Jos Joslyn

Reply to How Stardock failed the skinning community in 2006 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Hi ... I've been using products related with the company since OS/2(Object Desktop - mid 1990's). And using various skins in the Windoze environment since WB2, there was a significant improvement in your "family of products" - in the main. ObjectDock Plus, to be honest is a mess, and in it's current form will not drag me away from ObjectDock 1.3. I agree with your summary with regard to documentation ....... nightmare, if you want to reconfigure many of the default programmes/applic

Reply to Why I Don't Want Windows Vista in Windows Vista WinCustomize Forums

You are right Adamness ............. most of the uptake will be from "new systems" as MS will quickly turn-off the tap for XP installs on new. As for the features, yes a lot of them are useful, and in OS terms "sexy"(no, I don't need to get out more..... I was not referring to them literally !! ) In excess of 90% of the "new" features, we in the Mac OS

Reply to Why I Don't Want Windows Vista in Windows Vista WinCustomize Forums

Interesting reading...... Which ever way you slice the MS(OS) cake the result is an expensive option. Vista is likely - although no-one can tell for certain - to be a significant hike in cost to the average user, and as a result many will hold back from an upgrade, as this trail has already demonstrated The OS itself is significantly more expensive than alternative options, and the cost doesn't stop at buying a "shrink-wrapped" p

Reply to Tiger Unleashed in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Took delivery of "Tiger" today, installed it.............. what a dream!! Only thing I can think of that installs more easily is a "light bulb"!! Whatever the detractors may say, the "visual experience" of the Mac is wonderful, it is responsive, and the only other OS that can compete for "stay-up" reliability is OS/2, or eComStation. The dashboard, whilst not earth shatteringly new, does appear - at this early stage seem to be more stable than simil

Reply to Object Desktop 2005 and beyond in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

Having been a user of OD since your first OS/2 variant, I have been impressed with the visual development of the core products, and PNG support. However I have found that WindowBlinds and ObjectDock are probably the best packages that you have. DesktopX - which frustrates me, as I really like the concept - slows my system down terribly. Some of the widgets are just too flakey, or quirky to have running for very long. Having said all of that I do no