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Rainmeter 2.0 is Unleashed in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[b]Announcing Rainmeter 2.0[/b] As WinCustomize welcomes the Rainmeter Community into the fold, we celebrate our second anniversary since the resurrection of Rainmeter. We gladly present you with Rainmeter 2.0 Two years ago, an abandoned, virtually unknown piece of open-source software was suddenly embraced by a small team of designers and programmers with a vision of its

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Fences breaks in VDM Environment in Fences WinCustomize Forums

Greeting folks. I have a major issue that hinders me from buying Fences Pro. Fences breaks the Windows explorer when used with Virtual Desktop Management (VDM) software. Such as Dexpot or Virtualwin. I am a faithful user of Dexpot, and would appreciate if someone could point the way for me to whom I need to suggest a collaborative effort between the folks at Dexpot an

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Reply to Fences Chosen Again! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I would buy fences pro in a heart beat, except for a single issue, and an important one for me, and many other I know. Fences fails miserably in Virtual Desktop Management environments. I am a faithful user and supporter of Dexpot GBR / VDM. I have experimented a lot with attempting to find a way to have Fences work in a VD environment. I have also attempted t

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Reply to Rainmeter Gallery Accepting Submissions in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote]I tried Rainmeter once and it seemed so complicated, maybe with skins to apply I can figure it out.[/quot] Greetings Philly0381 I would suggest that we may have coem along way since your last activities with Rainmeter ;) I invite you to try Rainmeter again, and hopefully you will agree that we have traversed many of our former issues. Regards The Sarge Gr

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sTabLauncher 2.2.2 now available in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

sTabLauncher has been around a long time, and has maybe one or two updates a year, but each one is important in it's own right. Once again; Mr. Santos has delivered [e digicons]:grin:[/e] The latest important updates are: sTabLauncher can now be made portable Multiple instances can

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Rainmeter 1.2 Full Release available now!!! in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

After almost 6 months of development and beta testing we have released Rainmeter 1.2. Many improvements and additions have been made which make this a great upgrade for all users of Rainmeter. * Rainmeter now includes a new default suite of skins: Gnometer by Poiru. Gnometer is a colorful and exciting alternative to the def

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Circle Dock V1.5.5 is available in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Greeting once again folks. Of the myriad of programs I talk about there are two and only two programs that I support full time. Many of you will know me from Rainmeter, but I am here today to talk about recent events of; Circle Dock Up until a few months ago Circle Dock was a program. With the abrupt disappearance of our beloved programmer VideoInPicture (Eric Wong), Circle Dock just died, and was hanging by a thread. Late last

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Circle Dock V1.5 is available (The one and true Circle Dock is alive and well) in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Greetings folks I am here to promote something other than my usual Rainmeter rhetoric Today it is teh announcement of Circle Dock v1.5 Release Circle Dock had died over a year ago with teh disappearance of our beloved VideoInPicture, but now Circle Dock is alive and running. With new programmers, and additional implemented concepts. Circle Dock ha

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Rainmeter 1.0 Full Release in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

A rather exciting development is coming for the desktop customizing world: with its first major update in over three years, Rainmeter is finally coming out of beta. And, among other things, it has a new Enigma upgrade built right in. Among Rainmeter 1.0's numerous improvements: - A built-in theme manager, RainThemes, to save and load your setups. - Complete compatibility with Windows Vista and 7. (Your data is no longer stored in Program Files, which eliminates problems w

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Reply to Invalid zip code when running weather widgets in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="jkbeard" reply="16" id="2293410"]This whole thing sounds like a Stardock process interrogates a Weather.com web page whose format has changed. If so, the fix is to update the code in the Stardock process that reads the Weather.com page and supports the weather widgets.[/quote] You are very close, with the exception that they will change the code and embed static links. Therefore the parse will change and the indexing will need to be adjusted.</

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Reply to Rainmeter cut off / Weather.com cuts their XML Feed.......... in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Zubaz" reply="1" id="2293335"]We've seen the same thing with DesktopX weather gadgets. (https://forums.wincustomize.com/358595) I was over at your site earlier and saw the work you were doing. Thanks. www.wunderground.com may have a more lenient stance than weather.com . . any thoughts?[/quote] They do, and if you can parse it; Yahoo weather is good, but we at the Rainmeter community have found these feeds Limit

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Reply to Invalid zip code when running weather widgets in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Agreed. I have no complaints. The service, although limited country wise, has been greatly appreciated. Now for the solutions I am begining to find the extent of this and I am finding over a half dozen communities lighting up now, and more tonight and tomorrow I figure. If we at the Rainmeter community can be of any assistance, do not hesitate to contact us! I am available to assist as I can</p

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Reply to Invalid zip code when running weather widgets in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Do not panick over the T.O.S. from weather.com yet. Read the small print: "If you cannot meet these requirements but would still like to use our weather data, please contact our business development department at" Keep the faith folks. Also there is an AccuWeather solution available, and they were absolutely great with us at the Rainmeter community. Albeit it took a week or 2 to get the progr

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Rainmeter cut off / Weather.com cuts their XML Feed.......... in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Hello folks. Weather.com: responsible for thousands of Rainmeter skin feeds a day, has just pulled the plug on their XML feed that is utilized to parse the most Weather skins. Several solutions are available at the Rainmeter forums: www.rainmeter.net Communications with Weather.com have been established to reach a solution for skins users worldwide. There will be chan

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