# Coldfire spams the Straight Dope! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 3, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-spams-the-straight-dope/24472 "2000-07-03T20:22:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-spams-the-straight-dope/24472/1 "2000-07-03T20:22:17Z")
Or maybe not. I asked Tuba if this was OK, and she said it was. Last night, Shayna introduced me to the following page: > **[Stardock WindowBlinds: Skin and Theme your Windows Desktop](https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/)** > > Skin the Windows desktop interface with WindowBlinds. It’s basically software that enhances the way windows looks, like skins for ICQ and WinAmp do, but then for Windows entirely. It is supercool! And highly addictive. I already downloaded over 100 skins! The program itself is only 1.3 MB, but be prepared to have some diskspace for all these cool skins you’re gonna download. Have fun, and let me know what you think of it. DISCLAIMER: Coldfire does not own any shares in WindowBlinds. All shares are held by a Cayman Islands based holding, ErifDloc Inc. ErifDloc is a wholly owned subsidiary of ClodRifle Ltd., based on the Isle of Man. Coldfire has no vested interest in ClodRifle Ltd., he is merely their business advisor on a freelance basis. So there 😃 ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-spams-the-straight-dope/24472/2 "2000-07-03T21:06:09Z")
seems to be a Windows incarnation of Kaleidoscope (Macintosh GUI software) [http://www.kaleidoscope.net/](http://www.kaleidoscope.net/) dave ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2000, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-spams-the-straight-dope/24472/3 "2000-07-03T22:17:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > > **I already downloaded over 100 skins!** You live an Amsterdam… Everything is legal there… You are downloading SKINS… What the fuck is wrong with you??? :wally ---
**Author:** ![HomeSlice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9d8465/32.png) [@HomeSlice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HomeSlice)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2000, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-spams-the-straight-dope/24472/4 "2000-07-04T04:36:17Z")
Maybe if it was free. Free is always nice. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2000, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-spams-the-straight-dope/24472/5 "2000-07-04T04:47:28Z")
Been using the Object Desktop for over a year now. How does that relate to windowblinds? Windowblinds is part of object desktop as well as being a stand alone. Object desktop has a number of nice subprograms that are also nice, not just windowblinds, but Control Center, Icon Packager, and Association Wizard. [http://www.stardock.com](http://www.stardock.com) Like Coldfire, am not connected to stardock, I just like their stuff. ---
**Author:** ![\_D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/71c47a/32.png) [@\_D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_D)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2000, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coldfire-spams-the-straight-dope/24472/6 "2000-07-04T04:51:15Z")
It’s fun just on the test version. I like the screens where the edges are “eaten away”, so they have a non-square shape. Why are we still stuck with square windows as a standard? Another “skin” system I’m addicted to is the skins that change your browser at **[NeoPlanet](http://www.neoplanet.com/)** Check out the **[Skin Archive](http://www.neoplanet.com/cgi-bin/skinViewer.pl)** Nobody can download just one!