You did great work and helped tons of people with yoru tutorials.

Thanks for the ride.

Thanks for all your excellent work. Best of luck to you.

Thanks, Dave. You did good! 

Best of luck with the photography!

I can see why, your gallery is beautiful. Transportation was my favorite section but "Pier-ing Into the distance" was my favorite piece.

David, you have always been a DX guru in my eyes. I hate that DX went the way it has as well, but I guess it is what it is.

Thanks for your help through the years, and for all the great works you've given us!

I've always liked your work and your help the times I needed with DX is much appreciated.  Keep up the great work with your photography! I got you on G+ .

It's always sad to see and era end but such is life, nothing lasts forever, we look back on the past with hopes that the future brings new and exciting things to our desktops.  Thank you Dave for giving of your time, skills and talents. 

Thanks for all your work over the years. It's too bad about DX.

I hope that you will upload your Master skins. Some of us are still using DX. Good luck with your photography.

I can appreciate your frustration at the lack of interest in windows gadgets/DX, having completed quite a complicated RSS gadget I was planning more but found its feeds disabled by IE updates on Windows 7 and later. With Microsoft killing their own gadgets on top that it really was the end.

I suspect what really killed the whole idea of desktop gadgets were two things; 1) The surge in smartphones doing essentially what they were supposed to do 2) Most corporate companies not keen on Vista, slow to upgrade to Windows 7 and many blocking the gadget site. I still love them though.

Its not easy making money from software for the independent developer, everyone wants it free and times are tough.

You da man! Me wuvs ya!

Thanks all.  Im still around, just saw no point in keeping my master skins out there, as once in a while someone would buy one and it wouldnt work right, and id just have to refund their money. so what was the point.

I still use DX a good bit, there are so many cool things it can do, and its an amazing product.  I always thought that making it avail to kids in high school programming classes would have been cool. 

Thanks for the comments on the pics, I have lost the ability to play drums, and continue on with my 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do do to issues with my right elbow (Computer elbow!).  It sounds lame, and it is, but it makes doing anything like drums or TKD impossible and risky for further injury.  So i dove into photography.  The one door opens thing. lol    We have seasons in our lives, and im going into a new one (turning 50 soon) and im looking forward to how this one will go.

Live long and prosper. 

Ah, you child...

Best wishes with your photography, Dave...

Right back at ya!

  Best of luck with your photography. Let us know how things "develop" 

God, I feel so old.

God, you are so old.

53 here, never felt worse. 

I never used DX but i always admired your work .Will check you out on facebook i love photography.

Best wishes in your new choice.

RD.you are still a babe i just turned 60 this week.My husband still thinks i'm one hot mama lol.

You may try to make an alliance with http://ohmyicons.com ,he is still making Desktop themes and they are phenomenal that you could hardly see in someone else's computer.