Sunday, July 31, 2011

My current desktop setup.



Looks pretty cool doesnt it?  It's an interactive Heads Up Display (HUD), with current time, date, weather info, network and disk usage statistics, functional media played controls, links to commonly used folders, programs, and websites, and more.  I love the look and functionality of it.  So much cooler than having icons cluttering up my desktoip.

To achieve this you need 2 things, rainmeter and a skin called jarvis.  Rainmeter is available at: http://code.google.com/p/rainmeter/  and the jarvis skin can be found at: http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=jarvis+rainmeter+skin#/d36eee6

Once you download and install both of those, you can customize the skin by right-clicking different sections and going to variants, which will allow you to open up a .ini file where the variables are stores, so if you installed photoshop(for example) to a different directory than default, you can point the link to your installation.  You can customize all the clickable links and point them to wherever you like.

Unfortunately the media player controls seem to only work with winamp, but i installed winamp just so that part of the HUD would work.  It was worth it in my opinion.  I might still do some more customizing on this later, but we'll see.  Let me know what you think.

16 comments:

  1. awesome man :), i totally needed some new thing for my pc

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  2. wow, i cant believe i posted that pic before blurring out my IP address in the network statistics part of the HUD. It's fixed now though. :)

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  3. dude that is sick! downloading now, had the same theme for years now definitely time for a change.

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  4. Wow looks pretty awesome! :) might try it out

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  5. Virtue preserved from fell destructions blast, Following!

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  6. rainmeter is probably the best GUI replacement on windows IMO great tip!

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  7. Jarvis skin?
    You would not believe how much time I spent trying to find such a thing after watching Iron Man.
    Thank you!

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  8. Too late! I have your IP address! Hahaha! JK! <3

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  9. glad everybody likes it...i did a lot more customizing on it since i uploaded that pic...i changed what a lot of the weblinks say and where they point and some of the program links, added a cpu/ram meter. i might post another pic in my next post with more tips on customizing it.

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  10. this looks pretty awesome! i may just get it

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  11. you have a really awesome blog, i hope you start updating again soon.

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  12. can you post an example of the code used to say link the part that says music to your actual music folder? i am new to Customizing and trying to learn to do said sorts of stuff but a little help would be sick. i downloaded the skin just cant figure that part out :(

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