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Use Windows 7 Themes In Vista Or XP

11:30PM Kevin Purdy | Microsoft put far more work into the look and themes of Windows 7 than its previous operating systems. Pull down that design work into your non-7 system with Digital Inspiration’s simple work-arounds. More »
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The Gaia Desktop

8:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader Sweetshop Union’s Windows 7 desktop has been completely transformed with the Gaia09 skin for Rainmeter, complete with widgets, wallpaper and a visual style to match. More »
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Rainmeter 1.1 Makes The Enigma Desktop Even Easier To Use

8:00AM 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 »
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The Ultimate Halloween Desktop

7:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader The Royal Rebel’s Windows desktop is ready for Halloween—complete with spooky wallpaper, a Halloween countdown, and a to-do list written on a tombstone. The only thing more frightening is that it could bluescreen anytime. More »
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Microsoft Releases More Free Windows 7 Theme Downloads

1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Windows 7 already has a good batch of stylish themes and eye-pleasing wallpaper, and now Redmond has opened up its vaults and released new themes and wallpapers, some of them with sponsored partners. More »
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Theme Builder Creates Document Themes For Office 2007

7:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Standalone application Theme Builder creates themes for Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and even Outlook emails — allowing you to create a consistent look and feel across all your documents. More »
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Grab Icons And Wallpapers From Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Not quite ready to jump into the Ubuntu 9.10 beta? Want to see what its subtly revised icons, themes and wallpapers look like? Being an open-source project, you can grab pretty much everything right from the source. More »
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XPize Polishes Windows XP’s Interface

1:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows: Just because you’re still rocking Windows XP, or you’ve recently picked up a netbook that zips along nicely with XP installed on it, doesn’t mean you need to miss out on the polished graphics of newer Windows versions. More »
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Firefox 4.0 Theme Skips A Year Ahead In Looks

4:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Mozilla released the mockups for the far-in-the-future Firefox 4.0 release, and just like with the 3.7 release mockups, a motivated user has already created a lookalike theme that you can install now. More »
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Rainmeter 1.0 Brings The Enigma Desktop To Everyone

9:00PM 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 »