I’ve spent a fair amount of time getting my head around Rainmeter and the creation of various skins, I’m gradually improving them as I learn new tricks & techniques and they are getting downloaded a reasonable amount over at DeviantArt. The last few days I’ve been working on actual buttons as opposed to images pretending to be buttons…
If there is one disappointment with Windows 7, it’s that the gadgets still look like a throwback to Vista and dare I say it Windows XP. That’s where Rainmeter steps in and makes your machine look like the 21st century.
The programme itself is maturing rapidly and new features continue to appear. Best of all you can fiddle and tweak to your hearts contents and mix and match elements from theme or simply add stand alone ‘meters’.
Lots of changes, still extremely configurable.
New for this Alpha release – Aero.
What is important is that with the addition of a line or two and installing the Alpha release which can be found here, you can add Windows Aero effect to existing themes; this is ForceX after I tweaked it:
If there is one disappointment with Windows 7, it’s that the gadgets still look like a throwback to Vista and dare I say it Windows XP. That’s where Rainmeter steps in and makes your machine look like the 21st century.
The programme itself is maturing rapidly and new features continue to appear. Best of all you can fiddle and tweak to your hearts contents and mix and match elements from theme or simply add stand alone ‘meters’.
Lots of changes, still extremely configurable.
Is a rather impressive Rainmeter Suite which allows to to configure in just about any way you feel, the video does a better job of explaining tbh…
One of the nicest things about my phone is the cool interface HTC provides. If you use Rainmeter and this skin you can have them on your desktop too…

If there is one disappointment with Windows 7, it’s that the gadgets still look like a throwback to Vista and dare I say it Windows XP. That’s where Rainmeter steps in and makes your machine look like the 21st century.
The programme itself is maturing rapidly and new features continue to appear. Best of all you can fiddle and tweak to your hearts contents and mix and match elements from theme or simply add stand alone ‘meters’.

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