A lightweight Windows utility that makes the taskbar translucent or transparent on Windows 10 and Windows 11. It offers taskbar states including opaque, clear, blur and acrylic, plus a color picker with alpha and live preview. Dynamic modes change taskbar appearance based on open or maximized windows and opened Start, search or Task View menus.
Flexoki is an open-source color scheme for prose and code, designed for reading and writing on digital screens. Inspired by analog inks and paper, it is minimalistic and high-contrast, with colors calibrated for legibility across devices and light and dark modes. It is available for dozens of apps.
Rainmeter is a desktop customization tool that displays customizable skins on the desktop, including hardware usage meters and audio visualizers. It has been open source software distributed free of charge under the GNU GPL v2 license since February 2001. Rainmeter comes with a few simple starter skins, and users can create and modify their own skins in a simple language.
Minimalistic Wallpaper Collection is a collection of over 300 minimalistic, flat art, and colorful digital nature wallpapers. The images were mostly collected from Reddit and other sources rather than designed by the site author. The website is credited to Jonah Lawrence.
Electric Sheep is a collaborative abstract artwork founded by Scott Draves, run by people worldwide through a distributed client. When computers sleep, the software creates morphing abstract animations called sheep, shared over the internet; viewers may vote for favorites, driving a genetic algorithm that evolves the flock. It is described as a free and open source service, with HD Gold Sheep offered as a premium version.
John's Background Switcher is software that places full-screen photos and montages on the desktop from sources including the computer, Flickr, SmugMug, Unsplash and Pixabay. Versions are offered for Mac and Windows. The privacy note states that it stores data locally and does not transmit it to the developer or third parties, except when checking for updates or sending an anonymised crash log.
CustomFolder is a free Windows utility that lets users customize folders with their own icons, colors and emblems. It offers 5 icon templates, 16.7 million colors and 64 built-in emblems, up to 9 per icon, and one design can be applied to many folders at once. It runs on Windows 10/11 and is also available as a portable version.
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Flexoki is an open-source color scheme for prose and code, designed for reading and writing on digital screens. Inspired by analog inks and paper, it is minimalistic and high-contrast, with colors calibrated for legibility across devices and light and dark modes. It is available for dozens of apps.
Rainmeter is a desktop customization tool that displays customizable skins on the desktop, including hardware usage meters and audio visualizers. It has been open source software distributed free of charge under the GNU GPL v2 license since February 2001. Rainmeter comes with a few simple starter skins, and users can create and modify their own skins in a simple language.
Minimalistic Wallpaper Collection is a collection of over 300 minimalistic, flat art, and colorful digital nature wallpapers. The images were mostly collected from Reddit and other sources rather than designed by the site author. The website is credited to Jonah Lawrence.
Electric Sheep is a collaborative abstract artwork founded by Scott Draves, run by people worldwide through a distributed client. When computers sleep, the software creates morphing abstract animations called sheep, shared over the internet; viewers may vote for favorites, driving a genetic algorithm that evolves the flock. It is described as a free and open source service, with HD Gold Sheep offered as a premium version.
John's Background Switcher is software that places full-screen photos and montages on the desktop from sources including the computer, Flickr, SmugMug, Unsplash and Pixabay. Versions are offered for Mac and Windows. The privacy note states that it stores data locally and does not transmit it to the developer or third parties, except when checking for updates or sending an anonymised crash log.
CustomFolder is a free Windows utility that lets users customize folders with their own icons, colors and emblems. It offers 5 icon templates, 16.7 million colors and 64 built-in emblems, up to 9 per icon, and one design can be applied to many folders at once. It runs on Windows 10/11 and is also available as a portable version.
