remember we did it back in the heyday of TFC and it was really popular.

Cheers

Blade

[Viss]

Perhaps a linkypoo to the program you are refering to would be good had a bit of a browse but cant seem to find it

<-----------------Noob :)

[BladeRnR]

If you typed &#39;Objectdock&#39; in Google search the first hit is where you can download it - Stardock&#33;&#33;&#33;

Also if you logged into Stardock Central using the instructions, password and Username in my previous post you can download ALL of Stardocks programs - for nothing.

Now that wasn&#39;t hard was it? :-?

Cheers

Blade

[MadMax]

Hey Blade,

I had a quick look at some of the stuff, looks pretty spiffy.

Couple of quick questions, will it work on Win 98, and is it easy to remove all traces of the changes fairly simply if one tires of it? (I got the impression it was win2k winxp only??)

Is it likely to cause any problems to any MS related updates or patches?

P.S. very sporting, generous and trusting of you by the way.

Cheers,
Max
aka Mad :-? Max ex HrA

[BladeRnR]

Gidday Max,

Nice to hear from you. In answer to your questions:

1. ObjectDock is a standalone program and can be Started/Shutdown at will. This also goes for Windowblinds themes. All you say is &#39;Unload Windowblinds&#39; and it reverts to the standard desktop.

2. I can&#39;t really comment on Win98 Support as I run WinXP. WinXP has one huge advantage over Win9X and Win2K - it supports Alpha Transparency. This adds the ability of any Window, Icon or Application to be seen underneath another. My question to you is - why are you still running Win98 (If indeed you are)? Win98 Support will be dropped by Microsoft at the end of this year I believe. The transition to WinXP should be fairly painless and quite frankly it&#39;s the best Microsoft OS I&#39;ve ever used. Most new Apps are designed with WinXP Support in mind as is the case with Stardock&#39;s Apps.

If you need assistance with a transition to WinXP, a corporate &#39;backup&#39; for testing :D, Tweak software or any advice at all I&#39;ll gladly assist. Once you start using WinXP you&#39;ll wonder what you ever did without it. My current installation has been on for 10 months without a single BSOD. That&#39;s pretty amazing for a Microsoft product&#33; Hardware support is simply no longer an issue and Plug n Play Support for Firewire/USB is just superb. Service Pack 2 comes out shortly as well.

Happy to oblige fellow PC Users. My next present will come shortly as I believe everyone who runs WinXP should be using it.

Stay well

Blade

[onslaught]

Im just using the basic Xbox theme2, im inbetween wallpapers at the moment :D

http://wtf.lab.net.au/files/pics/desktop.JPG