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danill0c’s 5imple skin
was one of the first WindowBlinds skins to really show off what
WindowBlinds 5 could do. Both a practical skin and very polished at the
same time. The subtle shadow effect is part of the skin (WindowBlinds
5′s engine supports alpha blending effects like shadows and glass). A
terrific design all together.[Download] Vista Ready! |
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Kol’s Thallos
was one of the best skins of last year without a doubt. Clean, smooth,
and useful, its subtle shadows and polish made it a favorite for users.
Thallos is unique in that Kol created both WindowBlinds and msstyles
versions of it and hence won in both categories. The two are virtually
identical. The WindowBlinds version adds toolbar icons, and a progress
animation.[Download] Vista Ready! |
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Josephs’s Live Suite
was one of the highlights of last year. Some argued that this is the
look they wish they’d updated Windows 2003 Server to look like. A good
step between Windows XP and Windows Vista.[Download]
Vista Ready!
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ChaNinja’s MotoXP
B1 was one of the most beautiful skins created last year. Both highly
stylish and very usable. It comes in multiple styles, supports
animation, and is very fast.
Vista Ready! |
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danillo0C was almost certainly the top skinner of 2006. Besides making the top GUI Championship skin Acrylic, he also made Aerial. This skin has it all and is incredibly usable and fully-featured.
Vista Ready! |
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JJ Ying was another skinning super-star last year and one of the best skins made last year was Ecliz
Deluxe. The screenshot really doesn’t do it justice as it comes in
multiple styles including a clear glass version. A truly amazing skin.
And as you can see, it works great on Vista as well as XP.
Vista Ready! |
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No best of 2006 list would be complete without tehZERO’s Eminence. With its cloudy stained glas title bars, clean design, it looks great on both Windows XP and Vista.
Vista Ready! |
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For users getting tired of Aero-like glassy skins, Buuf-OS
from Gabriel provided great relief. With great toolbar icons (for XP
users), great progress dialogs, and lots of other subtle tweaks and
enhancements, it’s just a beautiful and original skin.
Vista Ready! |
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Adni’s VistaPlus
was the most downloaded WindowBlinds skin of 2006 with nearly a
half-million unique downloads. It doesn’t run on Windows Vista but for
Windows XP users looking for a fantastic looking skin on Windows XP that
in some respects is a better Vista than Vista, VistaPlus is a great
choice.
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MikeB’s Old Republic was
one of the more original skins that also maintained a high degree of
usability and polish. With a subtle shadow and distressed style, it’s an
awesome choice for users looking for something different.[Download] Vista Ready! |
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Luna Element 5 from Tornado was easily one of the favorites of users everywhere. With a clean UI that blends XP and Vista together seamlessly, Luna Element makes our list of one of the best skins of 2006. LE 5.1 released in January of this year keeps the updates going.[Download] |
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Kol did double-duty with Thallos. Available both for WindowBlinds and as an msstyles, it was a user favorite.[Download] |
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No top 10 list on msstyles would be complete without mentioning MohsinNaqi’s Tener VS. What makes Tener so special is in the details. The taskbar is extremely well done and the colors are very carefully chosen. Mohsin Naqi is a top skinner with icon packages, wallpapers, WindowBlinds visual styles, and more (you can check out his site here).[Download] |
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heylove’s Area04 (Areao4.2), like many of the top msstyles, made deviantART’s daily download (this one on New Year’s Eve!). It is significantly different than most of the msstyles we saw last year. Combined with its original design, clean style, and several different sub-styles, Aera04 makes our list.[Download] |
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Schluepfer’s very first visual style was Klarheit. And if this is what his first effort is, we can’t wait to see what he makes for 2007![Download] |
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hsn’s Mint 2.0 started its life as a Linux Gnome GTK2 theme and brought over to Windows XP. Despite not being “original”, it is still one of our favorite skins of 2006 regardless of where its original platform was. For the shadow effect, you’ll need a shadow program such as WindowFX.[Download] |
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Tempura is another Linux GTK theme that was ported but like Mint, the platform is less important than the excellence in the skin itself. Lokheed had a great year and you can see his complete portfolio here. hsn’s port of it really shines. You can see how it looked on Linux by going here. Like Mint, you’ll need to download a program like WindowFX to get shadows.[Download] |
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Bant’s Reluna Em3lent is a great example of Bant’s elegant design philosophy of creating usable, clean, and elegant skins. The skin actually comes in several different flavors that look significantly different from one another. Any individual sub-style would be on its own one of the top skins of the year. Getting them bundled together in this single visual style package makes it just that much sweeter.[Download] |
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Cyberchaos’s Aquanox VS was one of the most popular msstyles of 2006 with over 100,000 downloads at deviantART. Inspired by some of Kol’s other work, this clean, usable and original skin makes our list.[Download] |
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dobee’s NeoGeniX’s is one of the most polished and original looking msstyles of last year. It was a favorite of many of us this past year. When combined with the right icon package, a toolbar theme, and the NeoGeniX ObjectDock, users can give Windows a whole new look.[Download] |
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