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The GUI Championships is an inter-website contest in which top graphic designers from around the world compete for cash and prizes.

This year's contest focuses on WindowBlinds, and static or animated wallpaper. Anyone can participate.

www.guichamps.com

www.wincustomize.com/article/4…


Stardock announced the fifth iteration of the ultra-popular WindowFX desktop enhancement program today.

WindowFX is a unique program that allows users to animate windows and start menus with slick animations and effects. No other program gives you so many polished and reliable window enhancement capabilities including; animations, window resizing options and movement customizations. WindowFX 5 not only makes the windows experience look cool but, it also helps you focus on what is important with options to control background windows and desktop icons.

WindowFX Feature List:

-NEW wobbly window animations.
-NEW animated effects for open, close, minimize and restore window actions.
-NEW Start menu animations.
-Desktop icon display controls.

WindowFX is free to use with the option to upgrade to an unlimited suite of window and start menu animations available for $9.95 at www.stardock.com/products/windowfx. The product is also available to users purchasing or renewing their Object Desktop Suite of customization and productivity software: www.objectdesktop.com

A new update for WindowBlinds 7 has been released today.  WindowBlinds lets you change the look and feel of the Windows user interface with thousands of skins that are available from sites like WinCustomize.com.

This is a maintenance update with various fixes included:

-Adds support for transparent scrollbars on Windows 7 Explorer windows
-Updates for start button and high dpi
-Fix for IE sizing issue
-Fix for Opera repaint issue on scrolling
-Fix for blurred borders on large bordered skins
-Fix for UltraMon secondary taskbar
-Directory Opus fixes -SyncBack / SyncBackSE / SyncBack Pro fixes. There are still some menu text colour issues with some skins, but thats skin-specific.
-KVIrc - Black scrollbar resolved along with some other issues linked to the QT framework. Unfortunately apps using this framework may end up with strange mouseover issues where the previous skin images are used on mouseovers for a while. This is not a WindowBlinds issue. It also has menu text colour issues. The QT changes should impact any other app that also uses this framework such as the TeamSpeak 3 client.
-Total Commander - The black menu bar items are now resolved
-Photoshop Elements - tweaks to sort out a cosmetic non maximized window issue and seperators in their menus painting light when the rest is dark.
-Yahoo Messenger - The correct theme is now used on the frames
-uTorrent- An issue with buttons not positioning correctly when the add link window is expanded / collapsed has been worked around
-Alcohol 120% - WB enforces strict Vista rules on the menus now
-Automatic detection of custom menus that use the new menu theme parts added and strict Vista menu rules are forced on the application when this is detected.
-The mouseover animated flash now applies to readonly combo boxes as well as buttons and toolbars.
-IE9 should now support the use of the Web scrollbar sections where defined
-IE9 groupboxes in webpages tweaked to match the style closer
-CCCleaner - Small tweak to alter margins on header bars to prevent text on headers ending ... when there was enough space.
-Thunderbird - Small tweak to add a line gap between the attached files list border and the selection box of any files attached.
-IE9 on Vista - The second apply of a UIS2/PerPixel theme will no longer cause the tabs to vanish if IE is closed and reopened.
-Keyboard selected items in explorer will now show with a selection image for all themes.
-Menu padding settings no longer impact the menu bar itself.
-Activation will request elevation (if required) -Some tweaks to the default themes included with WB

You can download WindowBlinds 7.4 from the Stardock download page (download.stardock.com) or via the beta of Stardock Central (www.stardock.com/products/star…).

www.windowblinds.net

Stardock has released the public beta for Tiles today.  Tiles is an application that lets users organize their desktop applications into pages of tiles.  You can quickly view and manage your running applications with Tiles as a customizable sidebar.  The look of Tiles can also be customized further with additional themes, background images, and more.

The beta version is fully functional with the company looking for feedback from users on additional features and usability they would like to see. Users can also optionally add features through the integrated in DLC interface.

You can download the free app here!

www.stardock.com/products/tile…

Video demo - www.youtube.com/watch?feature=…