Rainmeter 3.1 review: Customize your desktop with "smarter" skins

June 17, 2014

You may have heard of Rainmeter, the desktop customization tool that lets you display all kinds of information on your PC desktop in a much smoother and more elegant manner than Windows 8 ever did. The problem was that Rainmeter wasn’t really interactive in the way Windows 8 apps are. Well, that’s about to change. The group behind Rainmeter, all volunteers who work on the app through an open source project on SourceForge, have released version 3.1, and for a point release it’s got some major updates. Rainmeter is going from mere display to a more computational app and that will change the face of your desktop in multiple ways. According to Jeff Morley, one of its developers, Rainmeter is a simple idea: It “measures” things—time, CPU usage, temperature, drive space, network activity, unread emails, the current weather, and more. It displays the results, using very customizable string, image, bar, histogram, and other “meters.” But new features are set to expand on the tool’s capabilities.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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