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Description
Helpful annotated screenshots here (pictures are a little desaturated, but you can click "View Original" to see true colours):
onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=…

----Installation Instructions
1) Install the Rainmeter skinnable system monitoring software- make sure u have the latest one!
rainmeter.net/
2) Download and install this skin. Download button is on the right of this page >>>>>>>>

There is a User Manual you can access easily through the RM GLOBAL CONTROLS skin (should be located above your start button) by selecting the 'Suite User Manual'.
Have a read if you feel a bit lost or are encountering issues with the suite.

----Description
First uploaded 28/01/2018 DesktopWidgets 1.0

Intended for 1440p displays. 1080p display may not fit everything. (im using a dual monitor set up as can be seen in the preview image)

This skin suite is intended to be simplistic yet powerful. It avoids decorative elements such as background images, random shapes, graphics, etc and
instead, is a purely utilitarian skin suite packed full of useful features. (actually im just too lazy to design any)
Click the first link at the top to see the annotated screenshots, which will pictorially explain most of the features of this suite!

Features:

- Audio spectrum visualiser

- Control interface for your audio player right on the desktop!
change output device, pause/play, skip next/previous, open player window, change volume
expands to show title of song playing in your audio player, shrinks to hide blank space if no song playing

- RSS feed readers for weather and BBC news
   News headlines can be clicked to open the article in a browser window

- Network traffic skins display the total data used since the last reset and its date.
   The button beside the date resets the statistics (clears the total up/dl)

- Removeable drives skins appear when drive is plugged in, disappear if drive disconnected
The OPEN button allows easy 1 click access to the drive
The EJECT button allows easy 1 click ejection for safe removal

- RAM and CPU skins also show list of top 10 processes when hovered over

- Collapsible menu for controlling Rainmeter and the skin suite itself (RM Global Controls- invisible until mouse over, located above start button)
Has buttons for: Exiting Rainmeter completely
                            Managing Rainmeter
                            Activating/deactivating current layout
                            Refreshing Rainmeter
                            Opening the User Manual
                            And a few more functions!

- Meters showing dynamic values can have their text copied to clipboard though the context menu (right click)

- Google search skin

- Dynamically sizing note taking skin

----Credits
Developers whose skins I used for inspiration or base code:
TomimoCZ, g3xter, CykelStyre, alatsombath, vonsmallhausen, rabra, chemistrylab500x, DarkEagle2011, eMunat9r and SilverAzide.
Thanks jsmorley and balala for answering my questions on the rainmeter forums!

----Update 1.1, 31/01/2018Yahoo weather site no longer allows location code to be found (or its just very obscure), instructions for getting location code now updated.

----Update 1.2, 02/02/2018Added chance of rain to timeweather skin
Added sunrise/sunset to timeweather skin
Increased BBC news feed from 12 to 15 headlines and reduced gaps
Open mediaplayer button is now a toggle
Changed media player button to use normal OPEN button for consistency
Added stop button to media player controls

----Update 1.3, 25/01/2019converted hard drive and removeable drive skins' measures to use usagemonitor plugin
added "top processes" meters to ram skin
converted cpu skin to use usagemonitor plugin
changed avg values to take last 15 measures
  network 30->15
  cpu 20 ->15
  disk 30 ->15

----Update 1.4, 21/06/2019replaced fountain of colors visualiser with modified version of epic VU Meter by Tomimo. it fits the theme of the rest of the suite very nicely!
www.deviantart.com/tominocz/ar…
media player now shows "artist - title" rather than just "title"

Description
Helpful annotated screenshots here (pictures are a little desaturated, but you can click "View Original" to see true colours):
onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=…

----Installation Instructions
1) Install the Rainmeter skinnable system monitoring software- make sure u have the latest one!
rainmeter.net/
2) Download and install this skin. Download button is on the right of this page >>>>>>>>

There is a User Manual you can access easily through the RM GLOBAL CONTROLS skin (should be located above your start button) by selecting the 'Suite User Manual'.
Have a read if you feel a bit lost or are encountering issues with the suite.

----Description
First uploaded 28/01/2018 DesktopWidgets 1.0

Intended for 1440p displays. 1080p display may not fit everything. (im using a dual monitor set up as can be seen in the preview image)

This skin suite is intended to be simplistic yet powerful. It avoids decorative elements such as background images, random shapes, graphics, etc and
instead, is a purely utilitarian skin suite packed full of useful features. (actually im just too lazy to design any)
Click the first link at the top to see the annotated screenshots, which will pictorially explain most of the features of this suite!

Features:

- Audio spectrum visualiser

- Control interface for your audio player right on the desktop!
change output device, pause/play, skip next/previous, open player window, change volume
expands to show title of song playing in your audio player, shrinks to hide blank space if no song playing

- RSS feed readers for weather and BBC news
   News headlines can be clicked to open the article in a browser window

- Network traffic skins display the total data used since the last reset and its date.
   The button beside the date resets the statistics (clears the total up/dl)

- Removeable drives skins appear when drive is plugged in, disappear if drive disconnected
The OPEN button allows easy 1 click access to the drive
The EJECT button allows easy 1 click ejection for safe removal

- RAM and CPU skins also show list of top 10 processes when hovered over

- Collapsible menu for controlling Rainmeter and the skin suite itself (RM Global Controls- invisible until mouse over, located above start button)
Has buttons for: Exiting Rainmeter completely
                            Managing Rainmeter
                            Activating/deactivating current layout
                            Refreshing Rainmeter
                            Opening the User Manual
                            And a few more functions!

- Meters showing dynamic values can have their text copied to clipboard though the context menu (right click)

- Google search skin

- Dynamically sizing note taking skin

----Credits
Developers whose skins I used for inspiration or base code:
TomimoCZ, g3xter, CykelStyre, alatsombath, vonsmallhausen, rabra, chemistrylab500x, DarkEagle2011, eMunat9r and SilverAzide.
Thanks jsmorley and balala for answering my questions on the rainmeter forums!

----Update 1.1, 31/01/2018Yahoo weather site no longer allows location code to be found (or its just very obscure), instructions for getting location code now updated.

----Update 1.2, 02/02/2018Added chance of rain to timeweather skin
Added sunrise/sunset to timeweather skin
Increased BBC news feed from 12 to 15 headlines and reduced gaps
Open mediaplayer button is now a toggle
Changed media player button to use normal OPEN button for consistency
Added stop button to media player controls

----Update 1.3, 25/01/2019converted hard drive and removeable drive skins' measures to use usagemonitor plugin
added "top processes" meters to ram skin
converted cpu skin to use usagemonitor plugin
changed avg values to take last 15 measures
  network 30->15
  cpu 20 ->15
  disk 30 ->15

----Update 1.4, 21/06/2019replaced fountain of colors visualiser with modified version of epic VU Meter by Tomimo. it fits the theme of the rest of the suite very nicely!
www.deviantart.com/tominocz/ar…
media player now shows "artist - title" rather than just "title"