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WinCustomize was launched in March 2001 by Brad Wardell and Pat Ford, both of whom work at Stardock.After the dot-com recession had taken down many popular skin sites, WinCustomize quickly grew in popularity due to a combination of wide variety of content, uptime reliability, and being the preferred content destination by Stardock customers.
Rainmeter is a free and open-source desktop customization utility for Windows released under the GNU GPL v2 license. It allows users to create and display user-generated customizable desktop widgets or applets called "skins" that display information. [3] [4] Ready to use collections of skins can be downloaded and installed in packages known as ...
Windows Desktop Gadgets (called Windows Sidebar in Windows Vista) is a discontinued widget engine for Microsoft Gadgets. Desktop Gadgets have been replaced by Windows 10 Taskbar Widgets. It was introduced with Windows Vista, in which it features a sidebar anchored to the side of the desktop. Its widgets can perform various tasks, such as ...
Web gadgets run on Web sites such as Live.com and Windows Live Spaces. Live.com lets users add RSS feeds in order to view news at a glance. Building off Microsoft's start.com experimental page, Live.com can be customized with Web Gadgets, mini-applications that can serve almost any purpose (e.g. mail readers, weather reports, slide shows, search, games, etc.).
Windows Spotlight is a feature included with Windows 10 and Windows 11 which downloads images and advertisements from Bing and displays them as background wallpapers on the lock screen. In 2017, Microsoft began adding location information for many of the photographs.
Inori Aizawa (Japanese: 相沢いのり, Chinese: 藍澤祈), also known as Internet Explorer-tan, is a moe anthropomorphism mascot character, originally of the Internet Explorer (IE) web browser and currently of its successor, Microsoft Edge, [4] created by Microsoft Singapore and designed by Collateral Damage Studios.
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; / ɡ ɪ f / GHIF or / dʒ ɪ f / JIF, see § Pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987.
Between 2017 and 2022, the "fake artists" allegations died down, often giving way to other controversies suffered by Spotify, such as their 2019 deal with Joe Rogan. [2] In 2022, however, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter discovered that approximately 20 musicians had been producing tracks for over 500 fabricated names on Spotify and named the production company Firefly Entertainment as a ...