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10/22/2006 8:25:11 PM
Host:
Justin Dowell and Nick Quarantoc
We've got a great show with recent Skinner of the Month, 47Songs! She's offered us some great insight into the skinning process, as we chat about the GUI Championships, as well as her own experiences with graphic design. Although this was pretty much her first time on skype, she had no problems keeping up with us in terms of talking! After some initial technical glitches (still dont know what was up with them) we were able to get started recording the show. Some great skins were discussed! Sit back and enjoy!
Show Notes (in no specific order):
INDUSTRIALIZED by DEZIN: Link
S-Force Eagle by homeryulo: Link
africa Link
Gear by artur brek: Link
Musicholic by bingben57: Link
Seasons by vlad: Link
Ghostwallpaper by cjshadow: Link
The Curious ET by icepoint: Link
Mr. noMustache by thinkcear: Link
Po' Smedley's Site: Link
Ares by MikeB314: Link
Natural Desktop: Link
GreenReaper's Realistic Animated Christmas Snowflakes: Link
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9/14/2006 11:54:01 PM
Host:
Nick Quaranto and Justin Dowell
Hi guys! In this episode we talk about the new changes with WC, and a ton of skins. This episode is also blasting in full quality STEREO sound!
Show notes will be coming soon...Justin and Nick are extremely busy. College life for the loss. We'll get it in as soon as possible!
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8/5/2006 8:20:28 PM
Host:
Nick Quaranto and Justin Dowell
With our special guest, Mike Crasweller (aka Zoomba), we talk quite a bit about how the community has been changing recently, and also what will be happening in the near future. Theres lots of little goodies in store for our listeners from WinCustomize! We pick out some great skins, including one incredible WindowBlind theme by an up-and-coming author!
Although we had minimal technological glitches in this session, someone forgot to unplug their phone! Therefor, we got a little bit of ringing in a couple of places... you'd think we'd have learned the process by now! Overall though, a GREAT show, and we were glad to have Zoomba join us!
WinCustomize.com!
The new WinCustomize Forums!
Eminence by rjsmith2007!
Khado by Essorant!
Essorant.com!
(Just for Zoomba... Mattahan's DeviantArt page!)
Thanks for listening!
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6/11/2006 8:52:56 PM
Host:
Nick Quaranto and Justin Dowell
Technical problems suck! Nick and Justin have been really struggling to get this episode out. As usual, both guys have busy schedules with school and social lives, and its hard enough trying to just get one day to record on. Now with this most recent round of glitches, they have had to force 3 days of recording stuff into their schedules, and thats been tough. However, stubborn to the end, the two have pulled it off! We now (finally) present Episode Twelve for your listening pleasure!
We're focusing alot on WinCustomize in this espisode, with almost the entire last half of the show devoted to the upcoming changes to the site that are resulting from the push that Stardock is putting on 'vista-ready-ness'. We're glad to be able to kick around some ideas as to site UI changes, and we talk about the differences the new 'Uber-Server' will make to the database management. Overall, its a great show, and if it sounds a little chopped up, its because it was recorded in approximately 89881289948950 pieces. Kthxbai. ;-)
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4/29/2006 10:07:21 AM
Host:
Nick Quaranto and Justin Dowell
Hooray for amateur podcasting and complications with audio recording!
After fighting with our computers for a few hours we finally managed to get an episode out. In this episode we mostly discuss the great deal of new and AMAZING icon packs that are currently up at WinCustomize! Seriously, the past month or so has had an influx of awesomeness in the IconPackager gallery, and we drool all over it in this episode. Also, this episode is in full stereo! (For reasons that are discussed within!)
Take a listen, and if you liked it, let us know how you feel, leave a comment! Want a video episode? Tell us! (And buy us some airfare, maybe even a private jet, cmon...)
As always, thanks for listening :)
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4/15/2006 1:06:26 AM
Host:
Nick Quaranto and Justin Dowell
Haha! Finally we have gotten a guest on the show again! Its not something we planned, of course, since that would require effort and forsight, but that doesnt matter. What DOES matter is that this is an episode for Mac users! We've got a Mac geek on the show by the name of Steve Streza, a friend of Nick's from RIT. He's a writer from MacThemes.net, and was kind enough to come onto the show with about...oh.... 5 minutes of notice. We discuss Boot Camp, skinning the Mac's interface, gaming on a Mac, as well as the future competition between Vista and 'Leopard' (the next Mac OSX). Its a great show, and we really enjoyed talking with Steve. It was great to have a unique perspective on things!
(Of course... "Mac OSX had that a long time ago!")
SORRY for the sound quality issues!! They should be fixed now.
Here's the show notes (sorry, this was late too...this is becoming a bad trend):
UTS Ep 10 Show Notes
Thanks for listening! (and for putting up with us!)
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3/31/2006 12:27:06 AM
Host:
Nick Quaranto and Justin Dowell
Well, as you can see, we're a week late... its just life coming in and making a mess of things. We put out an incredible show though! We were right on and on the ball through the whole thing. Connection was rock solid too, which makes us happy. We talk about all sorts of super interesting topics, including skinning you IPOD! What a find! We discuss some of the more unique skinner's perspectives on their motivations for skinning, along with their inspiration and abilties. After wandering through talking about GalCivII yet again, some cool gadgets to match the UI that were made by RomanDA, and debating about ObjectBar, we wrap up the show in our usual suave, calm way. Yeah right. (By the way... FIRST line news about a new update for a fan-favorite program! Listen in for details!)
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3/11/2006 3:55:40 PM
Host:
Nick Quaranto and Justin Dowell
Well, this was fun trying to get this one recorded... CerebroJD is on 'vacation' at his parents house, so he took a break from that crazy time to do the show. He even got everyone else out of the house so its quiet! Amazing! Nick's also on a 'working' vacation...ugh! Technical difficulties abound, due to crappy connection speeds etc., but we got it done! We talk about a couple of skins first, as well as some things about Galactic Civilizations II. Justin also found some interesting news about a university that has banned the use of ANTI-plagiarism services. Its astounding what lengths cheating students will go to to make sure they dont get caught... Anyways, thats a fun rant. We wrap up lamely, but its a good show (ish). Have a listen, we'd love to hear your point of view on the topics we discuss!
**Show notes coming soon!
**Also if you hear any technical difficulties that were missed let us know...sorry! :)
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2/25/2006 1:26:31 AM
Host:
Nick Quaranto and Justin Dowell
So..... tired...... must..... type....zzzzzzlkjlkjsernhlkeke
Huh?! Oh.
Nick and I are pretty tired. It's finals week for me, and Nick is having looooong days of classes... we're both tired. HOWEVER! We have managed something awesome this week, something awesome! We have, amazingly, gotten ourselves a guest! Some of you *may* have heard of this skinning genius, and he definately has the touch of gold when it comes to skins. Our guest host, Treetog has graciously taken the time to talk to us about his most recent skin suite (Artwork), plus, we ask him all about what he puts into a skin, and his thought processes. Good news about LOTS of cool stuff in the show, so have a listen!
*Caution, there was some major tech difficulties during the show. Please bear with us, we tried to assemble something high caliber!* If you find any problems/issues with the sound, let us know please.
Here's the show notes! Take a look at them while you're listening if you can! Thanks for listening!
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2/11/2006 3:21:11 AM
Host:
Nick Quaranto and Justin Dowell
We barely managed to crunch enough spare time into our education-filled lives to record this! It took a major feat of staying up uber-late to get it done, actually only finishing last night. Nick's been editing all day!
We rant on about how DesktopX is marketed and about some of its competitors. We also get some talk in about a cool WB skin, some Winamp stuff, as well as an awesome IconPackage. SkinArtistry is getting closed down and someone HACKS it! Why?! Add in some senseless rambling on wayyy to many different topics, plus some new music, and you've got an awesome Episode Six!
See the Show Notes here!
PLEASE post here if you listened! Thanks!!
Thanks for tuning in!
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