For Immediate Release
Design your own desktop with DesktopX
Stardock’s DesktopX 2 gives users the power to mold Windows
LIVONIA, MI (October 28, 2003) — Software Developer Stardock Corp. released DesktopX 2.0 today. DesktopX is a revolutionary new program that transforms Windows to support a host of new features and technologies right on the desktop.
“There are an infinite number of possibilities of how one might interact with their computer,” said Brad Wardell, President & CEO of Stardock Corp. “Microsoft Windows and Apple’s MacOS represent only two ways. DesktopX gives the user the power to create other ways.”
DesktopX is the program that many studios use to create their own futuristic looking computer interfaces seen in movies and TV. For example, the computer screens seen in last year’s “The Recruit” used DesktopX to deliver the thriller’s futuristic CIA computing environment.
DesktopX can be used to build desktops or simply to add individual groups of objects (commonly called “widgets”) to their desktop that can do everything from display current weather conditions, stock prices, or even play simple games.
Key features of DesktopX 2.0 include:
· Replacement of desktop icons with objects that can be of any size, have shadows and react to mouse events.
· Built in visual system monitoring such as resource usage, CPU monitoring, disk space meters, Internet traffic graphs, and visual graphing of all readouts from Microsoft’s built in performance monitoring APIs (i.e. hundreds of local and network resources can be visually monitored without any programming).
· Placement of image files (.BMP, .PNG, .TGA) right onto the desktop. Users could put family photos, create animated wallpapers, or just create their own desktop metaphor.
· Full support for animation and alpha blending. Using a strip of .BMP or .PNG files, users can set the frame rate and play animations right on their desktop.
· Integrated support for both VBScript and Javascript which includes a powerful programmer’s editor. Developers can quickly access information and data from their network or via the Internet and display it on screen using industry standard scripting languages.
· Built in security allows users to lock down their desktops incrementally. DesktopX can be used to build kiosks, publicly accessible terminals or secure home family desktops.
· Direct support for COM/Active X controls. Users can access any ActiveX control on the system and use them to create a corporate or home desktop environment. These controls act just like any other DesktopX object and can have scripts attached to them to control their behavior.
DesktopX comes in 3 flavors: DesktopX free, DesktopX Enhanced, and DesktopX Enterprise. DesktopX standard is $19.95 or can be purchased as part of Stardock’s Object Desktop suite of desktop enhancements which includes WindowBlinds, Keyboard LaunchPad, IconPackager, ControlCenter, and more. DesktopX Enterprise is $9,500 and allows developers to take an object and export it as a stand alone program for distribution. It literally allows development projects that might take months to be done in hours.
Users can download the free version at http://www.desktopx.net. Stardock’s home page is https://www.stardock.com.
Screenshots of DesktopX 2:
· Enhancing existing desktop icons: http://www.desktopx.net/dx-sept03.jpg
· Building a desktop aquarium: http://www.desktopx.net/dx-july03.jpg
· A sampling of DesktopX objects: https://www.stardock.com/products/odnt/odnt-july03.jpg
· A Kid’s Desktop Kiosk: http://skins.wincustomize.com/Frogboy/dx/kids2002.jpg
· Microsoft Bob Reborn: http://skins.wincustomize.com/Frogboy/dx/bobxp.jpg
· The easy of putting images on the desktop: http://www.desktopx.net/dx2/new-8.jpg
More information & video demos at: http://www.desktopx.net/infoguide.asp
DesktopX 2.0
$19.95
DesktopX home page: http://www.desktopx.net
Object Desktop home page: http://www.objectdesktop.com
Stardock Corp. (www.stardock.com)
17292 Farmington Rd.
Livonia MI 48152
Phn: (734) 762-0687
Fax: (734) 762-0690
Web: https://www.stardock.com
