For those who are seriously concerned about how their windows (or Mac) desktop looks, here is a good, high resolution, dynamic desktop wallpaper. Sure it will take more RAM than having a static image as background but it would not be a colossal amount.

EarthDesk replaces your static wallpaper with a high-resolution rendered image of Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination as well as real-time cloud coverage. EarthDesk replaces your desktop picture wallpaper with a stunning dynamic image of our planet continuously updating in the background while you work.

Features

• Real-time clouds (updated at 3-hour intervals) with transparency and moonlight reflection.
• Accurate sun, moon and city lighting.
• High quality twilight shading.
• Automatically updates when waking from sleep.
• Moonlight shading can be turned on or off.
• Complete multi-display support.
• Eleven different map projections.
• Enhanced satellite, political and natural maps

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Here is a collection of wallpapers that iPhone and iPod touch users will find useful. There are 750 wallpapers in this pack and it weighs 64mb in file size. Wallpapers included belong to multiple categories such as nature and travel.

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Anyone who has used Mac OS X is familiar with the concept of 'docking'. RocketDock is an application launcher that provides a dock similar to what Mac OS X provides. Users can add their favorite programs or directory paths to the dock so that they are accessible within seconds.

The interface itself is very neatly done with several cool animation effects to choose from. Icons will zoom in and animate whenever the user clicks on them. The dock placement is fully customizable, it can be set to audio hide and there are many themes to choose from.

From developer:

RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock. Now with added Taskbar support your minimized windows can appear as icons on the dock. This allows for better productivity and accessibility.

Features:

• Minimize windows to the dock
• Real-time window previews in Vista
• Running application indicators
• Simple drag-n-drop interface
• Multi-monitor support
• Supports alpha-blended PNG and ICO icons
• Icons zoom and transition smoothly
• Auto-hide and Popup on mouse over
• Positioning and layering options
• Fully customizable
• Completely Portable
• ObjectDock Docklet support
• Compatible with MobyDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, and Y'z Dock skins
• Runs great on slower computers
• Unicode compliant
• Supports many languages and can easily be translated
• A friendly user base :)
• And best of all... its FREE!!!

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Here is another wallpapers pack for you. This pack includes 3500 high quality wallpapers (1600x1200 resolution). All images are in JPEG format and the size of entire collection is 1.35GB.

Click here to download the torrent from H33T tracker.

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Here is H33T uploader migel with another fantastic torrent. He's put together some of the best desktop enhancements currently available for Microsoft Windows Vista and for Microsoft Windows XP.

The pack includes a whopping 897 Vista sidebar gadgets and 25 Windows XP Themes.

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Some more 3D screensavers for your pleasure. This time around there are 36 included in the pack. Full credit to original torrent uploader Migel.

Included in this pack:

• Ancient Castle
• Christmas
• Christmas Bells
• Christmas Tree
• Clock Tower
• Coral Clock
• Coral Reef
• Cuckoo Clock
• Deep Space
• Discovery
• Earth
• Fantasy Moon
• Fireplace
• Fireside Christmas
• Flag
• Galleon
• Halloween
• Ice Clock
• Koi Fish
• Lagoon
• Lantern
• Mayan Waterfall
• Mechanical Clock
• Nature
• Nautilus
• Spirit of Fire
• Sweethearts
• The Lost Watch
• The One Ring
• Tropical Fish
• Valentine
• Voyage of Columbus
• Water Clock
• Watermill
• Western Railway
• Zodiac Clock

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A WindowBlinds skin can make Windows look like an alternative operating system, like their favorite sports or car brand, or something completely new. Because WindowBlinds uses the latest hardware acceleration features of modern video cards, WindowBlinds won't slow down your computer and uses very little memory.
WindowBlinds is safe and easy to use. It doesn't alter any system files and users can switch between the default Windows look and feel and a custom WindowBlinds skin with the click of a button. In addition, WindowBlinds has been tested to ensure it works with Windows Vista, so you know it is compatible, reliable,, and more secure.

What's new?

• New! Explorer backgrounds feature. This allows users to change the background of their explorer windows and control the colour and opacity. 30 different background textures can be selected by the user including no texture, wet paint, various marbles, and ice effects.
• New! Support for 3 additional titlebar buttons on per pixel skins. These support rollup, help, always on top and command buttons.
• New! Support for dialog background bitmaps - This was disabled on Vista in previous builds.
• New! Added additional glass explorer sections. These will show up in future
• New! SKS6 builds.
• New! 64 bit build synced with 32 bit version.
• New! Support for 3 additional titlebar buttons on per pixel skins. These support rollup, help, always on top and command buttons.
• New! Blue edge on logoff dialog cancel button removed Tweaks to dialog background bitmaps Misc tweaks
• New! Note that the 64 bit XP build has not been updated. 32 bit apps on 64 bit XP would support the new per pixel buttons, but 64 bit apps will not.

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Stardock CursorFX is a program that lets you use and create incredibly cool looking Windows mouse cursors. It does this by taking advantage of the new visual effects features of Windows XP and Windows Vista. CursorFX users can create and use cursors that look and feel far superior to anything you've ever seen before! Best of all, it's really easy to create your own super-charged cursors! It integrates into the standard Mouse interface of Windows and is easy to turn on and off as you need.

CursorFX is a replacement for Stardock's immensely popular cursor skinning program called CursorXP.

Features:

• Cursors with unlimited size
• Fully anti-aliased cursors
• Fully 32-bit alpha blended cursors
• Animations and scripts
• Cursors with normal and pressed states
• Full featured theme editor
• Full featured graphic control panel
• Fully configurable soft shadow
• New Visual Editor
• New User interface
• New theme format: propriertary, expandable that lets skinners bundle Special effects into themes.

System Requirements:

• Windows XP (32-bit) or Vista (32-bit)
• 100 MB free drive space
• 512 MB RAM

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This pack includes 3 premium screen savers. You can either install selected ones or install all of them.

Included

1. Dream Aquarium Screensaver
2. Fantastic Flame Fire Screen Saver
3. The Lost Watch 3D Screen Saver

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Aquarium Desktop 2007 isn't a screen saver, it actually puts virtual fish and plants onto your desktop to swim around while you work!

Features:

• Smoothly animated fish swim across your desktop in a life-like manner.
• Plants gently move to the current of the virtual water.
• Add plants, anchors, debris, and even a treasure chest to your desktop.
• Options to configure type and quantity of fish, shadows, sounds, and more!
• CPU-smart! Will not use CPU if fish are covered (it won't slow down your system).
• The 2007 version is a new version that includes new backgrounds and elements!
• Totally cool looking WindowBlinds skin included!

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WindowBlinds is a one-of-a-kind utility that allows Windows users to completely change the look and feel of the Windows interface by applying a new skin. There are thousands of different skins to choose from that are freely downloadable from the WindowBlinds website. A WindowBlinds skin can make Windows look like an alternative operating system, like their favorite sports or car brand, or something completely new. Because WindowBlinds uses the latest hardware acceleration features of modern video cards, WindowBlinds won't slow down your computer and uses very little memory.

Features

• New start menu animation support
• Category filtering on skins in wbconfig
• Tag filtering on wallpapers in wbconfig
• Random skin support
• The ability to save a re-coloring of a skin as a preset
• Advanced HSL re-coloring where you pick a single color and a range in a skin and you can just change that color instead of the entire skin
• Ability to edit the system colors from wbconfig
• Ability to change skin fonts from wbconfig
• Ability to control transparency and blur on start menu, menus, taskbar & window frames.
• Ability to save such changes as a preset
• Vista-Ize me function which sets some defaults to have a more vista like look
• Ability to skin the sidebar
• Ability to edit a sidebar skin from within wbconfig
• Improved WB skin install when handling upgrades of skins
• Ability to alter the mouse over animation speed
• Ability to alter the default button pulsing speed
• Support for explorer background bitmaps
• Ability to use the Aero frames with the rest of the skin
• Blur support in title bars (and menus on vista)
• Lots of new sections for new Vista specific parts
• Including IE navigation arrows, IE tabs, start menu shutdown/lock buttons
• Skins virtually every aspect of the Windows GUI
• Clean and easy configuration dialog.
• Tons of configuration options for users
• Animation supported on titlebars, buttons, and many other elements.
• Change the color of any visual style on the fly
• Per-application visual styles
• Doesn't alter any system files
• Safe, reliable way to change the look and feel of Windows

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Here is a torrent featuring 300 anime pictures and wallpapers. Images are in BMP and JPEG formats and have resolutions of 800x600, 1024x768, 1155x864, 1280x960, 1280x1024 and 1600x1200.

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IconPackager is a program that allows users to change nearly all of their Windows icons at once by applying "packages" of icons. A package of icons contains icons to replace most of the common icons on your Windows PC.  What makes IconPackager special is that unlike Microsoft's themes which only change a few icons, IconPackager changes hundreds of icons.  Everything from "My Computer", "Recycle Bin", Folders, all the way to specific file format icons such as .doc and .xls files and any other file type a user wishes to use. 

Features

• Can change nearly all of the Windows icons at once by applying icon “packages.”
• Can change the file type icons.
• Includes Icon Explorer, designed to make it easy to navigate through libraries of icons and view them easily.
• Shell integration allows users browsing through their system to right-click on any file and go to the added “Icon” tab and change the icon.

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The Radar Screensaver is a modern and outstanding screen saving software which is able to turn your video display into a screen of the fabulous radar watching the skies and seas. It will detect any flying object, identify its type, speed and course, and will track its movement across the whole controlled airspace. You will see this process in real time on your screen as if you were the air traffic control operator. If you have two or more monitors connected to your PC, you will be able to configure it to show same or different situations on different displays. This will turn your workplace into something like real airspace observation post. You also will be able to choose display resolution and color quality for each of your monitors and choose which of them should be black while the animation is running.

Features

• Main radar display:
  It is at center of display and shows a situation around the radar site. There is a rotating line – radar beam, reflected from flying objects, clouds and terrain around the site. You can choose traffic intensity.
• Coordinate scale grids:
  These are placed over the main and sector radar displays and might be used for precise flying objects coordinate determination. You can choose a grid color and one of five grid sets or disable them.
• Bi-directional antenna:
  In this mode the radar antenna emits two radio beams instead of one. Therefore, you will see two opposing rotating beams. Such fantastic behaviour will double object detection rate.
• Variable colors:
  You can choose the colors to paint all the elements of the animation. Moreover, to avoid display phosphour burnout because of static elements, these colors might be made variable.
• Sector displays:
  These are the displays at screen corners. Each sector paints a radar beam sweep in corresponding quadrant when antenna passes over it. There will be splashes from flying objects exposed by beam.
• AWACS mode:
  In this mode, the radar antenna located aboard of the "Airborne Warning And Control System" aircraft. It flies around the controlled area and you can see all the effects caused by this on radar display.
• Detection log:
  There are two columns located at left and right display sides. When radar beam passes over object and it is recognized, the detection log will be supplemented with information regarding the object.
• Satellite-powered object identification:
  You will see an operation of identification system: it will take satellite photo of the object, recognize the type of object and will show its picture with name. There are more than fifty aircraft types.
• Terrain contour map:
  To simplify to the operator a task of determining where one or the other flying object flies at present time, you can enable terrain contour map projection to the main radar display.
• Terrain/clouds noise:
  In reality, the radar beam reflects not only from flying objects, but from clouds and terrain too. You can enable this option to reflect this effect on your radar display and increase the realism.
• Object markers:
  These are animated overlaid rectangles with information about detected flying objects: azimuth, distance, course and speed. You may choose the color of markers or to disable them at all.
• Geometric distortions:
  This will approach the look of object marks to real ones: actually, object marks does not look like exact circles, rather they are circles smashed across radar display tangent.
• Path tracking marks:
  Among with object markers you will find these broken lines which indicates previously determined positions of the flying objects. This might be useful for operator to track the object paths.
• On-screen message:
  You can prepare a text message to display it to someone who will try to close your screensaver when you are away from your computer. You can create shortcuts for this mode of operation.
• Sounds:
  If you will find your Radar Screensaver too silent, enable sounds of two kinds. First will occur each time antenna beam exposes flying object, and second will occur when object marker flashes.
• Multi-monitor support:
  Choose to have same or different situation modeled on your video displays and which of them should be black while running animation. Choose resolution and color depth for each display.

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Windows Vista's support for user made gadgets has been one of its plus points. A user can post Desktop Gadgets, which are small applets designed for a specialized purpose (such as displaying the weather or sports scores) using Vista's Windows Sidebar. Several million souls who chose to stay with good old XP need not worry about not having gadgets for it. The torrent featured in this post (Download link posted as a comment) includes 28 cool gadgets for Windows XP.

Included gadgets

• BL Calculator Blue Gadget
• BL Clock Gadget
• BL Time-Calendar v2 Gadget
• BL Translator Gadget
• BlackLight Time Gadget
• BL_Calendar Blue Gadget
• BL_Weather Gadget
• Calculator M Gadget
• D-Player Gadget
• Glassy Calculator II Gadget
• Glassy Calendar Gadget
• Glassy Clock II Gadget
• Glassy Recycle Bin Gadget
• Glassy-Time Gadget
• Hyalo-2xWeather Gadget
• Hyalo-Calendar Gadget
• Hyalo-email Gadget
• Hyalo-Music Player Gadget
• Hyalo-PictureShow Gadget
• Hyalo-Radio Gadget
• Hyalo-RAM Gadget
• Hyalo-Time and Date Gadget
• Hyalo-ToDo Gadget
• Infosystem Gadget
• iRadio Gadget
• LiveWeather II Gadget
• T-Calculator Gadget
• Twin Cities Gadget

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GetSmile is simply the easiest way to express your emotions and thoughts in the Internet. Whether you are writing an email, participating in forums or chatting on MSN Messenger, GetSmile is going to help you express yourself and bring more fun into your life. Now you can send, capture, organize and share smileys with one easy-to-use and absolutely safe tool. Finally, the smiley software you’ve been waiting for is here.

 

Features

• GetSmile lets you insert the most beautiful smilies in your messages. Just one mouse click stands between you and them!
• You can insert stunning smilies in MSN Messenger without creating shortcuts; you insert smilies directly from GetSmile. Your friends don't need to download anything to see smilies.
• GetSmile works fine with most email programs and Web-based mail. Please see the full list of supported programs.
• You can insert funny smilies in message boards, blogs and even in MS Word.
• GetSmile comes with over 1600 funny smilies, including 700 smilies created especially for MSN Messenger. They are well categorized for easy browsing.
• You can add new smilies or other cool animations from the Internet or your hard drive quickly and easily. The program is highly optimized to preview hundreds of animated smilies simultaneously.
• GetSmile gives you everything you need to organize your smilies. You can organize smilies exactly how you want them.
• GetSmile works with pictures in gif, jpg, png and bmp format. So you can add your favorite signatures, clipart or photos to your collection.
• It helps you create signatures for emails. By combining your text and smilies you can create wonderful signatures.
• It does not contain any additional software components like toolbars, searchbars, spyware, adware or malware.

Original Smilies Collections included:

• GetSmile Cats and Dogs Smilies Collection
• GetSmile Energizer Smilies Collection
• GetSmile Luck and Fortune Smilies Collection
• GetSmile.Bonus.Mini.Collection.v1.0.WinALL.RETAIL-ARN
• GetSmile.Funny.Smilies.Collection.v1.0-ACME
• GetSmile.Halloween.2006.Collection.v1.0.Retail-ARN
• GetSmile.Halloween.Smilies.Collection.v2.0.WinALL.RETAIL-ARN
• GetSmile.Holiday.Smilies.Collection.v1.0-ACME
• GetSmile.Sports.and.Entertainment.Smilies.Collection.v1.0-ACME
• GetSmile.Xmas.Smilies.Collection.v1.0.WinALL.RETAIL-ARN

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PicturesToExe Deluxe has a simple and intuitive interface that makes creating a slide show very easy. All you need to do is choose your images and add some music if you wish. The Slide show produces sharp, clear pictures and the smoothest playback of Pan/Zoom effects you have ever seen! You can place objects (images or text labels with drop shadow) on a slide and customize complex animations.

Moreover, you can use a variety of cinematographic transition effects between slides, add background music and add sound and text comments to each slide. You can also precisely synchronize slides to music. VideoBuilder in PicturesToExe Deluxe allows you to quickly and easily burn DVD-Video discs from your slide shows. You can adjust DVD menus and customize many parameters of your DVD disc. You may also create AVI video files. If desired, you can protect your slide show with a password and also assign an expiration date. No additional programs (including PicturesToExe itself) are needed to run the resulting slide show because the program produces a
stand-alone EXE file. The slide show will work under Windows XP, Vista, 95, 98, ME, 2000 or 2003. A DVD-Video disc created in
PicturesToExe Deluxe can be played on any DVD player, on a PC or Mac, or on your DVD player attached to a television.

New features

• New graphical engine which uses all power of your video card.
• Burning of DVD-Video disc with your slide shows right in PicturesToExe.
• Pan/Zoom/Rotate effects in real-time with high quality. Sharp picture and smooth animation.
• Special option "Perspective correction for Zoom" to reach natural looking zooming.
• Completely new editor of objects and animation.
• Proportionally scalable objects. Improved Text objects, drop shadow or glow can be applied for any object. S
• even skins for Button objects.
• New cool view of Navigation bar.
• Tree of folders in main window of PicturesToExe.
• Improved quality of music player.
• Improved support of Windows Vista (in main program of PicturesToExe).
• PNG images support.

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What are Gadgets?

Gadgets are a new category of mini-application designed to provide information, useful lookup, or enhance an application or service on your Windows PC or the Web. Examples might include a weather gadget running on your desktop or on your homepage, an RSS Gadget that pulls in your favorite feeds, or an extension of a business application providing just-in-time status on the pulse of your business.

Gadgets come in three flavors:

• Gadgets for Windows Sidebar will run on your desktop or dock into Windows Sidebar, an upcoming feature in Windows Vista alongside other applications.
• Gadgets for Start.com (a.k.a. Web or Server-based Gadgets) provide a fast, customizable homepage with a clean user interface – putting the user in control of more of their online experience.
• Gadgets for Windows SideShow™ (a.k.a. Auxiliary Display Gadgets) allow users to view their information on devices.

Gadgets Included

Mail and contacts

• Voice mail
• GMail Quick Login
• Gmail Gadget
• Outlook gadget
• Outlook Tasks Gadget
• Outlook Appointments Gadget
• Phone Notify

Music, movies, TV

• Twenty Four Clock
• iTunes Accessory
• iTunes
• MC Radio
• Windows Media Gadget

Safety And Security

• Terror Alert 0.0.0.1
• Firewall Profile

Tools and utilities

• (Blister) CPU
• (Blister) HDD
• Alarm Clock
• App Launcher
• App Launcher New features
• Battery
• Battery Monitor
• Battery Vista
• Black Glass CPU Meter
• Calculator
• Calender
• Cpu Meter (Single Core)
• Date
• Digital Clock
• Digital World Clock
• Drive Info
• DriveInfo
• eBook World
• Express Calculator
• Game Server Monitor
• HDD Meter v1.26
• Hindi Radio
• i Weather
• iClock
• Ip Config
• Media Player
• Media Player Shuffle Gadget
• Memory Meter
• Multi Meter (Dual Core)
• Network Activity
• Network Monitor
• OptusNet Quota
• Perfmon Gadget
• Performance Monitor
• Ping Gadget
• Postage Calculator (UK)
• Prayer Times
• Presto's Hard Drive Monitor
• RDP Quicklauncher v1.1
• Recycle Bin
• Remote Desktop Gadget
• Run
• Sattle Traffic
• StopFM Radio
• System Information
• SYSTRAN Translator and Dictionary
• Temperature Converter
• Uptime Gadget
• Vista Calculator
• Windows Firewall Profile
• Windows Vista Countdown
• XBOX MSP Calculator

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Axialis IconWorkshop v6.11 Corporate Edition - December 14, 2007 (formerly AX-Icons) - is a powerful tool designed to Create, Extract,
Convert, Manage and Redistribute Windows Icons. It has a fully integrated workspace that permits you to work efficiently and create
professional icons in minutes.

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Webshots Desktop 3.0.0.7229 is a free photo- and video-management application that combines tools for managing and sharing your own personal photos and videos with wallpaper and screensaver functionality. The latest version lets you easily organize and upload all your photos and videos right from your desktop. Now you can drag and drop photos to Webshots from Windows, search your Webshots collection and update your albums in a flash.

Webshots Desktop is free. You can download the software from this location (no need to install the toolbar).

Some of the high quality wallpapers that are available requires premium membership. The torrent featured in this post includes 124 high quality premium images which you can use on the free version (without a premium membership, obviously). Click here to see a preview of the images included.

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