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Rainmeter Gets A Home Base On deviantART

12:00AM March 31, 2010 | Kevin Purdy

Rainmeter, the desktop customisation tool that’s behind most Featured Desktops and slick things like a Windows Phone 7-style HUD, has an official home at community site deviantART, providing feeds and easy sharing tools for trying out all kinds of clever desktops. More »

Design

The All-Glass Opera Desktop

8:00AM February 4, 2010 | The How-To Geek

Reader t.click’s desktop sports an amazing, totally transparent skin for the Opera browser that uses Aero Glass to render virtually the entire interface. More »

Design

AeroWorks Reskins Your Windows 7 Taskbar Without Patching

7:00AM December 3, 2009 | Jason Fitzpatrick

Windows: If you want to mess around with reskinning your Windows 7 or Vista taskbar without having to muck around with patches, AeroWorks is a no-fuss method for skinning the taskbar without modification to your system. More »

Design

Rainmeter 1.1 Makes The Enigma Desktop Even Easier To Use

8:00AM November 6, 2009 | The How-To Geek

Windows only: The latest version of the popular Rainmeter desktop adds an excellent new tool that makes it easy to manage your library of skins, with previews, detailed setup instructions and more. More »

Design

Rainmeter 1.0 Brings The Enigma Desktop To Everyone

9:00PM August 7, 2009 | The How-To Geek

Windows only: Rainmeter 1.0 not only includes the latest version of the very popular Enigma desktop, it has a theme manager and configuration tool—so you can setup a killer desktop without a line of code. More »

Design

The Halo 3 HUD Desktop

6:00AM June 20, 2009 | The How-To Geek

Reader rykennedyan’s desktop is an impressive recreation of a first-person view from the popular Halo FPS shooter—with system stats and information completely blended into the desktop. More »

Design

The LiteStep At Night Desktop

6:00AM May 7, 2009 | The How-To Geek

Reader YBoris’s desktop completely replaces the Windows interface with LiteStep—a minimalist, functional and infinitely hackable shell replacement. More »

Design

The Friendly Netbook Desktop

8:00AM April 25, 2009 | The How-To Geek

Reader mattjb’s netbook desktop is designed to make Windows XP more friendly for the tiny display—with giant icons for each of his most important tools. More »

Design

The Backflip From The Balcony Desktop

4:30AM April 23, 2009 | The How-To Geek

Reader cain novocain’s desktop blends eye candy with a perfectly functional minimalist desktop—a great customisation without a lot of memory-hogging add-ons. More »

Design

The Aero Geek Firefox Customisation

6:15AM April 21, 2009 | The How-To Geek

The default Firefox theme doesn’t match Windows Vista very well—but with a few extensions and a Stylish script, you can customise Firefox to use a slick, well-integrated look with Vista Aero transparency effects. More »