Tag: RAINMETER

Jeffrey Morley of the Rainmeter development team has decided to grace us with our very own Download Squad Rainmeter skin! As you can see on the screenshot, the skin shows current DLS headlines right on your desktop. They're clickable, so it's very easy to get to the post that you want to read. You also get a temperature reading and a clock/date display. You can't see it very well on the ...

Earlier this week, I spent some time creating my own Rainmeter config. It's nothing major -- it's based on an existing config, and is just a simple bar which shows the time (in a couple of time zones), the current date, and a large clock. The problem was that I wanted Windows to take this bar into account when maximizing windows; I didn't want the windows to be maximized over it. To make things ...

I have a confession to make: my desktop is completely stock. It's vanilla. There are no weird add-ons and no funky widgets. The only thing "special" about it is that the taskbar is vertical, and it's on the secondary monitor. This is a testament to the enormous improvement Windows' stock UI has seen over the past few versions. I have been an avid LiteStep user for around ten years, and I've also ...

Like what you've seen of the Windows Phone 7 Metro interface? Wish you could make your desktop look like it? Wish granted! A group of DeviantArt users has created the Omnimo theme for Rainmeter, the highly-customizable desktop information app for Windows. As you can see, Omnimo is a very faithful port of Metro's angular, widgety good looks. Like most good Rainmeter themes, Omnimo is packed ...

Rainmeter, a Windows desktop modification app, has entered version 1.0, and now comes with the popular Enigma theme as its default skin. Setting up all of Enigma's various widgets on Rainmeter is extremely simple. In fact, Rainmeter is basically code-free. You can enter all of your settings once using the GUI Configuration tool, and they'll be applied to any theme you want to use. It's also now ...