Frogboy

Frogboy

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ObjectBar is a program that allows you to extend the Windows interface to have additional menus, bars, and program items. You can easily build pretty much any type of desktop user interface with it. What's unique about ObjectBar is how practical it is. The interfaces one creates with it rea

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Moshi, I don't agree with your premise. I don't think Linux has better themes or skins overall. There are SOME excellent themes available for Linux but I nothing better than what I've seen on Windows. That skin you show could be done as a WindowBlinds skin for instance. But that's really not germane to the topic at hand. In the past year, with Windows XP now available and computers incredibly cheap, skinning has become much more mainstream because the resources these programs u

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I just purchased a new machine for KamaGirl yesterday. It was $700 and came with: + 1.7 Ghz CPU + 512 MB of RAM + Geforce 4 video card + 20 gigabyte hard drive + Windows XP Professional (no monitor) Dell also has computers (with monitor) that are around $700 also but don't have as much expandability as this one or quite as much memory. In 1992, a top of the line system was a 486DX-33 with 8 megabytes of RAM. If you got OS/2, it used up abou

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. I think the main worry about the wallpaper section is that it could overwhelm the rest of the site. Most sites that have wallpapers and skins tend to end up wallpapers mainly. I like wallpapers. But I also like skins. My nightmare scenario is coming to the site and seeing all the new additions and updates being wallpapers and not being able to easily look at new skins. A good wallpaper is w

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/me rubs temples.. For people who like it all as one big section you stil would have that with the [All forums] area. What we are talking about is nothing like deviantART's system. Stay with me here: Imagine if the posts on this message board, right now, could be cagtegorized. Right now we could do that. The message board would look the same but we could classify things as "Tech" or "Skinning" or "General". Now, imagine if you gave users the option to have

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It's a little of both (filtering and expansion). We don't want to turn WC into a "tech site" or anything, there are already good sites that do that. But for DISCUSSING some of this stuff, having more sections to discuss stuff would make it easier. If I, for instance, posted here about say favorite Photoshop filters, it would scroll off within hours. But if there was a seperate section for discussing creating skins and such I could post that and it would stay on longer.

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GoodMorphing - Yea, that's something we could do here. The first section could be [Complete Forum] where it woudl literally list everything in the order it was last responded to. So in essence, the forums would have threads that are classified and sorted based on which message forum you want to. There's so much stuff that we could contribute in this way. When you read tech stories in the magazines and such, often times they're calling us or other people we know that woudl love

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Yea, basically you'd have different categories like some of the other sites already have: [General Discussion] [Customization Software] [Skins, Themes, & Icon Discussion] [Skin/Theme Design] [Hardware] [Technology] [Help Forum] In addition, the message board would be enhanced to support more HTML like being able to include screenshots and attachments as well as support auto responses, be able to show what is new since you last came on better, etc. <b

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Many tech sites have sprung up over the past couple of years. And some of them have excellent message boards which I enjoy participating in. But at the same time, they always seem to attract a certain demographic of user that may not appeal to all people. What I was wondering is, would there be any interest here in expanding the WinCustomize message boards to be much more useful as a larger discussion venue? Or would you prefer to keep it the way it is where it's more

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One of the quieter changes in beta 3E which you may have noticed based on looking at the stats is that the AI is playing the exact same game you are. I.e. it's not cheating (other than the plot dictated planetary exploration which is counter balanced by not having the AI build colony ships via the purchase mechanism on lower AI settings). Obviously, the first question is - are you being challenged? The Drengin AI is currently the only one of the major AIs with the updated AI engine and

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I'd like to have it by Christmas but January is good too. As for future GalCiv's, they will created like we do applications where we keep buiding onto the code base. But that said, each new version will be significantly different. I.e. there will be a bunch of GalCiv 1.x's with a lot of new features but then GalCiv II would have a ton of new features not seen previously. Of course, a lot depends on how GalCiv 1 does! ;)

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I tend to agree. It should only list races you have diplomatic relations with. One of the next things we're hoping to have into beta 4 are nearly two dozen different reports. Right now there is only the first one and then the generic "humans progress" one which gets pretty old in a hurry.

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