Comparing Sweden/Finland/Denmark vs. other countries
Every few weeks someone writes an article comparing some amazing statistic from the Nordic countries in Europe and then compares that statistic to the United States in total. It’s always some...
View ArticleData recorders in your car?
Well, everyone knows about the two data recorders in airplanes. But cars? Really? Ostensibly, it’s the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) which is recommending this for cars, and...
View ArticleShow Us Your Best WindowBlinds Screenshot–Win a Year of Object Desktop!
WindowBlinds is 15 years old today! It’s almost crazy to think it’s been around that long, but many of our WinCustomize members have been there from the start and continue to use WindowBlinds to make...
View ArticleA General Solution to Poverty
A Solution – The Shorter VersionPhil Osborn 07/06/12, 11/16/13The problem: People are starving while the disparity between rich and poor is growing. Meanwhile, class, ethnic, religious, etc....
View ArticleA good starting point?
Is there a good guide that let's a newbie that's interested in customizing her computer get started?I have Windows 8. I spend most of my day in Microsoft Office.
View ArticlePeople will hit me, but.....
What ya listenin' to at the moment?Me?...a great bit of serious guitar work called 'Yo Momma', from Frank Zappa [Sheik Yerbootie]....my kinda music, and something even Hendrix would have been proud of....
View ArticleA "Words to live by" thread.........again.
I'll start this off again...."You may be only one person in the entire world, but if you're really lucky you might be the entire world to one person.".....now, follow this example, and please keep it...
View ArticleFull-screen on secondary monitor
Hi,I'm running Windows 8.1 Pro on a laptop with a secondary monitor. Both monitors are the same resolution (1920 x 1080) but when I open an application to full-screen on the secondary monitor I lose...
View ArticleA windows 7 theme for windowblinds
I purchased WindowBlinds in hope to find a theme that looks just like windows 7 as if side by side, its not easy to tell the difference. The Diamond theme didn't really accomplish that for me. I tried...
View ArticleDeskScapes Not working in Windows 8.1 Pro
DeskScapes does not work now that I have install Windows 8.1 Pro final release version.
View ArticleThe Most Popular WindowBlinds Skin of All Time!
Since we’re spending this month celebrating 15 years of skinning WindowBlinds, I wanted to find out what was the most popular download on WinCustomize.com. From the best I can tell and confirm, Vista...
View ArticleThe Second Amendment thread
My old friend Steven Den Beste wrote this awhile back:Let's talk about the Third Amendment for a moment. Remember that one? Probably not; in this day and age it's something of a Constitutional joke....
View ArticleBug: Incorrect order when sorting by name
It seems that when sorting by name, length of the string is overriding lexical order and generating incorrect results. Examples: -Torchlight II sorted before Torchlight. Should be the other way...
View ArticleFrogboy's cousin gone from this earth?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/20/us-science-darwin-frog-idUSBRE9AJ1B220131120 -(Reuters) - A frog named after Charles Darwin has gone extinct because of a deadly amphibian skin disease,...
View ArticleWinamp is officially dead
Quote from the download area:"Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download....
View ArticleStardock turns 20: The five Stardocks I’ve worked at
It can be quite a challenge to work at the same place for 20 years. I think that’s doubly true if you’ve never worked anywhere else. That said, looking back, I haven’t really worked at the same place...
View Articlevanishing icons
I installed 2.11 on my Windows 7/64 laptop yesterday and immediately thought Fences was fabulous--the perfect solution to the maddening problem of ever rearranging icons that bedevils many Windows...
View ArticleFoldes tabs doesn't work with Windows 8.1
Names of folders is transparent. I'm allready submit ti support and they answer "ok i submit it to our development team"...So, development team, how it goes?
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