marți, 13 aprilie 2010

Customize Your Desktop With Rainmeter

I don’t know how I haven’t stumbled across this before, but now that I have I feel I must share it with you. Rainmeter is unlike anything I’ve come across before. It’s a desktop customization platform which allows you to enhance your Windows PC with handy, compact applets which float freely on your desktop, much like Windows Sidebar gadgets, or dashboard widgets for the Mac.

There is a whole array of various different skins and themes available to download and install to customize Rainmeter to your liking.

You can download Rainmeter here and it’s available for 32bit and 64bit machines for Windows XP, Vista and 7.

Then once you downloaded the installer, go ahead and install it and it should run automatically when your finished. The default theme is Enigma which is shown above and has several widgets, taskbars and various other components. It also displays many system resource widgets, such as RAM and CPU usage, so you know what’s going on with your computer all the time. All of these are easily customizable and there is virtually no code involved.

The great thing about Rainmeter is that you enter all your settings via the GUI interface which can be accessed by double clicking on the sidebar and then going to configuration, then once you entered them all, they’re saved for any theme you apply. This means you don’t have to go re-entering your settings each time you change theme.

Speaking of themes, there is a whole rake of them available that you can use with Rainmeter to customize it to your liking. You can find them easily on Google and there easy enough to install. Once there installed you can switch between them easily enough by just entering the GUI by double clicking on the sidebar once again.

So that’s a quick look at Rainmeter, why not install it and play around with it for a bit and see if it’s to your liking and try out different themes and stuff. It really livens up your desktop

Download Rainmeter Here