Tiles Public Beta Released!
Thursday, November 17, 2011 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Stardock has released the public beta for Tiles today. Tiles is an application that lets users organize their desktop applications into pages of tiles. You can quickly view and manage your running applications with Tiles as a customizable sidebar. The look of Tiles can also be customized further with additional themes, background images, and more.
The beta version is fully functional with the company looking for feedback from users on additional features and usability they would like to see. Users can also optionally add features through the integrated in DLC interface.
You can download the free app here!
https://www.stardock.com/products/tiles/
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View a video demo of Tiles!
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Reply #22 Sunday, November 20, 2011 5:35 PM
There is a "Free" part of the program, and if you want the extra features, you pay for them... like so many other programs, like Object Dock.
Free programs frequently some with "extras" like tool bars to get the developer remuneration for his work. Here, that's not the case. Not with any Stardock Program (except on the WC skin browser which is not spyware).
Also, 'Freeware' frequently becomes abandoned by its developer (no motive for continuing to develop)... in which case it withers and becomes incompatible with the OS or other software.
Also, it gives you the opportunity to work with the program and see if you need the 'pay for' features.
So, all in all, fair dinkum....no one likes to work for free.
Reply #23 Sunday, November 20, 2011 5:36 PM
You're welcome to create those extra features yourself. No charge.
Reply #24 Sunday, November 20, 2011 5:49 PM
I watched part of the video and decided to not only install Tiles on my host machine but purchase 3 of the features as well (skin support, taskbar support, and custom pages). Tiles is pretty cool once these extra features are added in. It's like a more functional Windows Sidebar. Not to mention you can add whatever picture file you want as a background. That I wasn't expecting. You won me over once again Stardock. 
Reply #26 Sunday, November 20, 2011 6:29 PM
It's the feature below the skins, the "Background Texture" option (with the thumbnail slider) was what I was referring to. The texture can be blended with the Skin is what i'm saying. I already knew that Tiles was skinnable. I just didn't know about the background texture part. Having a skin and separate texture adds a deeper level of customization. And this is without using the editor.
Totally worth my $5.
Reply #27 Sunday, November 20, 2011 6:38 PM
Totally worth my $5.
Reply #28 Monday, November 21, 2011 8:41 AM
Hey guys! If it helps anyone here, I had to enter my registration info twice before all the features became available to me. (I'm an OD subscriber).
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Reply #21 Sunday, November 20, 2011 5:10 PM