Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform. Through Rainmeter, you can enhance your Windows computer at home or work with skins: handy, compact applets which float freely on your desktop, much like Windows Sidebar gadgets, or dashboard widgets for the Mac. Rainmeter skins provide you with useful information at a glance. It's easy to keep an eye on your system resources, like memory and battery power, or your online data streams, including email, RSS feeds, and weather forecasts. Many skins are even functional: they can record your notes and to-do lists, launch your favorite applications, and send your tweets to Twitter - all in a clean, unobtrusive interface that you can rearrange and customize to your liking. With Rainmeter, there are no secrets. Our bundled library of open-source skins covers a wide range of functions, but if you want your desktop to do something new, you don't have to wait for us.

Nyan Cat, also known as Pop Tart Cat, is an internet meme that depicts an 8-bit animation of a cat with the body of a cherry Pop-Tart, flying through outer space and leaving a rainbow behind it. In video form, the animation is often set to a remix of the song "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!-. As with any absurd internet memes, Nyan Cat is insanely popular, so much that last week YouTube enabled a custom flash player for the original Nyan Cat video that showed an animated mini Nyan Cat flying across the progress bar with a rainbow trail.Now, from the creators of Instant Elevator Music, a program that adds elevator music to Windows progress bar, comes another program - the Nyan Cat Progress Bar. Yes, you-ve guessed it - this free application displays the Nyan Cat over progress bars in Windows. Simply download the Nyan Cat Progress Bar, extract the contents of the zip file to a folder and double-click on the executable file.

3D Butterfly Screensaver is a desktop screensaver designed to show flying butterflies on your screen. This is the most realistic butterfly flight simulation.

Digital Talking Parrot is the first intelligent, interactive screensaver. This cute and friendly animated 3D Screensaver is based on the latest multimedia technologies in voice changing. Digital Talking Parrot sings on start up and talks while your screen goes to wait. It can also mimic bird songs and repeat the words or phrases that you teach it.

This desktop screensaver was designed for dolphin lovers. It comprises a collection of images depicting dolphins.

Xwindows Dock is a free application that adds an Apple Leopard OSX-style dock to the windows desktop. If you haven't used it, the Apple dock is the Mac version of the Windows taskbar. The dock is one of the major difference between Windows and OSX and if you really can't live without it, Xwindows Dock might be a suitable alternative.