I do not like the concept of permanent window transparency at all, as I feel that it makes it a lot harder to interact with the open windows on the operating system. See Through Windows is a brand new application for Windows that adds a twist to window transparency. Instead of making windows transparent all [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Those who work with a lot of open windows on their computer know that they can be a bit of a drag to keep organized. Moving them around can inadvertently cover up others you meant to leave on top, and it would often be much easier if you could just see them all with one [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I am a fan of eye candy. I have been for a long time. And, thankfully, Linux does eye candy better than any other operating system. Windows Aero? Linux has been doing that for year. Transparency? Linux has had that for years. And with Linux there are so many ways to add eye candy to [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Tophaz is a software program for Windows that adds two sets of Windows effects to the computer, namely Windows Transparency and so called Jelly Effects. Each set contains three options that can be selected individually. The Windows Transparency set for instance can enable Taskbar and Start Menu transparency, non-active windows transparency and contrast screen. Taskbar [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Glass 2k is a little freeware application for Windows 2000 and Xp which makes it easy to add a transparency effect to any window on your system. A great feature of Glass 2k is that it is able to remember the transparency settings that you set in a previous session. The default keyboard shortcut to add transparency is CTRL + SHIFT + a key between 1 and 0 with 1 being transparent and 0 not. Click on the image below to load a bigger image see some effects that I enabled on my desktop.

Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows