Various Desktop Visual Effect

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[Sunday, May 24, 2009 | 1 comments ]

If you are happy enough with the Windows XP operating system with the view that even though simple, for almost eight years, does not want to upgrade it to Vista that has a visual display and interesting effects such as Aero Glass, Flip 3D, and other effects. Oh wait, or you may be Windows 7 that have the effect more beautiful and does not take many computer resources.

What about the Mac OS X that has a popular visual effects and became a beautiful outpost in this, and not Linux can appear more dynamic and interesting applications with Compiz Fusion plugin that has many interesting visual effects. For those who still stand with XP despite the many temptations that come from other operating system now have a programmer and designer (samiwieciekto) that seem to be the same as you who can not switch to another heart and try to make the environment and the look of Windows XP You become more interest.

Nimi Visuals initially called Tophaz is a small application that takes 23 different kinds of effects and functions to manipulate the desktop display for free in Windows XP, Vista, and even 7. Do not forget to install the .NET 2.0 is a prerequisite to be able to use this application. Nimi through the icons that appear in the taskbar you can try to activate one or more effects are available, simply by clicking on the icons that represent each effect. Or, if less clearly also provided a brief description that will appear at the bottom of the cursor when you point to one of the icons. Memory management is quite good with the use of active time is less than 10 MB.

Some of the effects that seem inspired from the available effects that we can find in the Mac OS X and some of the effects of Compiz in Linux, in addition to the visual effects of Windows Vista and 7. To avoid conflict between the effects with other effects, so when one of the effects enabled applications will show up an exclamation mark icon on some other effects that can cause conflict or interference, if the effect is activated simultaneously.

This application is portable, so you can directly execute the applications without the need to install it first. All settings and data stored in the Application folder Users. Using this application is relatively safe, because it is not installed and does not leave the trail registry, then you need not fear the application cause problems if there are bugs. Once the application is closed then the desktop will be back as they are. If you want to activate the effects of Nimi at startup every time, it provide a check box at the bottom left corner of the program.

This is a list of visual effects that are on the Nimi application, and developer said that this application will continue to be developed on a regular basis, adding new features every few times a month and change / update of one month each. So keep watching the development of this application become more perfect.

Transparent and shadow effects
     * Desktop windows shadow - all change the active window to be transparent at the desktop is clicked. And click on the transparent window to activate it again.
     * Window fading in on creation - the window opened at the time of fade / active
     * Contrast screen - make contrast view of the active window is not active with that. The active window to appear as normal while the not active window does fade.
     * Taskbar and start menu blurred background - Taskbar and start menu to be transparent with a blur background
     * Start menu and Taskbar Transparency - Taskbar and start menu to be transparent (with no weak effects)
     * Transparency on window move and resize - change to a transparent window at the time moved and changed in size.
     * Taskbar shadow - the back of the taskbar there is a shadow effect
     * Transparent window borders - changing some of the edge of the window to be transparent by using the bounds of the default theme.
     * Invisible desktop - hide all the desktop icon when the cursor is not in the focus there.

And other more cool desktop effect. Visit here or here.