Day 2 of the Impulse Gift Guide is focusing on Tools and Utilities to make your PC more productive, and easier to work with. Impulse has a wide variety of applications, everything from backup programs to maintenance applications.

Check out the Impulse Holiday Gift Giving Guide.

Day 2 – Tools/Utilities

The first round of winners for the 2008 GUI Championships have been announced! For a week, users were able to vote for the Most Usable Dreams, and we are happy to announce the winners for this category.

Click to see the winners!

Winners: Most Usable Dreams

I have been getting so many requests to update this gadget for this year, I finally had the time to sit and get it done. This is a gadget for your desktop that should run on any Windows PC. It will countdown the days until this Christmas. I have more gadgets coming, so be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed so you don’t miss them.



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The GUI's is the ultimate Windows Graphical User Interface (GUI) competition. Graphics designers from around the world will be competing in three primary GUI categories; WindowBlinds, Icons and Animated Wallpapers. This year's competition has a prize pool of nearly $15,000 with prizes from AMD/ATI, Wacom, Corel, TechSmith, DeviantArt and WinCustomize!



Starting today, October 14th, 2008, skinners will be able to submit their work to the competition website (http://www.guichamps.com/),… Continue

The latest update in the Demigod blog at IGN comes from Dru Staltman and NateSimpson from Gas Powered Games. They talk about the process of creating the characters featured in Demigod.



"Imagine Hercules and Achilles locked in combat. The two heroes trading blow for blow in an epic melee. The heroes tossing each other through buildings, chasing each other across the fields of antiquity, and eventually a crushing defeat and valiant victory. This epic combat is something that would be… Continue