Winstep Nexus dock, Nexus Ultimate and Winstep Xtreme v19.2 released!

And Winstep is celebrating its 20th anniversary, so check out the new prices!

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Windows 10 Ready The Winstep Nexus dock is a free dock for Windows. Nexus has everything you’d expect from a dock, including widgets, skins, drag-and-drop support, plus many others exclusive to it such as live icon reflections, over 30 different mouse-over effects, in-dock system tray, built-in support for animated icons, full Windows 10 UWP app support, multi-monitor and high DPI support and much more.

Completely customizable, with thousands of different backgrounds freely available online, Nexus is fully compatible with skins for all 3rd party docks.

Nexus Ultimate is the commercial version of the free Nexus dock, adding support for multiple docks, categorized sub-docks, multiple tabbed docks (Shelves), Grid Stacks, Drawers (dock + single tabbed Shelf hybrid) plus even more widgets and cool looking mouseover effects.

Supported Languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi (Persian), Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brasil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish.

Nexus, Nexus Ultimate and Winstep Xtreme run on the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8.x and Windows 10.

To celebrate our 20 years (still can't believe it's been that long!) for a limited period of time Nexus Ultimate will cost $17.95 and the full version of Winstep Xtreme only $29.95. The price reductions extend to upgrade renewals as well as new purchases, so enjoy it while it lasts! 

100% Windows 10 compatible with full UWP (Universal) app support.

Grid Stacks.

Unlimited number of Shelves (tabbed docks) and Drawers.

Over 30 amazing mouse over, attention, launch and delete effects!

Built-in battery, calendar, clock, cpu, email, moon, net, ram, recycler, wanda and weather modules/widgets.

Built in support for system tray icons plus running applications with live window preview thumbnails

80+ built-in docklets such as a compact media player, alarm manager, sleep timer, language bar, cd control, GeoIP location, screen capture....

...and much, much more!

More Information:

Winstep Web Site:
http://www.winstep.net

More information about Nexus/Nexus Ultimate:
https://www.winstep.net/nexus.asp

More information about Winstep Xtreme:
https://www.winstep.net/xtreme.asp

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It's about time, you slacker!  ;)  

Looks great, Jorge! :thumbsup:  

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ahah, thanks, Doc! :)

Multiplicity - Control multiple PCs using one keyboard and mouse
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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ha! Beat ya to it. I got the update a couple weeks ago. Did the update then a couple few days later the update dialogue came back with the same update. I told it to remind me in a month.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thanks, Webbie!

Quoting Uvah, reply 4
Ha! Beat ya to it. I got the update a couple weeks ago. Did the update then a couple few days later the update dialogue came back with the same update. I told it to remind me in a month.

LOL. You were getting the betas because you have 'Notify me of beta (test) versions' enabled in the Advanced tab of Preferences - and it NEVER is the exact same update: although the version number is the same, the build number is not.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Congrats Jorge! Great product! :thumbsup:  

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I love it! And I haven't forgotten to upload my themes at your new gallery, just been busy!

 

Happy Anniversary! I hope it's Xtremely good going forward!

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 5

Thanks, Webbie!


Quoting Uvah,
reply 4
Ha! Beat ya to it. I got the update a couple weeks ago. Did the update then a couple few days later the update dialogue came back with the same update. I told it to remind me in a month.



LOL. You were getting the betas because you have 'Notify me of beta (test) versions' enabled in the Advanced tab of Preferences - and it NEVER is the exact same update: although the version number is the same, the build number is not.

I knew that. :P  

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thanks, guys! :)

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just a small heads up: Yahoo also made changes to their weather feed at the end of January that broke existing applications/websites using it. Although very rarely used by the Winstep application - if ever - that is one less backup feed that can be relied on. :(

EDIT: they just white-listed Winstep applications to use the new feed. Of course, now I must change the code to use their OAuth1 authentication in order for it to work again. Sigh. Why can't they just leave it alone?! :)

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 10

Why can't they just leave it alone?!

Because that would make sense.

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just uploaded a public beta of Winstep Xtreme and Nexus Ultimate v19.4 (to get it you must enable 'Notify me of beta (test) versions' in the Advanced tab of Preferences).

Full list of changes and fixes can be seen by clicking the version number in the top right corner of the About tab in Preferences and then clicking the Change Log button.

This beta, among other things, fixes the temporary folder Grid Stacks opening as a 1x1 icon Grid Stack, and adds compatibility with ObjectDock tabbed dock skins. Would really appreciate feedback on the latter as I only tested this with a handful of ObjectDock themes.

Needless to say, the ObjectDock skin must first be imported into the application via the Import button in the Themes tab.

To apply ObjectDock tabbed dock skins from the Themes tab of Preferences to *all* Shelves, Grid Stacks and Drawers at once, you must change the top left combo box from 'Winstep Themes' to 'Shelf Themes' - only then will the 3rd party themes be shown (same thing already happens with docks, you must change the combo box from 'Winstep Themes' to 'Dock Themes' to see the non-Winstep dock themes). Notice that only OD themes that explicitly skin tabbed docks will be shown.

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ooookay. :thumbsup:  

So as I'm typing this reply it pops up on mine screen. Go figure. Lol

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

There are no coincidences lol

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You did that on purpose. I saw it.

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You are the man! I just imported some OD themes. It works perfect.:beer:  :pizza:

Umm...You are a man, right?

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting ALMonty, reply 16

Umm...You are a man, right?
:-"  :w00t:  

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I was on a car forum talking to someone named Jesse. After 6 months I found she was a girl. I called her "he" and she corrected me and told me she was a female. She knew a lot about cars. 

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

One thing I did find, when you import a theme you can't grab a side to make it longer. The problem is the fonts in the tabs don't adjust, so if it says Programs I get Pro.. Even setting the fonts to the smallest which is 8 I still get the same thing.

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting ALMonty, reply 16
Umm...You are a man, right?

LOL! Yeah, I'm a 6"2 guy. :)

Quoting ALMonty, reply 19
One thing I did find, when you import a theme you can't grab a side to make it longer. The problem is the fonts in the tabs don't adjust, so if it says Programs I get Pro.. Even setting the fonts to the smallest which is 8 I still get the same thing.

Screenshot and name of the theme, please?

Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'll have to wait until I renew. ran out yesterday....dang.

 

Quoting ALMonty, reply 16

Umm...You are a man, right?
LOL, that's funny right there!!!!   o_O  

Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I imported a couple more and they worked. It seems the OD backgrounds I made are the one's having the problems.

Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting ALMonty, reply 22
I imported a couple more and they worked. It seems the OD backgrounds I made are the one's having the problems.

I need to see a screenshot to be able to understand what might be happening - that or a download link so I can try the theme here myself, but both would be better - devil is normally in the details. :)

Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just a Heads up: the Weather.com feed has been down for the past few days. Luckily a few years ago I built some redundancy to the Winstep weather module in anticipation of stuff like this, so that it would automatically use other weather feed providers if the main feed (Weather.com) failed.

Here is the problem: initially this meant multiple active feeds like NOAA, Weather.com, Google, Yahoo and MSN. Google killed their weather API years ago, then Yahoo placed their feed behind AUTH authentication (which is not trivial to implement despite they sending me a new key).

With  the Wxdata.weather.com feed currently down (not sure if for good but I would not be surprised if so) the only working feeds left at this point are NOAA and MSN.

The NOAA feed uses METAR codes, is only valid for current weather conditions (i.e.; no forecast), and since the information is provided by airports around the world instead of weather stations it only serves about 30,000 (IIRC) different locations (i.e.; most  locations in the weather module locations database will NOT have a METAR code, only those cities close to an airport).

This means that currently only the backup MSN feed is working for current and forecast weather conditions. If that goes down as well, the weather module in Winstep applications will stop working.

As most of you here know, the reliability of the various weather feeds has always been a problem for all applications (and websites) that display weather information. I'm working to see what can be done about this, if anything.