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    Building Windows 8: Reflecting on your comments on the Start screen 

    by
    Gunny
    Published on 12-Oct-2011 04:51 PM


    We've been having a lot of discussion regarding the two recent posts on the Windows 8 Start experience. Those of you who have used the Developer Preview are contributing to our understanding of your individual usage patterns and what is easier or more difficult than in Windows 7. As a reminder, we released Windows Developer Preview build with the full product "enabled" even though we still had much feature work to do in the user interface. We did this in order to foster the dialog and we want folks to understand that the product is not done. We've seen some small amount of visceral feedback focused on "choice" or "disable"—a natural reaction to change, but perhaps not the best way to have a dialog leading to a new product. We’re going to focus this post on making sure we heard your constructive feedback around the design as we continue
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    Rainmeter, Omnimo and other themes 

    by
    Gunny
    Published on 18-Jun-2011 11:00 AM



    I've been using a cool skinning utility called Rainmeter for a while now, its recently had a nice update and I thought it was worth a post.

    Rainmeter

    Rainmeter is an easy way to create that look you want on your Windows Desktop. The built in widgets are great, but what if you wanted to create something more elaborate on your desktop, or maybe something cleaner and more minimal, the built in solution can be limiting.

    Download Rainmeter here : http://rainmeter.net/RainCMS/
    A few cool themes here : http://rainmeter.net/RainCMS/?q=Downloads

    Omnimo.

    This is a Rainmeter skin/theme that I've been using for a little while on my laptop. It started out quite basic, but as the ...
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