My Reddit RSS feeds give me a glimpse of what is going on without actually having to browse several different subreddits or news sites. I am incentivized to not lazily save everything to the desktop and to actually keep it sorted in folders in my documents. On a more practical level, my custom Rainmeter setup has definitely increased my efficiency and reduced distractions when I’m working on my computer. Also, clutter can have many negative effects on mental health. It’s nice to enjoy something beautiful, especially in a space that most of us spend a lot of time working and relaxing every day. You can see several examples of themes throughout this post, including my current theme at the bottom.įirst of all, for the same reason that we hang art on our walls or wear fashionable clothing. It’s the sum of all of the suites or individual skins, your customizations, and how they are positioned on the screen. You can use a few or all of these skins, over any wallpaper you want.įinally, a “theme” is the finished product. These sets of skins are meant to be used together to create a cohesive style.
“Suites” are a collection of skins, usually by the same author or customized to share the same aesthetic. These are the “with logo” and “without logo” variants of Duck Duck Search. For example, a 24-hour clock and a 12-hour clock, or different color options for the same skin. Sometimes, the authors include multiple “variants” within a single skin. Skin text files are also sometimes called “configs”. There is a huge list of popular skins later in this post. These widgets, called “skins” are fully customizable, and are created by users, not Rainmeter itself.
Rather, it is simply a dashboard that controls a series of widgets, which work together to create an interactive desktop on top of your old ugly one. Rainmeter doesn’t replace the desktop itself. This may get confusing, but power through to the next section! You don’t need to know the exact terminology or understand precisely how the program works in order to use Rainmeter. I have a very small, somewhat glitchy netbook and it still runs great!
And the best part is, it’s FREE! It also seems to work on pretty much any computer running Windows. Using a tool called Rainmeter, you can make almost any desktop that you can imagine, from movie hacker to minimalist to saccharine sweet. Umbrella Corp Theme using Burnwell88’s Tech-A Skin While we don’t have the hardware at this level quite yet, did you know that you can get a lot of the same aesthetic and functionality from your personal computer? Imagine turning your boring Windows desktop from this:
from Iron Man series (Marvel/Disney), Tron Legacy boardroom (Disney), and Westworld tablet (HBO) It’s a staple of science fiction-the futuristic heads up display and the hacker’s elaborate monitor.įrom left to right: J.A.R.V.I.S.
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