Dangeruss

Dangeruss

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Reply to A Joke!!! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Yankee This self-referential American term is of uncertain origin. There are two leading hypotheses with several other less-likely contenders. The OED2's earliest usage cites are from the 1680s. They refer to a pirate (at least it is probably to one individual) named Yankee Duch (1683), Captain Yankey (1684), and Captain John Williams (Yankee) (1687). The next earliest reference is an estate inventory from 1725 listing a slave named Yankee. The earliest recorded usage of the t

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Reply to WindowBlinds 4 features in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The only problem I see is that changing your WB skin will change your toolbar icons. If I really like a particular set, I might want to use it with different skins. If it were part of a particular WB skin then I'd have to modify the skin to incorporate it into the altered skin - and then if my taste changes later on.... again with the mods. Now if it is a separate program, then the icons are persistant regardless of what skin or *cough* .msstyle I'm running. The other thing to consider

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Reply to How Do U Match The Task Bar Thing In Folders TO Match The Rest of the SKIN? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Shellstyle.dll is what controls the 'common tasks' panel in XP folder views. Right now Windowblinds doesn't touch this. So it loads the luna shellstyle located in C:\WINNT\Resources\Themes\Luna\Shell\NormalColor\. This can be replaced (but not easily) with a modified shellstyle.dll. .dll files can be modified using a utility such as Resource Hacker. Such edits are not to be taken lightly however. If you wish to undertake them be sure to back-up your original files should it not go as p

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Reply to Pricing question in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Do a bit of 'googling' for logo design and get a feel for pricing. When a client approaches you for a new logo, it's a good bet that they're also going to be in the market for: new business cards, stationary, adverts, signage, yellow pages ad, etc... Try to sell 'em a package deal that includes the whole mess. Once you do the logo and typo, the rest of the 'kit' is easy money. Good Luck!

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Reply to ~ How come......?? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

No real controversy - Hoverdesk (HVD) is a direct competitor of StarDock's Object Bar product. Business sense dictates that it is neither wise nor profitable to promote your competitor's products, expecially if it costs StarDock money to do so. SD and HVD are on quite friendly terms and there's no animosity between the two companies or their principal parties. The majority of Hoverdesk themes (over 220 of 'em) live hapily on Deviantart's servers. BTW - If you didn't know, I'm one of HVD

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Reply to My scroll bar wont change. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Most likley you're using a very old skin that was released prior to scrollbar skinning being available for Windowblinds. Since the author wasn't able to skin the scrollbars at the time, there wouldn't be any code or graphics to so so. What skin is giving you problems? - Check some of the dates in the skin's folder, are they pretty old?

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Reply to Re Iraq Poll in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

There is a bully (Saddam) across town (Iraq). He is brutal and I fear him. Does this give me the right to seek him out and dispose of him because he might have a weapon and seek to harm me or my friends? Am I wise to march into a neighborhood where I am already unliked and attempt to carry out this deed? Won't his friends an allies strive to vindicate his demise? What if I fail on my attempt to dispose of him? What if I only succeed in taking his weapons away? The US is hated in

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Reply to SysMetrix Themes in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Better yet, rather than expect skinners to second guess your desires, fire up a paint program and make your own skin. You won't find a simpler app to skin. You need to create one image and then use the built-in config tool to finish up the rest. No coding necessary, no multiple images, just super easy!

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Reply to "Race car" is a palindrome... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Back to palindromes: Some of my favorites: A man A Plan A canal Panama An odd permutation of the above" A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal--Panama Since "racecar" started all this: A Toyota Race fast, safe car. A Toyota. Another Good one: Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era? And finally, for the want of a "b"... Drat Saddam, a mad dastard

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Reply to Any of you peeps into NFL Football ?? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Bitchy old man rant on: NFL = No F*ckin Life I'd rather find a pick-up game in my neighborhood, make art, ride my mtn. bike, spend time with my wife, tinker in the garage, see a movie, listen to my son's band, take a nap, read a book... well just about anything other than watch those overpaid fools and commentators. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/notsure.gif" bor

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Reply to Curious minds ... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The small scroll bar is what Windows will display when the scroll bar reduces to a point where normal scaling (with margins) produces an undesirable result. This might occur when you have a lot of entries in a small window. Your nomal scrollbar graphic is say 16 pixels tall with a few non stretching / tiling pixels top and bottom. So when you have a really tiny scrollbar, rather than display an ugly compromize, you create and define the small scrollbar image and then WB displays that in

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