Sunday, 1 March 2009

Adventures with Rainmeter

For the past couple of days i have been playing around with a new piece of software (new to me anyway), i have been using Rainmeter which is a customisable performance monitor for your desktop, it contains lots of different widgets to monitor system performance and other things such as blogs or new feeds.

I have been using a variation of this called engima developed by lifehacker reader Kaelri, so far i am very impressed with the software, it took me a while to work out how to use the numerouse functions and capabilites of the program but once i got used to how the program worked i quickly became very impressed with what is surely a must have tool.

The image below is of my finished desktop customised with Rainmeter enigma, took me about 3 hours to sort out all told, mainly because i was not used the system but if i had to do it now i could reproduce it in around 20 minutes or so.
If anyone out there has any experiences with this program or is going to try it out then by all means contact me with the results of your experimentation.