News Article From eSource Mag: We talked to Jeff Schader, Founder and CEO of The Skins Factory just a few questions on how, what and why did they do what they did. Background on the company: The Skins Factory was founded in Dec. 2000 by rogue interface enthusiasts with a bold vision and a passion for all things GUI, The Skins Factory has quickly grown into the world’s premiere service provider for truly innovative graphical interface solutions. The Skins Factory services a cli...
Along with the monthly round up for net news on life and entertainment, eSOURCE blogs about some skinners in the community and there skins made for Windows media Player, WinAmp and Icon Packager. Some skins are old, others are new like Petrol Design's iRobot and the Skins Factory Cat Woman skin for WMP (Windows media Player). Give it a read.
Part of the knowledge-base network I am building for myself to be able to look up things in the future for research, projects and the ilk. I figured why not share it and hope to even get feedback on blog posts on the news links and add to the knowledge in the post. joeKnowledge (the replacement to joetheblow) and joetheblow blog sites on JoeUser and Modblog have many technology, science, Internet and business news and articles that you might want to look at or have looked at but need to find ...
The GUIO http://www.guiolympics.com/ LotsOfSkins http://www.lotsofskins.com/ DeskMod http://www.deskmod.com/ Longhorn Skinning https://www.wincustomize.com/newsboard.asp?id=2415 New WinCustomize Update https://www.wincustomize.com/newsboard.asp?id=2408 But that is not all! Along with the growing love skinning, an idea was born... mostly out of frustration, but none the less born. Here is a website that talks about entertainers and their lifestyles... It speaks to culture, ...
This program that I got with a book for Marketing Management is great! It helps you collect information on web pages by hilighting areas and dragging it into the eGem window or gem icon. It can be images or text or the whole web page. It also gives you creation date, url's and other information about the web page. Once you have this you can put it into a word document by dragging the info from eGems to the word document and it puts it into the format that is required for using sources. ...
I just learned of this and feel that I should share it so here it goes. Technically, at least in the USA, if you make an original item or object it is yours. So, for example, if I make a skin or a painting it is technically copyrighted under my name and I own it. But how do you prove it? That is when the US Post office comes in. If you want to save something for a possible court day with the offending party, all you have to do is put it in a self addressed stamped envelope. (make su...
Artist Of The Week Chad Ross aka Chadamus is on of the best artists for desktop customization (skinning) on the net. I have been following Mr. Ross for a number of skins. One that caught my eye was Blueprint. Maybe I liked it because it felt so much like Architecture or because it was just good... maybe it was because it was blue. I seem to like blue. (apparently so does the skin community... Mostly blue skins) I can tell you right now the one that pulled me in was Work While B...
Hello everyone! I am proud to announce that I will be opening my website on November 21, 2003. I will have many cool items on there and I hope that you will be educated as well as entertained by them. I am currently looking for artists, designers, skinners to be featured as the Featured Artist of the Week *FAOTW* or *FAW* and I need permission to post an image (mini-preview) of your work to show what you have done. (Links to your site/work on-line will be put up as well) Als...
Toon XP is orange, with reds and blues as highlights here and there... Its not mostly gray, or blue. It does not have a nice slim interface... Yet it is one of the best suites out there. Could it be the fact that we all love cartoons or have seen them? It could be the bright colors that are entrenched in most societies minds as funny, friendly and even bring back memories. It could be that its just fun to look at. What ever it is (Think over all GUI design it is a great piece of ...
There are so many out there. Reading an artical on what Microsoft plans on doing to its messenger service on Beta News I read about so many IM clients that I never heard of but seem to be popular (well some of them) Here is the story: http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=1061456252 This comment should actually be about how Microsoft went from, "Hey AOL has the total market share, they should open up so others can get in!" to , "Hey we want to close our servers because it is ...
A article posted by Frogboy caught my eye: https://www.wincustomize.com/newsBoard.asp?ID=1819 And I just has to go into it further. With customization being the thing we do for fun, what if 40 or 50 years (or sooner) it become part of our work life? What if we go to work and are to use our brains to come up with ways to work in a better enviorment? Knowledge workers is what most employees are now expecting. Soon they will expect you to learn the new short cuts on your PC/MAC/Lin...
As the world turns and people become aware that over design almost never works, the idea of customizing your own space or tool has become more common place. There were Architectural movments about being more 'humanistic', there was a period in time where paintings and art culture (in fact many periods) were about the human form and the surounding area relating to that form. Computers? Never! We need uniformity!! It would seem though that much like other movements in any piticular a...
I guess this would tie into my plan for a summit of web designers, advertisers, website administrators to make a unified effort to make the internet a better place to be, more thought out advertising, better designed WebPages, and more insightful information. I would guess the beginning of this would be online news. I always felt the New York Times and Google was a good model, apparently this article make light of what I saw as a better way to advertise, better web design, cross marketing, an...
I just read an articla on how businesses publish thier data. It would seem that pushing the style of accounting to the edge is what made companies like Enron, Tyco and WorldCom implode with fraud. This artical focuses on Tyco for an example of aggressive accounting and points out that there is only a yes or a no for there approval of thier numbers: "The explanation for this gulf is fairly simple. While the accounting rules allow for interpretations ranging from conservative to aggr...
I just read an articla on how businesses publish thier data. It would seem that pushing the style of accounting to the edge is what made companies like Enron, Tyco and WorldCom implode with fraud. This artical focuses on Tyco for an example of aggressive accounting and points out that there is only a yes or a no for there approval of thier numbers: "The explanation for this gulf is fairly simple. While the accounting rules allow for interpretations ranging from conservative to aggr...