Warhammer Online has come out this month and I was lucky enough to score a copy to play with. It highlighted to me more of the subtle nuances that occur in gaming today. If you have played any genera of games in the last two decades you can lay out that "genera" in this case defines the game in a broad sense and then after that it comes down to flow, details, and theme. People whom hate certain genres say that all FPS, or shooters if you prefer, are all the same. Where true fans can tell you ...

I'm getting married this Saturday the 4th. It will be a small backyard wedding of just very close relation family. There is a  very large reception/affirmation of the vows next summer. However I thought I would post in my excitement. My apologies that I won't be around a great deal this weekend (or have been active art wise) but I'm sure you can understand.   The real short story is that Danni (short for Danielle) and I met one weekend that I was home in MI from Seattle. When I...

Rants from the bag Hello there, If you know me personally you will know me for my rants. If you know me only digitally you have not been exposed to one of my rants. I will demonstrate one of them for you now. Holding the door; when did this become an offense to people? Today I went for some coffee to start up my morning. A woman was walking behind me that I suspected was in her late 60s. I pulled the door open and stepped aside to let her in. She smiled at me and thanked me. I...

For all the people that were saying they were having trouble with Impulse downloading to XP64 bit and Vista 64bit with the error message saying it wasn't compatible I have good news. Last night a new staging went through to correct this problem. It wasn't actually an Impulse error but the server it was communicating with sending the wrong info. That has been corrected now and you should have no troubles. Even if you were using the software late into the night/morning please give it anoth...

So I have student loans through Salie Mae. I was a pretty dumb kid when I got them and the loan % was really stupid. I took the loans anyway. When I didn't find a job out of college I put them on forbearance still not knowing what I was doing. Soon after I did my research and realized I was really up the creek. Now I am not going to give you some sob story and tell you how much of a victim I am. What I am going to tell you is that since I have been with Salie I have discovered that it is a horri...

Milksama and I are putting in some efforts right now to do a high end, animated, Media Player skin. One that would work in either OS. However we were looking at is what theme should we start with? We boiled it down to three. We would really like anyone to toss in a vote or ideas for the player. Idea 1: High end technology.     Think common type skin. Lots of shine, glass, holograms, and glowy bits. Animations are quick and crazy with lots of flash to it. Idea 2: Low post-ap...

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Just so you are aware due to poor (very very poor) weather conditions in Michigan some of our servers were up and down this morning. If the weather improves then the service will be less jittery. As of now they are working but more than 90k homes in MI are with out power. Currently there is no disaster but if you had troubles this morning they are fixed. This is more of a heads up.

A new update was published last night however with some Vista installs Stardock Central has an issue. If you are having trouble with the update installing over and over you will need to reinstall Stardock Central. The issue is being corrected as we speak so if you wait till later today the update should work fine. Just an FYI

I have noticed that of late I have been getting more emails asking about drag when using Object Dock on new laptops. Truth be told I am finding that 90% of the time it is due to bad drivers. In several cases I have been directing people here: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ Now of course you take your own risks but nearly all the customers that have had this issue have reported good things to me. Almost all the drivers are company made. Like I said non company bound sites are at your ow...

We had quite a few tickets on this matter so I thought Iwould post here as well. The Wincustomize browser was unable to connect for a little over 12+ hours inthe last few days due to a server migration. If you had troubles with this thesituation is corrected now. Please try it again and you should be all set.However if you have any problems of any kind please write into support and letus know about it. Thanks! support@stardock.com Cheers

You might have had an issue registering a updated (and only the updated, meaning you bought the $10 upgrade serial number instead of a new one) serial number for CursorFX. If so that issue has been corrected now please try again. If you still have trouble please let us at support know at support@stardock.com.

Just wanted everyone to know that technically all of the support staff will be off for Christmas till after the 1st. However we will pop in from time to time to stem the flow of incoming troubles and assist where we can. Please just be aware that responses will be slower for a short time. We hope that everyone has a great holiday and we will see you again in 2008! Cheers and good fortune.

CursorFX is now available as a beta through Stardock Central. It went public last night. We are tracking a bug in the upgrade page. When you go to the update page there are several users that have found that the site cannot detect CursorXP on their account. We are fully aware of the issue and are working to correct it. Sorry for the trouble. As a side note users of CursorXP whom used the switch for turning the cursor on and off it has been changed from crtl+shift+c to ctrl+shift+v.

Just a quick little thing from support. Currently support phones are set to answer between the hours of Mon-Fri 9-4pm EST. We often get queries on when we will be available on weekends. Officially support is not available on weekends but more times than not the support staff is looking in just in case disaster strikes, or just wants to get ahead of work. A lot of this many will know already. However Stardock is getting new traffic and I have noticed this coming up more of late. Due to the ...