Desktop Painter

Samurize

opensourcedmagic — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:14:13 +0000

Don’t take one look at there front page and shy away from the CD box it free,

How To Make Windows Xp Look Like Windows 7

opensourcedmagic — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:49:55 +0000

For all those people who like the Windows XP but like the look of Windows 7 or Vista there is www.askvg.com with it’s themes.

Wallpaper Juggler

opensourcedmagic — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:48:55 +0000

A program that will continually cycle your wallpaper for you (windows).

Wallpaper Juggler

Electirce Sheep Ever Changing Screen Saver

opensourcedmagic — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:41:06 +0000

A screen saver that will never bore you (it always changes).

electric sheep

Krento Cool Application Launcher

opensourcedmagic — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:24:16 +0000

A application launcher with eye candy.
Krento

Making Windows XP Look like Mac OSX

opensourcedmagic — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:53:09 +0000

Here is how to make your desktop look like Mac OSX ( includes task bar) .

Pimp-Your-Windows-XP-Desktop-to-Look-Like-a-Cool-Mac-Desktop

for other tips

transform-xp-to-mac-osx

XP Start Button

opensourcedmagic — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:58:15 +0000

Here is a how-to on how to change the start button in XP.

how-to-change-the-start-button-text-windows-xp

Icons

opensourcedmagic — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:51:58 +0000

To get new Icon for mot OSs you only have to right click on an icon and go to it’s properties and change it’s picture.

Here are 2 places to get Icons

customize icons.org

icon archive.com

Art Manager

opensourcedmagic — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:58:33 +0000

Art Manager is Gnome only but it comes with thousands of dektop backrounds and themes to make your computer theme almost anything.

It’s available in the Ubuntu software center.

Compiz-Fusion

opensourcedmagic — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:19:10 +0000

It is a program with load of desktop effects. It’s just available with Linux but it’s Linux’s crowning achievement. My advice is to get the desktop cube affect. Next up is a Windows Painter.