Wow, it’s already December?  The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and if you missed out on any of the recent Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals or just want more, Impulse will be having more big holiday sales coming soon. 

I wanted to remind you that it’s very easy to purchase gifts for others on Impulse.  The best part is there is no need to worry about shipping as their digital gifts are sent nearly instantly.  It’s a great way to give gifts to friends and family.  I wrote a quick guide on how to do it here .

Articles to check out:

• Purchasing Gifts from the Impulse Store
• Elemental Beta 1C
• 24 Hour Impulses: The Concept
• Object Desktop 2010 Turbo-charges Windows 7
• Digital Distribution market share

New Releases on Impulse:

• Dark Fall - Lost Souls
• King's Bounty Gold Edition
• Elven Legacy: Magic
• Fallen Earth
• Object Desktop 2010
• Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight (pre-order)
• James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game

Updates on Impulse:

• Evochron Legends v1.188

This weeks Impulse Weekend Buys!

$7.49	$4.99	$29.99
$14.99	$9.95

The first week of December is upon us!  The holiday skins are pouring in, and the WC Holiday Community Suite is just about complete, and that turned out great!  Don’t forget we have a contest going on where the grand prize winner will receive an ATI video card courtesy of AMD.  This contest is for Winter animated wallpapers, and you don’t have to be a 3D expert now that DeskScapes 3 support hybrid static .dreams.

More info about the contest can be found here:  https://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=370464

Now for this weeks picks!

	Krim Iron Man by jalentorn You don’t have to be an Iron Man to enjoy this slick CursorFX theme.
	Snowman Sweeper by Ausvet Another beautiful holiday animated wallpaper.
	lantern by B2R This is a very creative set of dock backgrounds for ObjectDock.
	Trawling by Gammeldansk This wallpaper is very colorful, with a great design.  Nice work!
	Where Christmas Gifts Are Born by vlad A perfect Christmas wallpaper!
	Christmas 09 by LightStar This Christmas WindowBlinds skin definitely makes my top holiday skins list.  Great job!

Taking Windows 7 to the next level.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Object Desktop is Stardock’s premiere suite of desktop enhancement utilities.  While Windows itself is made for “everyone” Object Desktop is designed specifically for “power users” who want to get more out of their PCs.

This video demo goes over the basics of what Object Desktop can do.

Visit www.objectdesktop.com to get it.

DeskScapes 3 demo.

https://www.stardock.com/products/deskscapes

Object Desktop is a suite of desktop enhancement utilities designed to let users turbo-charge Windows. 

The core programs of Object Desktop 2010 include:

WindowBlinds. A program that can customize the look and feel of the entire Windows graphical user interface by applying new “skins” that change title bars, taskbars, scrollbars, and nearly every other part of Windows.

DeskScapes. A program that lets users customize their wallpapers or even apply  animated wallpapers (there are hundreds of free animated wallpapers available to choose from).

Fences PRO. A program that lets users organize the icons on their desktops into groups of easily manageable “fences”.

Tweak. A program designed to make it easy to modify various hard to find Windows settings and control what gets loaded (or not loaded) onto your system.

IconPackager. A program that can apply new icons themes by loading up a package of icons.

SkinStudio. A program that makes it easy for users to create their own user interfaces to apply to Windows.

Theme Manager. A program that ties it all together. Get your desktop just the way you want and save it or apply themes created by others that include WindowBlinds, IconPackager, DeskScapes and other customization program content.

In addition Object Desktop users get a host of other programs to enhance Windows such as DesktopX, WindowFX, IconDeveloper, SoundPackager, Keyboard LaunchPad, RightClick, and more.

Users of Object Desktop don’t just get what is in Object Desktop today but also everything released or updated for it in the year after purchase.  Even now, Stardock’s developers are working on programs that can give new options to Windows 7 users, get the most out of Windows XP, and more.

Object Desktop is only $49.95. For users who want to keep getting updates to the programs after the first year, they can renew their access for only $34.95!

The long holiday weekend is over, and whether you missed the Black Friday sales or not no worries, this is one Monday which you don’t want to miss!  Today we have the Impulse Cyber Monda y sale with many PC games and applications on sale starting at just $1.99!

The Impulse Cyber Monday Sale:

• Warlords Battlecry III - $9.99
• Evochron Legends - $19.95
• CursorFX Plus - $9.97
• Aztaka - $7.47
• Elven Legacy - $14.99
• Nemesis of the Roman Empire - $9.99
• Bullet Candy - $1.99
• Scrapland - $9.99
• Capitalism II - $9.99
• The Political Machine 2008 - $1.99
• LightWeight Ninja - $1.99
• The Corporate Machine - $1.99
• Multiplicity Professional - $24.97
• ObjectDock Plus - $9.97

The long holiday weekend is ready to be kicked off, and to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday we are having a HUGE sale on Impulse!  Since the holiday season is approaching, don’t forget you can easily make a purchase on Impulse for a friend or family member. 

Lets check out the Impulse Thanksgiving Sale!

• Gas Powered Games Bundle – Includes Demigod and Supreme Commander Gold Bundle for $39.99
• Heroes of Might and Magic V is 50% off - $9.99
• All Meridian4 titles are 60% off!
• Sins of a Solar Empire is 50% off
• Galactic Civilizations II – Ultimate Edition is 50% off!
• Starscape is just $9.97, 50% off!
• Children of the Nile Complete on sale for $15.99
• Sword of the Stars Ultimate is 75% off
• Gun is just $9.99, 50% regular price!
• Resident Evil 5 is 50% off, just $24.99!

IconDeveloper doesn’t get as much attention as it should, but it is an awesome app that can do nearly anything you need to in regards to icons.  Just today I needed to grab the stock icon from an application, and using IconDeveloper I was able to do in just about a minute.

Open IconDeveloper and select “Open Icon”.

Now just browse to the application directory and from there I found the .exe which has the icon I need. 

Selecting it opens it up in IconDeveloper where you edit it, change the color, etc. 

After your modifications, if any, just hit Save and save it to whichever format you need.  In my case I just export it to an .ico file.

In just a few quick steps I have the icon I needed.  Pretty simple and very useful!

https://www.stardock.com/products/icondeveloper/

Good day Impulsers!  I hope everyone’s week is going fine, and welcome to this weeks re-cap of the happenings on Impulse.

Articles to check out:

• Fences Video Walkthrough
• Stardock 2009 Report
• WindowBlinds 7 Released!
• WindowBlinds 7: A guided Tour
• Elemental: Coding Reports
• Elemental: Let's Talk, Good Sire.
  

New Releases on Impulse:

• WindowBlinds 7
• King's Bounty: Armored Princess
• The Saboteur (Pre-order)
• Elven Legacy: Siege  
• Lugaru HD

Updates on Impulse:

• Gratuitous Space Battles v1.24

This weeks Impulse Weekend Buys!

$22.49	$14.95	$2.99
$12.50	$9.95	$22.49

Good day fine WinCustomize folks!  Just to give a quick re-cap of this weeks activities, if you are a WC subscriber then be sure to check out the new subscriber skin called Tiki.  This was also a huge week for skinning as WindowBlinds 7 was released!  This enormous update brings skinning to Windows 7, and adds a ton of new features.

Now for this weeks picks!

	WOM by jalentorn This is a very creative and cool cursor set for CursorFX.  Definitely download this one.
	LongNights by Ausvet More and more winter .dreams are coming in, and the snow falling in this one is perfect.
	SteamPunk by Vampothika I really don’t need to comment on this.  It’s just that cool.
	Winter Wonderland Wall Pk by AzDude A simple, more minimal wallpaper.  Perfect for a holiday desktop.
	iDive Aerospace by TomRichter I always look forward to skins from TomRichter.  He has an elegant style and always makes good use of darker colors.  Great job!
	Satellite by don5318 This is a really sleek skin for the Xion media player.  Nice work!