Rainmeter 2.2 final release - (What's on your desktop?)

[FunkY]

What's on your desktop?

Rainmeter displays customizable skins, like memory and battery power, RSS feeds and weather forecasts, right on your desktop. Many skins are even functional: they can record your notes and to-do lists, launch your favorite applications, and control your media player - all in a clean, unobtrusive interface that you can rearrange and customize to your liking. Rainmeter is at once an application and a toolkit. You are only limited by your imagination and creativity.

Rainmeter is open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 license.

Supported: 32bit and 64bit versions of Windows XP (SP2+), Vista, 7, and 8.

Rainmeter 2.2 Release Available!

A full history of changes to Rainmeter 2.2 can be found at: What's New in Rainmeter 2.2.

January 8, 2012

• Rainmeter 2.1, released just over 3 months ago, has already reached a whooping 1,000,000 downloads. Today, the Rainmeter Team is proud and pleased to announce the release of Rainmeter 2.2. The latest milestone release comes with a bunch of new features and tweaks including:
• Localization support -- finally! Our users have already translated the Rainmeter UI into 35 languages ranging from Arabic to French to Vietnamese. Your language can be selected when Rainmeter is installed, and changed at any time using the Manage tool.
• "Show desktop" support improvements. Previously, skins had to be manually set to "On desktop" to keep them visible when using "Show desktop". Now, you don't have to do a thing -- skins will stay visible by default when you show the desktop.
• Rainmeter executables are now "digitally signed", to ensure what you are using is valid and unaltered, as well as reducing many "false positive" returns from some antivirus software.
• Several important improvements to NowPlaying plugin.
• Added "Type" to FreeDiskSpace measure to determine the type of drive being measured.
• Dynamic variables now supported on plugins for common measure settings.
• New "Process" plugin, to determine if a particular process or application is running.
• Many bug fixes and performance enhancements, which make Rainmeter even lighter, faster, and more reliable.

One of the most requested features over the years has been localization support. Rainmeter dialogs and context menus can now be displayed in 35 (and counting) different languages ranging from Chinese to Spanish to Hebrew. The user interface language can even be changed on the fly through the Manage Settings dialog.

• For a list of languages contributed by the Rainmeter community, check Translation Status.
• If you can't find your language in the list, consider submitting a translation.

Homepage and download
http://rainmeter.net/cms/

[Bearcat]

Thanks for heads up FunkY. Rainmeter looks like a pretty handy little app and I will give it a try.

[BigGuy]

Rainmeter looks really cool FunkY and I am going to try it out.

[johnshaw1917]

Thank you very much FunkY. I will enjoy having Rainmeter on my desktop.


Annie Shaw

[Bearcat]

Can you manage that on your own Sis, or do you need help from your big brother.

[A Guy]

Can you manage that on your own Sis, or do you need help from your big brother.

You won't limp for long Bear

A Guy

[FunkY]

No problem everyone. Glad to help

[BigGuy]

You won't limp for long Bear

A Guy

I don't know about that A Guy. My dad tells me Grandma packs a pretty mean punch!

[Bearcat]

My dad tells me Grandma packs a pretty mean punch!

I am use to it Buddy. She always "picked" on me when we were kids!

[jj1two3]

I have used rainmeter in the past. It really makes a great looking desktop.