How To: Trick Out Your Desktop with Rainmeter

[Guest]

You can turn your desktop into an attractive information portal that requires no manual input thanks to this little program and some scripting skill.

How To: Trick Out Your Desktop with Rainmeter : Read more

 

[ssddx]

Sample Destop...Mine

Hah! I see you use ObjectDock Plus! as well. Awsome program.

This looks interesting; I will have to check it out. Is that circle in the bottom right a working calendar?

 

[house70]

Hey, tom's, how come we are still getting swamped with spam? Here's an idea: mark as spam any message that has more than 2 links in it and any message that has more than twice the symbol $ in it. That should help out for a while until you come up with even better filters.

 

[shoelessinsight]

I downloaded Rainmeter after reading this article and have been experimenting with it for a few hours. Though I am having a hard time getting reliable readings of my system temperatures and my current wireless bandwidth, most of the skins are surprisingly easy to customize.

Thanks for the article! =)

 

[gdroland]

Awesome article. I've got alot of Rainmeter desktops setup over on DeviantArt.com / With all the files you need to create them on your own computer. Check them out and don't hesitate to ask in the comments if you have questions/difficulties.

http/gdroland.deviantart.com/

 

[cosmie]

Which weather skin is being used on the sample desktop?

 

[ecnovaec]

I love your desktop! can you please tell us what clock/etc you are using??

 

[tgandy]

Cosmie,

I use the Felix weather widget. It comes with the Rainmeter install.

 

[tgandy]

[citation][nom]ssddx[/nom]Hah! I see you use ObjectDock Plus! as well. Awsome program.This looks interesting; I will have to check it out. Is that circle in the bottom right a working calendar?[/citation]

Yes it is. I've been on the computer at midnight and watched it update the day and date.

 

[scottman777]

I've also downloaded Rainmeter after reading your article - awesome! Where'd you get that calendar?

 

[scottman777]

n/m I found it! Thanks for the article!

 

[toolinthemist]

the advent of widescreen monitors did not bring about more desktop real estate. in fact, they have hampered it. The 4:3 square monitors provide more screen real estate then similarly diagonal dimensioned 16:9 widescreen monitors. the advent of larger screens and higher resolution monitors has led to more screen real estate.

 

[surfer1337dude]

Does anyone know the link for this? It doesnt seem to be working from the article and a couple different sites came up on google

 

[xazin1102x]

So..is this only for desktop??

 

[Guest]

One thing this article doesn't cover is how to skin the taskbar as it is in the first picture.

This can be acheived in a few ways.

The first and most simplest is to autohide the taskbar and place it on an unused side. Then just use Rainmeter as an alternate.

Secondly you can attempt to hotkey the taskbar. There are a few programs that allow this... taskbar hide comes to mind (shareware).

The third option, and my personal choice is to hack the Windows shell so you can reskin it. While I don't have a link handy I'm sure you can search deviantART for it (probably the best resource for windows customization).

 

[Guest]

If you're looking for wallpapers, but can't handle certain 4chan posters (or just don't feel like looking through), Yotoon created a great wallpaper site that scrapes the images off /wg/ and people on there tag them under various tag filters. It also has a very simple yet pleasing interface.

http/wallbase.net/

Say you're looking for a Nintendo wallpaper, you can type in Nintendo, and you'll see alot of Nintendo wallpapers.
Or say you're at work and want to view only SFW images, you can set the filter to only show SFW images, and all the images that have been tagged as NSFW or Edgy (questionable ones) won't be shown.

 

[kgbboy]

how did you get the aero peek to work with objectdock?? when i mouseover the dock icons...it doesnt show anything and is there a way to make the system tray icons high res?! tks in advance!

 

[woodscrews]

am i reading this right, did you guys really just recommend browsing 4chan?

 

[woodscrews]

am i reading this right, did you guys really just recommend browsing 4chan?