The DREAM begins!
Dream.WinCustomize.Com
Tuesday, February 13, 2007 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Our Story So Far...
Last year Microsoft contracted Stardock (and Stardock Design) to work with them on an animated wallpaper feature for Windows Vista Ultimate. The feature went on to be called Windows DreamScene which plays video content as animated wallpaper.
Our design team created the default computer generated wallpapers that come with Windows DreamScene. Our development team created a program called Stardock DeskScapes which extends Windows DreamScene to support the new .DREAM format which supports dynamic content (instead of video, generated dynamically) as well as support for triggers and author credit.
WinCustomize.com worked with the Windows Ultimate team to create a community for the uploading and sharing of animated wallpapers in the .DREAM format.
Today, Microsoft made Windows DreamScene Preview available as an Ultimate Extra (you can get it from Windows Update if you have Windows Vista Ultimate). And Stardock has made Stardock DeskScapes available today too as well as a tool to create .DREAM files.
So to summarize, Dream.WinCustomize.com is up which has some new animated wallpapers available. You will need to download DeskScapes (which is free and requires Windows DreamScene to be installed) to use the animated wallpapers.
Guided Tour of Stardock DeskScapes
Reply #2 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 4:40 AM
Reply #3 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 8:26 AM
Reply #4 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 8:53 AM
Reply #5 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 1:28 PM
Such a shame when you spend hundreds of dollars...
I do have a dutch version though, but I can't imagine dreamscene currently only beiing available in english...
Reply #6 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 1:32 PM
. Heb hem via windows update binne gehaald.
Reply #7 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 1:47 PM
Reply #8 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 2:15 PM
Reply #9 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 2:58 PM
Well then don't use it.
I don't happen to spaz out if something on my computer is using 5% of my CPU. My ability to surf the net, check email, write documents, etc. is not in the least affected by a water flowing background or something. and the thing seems to turn off entirely if I run a game so no impact there either.
Does your computer charge you for CPU used or something? I'm just trying to understand the mentality that demands 0% CPU use for it to be interesting. I've seen people put up CPU gadgets which in themselves use 5% CPU just monitoring CPU.
Reply #10 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 3:47 PM
Reply #11 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 3:57 PM
Agreed... Sitting here with 10 Enterprise licenses for the office network, and no chance of using these groovy walls is a B.U.M.M.E.R.
Reply #12 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 4:01 PM
Why would anyone want a background that uses CPU cycles?, Like a screen saver a background is suppose to use 0% CPU. It does have a nifty factor (which is why I use WindowBlinds and IconPackager, but neither of them use an real CPU, when idle. As one who pays for Electric and owns Vista Ultimate (for application compatibility testing only), this extension just made no sense.
I dont think this has been emphasized enough. Bold font time.
When equipped with the proper video hardware, the ONLY cpu processing that is required is that needed to decode the video.
Reply #13 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 4:33 PM
Reply #14 Thursday, February 15, 2007 1:06 AM
Reply #15 Thursday, February 15, 2007 1:35 AM
Reply #16 Thursday, February 15, 2007 3:45 AM
Good news... thanks!
Reply #17 Thursday, February 15, 2007 11:24 AM
Reply #18 Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:22 PM
looks beautiful!Please login to comment and/or vote for this skin.
Welcome Guest! Please take the time to register with us.
There are many great features available to you once you register, including:
- Richer content, access to many features that are disabled for guests like commenting on the forums and downloading skins.
- Access to a great community, with a massive database of many, many areas of interest.
- Access to contests & subscription offers like exclusive emails.
- It's simple, and FREE!
Reply #1 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 1:33 AM