The folks at Pixtudio continue to create high quality skins, icons, and themes. The vast majority of it is released completely free.

What is their secret? They are able to spend immense amounts of time creating great stuff for users.

How do they do it? They also create premium skin suites that they sell very inexpensively. Check out their site now at: http://www.pixtudio.com.

Look below to see their new ObjectBar theme.

For fun, one of our developers put together a quickie silly flash demo for his friends and has agreed to share it with us. If you're feeling silly, try it out.

## Best OS-Like Skin ##

Gold:
Xplore by Mike Bryant (deviantART)

Silver:
Olympics OS by Treetog (deviantART)

Bronze:
tactile by Grayhaze (VelocityART)

Honorable Mentions:
Blackcomb by Green Reaper (deviantART)
MetalX by Grayhze (VelocityArt)



## Strangest Skin ##
Gold:
Jesus Graffiti by Sandra Haggard (LotsOfSkins)

Silver:
Organix by MindlessPuppet (Customize)

Bronze:
FiberopticAngel by Starone (LotsOfSkins)

Honorable Mentions:
pi by Escopedo (LotsOfSkins)
Blue Wolf XP by Mark Ackerson (TweakXP)



## Best use of sound ##
Gold:
Some Guys Car by Sylva (LotsOfSkins)

Silver:
Z by Alexandrie (DeviantART)

Bronze:
Valentines by Judge (DeviantART)

Honorable Mentions
Painted Metal by Sandra Haggard (LotsOfSkins)
PearlGray by Hoachim Schonhofer (DeviantART)




Week 2 summary:
DeviantART: 15 points
LotsOfSkins: 14 points
VelocityArt: 3 points
Customize: 3 points
TweakXP: 1 point

The user polling for the most useable skin is now going on. Stop reading now and go vote!

The first of the larger events has arrived. Please make sure you vote for the skin that you think is the most useable for you on a day to day basis. This isn't necessarily the best skin overall (that's a later event) just one that you find works best for you even if it's plain or even ugly.

This event alone is worth nearly $1000 in cash and prizes. If you are the webmaster of a site in the community, please encourage people to come and vote so that as many different views as possible are entered in. The 20 highest votes become finalists for the judges.

For those of you who have Object Desktop or WindowBlinds registered version, Stardock has an enhanced skin pack available for you. Check it out.

The makers of Coolplayer have been working on other cool things as well such as Turbo fighter. Take a look, it looks very cool.

OSNews has an interesting article that compares Linux and MacOS X.

Go and vote for the skins that use sound effects most effectively. WindowBlinds supports user itnerfaces in which the various controls can make different sound effects when clicked on.

Go and vote on the skin that you think is the strangest skin that has been submitted. Go now! Your vote really counts!