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UPDATE: Starlight Rainmeter Package A more comprehensive package containing my modified Launchy and CD Art Display skins, among other things, is coming. I just need permission from the original authors first.
UPDATE: I just posted a preview of my latest Rainmeter project - Halo HUD. Starlight Rainmeter Package coming momentarily...
UPDATE: I just added TweetScan to the list of Rainmeter configs below. Eurostile font included with it. Enjoy!
UPDATE: Thanks for the feature Lifehacker! If you want to read more about my methodology, check out my last desktop Faded and Desaturated
After adding my new Twitter config, my desk looks quite different. So, this is A Different Starlight.
Changes:
I just added my new TweetScan config that I finished this week to my desk; I'm using 8 of them, but I'll probably take off a few. I just wanted to show it off. :)
You can click on the icon below the username open or close them. I also have a config to track the amount of "hits" left for your Twitter account, as you are limited to 100 hits/hr. This is invaluable for testing and figuring out how often to update each one.
I'll be hosting it, somewhere, on Monday if you're interested in using it.
Again...
Font:
Eurostile LT Extended
Programs Used:
CD Art Display Skin:
Launchy Skin:
RocketDock Icons:
ecqlipse 2 and various matching sets
Rainmeter Configs:
Samurize Configs:
Arcs Original (also included with Enigma 2.1)
Wallpaper:
Windows Vista x64 Theme:
I hope you'll find this one a little more original. It follows the same principles as the LiS style, but I tried to ratchet up the eye candy without sacrificing productivity.
The obvious centrepiece is the Samurize config, which I started ages ago after being inspired by this. It's very sci-fi, of course, but in the best sense: everything has a purpose. Those arcs are actually displaying the time and date, my CPU, RAM, battery and network usage, the space on my laptop, external drive and iPod, and iTunes' song progress.
That black strip on the left has a purpose, too. Care to guess?
You can see a few other Rainmeter widgets scattered throughout, including the fake border on the bottom. The track info is a CD Art Display skin stripped down to the bare necessities.
Finally, the icons on the right are an experimental auto-hidden Rocketdock layout. I'm still in the process of trying to make Rocketdock do something useful, so for the moment, consider it a visual placeholder.
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Theme:
- CleanGlass VS. Requires patched uxtheme.dll - patcher here.
- Wallpaper: not publicly available, I'm afraid. I made it using Children of the Night by Digital Blasphemy, and a render that has since disappeared from the Internet.
Startups:
- Autohotkey.
- Launchy.
- Yod'm 3D 1.4.
- D-Color.
- Start Killer.
Programs usually running:
- Rainmeter. Skin: Enigma, with inverted colors on Border.
- CD Art Display. I'm still on the lookout for an iTunes plugin for Rainmeter. For the moment, I've taken a CAD skin and made it blend right in with the rest of the Rainmeter layout. It wasn't hard, but I'd be happy to walk you through it.
- Rocketdock. Icons: "ecqlipse 2".
Questions welcome!
UPDATE: Starlight Rainmeter Package A more comprehensive package containing my modified Launchy and CD Art Display skins, among other things, is coming. I just need permission from the original authors first.
UPDATE: I just posted a preview of my latest Rainmeter project - Halo HUD. Starlight Rainmeter Package coming momentarily...
UPDATE: I just added TweetScan to the list of Rainmeter configs below. Eurostile font included with it. Enjoy!
UPDATE: Thanks for the feature Lifehacker! If you want to read more about my methodology, check out my last desktop Faded and Desaturated
I call this one Starlight.
Changes:
Basically, I moved some things around and out of the way, as well as giving it a little more style and visual flare. The taskbar auto-hides at the bottom. I know it doesn't "pop" like a lot of other minimalistic desktops, but that's the point.
Like I said before, Twitter Rainmeter config is incoming. I haven't been able to work on my desktop configuration until recently, thus the delay. Expect it before the week is out, along with a preview of another huge Rainmeter project I've been working on. Trust me, it will be Legendary. ;)
As usual...
Font:
Eurostile LT Extended
Programs Used:
CD Art Display Skin:
Launchy Skin:
RocketDock Icons:
ecqlipse 2 and various matching sets
Rainmeter Configs:
Samurize Configs:
Arcs Original (also included with Enigma 2.1)
Wallpaper:
Windows Vista x64 Theme:
(based on this wallpaper)
I created this one myself using random clipart from google image search.
It's 1600x1200 — and you can save it here.
I'm still playing with desktop coral & samurize to get my work desktop to look the way I want. I'll post a screenshot when I'm done.
This is my desktop on my PC. It's pretty hacked up. I used to use litestep as a replacement shell, but upgrading to WinXP broke my old setup, so I went looking for something new that wouldn't totally replace the shell(since as a consolation I liked the XP shell in general a lot better than Win98.) I ended up with a combination of Serious Samurize and TsDesk. The former is a desktop overlay, and it powers all the stuff along the bottom there... performance meters, iTunes output, etc. There are also weather and calendar modules and lots of other stuff, but they broke on me and I haven't bothered to fix them yet. The latter is pretty much just an extension of Active Desktop to make it do what it originally should have, ie, let you have a real dynamic webpage as your desktop. So, I've got links to lots of crap instead of ugly, inefficient shortcuts thanks to that, plus the search dropdown and the included text file that is my notetaking space.
My newly customized desktop, making use of Windows Explorer replacement "Emerge", plus a customized Samurai config file and RocketDock.
The original Samurize config was Vipez2 by Whiteknight, which I pretty much trimmed down to my liking/need.
The wallpaper comes from DeviantArt, called "The Rise of a Planet", by =taenaron
The Emerge Desktop taskbars were completely configured by me.
Not shown: Launchy.
to do, homework, weather, verse, system monitoring widgets: samurize (pagescraper)
weather icons: flat black icons by lavana
application launcher: rocketdock (usually on autohide)
wallpaper: by me :)
visual style: relapse by emmanemma
dock icons: permanent marker by imsnehith
nothing special. i had to get rid of the music info as the ampi
plugin seems to not like itunes 8.1 when it comes to album art. maybe this month i'll make the switch to rainmeter.