Skin Spy
Monday, May 3, 2004 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I want to make a program that spies on you.
That's right. Spies.
But how?
I want us (all of us) to be able to get a list of the most popular skins by USE. No downloads. Not impressions. Not mentions. What skins are people actually using.
So this program would look at what skins and themes you're using and return that data to a central server and then those who ran it would have access to the page that lists them so we can download them. Afterall, the best skins for many are probably the ones people are actually running.
We used to have something like this built into WindowBlinds but it was a pain and some people complained that it was spying (which is was). Obviously paranoid people wouldn't want to run this and we could expand it to support as many apps as peple wanted. Most popular DesktopX theme? Most popular icon package? Most popular Winamp skin? Most popular Litestep theme, whatever.
We could even have it list most popular programs. so how popular is Samurize vs. Litestep vs. hoverdesk vs. whatever. The important thing is that people would be able to find new emerging customization programs that are getting more popular and know where to download them.
So first off, what kinds of features that those of you who might want to run something like this would want besides what I mentioned?
Secondly, obviously some people wouldn't want this kidn of program since it does return info about your computer (personally I don't care if people know what skin I'm using I make screenshots) but how many of you think this sort of thing would be neat?
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Reply #83 Thursday, May 6, 2004 3:18 PM
| Current Skin Usage Stats or CSUS how about that? |
How about Current Usage of Skin Stats? CUSS! lol
Reply #84 Thursday, May 6, 2004 3:22 PM
How about "SkinIdol", "Where every skin has the chance to be a Star"
Groan...
On a serious note, I think it is a great idea, I liked the feature when it was in Windowblinds, it was a cool way to find new skins before Wincustomize. I like the idea a lot and I will run it and let it have all the data it wants. I like the feature idea of having it keep track of each time skins are changed. Well those are my thoughts take them for what they are worth.
Grog goes back to the basement.
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Reply #90 Thursday, May 6, 2004 5:19 PM
| absolutely not! |
Absolutely not what?
| the Skinny.ie, ''just the facts''. |
I like!
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Reply #91 Thursday, May 6, 2004 5:21 PM
We registered the domain SkinMetrix.com in 2001 which is why that woudl be a good alternative name.
Reply #93 Friday, May 7, 2004 1:33 AM
| Why is it that people who don''t want to use something feel the need to tell the rest of us that we shouldn''t use it.Some of us don''t care. We don''t care if people know what skins we use because we want to know what skins people are using so that we can easily find stuff that is good.If you think it''s a bad idea, that''s nice. Go away. Let those of us who aren''t paranoid figure out what features we want to have in such a program. |
You asked a question and you received a variety of answers.
Some are the ones you want to hear and some don''t suit .... that is not to say the ''unsuitable'' answers are posted by paranoid freaks.
Only 19 days to go and I doubt I''ll bother.
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Reply #94 Friday, May 7, 2004 4:57 AM
Will this be a program for all to download, and see the stats? or just for Stardock to post on the site.
It would be cool to have a skinable program installed with the information on a constant update.
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Reply #99 Friday, May 7, 2004 12:52 PM
Epidermal?? hehehe um....
Skin Mole??? heh um..
MoleSkinner?? um...
SkinCount? mwuahahaha um...
Vaseline?? hehehe um...
SkinInjector??
SkinBin??
lol hmmmm
I have an itch
Reply #100 Friday, May 7, 2004 12:55 PM
I don't want you or anyone else in my comp.
So I would not use it !!! downloads are enough Please login to comment and/or vote for this skin.
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Reply #81 Thursday, May 6, 2004 2:24 PM