Once a relatively complicated application, Rainmeter developers have increasingly striven to make the meter's interface more user friendly. This trend started with the 1.0 release and continues now that 2.0 is available. In fact, Rainmeter can do some pretty cool things to your windows desktop, and it's easier than ever now to apply new settings.

Rainmeter now comes pre-installed with a theme called "Enigma", which is a great example of how cool your desktop can look. You can add clocks, calendars, and RSS, as well as a whole range of system monitors. And that's just the beginning. Virtually everything on Rainmeter is customizable, and there are scores of other themes you can download for free to give your desktop a really personal feel.

Enigma has been included specifically because it makes your desktop into a really functional space. You can move different meter windows around on a whim, edit their skins relatively easily, tweak the transparency, and even make them disappear completely. As a way of freshening your desktop, Rainmeter is absolutely fantastic.

While Rainmeter has improved its user friendliness substantially, beginners can still easily get lost in the configuration options and settings. There's really not much reason to mess around with them at all though, unless you want to create your own look. Adding new skins is now much easier and doesn't require coding, although if you want a challenge the option to personalize with your own code is still available.

Rainmeter shows how easy it is to personalize Windows and quite effortlessly revolutionize its looks.

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Windows 8 Transformation Pack give you the look and feel of Windows 8 on older
Windows versions. The Metro design, themes, wallpapers, icons, sounds and other features can all be yours with this excellent free theme pack.

Features

Windows 8 Transformation Pack automatically installs several design changes and programs. The freeware comes with an imitation of the new Modern style and adjusts menus, cursors, screensavers and system sounds to emulate Windows' 8th version. You can also configure individual elements of Windows 8 Transformation Pack via the wizard.

Usability

Windows 8 Transformation Pack adds pizazz with its own Modern apps. By clicking on the tile store, you can manage programs and play mini updates or add extra apps. Standard elements include apps like Clock, Calendar, system settings, Gmail, Hotmail, Twitter, Facebook, Internet Explorer, Music and Photo Gallery.

Quality

Windows 8 Transformation Pack is a worthy successor to the popular Seven Transformation Pack. This early version of Windows 8 is a pretty impressive mimic. If Seven Translation Pack is anything to go by, as Windows 8 gets more advanced, so too will Windows 8 Transformation Pack, so keep an eye out for even more updates.

Conclusion

If you want a taste of Windows 8 on XP, Vista or Windows 7, download Windows 8 Transformation Pack asap!

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ClocX supports many features like anti-aliasing, transparency and mouse-over transparency, over 400 included customizable skins, interface in 34 languages, click through, customizable priority, auto-load, alarms, calendar and many more.

ClocX is completely free and clean software. No adware, spyware or toolbars are included. ClocX allows users to customize its look completely by selecting one of many styles and various options. Advanced users can even create their own styles or edit any of current styles just using a graphic editor and Notepad.

Users who like to customize look of their desktop will love ClocX. It allows them to choose from many of styles and it adds extra functionality like creating alarms.

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The best tested windows 7 gadgets with much easier installation also their are several categories you can select easily and install all selected windows 7 gadgets in one time.

Windows 7 Gadgets Pack .With this pack you can easily instal the best Windows 7 Gadgets for your desktop. It has the top 25 free windows gadgets and one click install. it comes with Clock, CPU, Calendar, Search and several other tool gadgets.

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Capture.NET is a small program with a ton of useful features for Windows users. The developer describes this as 'the Swiss Army Knife of PC tools', and it's easy to see why.

Small enough for portable usage, Capture.NET is a stand-alone application that sits on your desktop as a smart translucent window with a clock and calendar. Right-clicking on it opens up a host of other features. There are sticky notes, a multifunctional alarm clock, screen capture, color picker, history eraser, Windows spy, tweaker, a font viewer and a backup tool.

The Capture.NET screen capture tool is pretty good. All its features are available through keyboard commands, like window capture, full screen or region, and the results open in a neat editor that gives you all the editing tools you'd expect. The color picker is also useful, allowing you to easily see the RGB code for any color on screen, while the Font viewer does exactly what it says!

Capture.NET's privacy eraser is extensive, meaning you can clean your computer of what you've been up to if necessary. You can also set up a cleaning routine and link it to the alarm clock, so your activity is cleaned automatically at the time of your choice. Otherwise, Capture.NET's alarm clock also works as a normal alarm.

Another useful tool in Capture.NET is the converter, especially useful for changing image formats. There are even more functions suited to advanced users who create web pages and so on. In terms of usability, Capture.NET is mixed. Some of its functions are self explanatory, and others lack necessary instructions. While it looks nice, the buttons on Capture.Net are too small, although all the features can be reached with a right click.

Capture.NET is a useful and portable all-in-one tool, especially for more techy Windows users.

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Get your Local Weather along with a 2 days forecast directly in your ScreenSaver! A beautiful analog clock to show you when is the lunch break! Not sure if your birthday is on Saturday or Sunday? No problem! Go check it out! How about knowing each second what are the latest rumors in the world? We have that too!

It's easy to use and it has a friendly layout. The screensaver shows the latest rumors / news from various categories such as Technology, Auto, Hollywood, Lifestyle, etc.

Absolutely everyone who's interested in gossiping / rumors but also for those who just want to know the time or the weather outside.

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Create your own personal or commercial screensavers for royalty-free distribution. Screensaver Factory is very easy to use and it includes special features for creating commercial screensavers. Good software for starting a screensaver business.

Create your own personal or commercial screensavers for royalty-free distribution. Screensaver Factory is very easy to use and it includes special features for creating commercial screensavers. Good software for starting a screensaver business.

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Download link to 3D Magic Christmas Toy Shop is delivered immediately and the other 2 are sent in a follow-up email within a few hours at the most.

For more information or to try other demos in this set please see the individual product descriptions. In 3D Magic Christmas Toy Shop slowly comes alive with a moving train, dancing teddy bear, marching toy soldiers, a countdown to christmas day, functional clock and calendar, a dancing snowman frolics in the falling snow outside and more!

In 3D Chriistmas Puppies and Kittens 6 adorable 3D animated puppies and kittens in Christmas stockings send you holiday greetings. Select from falling sparkles, poinsettias, candy canes, holly, none or a mixture of all.

In 3D Interactive Holiday Candles the imagery and messages of the season are demonstrated in 3D. Candles light in sequence with individual messages.

Later you can extinguish or light the flames by clicking on the candles. In each you can change tint to give a morning, evening or night effect, Or go wild and make everything purple.

Full version allows you to play up to ten MP3 music files of your own. Features include sound mute, volume control, background tint, brightness, selectable number, color, size, fade and velocity of falling animations.

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Nowadays it is very important to have the latest reliable information, and with the help of PalmaryClock Wireless Edition it is as easy as a pie.

The latest currency information, weather forecasts and exact time are seamlessly integrated for you! FeaturesWeather Forecast for 1500 cities (provided by CustomWeather, Inc)Currency ConverterPalm OS Calendar appointments at calendar viewAtomic Time SyncronizationCustomizable wireless autoupdateAn ability to specify the button to switch on the device and automatically start PalmaryClock.

An ability to launch an application or timer on alarmNew skins with calendarUser's skinsUser's backgroundsEasily adjustable and intuitive alarms and timers control from the main clock screenSlideshow modePersonal user settings for every skinAnalog clockDigital clockAnalog-digital clockUnlimited number of Alarms with enhanced settingsUnlimited number of TimersTen independent StopwatchesWorld Map view with additional thematic mapsWorld Time with integrated World MapSunrise/sunset, Internet time and Time calculator for cities or for free locationMoon phases viewMP3/WAV/OGG/WMA alarmtones support using built-in decoder or external player (PocketTunes or Aero Player)Skin, background and map thumbnail previewTechnologiesFully optimized for the new ARM based devicesHigh quality real-time alpha blending and advanced 2x antialiasingUniversal Skin technologyFast JPEG decodingFast Skin processing: opacity, movement and rotationFast Background processing: scale and rotationIntelligent In cradle technologyFast start (no more than one second) with PalmaryClock Cache technologyEasily adjustable startupFully optimized for one-hand navigationUpdate descriptionVersion 1.

5Stopwatch bugfix (incrementing time after power off is fixed)Sending sms on alarm bugfixHourly repeated alarm bugfixSorting in Alarms window bugfixWi-fi connection bugfix

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With highly active flames this looks like a real fireplace (no puny gas jet flames here! ). Calico kitty in a rocking chair completes the warm cozy scene.

Smoothing cracking fire and purring cat sound effects. Want a soothing nightime scene? Just set the time of day to nightime and a dark shadowy blue hue is cast on everything.

Prefer a dusky sunset scene? The sunset setting produces a deep orange hue. Demo contains full set of features. Have fun customizing this screen saver to your preferences.

In addition to tint, brightness, time of day settings, sound mute and volume control you can play your own mp3 music and for a festive touch you can select falling animations for Christmas, New Years, Valentine's Day or mix them all together.

Screensaver contains animated gif images. Provides password protection as needed. Also available as a 3D animated eCard. Remove demo using Windows Add/Remove programs.

Remove demo using Windows Add/Remove programs.

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With ZBar you can have the Windows toolbar on all your screens, either on top or at the bottom. To make it fit your current Windows style, ZBar features a bunch of customization options, including eight different skins, support for standard or double height and a few special effects including mirror and glass.

The good thing about ZBar is that it also includes a few extra goodies, such as an optional clock and a six-month calendar, as well as a tool to use different wallpapers on each screen or just one image across all of them – which is not supported natively by Windows.

ZBar doesn’t require installation, and given its barely noticeable impact on system resources (7 MB), it’s the perfect companion for everyone with multiple-monitor computers.

ZBar makes the Windows toolbar stretch across multiple monitors, and also lets you use different wallpapers on each screen.

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One thing that Windows lacks is decent calendar. Active Desktop Calendar is a fully customizable calendar which features notes, tasks, alarms, and merges neatly into whatever desktop wallpaper you have.

You can even make it synchronize with your PDA via Outlook.

If you find the calendar is running slowly or slowing your system down, you can also revert to a text only version of the calendar. If you need hard copies of your important dates, there's also a very easy to use print option for calendar data.

Although it's not necessary, there's also a world clock screen saver that shows your computer's system time, plus five major time zones around the world.

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It allows you to set up alarms with messages, WAV files or PC-speaker sounds, run files and documents. There`s a calendar always at hand, too.

The clock is fully skinnable and comes with three nice-looking skins already. It also supports other useful features such as sounding chimes and starting with the system.

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What does it mean? Till December, 22nd, 2012 remains to very few time. Countdown clock count up to remained a time of a current cycle. How many days, hours, minutes and seconds remain before this mysterious date?

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Ace Clock also comes with multiple alarms, reminders, hour and half hour tones of notification, countdowns, and even stopwatch times. This product is synchronized with internet time servers and even includes calendars, calculators, interface themes, and desktop corner anchors.

Ace Clock also comes with various interface themes and is designed for an advanced usage of system resources. This product is useful for those who need a fully-featured, fully-customizable clock for their computer desktop.

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Calendar, alarms, world time clock and much more let AB-Clock become an efficient helper in the everyday life with the PC. With its unique technology, AB-Clock replaces the standard clock in the Windows taskbar.

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