I started doing a bit of “research” into making my own skin to capture and display that same information. It seemed like the ones I thought were the most interesting all came from a program called Rainmeter, which I downloaded and put a popular set of skins on my own desktop.Īfter about a month or so of using Rainmeter I blurted out (to nobody in particular) that it’d sure be nice if it had the information that my Android Piwik notification displays on my phone also on my desktop in a Rainmeter skin. I got curious and dug into those to try and understand where they came from. From time to time I wind up on /r/battlestations out on and occasionally I’d see a desktop where the owner had nifty little gadgets on their desktop with system information like CPU usage, memory utilization, or hard drive capacity on them.

There’s quite a bit of desktop space that frequently winds up unused, neglected, and potentially feeling unloved.

Shortly after reaching 5120x1440 worth of resolution between my dual monitors, I started searching for uses for all that space.

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