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Another Rainmeter setup

Because I like dark wallpapers too. Current desktop Alternative wallpaper Details 10 Foot HUD YBoris edit skin for the time and date Enigma Now Playing skin Dynamic quotes skin by me. Uses the quote plugin to display a random lime from a text file. Notes skin to display my to do list. Based on the notes skin from Lady Gaga Tribute by Alek Aldinger and Simplesentence3 by White-Baron. Uptime skin by me Autobahn font for my tweaked skins Lamp wallpaper by CL88 Aurore wallpaper   Why use Rainmeter? I've tried Rainmeter before but it never stuck because I didn't really get the point of it. That is, until I read the Lifehacker primer and it clicked together for me - it's widgets! (I highly recommend the article, especially the section on glossary.) It's just like Yahoo Widgets (is anyone still using these?) and Windows Gadgets, except you can get all the widgets ("skins") in a matching col

What I've been up to

I got distracted in my quest to stay productive this summer (again). What I ended up with Yup, I customized my Windows appearance. What I used: Rainmeter for the motivational quotes, date/time, todo list and now playing widget. ClearScreenSharp theme Ecqlipse 2 icons Token animated start orb Wallpaper by 彎彎 Listed out it seems simple, but I had to do quite a bit of reading to learn how to use custom themes :\ If you're interested, you can start with the Glass Onion theme which comes with detailed instructions and the tools needed (UxStyle and Start Button Changer etc.) Sidenote: reading the rainmeter tutorials then prompted me to learn a little about regex, and to find a good enough regex to scrape my anime in XBMC. I'm easily distracted ^^'