While I was away at a conference a few weeks ago, I found myself surrounded by researchers and students all typing away on their cool Mac laptops. Seeing the eyecandy of Mac OS-X, I wished I could find the same vidual comfort on my windows XP desktop.
A few weeks later, I found the right combination of desktop gadgets to break away from the dull default XP theme.
First, I had to find a desktop skin closer to the brush metal look of iTunes. This was possible by installing StyleXP, a nice little utility to facilitate skins on windows. That allowed me to install a Brush Metal look found on ThemeXP.
Next stop – cool visual gadgets. The recent release of Konfabulator!
to Windows made that possible.
This utility includes a remote control for iTunes that can blend in with your desktop.
So far, the impact of these gadgets on the whole system is negligible and the impact on my morale invaluable.