Earlier this month Microsoft put Windows 8 Metro style apps on display at the Build conference in Anaheim, CA. I had the pleasure of presenting a session on styling, animations, and templating for ...

The start screen “grid” has been touted as a big feature of Windows 8. With the portable Start Screen Animations Tweaker, you can adjust it to your liking. There are any number of products promising ...

OS X loves to devote resources to the user interface to fill your world with drop shadows and animations everywhere you go. That's fine on a powerful, newer Mac, but if you want to speed up an old one ...

Microsoft has definitely opened up a few doors for personalizing Windows 7 compared to Windows Vista, but the software giant recently gave some news that many customizers and tweakers will not enjoy.

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft’s Windows 11 preview has been available for a couple of weeks now, but I ...

Desktop computing technology has evolved considerably since the first graphical user interface was developed by researchers at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in 1973. Thirty years after the ...

Folks using Opera may soon notice some slick new animations. The Opera development team today released Opera 21, the latest major debut of the desktop browser for Windows and Mac. The Windows version ...