Windows 8 offers tons of user customization but the included backgrounds can become boring very quickly. Chameleon for Windows 8 keeps your lock screen background interesting by cycling through new photos at a set interval. You can set it to change anywhere between 15 minutes and two days. Chameleon for Windows 8 provides a great way to be greeted with a different, interesting photo every time you log in.

Beyond setting lock screen backgrounds, Chameleon for Windows 8 doesn't really do much else. There's no way to change the background image for the Windows 8 start menu. You'll be stuck with the default themes that Microsoft included.

While the quality of the photography in Chameleon for Windows 8 is great, the resolution left much to be desired. Photos loaded quickly but that's because they were compressed. Pictures look fuzzy and weren't displayed at the native resolution of our monitors. We wish that Chameleon for Windows 8 had a way to automatically download backgrounds at the native resolution of the screen.

Overall, Chameleon for Windows 8 provides a fun way to get fresh, interesting backgrounds for your lock screen but leaves much to be desired for the quality of the photographs.

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Code anything easily with this powerful, flexible, and extensible editor supporting multitudes of programming and scripting languages. In short, here is what Chameleon has to offer: * Color-coded syntax for ActionScript, Active Server Pages (ASP), ADA, Apache, BASIC, batch files, C, C++, C#, Cascading Style Sheets (css), ColdFusion templates, Fortran, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Pascal, Perl script, PHP, SQL, TCL, and VB Script * Ability to experiment - unlimited Undo and Redo are only one click away* Bookmarking for easy navigation * Help as you type: Intellisense/Auto-complete eliminates the need to memorize standard functions, methods, properties and parameter lists * Brace matching - see the scope of the function or expression immediately * Code templates: you can insert any reusable piece of text into your document with the minimal number of keystrokes, or convert any piece of text to a template * Ability to automate code insertion and repetitive tasks, and provide macro-like capabilities via industry-standard Visual Basic for Applications (VBScript) * Single-click navigation between documents using document tabs * Ability to create your own language definitions and profiles * Create C#, Java and HTML projects using project templates, or create your own templates, and * Publish your creations on the Internet using built-in Quick FTP.

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Besides the traditional minimize, maximize and close buttons, Chameleon Buttons displays a whole set of new buttons to position the active window to the left or the right edge of the screen, make it stay always on top, add a transparency effect, minimize it to the system tray o roll it up to the title bar.

While these are not key features to the system performance, they’re the kind of upgrade you quickly get used to, because they make Windows management a lot easier.

Chameleon Buttons includes a complete configuration menu from which you can select which buttons you want to enable and in which position they should appear on the title bar.

With Chameleon Buttons you can add new functions to the Windows File Explorer that make file management much easier.

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Chameleon Startup Manager helps you to control which applications are being started each time you log in Windows. By checking this list periodically and deleting any entries that are not really necessary, you can improve your system's performance and start up speed.

The program features two working modes, Easy and Expert, for each type of user. The Expert mode shows information about the Registry and gives the user more options to choose from. In any case the interface looks quite cluttered with data and symbols of all kinds.

In all, Chameleon Startup Manager can be useful for a quick system optimization. Besides controlling start up applications, it also includes a task schedules and a task manger, although these seem secondary tools.

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With Chameleon Window Manager you can have up to six new buttons on your windows, beside the traditional minimizing, maximizing and closing buttons. The program lets you not only pick the ones you’d like to use, but also sort them any way you want.

The buttons included in Chameleon Window Manager add new functions to the way you manage windows. With them, you’ll be able to automatically place a window on the left or right side of the screen, add a temporal transparency effect to it, make it stay always on top, minimize it to the title bar and minimize it to the system tray.

Any changes you apply to your windows with Chameleon Window Manager are immediately applied to windows– no system restart required.

Add new functions to the Windows Explorer with Chameleon Window Manager.

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They are all reproduced in a very accurate way, and best of all, they are drawn VERY FAST! ! ! The Chameleon Buttons includes 16 different button styles, and has many advanced features that made it the chosen tool to enhance the user interface by hundreds of developers.

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! ! The Chameleon Frame includes 7 different styles, and has many advanced features that makes it an ideal control to enhance the user interface.

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With this handy add-on you’ll have a permanent shortcut to the drives and folders you use most of the time to open or store data, and also to the list of recently opened files and folders. Chameleon Folder works in different system areas: Windows File Explorer, the open/save dialog boxes in any Windows app, or even the desktop.

Chameleon Folder is enabled with a customizable keyboard shortcut or just by middle clicking anywhere on your screen. The list of available folders is totally customizable as well, so that you can select exactly those folders you use more often. To access Chameleon Folder’s complete configuration menu, just click the icon in the system tray.

With Chameleon Folder you can work with files and folders on Windows in an easier, more comfortable way.

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Making professional looking collages will be effortless and fast with this tool. AKVIS Chameleon PlugIn (Home license) has three modes. The Montage mode mixes images to make a seamless photo montage.

It doesn’t include any insignificant parts of a fragment. The Chameleon mode adjusts any objects inserted in the color range and smooths the objects’ borders.

The Blend mode makes the piece semi-transparent to create a see through texture. AKVIS Chameleon PlugIn (Home license) is ideal for collage lovers seeking help to create wonderful and beautiful collage masterpieces.

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K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for the win32 (Windows) platform based on the Gecko layout engine (the rendering engine of Mozilla). K-Meleon is free, open source software released under the GNU General Public License.

Features:

• Choose your desired bookmarking system
• "Tabbed" browsing
• Mouse gestures
• Complete toolbar, menu, context menu, & keyboard shortcut customization
• Block popup windows
• Fast load time
• Easy web searching
• Themes & skins
• Macros

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Chameleon is a little application that allows you to make windows of your choice transparent.

Some might point out this could be useful to partially hide the video you're watching while at work, and while that's true, it's also a useful way to multitask. You can write in a transparent Word window, while reading an internet page in the background, for example.

After installation, Chameleon opens with a list of open programs. Click any and you can set their transparency. You can also add programs to the Hide Group. Window in this box will disappear when CTRL + Win are clicked together. That feature really is designed for people trying to avoid being caught time wasting on their PCs! Alternatively, you might use it as a way to keep you desktop uncluttered while having lots of programs open.

Chameleon itself minimizes to the system tray, so doesn't get in the way, and it also remembers your settings from the previous session, so you don't need to organize your applications every time you open it.

As a tool to hide and give transparency to windows, Chameleon is pretty neat.

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How many yards are there in a kilometer? How do you say five hundred in Roman numbers? Is it cold at 40º Fahrenheit?

You can now easily answer all these questions with Numerical Chameleon, a unit conversion tool with support for more than 3,000 different units in 82 different categories. The program is coded in Java works in a very simple way: you only need to select the source and target units and see the result in real time. There's also the possibility to add results to a text list that you can later on export to a file.

Numerical Chameleon includes other original tools, such as a phonetic alphabet converter (which translates any word into the "alfa-bravo-charlie" alphabet and other similar codes) and a color picker. Ok, this one is not that original but in any case you wouldn't expect to find it in a unit converter, would you?

The only drawback I found is that apparently, you can't add new categories to the program. But then again, it's not that bad, as Numerical Chameleon is quite complete and will probably have response for all your converting needs.

Numerical Chameleon is a full featured unit conversion tool with which you'll never be lost with strange measurements ever again.

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If you're tired of Windows standard gray clock, use Chameleon Clock and spice it up!

I personally found some skins to be a bit excessive, especially in terms of the space they take in the taskbar. This means that if you want to keep the clock within reasonable limits, you probably have to tell Chameleon Clock not to display date.