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3D TOP..........3DTop is a study into the usefulness
of a three dimensional GUI (Graphics User Interface). For too
long have we denied ourselves the freedom that is only offered
by 3D games. A 2D Desktop is all well and good for simple procedures,
but after a while it can make you feel cramped and limited by
what you can do. As technology advances, so too should the basics
of our software, after all, everyone who uses a Windows OS,
or even a GUI within Unix, depends on their desktop for the
vast majority of functions they will ever use. In short, 3DTop
uses the icons that are present on your normal desktop and represents
them in 3 dimensions instead. This approach enables you to fly
around your desktop, change the shape of the icons and arrange
or drag them in 3D also. In addition you can create coloured
spotlights, paintings (bitmaps), background and floor textures,
clocks, flags (shortcuts) and whatsoever the future may bring.
ActivIcons makes it simple to change properties for various
icons on your Windows Explorer desktop......(free).....GO
THERE!
 
3DCC..........3D Color Changer gives you much more control
over your Windows' look. 3DCC gives you access to User Interface
aspects that Microsoft restricted: 3D Frames' colors, Mouse
Hot Tracking Color and more. Windows98/2000 specific colors
are fully supported (when run under Windows98/2000). There is
also a scheme support with load/save features, designed especially
for Windows UI maniacs - you can transfer the schemes between
computer via the Internet or just on a floppy disk.....(freeware).....
GO THERE!
ACTIVE SOUND.......... ActiveSound in an easy to use
tool which allows you to install up to twelve sound events for
any Windows application or screen saver. ActiveSound allows
you to assign different sounds to each of your programs, instead
of the same sounds for all applications.....(shareware, $15
after trial).....GO THERE!
ACTIVEICONS..........ActivIcons makes it simple to change
properties for various icons on your Windows Explorer desktop......(free).....GO
THERE!
ACTIVE SKIN.......... ActiveSkin is an ActiveX control
that changes the visual appearance of forms or dialogs, providing
developers with full-featured support for 'application skins',
or 'application look and feel'. ActiveSkin makes it easy to
create programs with visually stunning, fully interactive user
interfaces. With ActiveSkin you could make your program look
exactly like it was from another OS, or create your own user
WinAmp-like "skinned" interfaces, or just give it a different,
distinctive look.....(shareware, $99).....GO THERE!
AVALON ICON TO BITMAP QUICK CONVERTER..........A Windows
95 Explorer context menu extension which provides a quick and
simple way to convert icon images to bitmaps. Using this extension
it is possible to convert each of the images, located inside
icon file, as a bitmap format in one simple step.....(freeware)....GO
THERE!
AVALON RESOURCE AND MULTIMEDIA EXPLORER.........View
icons located inside Win32 DLLs and executable files and save
them as ico files. It is possible to save single icons and all
icons located inside module at once to specified directory.
Quick preview for animated cursor files ( *.ani ). .program
designed as Microsoft Windowsr Shell Explorer extension and
works within Explorer frame. When the program is running it
creates additional view pane on the right side of the Explorer
window. Now you may view icons located inside DLLs or EXE files
during you explore your file system. Simple select in Explorer
any DLLs or EXE file, and all it icons immediately appear in
Avalon Resource & Multimedia Explorer view pane. .....(shareware,
$25 after 30 day trial).....GO
THERE!
BUILDERBLINDS..........BuilderBlinds is the personality
editor for WindowBlinds. It is the first and only utility available
for creating and editing WindowBlinds 'skins.' With BuilderBlinds
you can easily : build your own skins in an easy to understand
way, tweak hundreds of skins available on the Net, without need
to know the UIS file format, make your favorite OS famous, by
making another OS Skin, amaze your friends! You don't need to
know even one single uis attribute - BuilderBlinds will describe
them all for you. Features a window preview that looks like
it's live, but allows you to easily navigate through tons of
code. Easy to understand Explorer like IDE (Integrated Development
Environment) interface.....(free).....GO THERE!
CHANGE ICON..........Don't you think the appearance of
explorer is quite monotonous ? You'd like to find your favorites
folders more easily? With Change Icon, you can customize the
appearance of each folder in Windows Explorer by choosing which
icon represents it. Internet Explorer 4 or up with integrated
shell (active desktop) installed is required.....(free).....GO
THERE!
CHROMA..........Chroma is an advanced windows theming
and user-interface engine; it allows you to completely customize
the "look and feel" of your Microsoft Windows (95/98/NT) environment.
Using Chroma, you can replace Windows' drab and rectangular
controls with colorful, stylish images, including industrial,
sci-fi, designer and miscellaneous other themes featuring pulsing
scrollbars, free-form window-frames, glowing buttons and much
more.....(shareware, $20 after trial).....GO
THERE!
COLOR ME.......... SnoopSoft is proud to announce the
simultaneous worldwide release of ColourMe v2.0 for Windows
CE, Windows 95/98/NT and Windows 2000! Never before have Colour
Schemes been easier to migrate from one device to another! SnoopSoft
brings a first to the entire Windows platform, with the ability
to change Colours not normally accessible from the Windows Control
Panel Display applet! ColourMe contains the following features:
"Flat" UI reduces strain on system resources! Ability to change
all colours - even those Microsoft won't allow! Export any Colour
Scheme from ColourMe. Import Colour Schemes into another device
(share your favourite schemes with others). ColourMe works with
devices running Windows CE 2.11 and higher as well as Windows
95/98/NT/2000.....(shareware, $5 after trial).....GO THERE!
CUSTOM EYES..........A new Windows skinning program:
CustomEyes changes most of your Window's graphic components
: the menus, the buttons, the borders, and also includes a skin
editor. A lot additional elements are planned for CustomEyes.
Other components will be skinnable : lists, groups, scroll bars...
The menus handling will be improved. CustomEyes will allow to
create wholly configurable additional elements, allowing the
skin creator to let his imagination run wild. The compatibility
and the display optimization are a constant care....(free).....GO THERE!
DESKTOP ARCHITECT..........Theme management program for
Windows 95/98 and Windows NT/2000.....(free).....GO THERE!
Download themes
here
DESKTOP THEMES..........The Desktop Themes utility lets
you use the thousands of free desktop themes available on both
Windows 95/98 and NT 4.0 systems without having to buy Microsoft
Plus!. You can also edit and create your own themes using the
built-in editor.....(free).....GO THERE!
E2 DESKTOP MILL..........Assemble Windows desktops to
emulate MAC, BE, VAIO, or NEXT. (Site is mostly in Japanese,
but just click on the "Assemble" link, and the rest is intuitive.).....(free).....GO
THERE!
ELLICIT INTERNET EXPLORER SKINNER.......... Getting annoyed
with the boring, lame gray background of your internet browser?
then change it to any image you want using Ellicit Internet
Skinner.....(free).....GO
THERE!
HALF LIFE SKIN INSTALLER.......... The Half-Life Skin
Installer was created to make the installation of skins and
models a snap. There are over 350 custom skins/models for Half-Life
and the number grows each day. To install skins/models is no
trivial task since each skin/model has a .mdl and .bmp file
that must be placed in an appropriately named directory. What
would normally take hours to do can now be accomplished in a
few minutes with the Half-Life Skin Installer.....(free).....GO THERE!
HOOK99..........Customize your Start Button. You can
change caption; replace Windows flag on button with icon/bitmap
of your choice. Additional features: hide, disable start button......(free).....GO THERE!
ICON EXTRACTOR..........Extract icons from files and
save as icons or bitmaps. Windows Explorer look and feel.....(free).....GO THERE!
ICON LOCK..........Are you tired of people adding, deleting,
renaming, and rearranging the icons on your Windows desktop?
Perhaps you're responsible for the computers in a school, a
computer lab, or a store. Or maybe you share a home computer
with your kids. IconLock lets you freeze desktop icons in the
arrangement you choose without interfering with normal Windows
operations. It also lets you quickly save and restore different
desktop layouts. (A PC Magazine Tech Utility).....(free).....GO
THERE!
ICON MAKER..........A 40x40 pixels programmer's Icon
editor. Included some effect tools and icon source code generator
for Turbo Pascal7, Turbo C and Quick Basic. This version included
a ICO to IMK convertor (under DOS programs).....(free).....GO THERE!
ICON PHILE..........Icon Phile is a small program for
customizing windows's system icons. Using IconPhile you can
change the standard Desktop icons ( MY Computer, Recycle Bin,
Network Neighborhood, etc..), drive icons (Hard drive, Floppy
drives, external drives), folder icons (Open and Closed Folders,
Printers, DialUp, Tasks..) and more .....(free).....GO THERE!
ICON SHOP..........IconShop is a librarian that offers
the tools to manage ICL icon libraries. Read and write ICL icon
libraries. Drag and drop files and folders from the Windows
Explorer onto the IconShop window to process them. Drag and
drop icons or icon images between IconShop windows. Extract
icons from Windows icons, cursors, animated cursors, BMP bitmaps,
GIF bitmaps, TIFF bitmaps, XPM bitmaps, resources, executables
and libraries. Extract icons from Macintosh icons, resources,
executables, IconDropper icon packs and Kaleidoscope schemes,
including MacOS 8.5 24-bit icons. Export icons to icon, cursor
or BMP bitmap format. Tiny executable size .....(free).....GO THERE!
ICON TOY.......... Small utility to search for all icons
on the computer......(shareware, $15 after trial).....GO THERE!
ILLUMINATION..........Illumination is a real theme system for
Win32 (Win95, Win98 and NT4.0). It allows window borders to
be customized to take on any look imaginable, even non-rectangular
windows become possible. This release is mostly just a proof
of concept showing that it can be done. The next major release
will allow most aspects of the Win32 environment to be customized,
not just the window borders.....(free).....GO
THERE!
INTERNET EXPLORER SKINNER.......... Internet Explorer
Skinner, or IES, is a small simple way to enhance your browsing;
it skins IE (Internet Explorer 4, 5, 5.5) without the hassle
of additional DLLs, IE-Bars, and such things. It also skins
more of IE than any other program available.....(free).....GO
THERE!
MPS MEDIA PLAYER SHELL..........This program allows you
to change the look of, and add features to, Windows Media Player.....(free--beta
release).....GO THERE!
RANDOM BLINDS..........Everytime you boot-up or re-start
your computer RandomBlinds will randomly select a skin from
those which you have installed using WindowBlinds.....(free).....GO THERE!
SKINS BROWSER.......... Skins Browser is the offical
software for downloading new CGUIs (Customized Graphical User
Interfaces) or otherwise known as 'skins' for your favorite
applications. With direct access to download and browse over
7,000 skins it is a mandatory tool for anyone who has ever grown
tired of the norm and their boring old Windows desktop.....(free).....GO
THERE!
THEME INSTALLER..........You might like to try Theme
Installer, an application that lets you install and uninstall
themes automatically .....(free).....GO THERE!
THEME RANDOMIZER 2000..........Theme Randomizer will
randomly choose for you, or let you choose manually, startup,
wait and shutdown logos in all formats and sizes, desktop wallpapers
all formats, Internet Explorer 4 and 5 toolbar skins, screen
savers, Plus Themes (and no Microsoft Plus needed), startup
and shutdown sounds, all sound formats including MP3!!'s. NO
Media Randomizer in the world supports so many features and
so many media formats. + there is an viewer and player for all
sound and graphics formats. You can select your own skins for
the program.....(shareware, $10 after trial).....GO THERE!
THEMEBAR..........At last, Internet Explorer is fully
skinnable with this free app. Themebar is an Internet Explorer
add-in which allows you to fully customize the appearance of
your browser. With Themebar, you can customize your browser's
button images, animated logo, and its background. Because you
can do more with Themebar than just "skin" your browser, you
can give it the look and feel of anything you want. You can
even make IE look like Netscape. Themebar is extremely easy
to use, and it won't hijack your browser. There are no custom
toolbars required to run Themebar. Custom toolbars add unnecessary
clutter and consume too much of your browser's precious viewable
area. Instead of cluttering up your browser, Themebar can be
discreetly accessed from your View, Explorer Bar menu. And,
if you prefer, you can display a browser button for Themebar
by clicking View, Toolbars, Customize. If you've used IE's History
or Favorites Explorer Bar, you'll quickly discover that there
really is no learning curve to customizing your browser with
Themebar, just pick your browser's skin, toolbar, and logo.
With Themebar's enhanced Skins menu, you won't be stuck with
an ugly, dithered and stretched background image. Themebar allows
you to stretch to fit, stretch vertically, stretch horizontally,
justify left, justify right, center, or even tile your background
image. Once you have chosen a logo, skin, and toolbar that you
like, you can then save your settings as a "Theme." Themes operate
in much the same way as a Desktop Theme in Windows 98. For instance,
you could set your logo to a rotating apple, your background
to a nice aqua-colored bitmap, and your toolbar buttons to show
colorful spheres, then save your theme as "iMac." After you
have saved a couple of Themes, you simply have to pick one to
change your browser entirely—toolbars and all.......(free).....GO THERE!
TRANS TOOL..........A simple utility to help enable and
configure the settings for transparent Explorer Windows and
text color for the Explorer window icons when using the WindowBlinds
program from Stardock Systems.....(free).....GO THERE!
WAVE EVENTS..........Windows 95/98 has the ability to
play user selected sounds as you perform various tasks on your
computer, however these sounds being played are the same for
each and every application you use. Hearing these same sounds
over and over for all your programs can get a bit dull, even
annoying! Wave Events will broaden those horizons allowing you
to create application specific sound events, so you can have
a different set of sounds for each program you use!.....(shareware,
$10 after trial).....GO THERE!
WINDOW BLINDS.......... WindowBlinds is a new type of
utility. It lets you decide how Windows 95, 98, & NT 4 look.
Using skinz, you can change the style of titlebars, buttons,
toolbars and much more.....(shareware without nags, $19.95).....GO
THERE!
WINDOW PICTURES.......... WindowPictures gives windows
95 / 98 ( NOT NT) a complete makeover by transforming all the
graphic elements (menus, title bars, buttons, scroll bars, windows,
wallpaper, and more) from solid colors to three dimensional
textures, and also will change the look of all software in the
same manner.....(shareware, $39 after trial).....GO THERE!
WINDOWS MAKE-UP..........Modifies the looks of your Windows.
Here's Mr. Lockergnome's
description of the program: "When Gretchen goes out on the town,
she puts on a little make-up. But, she never puts make-up on
her computer. If she did, I'd be worried. Instead of using rouge
and lipstick to make your screen more attractive, why not use
Windows make-up? Not only will it touch up the Win95 interface,
but it will also add enhancements missing from Win95. Stretch
dialog boxes, change the taskbar and Start Button, add a graphic
here and there... cherry red is my PC's best color".....(free).....GO THERE!
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COPLAND..........The premier
designer of icons, and he gives them away for free.....(free).....GO THERE!
FISHEGG PRODUCTIONS..........Site with links to alternative
shells, skinz, programs and other matters all devoted to one
purpose.....(free).....GO THERE!
CUSTOMIZE.ORG..........Skinz, and also newz, themes,
special efx programs, special efx plug-ins, graphics programs
and tutorials and more skinz.....(free).....GO THERE!
DESKMOD..........Site full of skins for your skinnable
appz .....(free).....GO THERE!
DIGITAL BLASPHEMY..........Hot and cool: over 300 hi-res
original 3d-rendered computer desktop wallpapers, animated windows
startup screens, screen savers, tutorials on making your own
3d art, and links to some of the best computer art sites on
the web. The public gallery wallpapers are free to use on your
personal computer desktop, or you can pass them along to a friendGO THERE!
DOT STUDIO..........A Japanese site devoted to icons
and other types of Windows customizing. fantastic site design,
by the way.....(free)..... GO THERE!
E2 DESKTOP MILL..........Assemble Windows desktops to
emulate MAC, BE, VAIO, or NEXT. (Site is mostly in Japanese,
but just click on the "Assemble" link, and the rest is intuitive.).....(free).....GO
THERE!
|E| END EFFECT..........A very interesting site. A futuristic
web design, and they're giving away futuristic wallpapers.....(free).....
GO THERE!
GLABOUNI.COM..........A site which specializes in skinz,
skinnable software, and skinning utilities. You've got to check
this one out. In French and English.....(free).....GO THERE!
HIVE..........A site for skinners and others wishing
to improve the look of their desktops, full of great graphics
.....(free).....GO THERE!
INTERFACE FOUNDRY.......... Interface Foundry is a membership
area packed with a virtual grab-bag of interfaces, NavProps
(screens, buttons, bitmap fonts, knobs, switches, etc), animations,
and tutorials, including video-based tutorials (video tutorials
are currently only available for Windows systems). Interface
Foundry is updated several times a month with new items in each
of these categories. As with the other NavWorks packets all
files are fully customizable (layered Photoshop and Corel Photo-Paint
files), so you can easily mix and match elements. For example
you can take a screen from the NavProps section and an animation
from the Animations section and add them to an interface in
the Interfaces section. Interface Foundry is essentially customizable
clip art. However, the elements in Interface Foundry are held
to a higher standard than standard clipart collections. There
are no simple circle, square, or pill shaped buttons in Interface
Foundry and the shading for the interfaces and related elements
was not done with Alien Skin Eye Candy. Rather, each element
is Interface Foundry is carefully crafted to be unique, distinctive,
and professional-looking.....(shareware, $39.95 for 1 year membership.
Some free stuff is available as well).....GO THERE!
I.E. INFO SITE.....Lots of tips, tricks and a little
software for those who wish to configure Internet Explorer and
Outlook Express their own way, like me.....(free).....GO
THERE!
JIGSAW..........Great wallpapers and animated startup
logos.....(free).....GO THERE!
M's FACTORY..........Themes, Icons, Wallpapers, Skinz--the
language of this site is graphics, so you can read it in either
Japanese or English.....(free).....GO THERE!
MISERY..........Great site for the eye, great site for
the head. Contains original artwork, skins, easy and advanced-level
skinnerz tutorials, and some interesting rants--also, links
to all the other sites ya gotta see. Customizers, get over there
and get ideas.....(free).....GO
THERE!
MY SKINZ..........Another huge skinz site.....(free).....GO
THERE!
PC DESKTOPS.......... Nice new skinz and shell emulation
site. Heavy on the Mac look. How does your GUI look today?.....(free).....GO
THERE!
PHONG..........Imagery for your desktop, and tutorials
to "assist you in becoming one with the pixel".....(free).....GO THERE!
PIXELPOD..........Great and interesting wallpapers to
customize your desktop .....(free).....GO THERE!
PROPAGANDA..........As JFK, the fearless leader of Propaganda,
puts it "Our mission is simple..To provide you with the raw
materials you need to defend yourself and your desktop against
the plague of stupidity and ugliness which has come to form
the cornerstone of Mickeysoft's plan of global desktop domination!
For years, our nation had to endure the embarassment of millions
of ugly desktops while I slept comfortably in a cryogenic suspension
chamber, awaiting the day that I would once again escape from
my chilly cocoon and lead the charge for Linux, and against
crappy looking desktops across the globe! My fellow Americans,
the dawn of a new era has arrived...With art as our ammunition,
together we will neutralize The Enemy and forever change the
face of Linux!" (Ummm.....they work in Windows too).....(free).....GO THERE!
PSEUDOART..........Wallpapers, skins, tutorials. Good
stuff for students of web design .....(free).....GO THERE!
REMCO DE KORTE.......... Extremely well done graphics
site.....(free).....GO
THERE!
SCREENSHOTZ..........The geeks all upload their coolest
screenshots here. Need some ideas? (Now combined with Deskmod).....(free).....GO
THERE!
SHINTER..........Best web design I ever saw. Also he's got backgrounds
for your machine. You must see it....(free).....GO THERE!
SKINNING -- AN INTRODUCTORY PRIMER.......... "The term
skinning is believed to have originally come from Quake – the
video game. Quake is a first person shooter where each person
is represented by a character who runs around shooting things.
But to give each character their own uniqueness, Id invented
“skins” where the user could put together a pre-packaged set
of graphics that when loaded changed the look of the character.
And so the most basic definition of a skin is a pre-packaged
set of graphics to change the look and feel of something. But
it didn’t take too long for skinning to jump beyond that one
game and soon an entire subculture was created making skins
for various programs including utilities and applications..."
and on it goes. This is the best introduction to skinning available......(free).....GO THERE!
SKINZ.ORG..........The place to go to get skinz---radical
enhancements to the way your Windows look.....(free).....GO
THERE!
TECH FONTS..........Really a lot of very interesting
modern fonts.....(free).....GO
THERE!
THEMEZ.NET..........A site devoted to theming your desktop--themes
for all shells...............(free).....GO THERE!
TUMI'S 3D CURSORS..........Customize your cursors. Lots
to choose from--futuristic, animated musical instruments, pogo
sticks, rockets, curling, twisting, colorful cursors.....(free).....GO THERE!
VIRTUAL PLASTIC..........A site with all sorts of "appearance
changing" tips and tricks, including icon, startmenu, wallpaper,
and logo customization, but mainly devoted to iconography.....(free).....
GO THERE!
WASTED YOUTH..........Graphics site which includes unique
wallpapers, flash examples and tutorials, photoshop examples
and tutorials, and some cgi stuff as well... updated all the
time.....(free).....GO
THERE!
WB STUFF..........Lots of great add-ons (plug-ins, utilities,
tools) for Windows Blinds....(free).....GO THERE!
WINLOOKS..........The master of this site hates the way
windows looks and feels! He wants to run all the win95/98 software
on a PC that looks and acts like a Mac, BeOS or any X11 window
manager. He wants a fancy LCARS interface or something even
wilder. And he shows it can be done.....(free)..... GO
THERE!
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