The Rainmeter desktop customization tool isn’t just about creating the coolest-looking desktop by mixing and matching different skins. Rainmeter can also help your productivity by letting you keep tabs on your inbox at a glance, know what kind of weather you’re facing outside, monitor PC system health, track the news, and take notes.
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Thanks to a, these skins are also getting smarter by reacting to conditions set by programmers, such as PC temperature or an upcoming appointment. If you’re not familiar with this popular desktop tweaking tool, check out our tutorial on how to. Once you’ve got the basics in hand, the following gallery of Rainmeter delights can inspire your own productive desktop design adventure. This Billy-Joel-themed uses the to put favorite apps front-and-center.
In this case, it’s mostly games and Chrome, but you could swap in pretty much anything you want. Honeycomb does take a little more setup than other skins,and you need to know your way around the Windows file system. A short tutorial on will get you started. In addition to Honeycomb, this desktop uses Muziko for the music player, Detox for weather, Smooth Clock for the analog time, and Simple Media skin for the text-based date and time. Images and icons are great, but some people just prefer text-based interfaces even in their Rainmeter widgets. If that’s you, check out, a text-centric Rainmeter skin with a twist. Lim!t can display CPU usage, PC temperature, the date, time, and weather.
But as the “value” of each element increases so does the text size. Thus the more CPU you are using, the bigger the indicator gets. The later it gets in the morning or evening, the bigger the time gets.
A great skin to give you basic information about your PC, the time, and outside conditions at a glance. Microsoft is bringing the after dumping it from Windows 8 and 8.1. But the revised Start menu with a metro look isn’t expected to land on PCs until 2015. Until then, Rainmeter users can try, a derivative of an earlier and seemingly abandoned project called.
This skin creates a Metro-like Start menu for launching apps that also comes packed with a screenshot tool, and quick access to your folders, the task manager, command prompt, Regedit, and the run window. Not to mention basics like shutdown, restart, and sleep. This is my own desktop, currently using elements from and the. Really emphasizes the power and beauty of Rainmeter when you mix and match different themes. This desktop simultaneously displays a ton of information including weather, news, music player, Gmail inbox, recycle bin and other system status information. Yet the desktop doesn’t look crowded or messy at all. At play here is the defunct Fade skin for the system information, myHUDs for time, date, weather, and news.
This desktop was made circa 2010, but most of the components are still available and many alternatives exist for the Fade skin.