With the WinCustomize CD nearly ready, WinCustomize has purchased (for a month) more bandwidth. Hopefully you can already tell the difference in speed.
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The main problem is just the overhead in people time. Ever seen that Seinfeld episode where Jerry's getting a bunch of checks that are less than $1? Putting in that kind of royalty system or something for skinners could get painful. I think it would make much more sense to have a Skinnerz CD which has suites that can be downloaded or sent as a CD for $19.95. So instead of having a bunch of $5 sales, you have a single $20 one.
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This is something we are very interested in doing. We were just talking about this. Just don't have any developer resources currently available to put onto such a project. If someone is interested in doing one -- a good one, we might be able to make some arrangements for them to do so. Email me if interested ([email protected]).
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Coffee cup, that's a pretty good idea. I think hats too. Lockergnome sells this kind of stuff, we can look over there and see what they do. I'd buy a hat.
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Personally speaking, I would not be in favor of WinCustomize having any sort of subscription at this point. As long as there are other skin sites available like DeviantArt, there just isn't enough pressure on WinCustomize to justify anything like that. The best route (I think) is to have T-shirts, CDs, and other optional goodies that users can purchase that help support the site and the user gets something useful. Heck, if we ever had a hard drive crash and didn't have backups, maybe
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Thanks for your kind words Hoverboy and all. You don't have to worry about the site going away, it's not. As long as there's a Stardock, there will be a WinCustomize.com and as others have pointed out, the skinning community is growing which means more users to buy software and such. The worst that would ever happen is if WinCustomize CDs, T-shirts and other things weren't able to pay for additional bandwidth we'd just begin removing non-Stardock sections which would be the worst case
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Some pretty good ideas here. Will have to give this some thought.
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Since Deskmod went down, traffic to WinCustomize has increased dramatically. We were already pumping out several megabits per second before then and the recent increase in traffic has simply increased it. The irony is, as Windows customization gets more popular, the harder it becomes to have websites to support it because of the bandwidth. Since banner ads and such no longer pay for these kinds of sites, other ways to fund the site have to be found. Stardock provides WinCustom
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DesktopX is nearing release after nearly a year of public testing and even longer of internal development. The new version fixes bugs and adds a host of new features not the least being having persistent objects (objects that you can choose to stay between themes). DesktopX is the ult
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The Adrenaline vault has an indepth feature on Stardock's upcoming Drengin.net game network. Drengin.net is the gaming equivalent of ObjectDesktop.net which is where WindowBlinds, DesktopX, IconPackager and the rest come from. Stardock also released Stellar Frontier today (www.stardock.com) w
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Stardock has released a new beta of PocketBlinds, the first and only complete skinning solution for the PocketPC. Version 0.90b now skins the title bar, push buttons, and the menubar along with fixing bugs reported in previous versions. It also comes with some new skins that take advantage of th
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Many people may not know this but there's a really good skin site that has tons of sections: http://pcdesktops.emuunlim.com/ Check it out, it's really well done. It's fast, reliable and has a great interface.
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That didn't make sense, let me say that again, we should have a contest for the design of what would be on a baseball cap.
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We should have a contest for a baseball cap. What do you guys think?
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So here we have this scenario: Between 1998 and 2001 a zillion really neat websites are created at great expense. They then run out of funding and the companies go out of business or are forced to sell. The sites have a ton of traffic but the sites have no way to make money off that traffic. Enter in a handful of corporations who are making good money who snap up all these sites at bargain basement prices...
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The proceeds go to the bandwidth funds for the site. You can imagine how much this site costs, especially now.
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Built in terminal services is nice too. I have a 1Ghz machine in the basement and a wireless setup here too. So in the kitchen I have the 100mhz laptop simply logged onto the 1ghz machine in a fullscreen terminal services sessions. Now my wife can surf the net, write letters, make cards, and all that good stuff with the latest software without having to be downstairs all on a laptop from 1995.
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Most people will. The question is purely what percentage of the 100,000+ unique users who visit each month will. Only 500 units per month need to be sold for the site to become self-sufficient. That would be 0.5% of the people who visit each month.
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More to the point, not everyone has a high speed connection. I was on here on a 28.8k modem yesterday and man, it's painful. There are over 2000 skins here, that's a lot to go through. It's not for everyone, you don't have to buy it.
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WinCustomize becomes the official home for Coolplayer skins!
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From the Coolplayer home page: "Hi all! After the downfall of skinz.org and deskmod.com there is a new leading player in the skins business. It's WinCustomize.com and they have added a CoolPlayer Skins section! I hope all skinners will upload their old and new skins to this site, so it will
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In the past few months, we've all seen a lot of great websites go away due to lack of income. The problem those sites have is that they were relying on banner ads. Even Yahoo is having problems. A skin site is very expensive to run. In fact, as skinning has become increasingly popular, it's beco
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Sounds cool. So what's your view on this versus other media players out there, l0c?
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Will have to check it out. Had never heard of it until now.
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WebBlinds turns Internet Explorer into a skinnable web browser. The new beta actually improves the performance of loading pages in IE as well as detects when pop-up banner ads are about to be launched and greatly reduces them. WebBlinds is currently free in beta and can be downloaded at Stardock's website.
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Rumor has it from f'd company that Shockwave.com. Yes, THE Shockwave is about to go out of business. Not enough revenue from banners anymore.
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