Since I have moved to a multi-monitor setup, I have been using animated wallpapers more and more.  One reason is the really cool feature that DeskScapes now supports which is the ability to have different wallpapers, including .dreams, on each monitor.

I have downloading a bunch of .dreams today, and here are some of my favorites!

Today we are excited to announce the 7.01 update to WindowBlinds from Stardock.  WindowBlinds lets Windows users change the complete look and feel of Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7 by applying one of thousands of skins that are available.  There are all types of skins available to fit nearly every taste, whether it’s a minimal look or a wild and colorful personalization for your desktop.  WindowBlinds 7 also allows you to “skin” Aero so it is easy to make simple changes to the default look of Windows Vista/Windows 7 by applying colors or textures.

What’s new in WindowBlinds 7.01:

• Microsoft themepacks now appear as sub-styles of Aero, and can be applied
• New guided tour on first run
• More textures added
• Explorer backgrounds page now shows the textures from the textures page too
• Many other minor tweaks
• Modified Aero entry added to skin list. 

WindowBlinds 7 users can now update via Impulse.  WindowBlinds 7 is part of the Object Desktop suite of desktop enhancements, and can be purchased stand-alone for $19.95.  More information and a free trial can be downloaded from www.windowblinds.net.

Happy Monday to everyone!  Lets kick the week off by checking out some of the skin and theme submissions from the past couple of days.  Last week was definitely a good one, and this one is already starting off great.

Check out the weekend picks!

This was definitely a good week in the skinning world.  We had another community project done, a glimpse of ObjectDock 2, and more.  To end the week off right, we have our weekly skinning series, This Week in Skinning, and this week we once again highlight some of the featured skins on WinCustomize.com this week.

Check out This Week in Skinning for February 5th!

WindowBlinds has always been a popular download on CNET’s Download.com, and I see it is approaching nearly 16 million downloads!  That is an incredible number, and Download.com is actually how I first discovered WindowBlinds many years ago.

So when do you think we will hit that magic number?  How about putting out a guess as to which date we hit 16 million? 

Whoever guesses the right date will be put into a random prize pool!

http://download.cnet.com/WindowBlinds/3000-2072_4-10026826.html?tag=mncol

I just wanted to give a heads up that  Fences Pro is on sale in the Impulse Store for a limited time!  Fences is one of the most popular free downloads, and it has received tons of reviews showing how Fences is the ultimate way to keep your desktop organized.  Fences Pro builds on that with additional features such as default fences for new icons, organizing icons into fences by icon type, and more.

Grab it now for just $17.95!

http://impulsedriven.com/fencespro

These community projects from the WinCustomize community are really taking off.  The latest we have is for Valentine’s Day, with the appropriately named suite, My Dirty Valentine.  Thanks to Philly0381 for taking up this project and I see he’s already up to more! 

My Dirty Valentine (TM Suite)

The individual skins can be found on the suite theme above, or by searching here.

And a big thanks goes out to the skinners involved:

•WindowBlinds - k10w3
•DesktopX Theme - RedneckDude
•DesktopX Widgets - RedneckDude
•CursorFX Theme (not done yet) - Vampothika
•Dream - CarGuy1
•Rainlendar - RedneckDude
•RightClick - Nimbin
•ScreenSaver Skin - CarGuy1
•Icons (not done yet) - Vampothika
•Object Dock backgound - RedneckDude, DisturbedComputer
•Wallpapers - CarGuy1, RedneckDude, k10w3
•Logons - CarGuy1
•BootSkins - CarGuy1

Frogboy has posted a few images of the much anticipated ObjectDock 2.0, which is slated to go into beta very soon.

Check it out!

A new month means a new thread to show off your desktop screenshots.  With all the wallpapers, WindowBlinds skins, and various other skins and themes available on WinCustomize, I’m always amazed at some of the combinations that people come up.  Simply pure creativity!

Snap a screenshot of your desktop and post it to this thread here.

http://forums.wincustomize.com/374824

I hope this Monday is going well for everyone.  Lets take a few minutes to discover some of the weekend skins and themes that came in!