Can you think of people who used to be around more that aren't around anymore? Where are they? Where have they gone?

Here's a few that come to the top of my head:

Crumbut
Dangeruss (still around but I miss his regular presence)
DAK
Shawn Murdock
John Folden
Morphh
Mercury
Scratch (still kind of around but not as much, miss him too)

These are guys who really made a big difference in the course of skinning. They don't get nearly the kudos they deserve since they were at their height when "the community" was very small still.

If you had to use one word to describe yourself, what would it be?

Here's mine:
Tenacious.

IconFactory is MacCentric so the contests were based on 3 Mac categories:

MacOS X category (icons for MacOS X)
The winner here was Invading your space by David Lanham

CandyBar Category (CandyBar is a program that changes toolbar icons).
The winner here was Think Natural by Christophe Bouchard

And the Classic MacOS Category.
where the winner was My Neighbor Baby by Michelle Chan

Visit http://www.iconfactory.com/pixelpal1.asp to get a history of it.

WinCustomize's own Paul Boyer (Mormegil) had a candy bar entry.

You can see all the entries by going here:
http://www.iconfactory.com/pp_listing.asp?category=CB

I'm a cranky guy. Damn cranky.

And one thing that is making me really cranky is that people will make an intelligent post only to see it hijacked by people and turn it into something completely unrelated to what the original topic was about.

I've seen this trend growing lately and it is going to stop now. I don't care how long you've been around the community. If there is a conversation on say designing wallpapers and you turn it into a discussion about third party Photoshop filters, you stand the risk of losing your posting priviledges. If there is a post discussing the finer points of stock portfolios and you turn it into a tirade about Enron, you stand the risk of losing your posting access.

And that obviously goes for posts that are about somethign relevant that turn into cutesy quasi-private conversations between people inside of posts.

And if you want to discuss something, make a post. You can post about pretty much anything you want here in the sense that you can create your own thread. But don't hijack other people's threads. It's rude and it's unnecessary.

We will be adding a host of new forum features to help make having discussions easier to participate in over the long haul. But in the meantime, let's show respect to those who create threads by not immediately turning it into a tangential discussion.

And yes, obviously at some point in a long conversation you will have topic drift. But if you're on post 5 on a thread about HDTV standards, it's not cool to start posting about whether Burger King's Fries are better than McDonalds. Because 1) They're not and 2) it's off topic.

SkinStudio is a program that lets you create your own visual styles for Windows. Using WindowBlinds, these visual styles can change your entire Windows user interface.

So what is new with SkinStudio version 3? This information guide will walk you through some of the new features that make SkinStudio stand out from previous versions. Check it out.

A good week for WinCustomize Subscribers. Not only did the Kryptonite suit come out:

https://www.stardock.net/people/martin/krypton/krypt2.jpg

But the long awaited massive update to the WinCustomize browser also came out which has tons of fixes and tweaks in it.

If you want to become a WinCustomize subscriber, go here: https://www.wincustomize.com/store/

WinCustomize subscribers get premium bandwidth access, unlimited downloads, at least 2 premium themes, and of course the WinCustomize browser. And the subscription lasts TWO years.

It's a bit amateur (okay a LOT amateur) and the sound has to be turned up but here's our first try at trying to demo something. In the coming weeks we hope to start getting video demos of making skins, using skinnable software, etc.

This video demo shows off how Stardock Central works with Galactic Civilizations. You can find out about GalCiv at www.galciv.com (https://www.galciv.com).

As some of you know, I have a site I blog on (https://www.joeuser.com).

One of my other favorite sites, deviantART has a neat feature where your personal page is actually somethingl like frogboy2.deviantart.com.

I was wondering what people thought about having a more enhanced system here that is similar to what is on dA but perhaps targeting more features on blogging, writing tutorials and including handy things for creating a real home page.

A lot of sites let you create a home page. So to make this worthwhile, we'd want to make it so that you can really include a lot of stuff on this. You wouldn't be editing HTML, instead we would try to provide you with the ability to put up the kinds of things you want there.

Anyway, this would be some effort so I wanted to hear fro you guys as to whether you'd like to see that or not.

If you're married or dating, how did you meet them?

I met my wife back in 1992. We had two Electrical Engineering classes together and a EE lab. In the lab, I accidentally started a fire due to some...mistakes with my circuit. This got her attention.

Soon after we started studying together and became friends. A few weeks later, my roommate in college told me he was going to be moving in with an old friend of his who was transferring which meant I needed to find a place to live. But it was so late in the semester that it was looking like I'd end up being in a dorm room with some random freshman which I didn't want.

My friend (Debbie who would become my wife) said that she and her 3 friends (all girls) were renting a house next year and were looking for a 5th person. I'm a guy. LIve with 4 girls? Sure!

Eventually we got engaged and got married in 1994 and lived happily ever after.

It's the year 2013...

What do you imagine computers, or whatever the equivalent is, being like?