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What are Software Skins?

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What are Software Skins?

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In days past children used to play with paper dolls. The paper dolls came with several outfits that could be placed over the doll to dress it up. Software skins do the same thing for the graphic user interface (GUI) of software programs, that paper doll dresses did for paper dolls. Applying a new skin to a program changes the color scheme, theme or style, buttons and controls. It gives the program a fresh look. Not all software programs are written to be skinnable, but skinnable programs do run the gamut of the software spectrum. Software skins are available for Microsoft™ Windows™ and Linux™ operating systems, Windows Media Player™, Firefox™ Web browser and Winamp™ multimedia player to name a scant few. Desktop managers, clocks, games, chat clients and many tools are also skinnable. Software skins are usually very small files that download quickly. Some programs made to be skinnable have a built-in link to search for and import skins. In other cases you might need to manually search f