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I produced one as a proof of concept and one as an exercise in technique over Christmas.

Rainmeter currently does not support VU meters, that doesn’t stop me building a skin to sit on top of one!

A suit of small skins that uses a square meter if possible and with supplementary information via tool tips. I am most pleased with the bit of code that generates the square meters, have a look at the seconds indicator on the clock to see this in action.

I’ve always liked the look of barcodes, no idea why! Any how I wrote a small clock that uses UPC-A codes to display the time, you can see this most easily where the seconds change to the right.  The text below shows it in plain to you can actually use it to tell the time…:)

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Finally, Speedfan reads my hard drives details!  I’m using is to supply details to Rainmeter, but this means I might just bash out a new skin to support this…

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A little Rainmeter skin I just knocked out, install, position on the desktop and then spook yourself out…

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I’ve been beavering away and here’s a screenie showing a bigger analogue clock and an upgraded processor meter that toggles top process by CPU use and memory.  I’ll test for a bit and then push them out of the door.

My own Rainmeter theme with a variety of functional and attractive aero blur based skins. This update 2.3 adds:

• CPU Load meters, with a persistent read peak reading allowing you to see which cores are getting used and to what level.
•  Smurfier’s lua script allows scrolling lyrics, so big songs don’t fill your screen, it also allows aero blur to be applied.
•  A second version of the slideshow skin adds UNC Path support courtesy of a lua script by JS Morely,  It can be considerably slower that the existing skin if the network source folder has a lot of files (in the thousands) so, stick to the old unless you need the UNC part.
•  I don’t like clutter on my desktop, this launcher brings all the useful stuff in one handy bar (Shutdown, Restart, Hibernate, Lock, Task Manager, Screen saver & recycle bin).
•  Other minor tweaks & fixes.

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• Rainmeter
• Speedfan
• Cobolt

Almost out of beta with new features as always, I need to add repeat & shuffle buttons to my player skins…:)

Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform. Through Rainmeter, you can enhance your Windows computer at home or work with skins: handy, compact applets which float freely on your desktop, much like Windows Sidebar gagdgets, or dashboard widgets for the Mac. Rainmeter skins provide you with useful information at a glance. It’s easy to keep an eye on your system resources, like memory and battery power, or your online data streams, including email, RSS feeds, and weather forecasts. Many skins are even functional: they can record your notes and to-do lists, launch your favorite applications, and send your tweets to Twitter – all in a clean, unobtrusive interface that you can rearrange and customize to your liking.

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A revision to the look and size of meters again, I didn’t like the grey bar much in 2.0! The suite features aero blur so will match colour with your current desktop theme as well as a host of changes, improvements and additional skins.

You need to install Rainmeter’s current beta (2.1 r895 or better) which can be found here. Link

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An update to my Rainmeter skins intrucing some changes and tweaks.  It is the result of an experiment with some skin code that reminded me of the explosives planted in the bar scene from Tron Legacy which I watched on Blue Ray recently. These are the results, now with 5 colour variations – middle mouse button to toggle.

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A full revision of my Cobolt theme for Rainmeter featuring smaller, modular skins new font, graphics tool-tips and other flourishes.  Shiny…

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