The second day in the Impulse Holiday Gift Guide is going out to those individuals who like to take their desktop above and beyond the normal look and feel.  Whether it’s an application to help organize your desktop, or a complete package to change the entire theme of your desktop, Impulse has the goods.

Buy some for yourself, give to your friend, share the holiday love!

Gifts for the Desktop Customizer:

DeskScapes 3 Put some animation on your desktop with DeskScapes 3.  This application gives you the ability to have animated wallpapers on XP, Vista, and Windows 7.
WindowBlinds 7 Tired of same old default look of Windows?  Maybe you just want to be different?  No problem, WindowBlinds 7 lets you change the complete visual style of Windows, and can now even skin Aero.
ObjectDock Plus Use ObjectDock Plus to organize your desktop shortcuts, icons, programs, and more into a “dock” that resides on your screen.  ObjectDock Plus features tabbed docks, multiple docks, and much more.
CursorFX Plus You stare at that cursor all day, why not make it fun?  CursorFX lets you change your cursor to one of thousands available, and CursorFX Plus adds effects, adjustable size, animation, and more.
Object Desktop This is the ultimate desktop transformation package.  This includes WindowBlinds 7, DeskScapes 3, IconPackager 5, Tweak, and many more applications.  It also includes a year of free updates.

The holiday season is here, and as we have mentioned before, it’s very easy to send digital gifts to people next door, or around the globe via the Impulse Store .  I decided to create a Gift Guide for Impulse to give people some ideas for gifts, or for themselves.

Day 1 is dedicated to casual gamers.  These could be people who aren’t “hardcore” gamers, but still enjoy playing some games on their PC during leisure time.

Games for Casual Gamers:

Kitten Sanctuary This game has been widely popular in the Stardock office.  I mean who wouldn’t want to rescue and keep the kittens safe!
World of Goo This award winning puzzle and construction game is a must-have in any gamers’ library, casual or not.
City Rain City Rain is another addicting game where building literally fall from the sky and rely on you to rescue and organize the cities.
Flock This is one of my personal favorites.  You pilot a UFO while trying to herd animal life back to the Motherflocker.
Braid Braid is a visual masterpiece.  This is a puzzle-platformer with a “painterly” style.  Another addictive game that you will spend countless hours on.

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

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.

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

Each year, like most companies, Stardock puts together an internal business plan that sets up goals, objectives, and challenges that the company must address.

Part of our internal business plan includes analysis of the state of the products/services we make as well as the results of our customer survey.

Last year, we made this report available to the public and based on the positive response we got for doing so, we’re doing the same again this year.

View: Stardock 2009 Customer Report

WindowBlinds 7 is out! Here’s a demo that shows off some of the cool new stuff.

Now you can see what all the talk is about.  Download it now and see for yourself.  If you’ve tried WindowBlinds in the past and don’t use it now, definitely try this, this isn’t just an upgrade, it’s a whole new system.

http://www.windowblinds.net