Announcing Rainmeter 2.0
Two years ago, an abandoned, virtually unknown piece of open-source software was suddenly embraced by a small team of designers and programmers with a vision of its potential. Since then, Rainmeter has become the premier desktop customizing platform for Windows PCs, and with over 3 million downloads*, its passionate and supportive user community is growing by the day. The result is a gallery of hundreds of creative skins, gadgets and plugins, and an app that just keeps getting better.
To commemorate the second anniversary of Rainmeter's "rebirth," we've decided to surprise our users with the big jump to 2.0. A whole-number jump may not mean much at Google anymore, but it's still a big deal for us. Here's the gist of what Rainmeter users can expect:
* Adding new skins is easier than ever. Rainmeter can now recognize and install downloaded skins automatically in just a few clicks. It'll even make a backup if you're copying over an old vers
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JSMeterIX 9.0
Various skins that can be loaded separately or used together as in my preview image.
Requires at least the release version of Rainmeter 4.2 from www.rainmeter.net
Requires at least Windows 7 SP1
Use the Welcome panel that will initially load to load or unload the various skins, and to access the important configuration .inc files.
Dock
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A dock / launcher that can be used to open folders, run applications, or go to websites in your default browser.
ClockWeather
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Displays the current time and date. Right-click to "speak" the time and current weather from weather.com.
System
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Displays information about CPU usage, top process, screen size and system / user uptime. Memory information, with details in a tooltip. Drive information for two drives, with details in a tooltip
HWiNFO
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Information about hardware sensors on the computer. Extensive help on how to configure this for your system can be found at forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.…
Network
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Network information. If on a WiFi network, mouse-over to get detailed WiFi information.
WXDataWeather
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Current weather conditions and forecasts for today and tomorrow from the weather.com WXData feed. Right click to change from Fahrenheit to Celsius.
GMailNotifiy
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Checks your GMail account for unread messages, and slides out a Windows10 style notification if a "new" one arrives.
Recycle
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Displays status of the Windows Recycle Bin. Left-click image to open, right-click to empty.
Things I won't be changing, so don't ask, but you are certainly welcome to change yourself. The skins are not complicated.
24Hour time instead of 12Hour.
More or less individual CPU cores and / or drive letters.
More or less sensor information from HWiNFO
More days of weather retrieved / displayed.
Language changes of any kind.
The wallpaper used in the preview is from: wallup.net/pirates-ship-wreck-…
Requires at least the release version of Rainmeter 4.2 from www.rainmeter.net
Requires at least Windows 7 SP1
Use the Welcome panel that will initially load to load or unload the various skins, and to access the important configuration .inc files.
Dock
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A dock / launcher that can be used to open folders, run applications, or go to websites in your default browser.
ClockWeather
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Displays the current time and date. Right-click to "speak" the time and current weather from weather.com.
System
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Displays information about CPU usage, top process, screen size and system / user uptime. Memory information, with details in a tooltip. Drive information for two drives, with details in a tooltip
HWiNFO
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Information about hardware sensors on the computer. Extensive help on how to configure this for your system can be found at forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.…
Network
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Network information. If on a WiFi network, mouse-over to get detailed WiFi information.
WXDataWeather
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Current weather conditions and forecasts for today and tomorrow from the weather.com WXData feed. Right click to change from Fahrenheit to Celsius.
GMailNotifiy
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Checks your GMail account for unread messages, and slides out a Windows10 style notification if a "new" one arrives.
Recycle
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Displays status of the Windows Recycle Bin. Left-click image to open, right-click to empty.
Things I won't be changing, so don't ask, but you are certainly welcome to change yourself. The skins are not complicated.
24Hour time instead of 12Hour.
More or less individual CPU cores and / or drive letters.
More or less sensor information from HWiNFO
More days of weather retrieved / displayed.
Language changes of any kind.
The wallpaper used in the preview is from: wallup.net/pirates-ship-wreck-…
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MLBStandings 2018 1.0
Version June 7, 2018
Updated for the 2018 season.
Shows the standings for each division in each league. Click on the EAST/CENTRAL/WEST at the bottom to switch.
The "logo" is now actually a very cool .otf font from daigofuji.github.io/bbclub-fon…
The logos will change color from bright and cheerful to dim and humiliated depending the most recent "win" or "loss".
Click on the logos to go to the mlb.com home site for the team.
Updated for the 2018 season.
Shows the standings for each division in each league. Click on the EAST/CENTRAL/WEST at the bottom to switch.
The "logo" is now actually a very cool .otf font from daigofuji.github.io/bbclub-fon…
The logos will change color from bright and cheerful to dim and humiliated depending the most recent "win" or "loss".
Click on the logos to go to the mlb.com home site for the team.
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TimerNixie 1.1
A countdown / timer skin that will count down some number of hours, minutes and / or seconds and execute some action. Currently it is set to play an alarm sound when the timer expires, but this can be changed to any bangs or commands you want.
Right click for a context menu to Start and Stop the timer, and to edit the timer values.
Right click for a context menu to Start and Stop the timer, and to edit the timer values.
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