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He was absolutely blown away and then said the words that would change my life forever… So I took him over to the PCs and proceeded to show him a variety of animated Sonique skins and explained how they played MP3 files along with other digital audio formats. One day a man walks into Circuit City and says “I’m the CEO of an MP3 Company and I need some speakers.” Now because Circuit City Sales Associates worked on commission and speakers didn’t pay much (about $1.50 on average), he didn’t garner much attention from the sales team, but as soon as I heard the word “MP3,” I immediately walked over to him.

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This was back when some PC boxes had cow spots ( Gateway Computers), Sony Trinitron 17” CRT monitors were the “must have” displays, and the Apple iMac G3s were the most beautiful, all-in-one computers in the world, with their saturated colors & ridiculously cool marketing images. I ended up putting Sonique (a popular, desktop media player at the time) skins on all the PCs in my store. My introduction to skins were through digital audio players. It was still the same software, just a different look & feel.

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Skins, were replacement graphics a user could download and then change the way a software application looked on the outside. I was completely enamored with skins, from the moment I discovered their existence. I was selling computers in a Circuit City’s SOHO division in Fort Lauderdale. It actually started 2 years earlier when I met a man who was looking to purchase some computer speakers. Sure I had to explain what a skin was, to just about everyone, and folks hearing the name, thought we were selling dermatology products or worse… adult entertainment, but we were kicking these media player skins out like a factory, so the name was perfectly apropos.īut did it really start there? Not exactly… FIRST CAME SKINWERKZ It was on December 18, 2000, that I incorporated the company, bought a domain name and with $6000 in the bank and a credit card, started a boutique UI design studio called The Skins Factory. So how did we end up on Windows OS? To know that, you have to travel back seven years to the start of The Skins Factory. Bill Gates demoed The Skins Factory designed Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget at Microsoft’s 2005 Professional Developers Conference.