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October 19, 2012
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This Big, Bold and Brassy (BB&B) collection of skins was inspired by IllustratorG's Steampunk Construction Kits [link]. The collection is intended for use on widescreen resolutions (1440x900, 1920x1080, etc.) and will gobble up 20MB-25MB of your RAM. There is nothing particularly special or unique about the skins. The emphasis is on bars and dials for visualising information with details given in tooltips and/or pop-ups (mouse-over and/or left-click). What you get in this versions is:

- Analogue clock (left-click to change the frame)
- Calendar with day / date
- RAM and SWAP memory usage
- Overall CPU usage with individual bars for cores 1-4.
- Network activity with ping return time. Left-click for histograms showing upload and download speeds. Ping return indicator uses smurfier's ColorChanger [link]
- Wifi signal strength and visable networks.
- Animated volume control with auto-retract.
- HHD used space indicators for 4 drives.
- Weather skin with thermometers, barometer, wind direction indicator and 72-hour forecast from the Weather Channel
- uTorrent tracker using Lua script adapted from LuaTorrent3.1 by Jeffrey Morley [link]
- RSS/Atom feedreader built around Kaelri's Reader.lua script [link] .Feed items are sorted by date/time and anything less than an hour old is bulleted. The neat little selector animation uses Kaelri's Universal Transitions script [link].
- The Music Player uses Poiru's NowPlaying plugin and works with a variety of media players (e.g. Windows Media Player, AIMP, Foobar2000, iTunes, MediaMonkey, MusicBee, Media Player, Classic, WinAmp, Spotify, TTplayer, VLC, Zune, etc.).
- Skin Launcher for the FeedReader, Music Player, uTorrent and Weather skins which you might not want to have on your desktop all of the time.

If you have any suggestions or questions concerning the skins, you'll get a quicker response if you contact me on the Rainmeter forums [link].

UPDATE 12-12-12: Added variant to display activity on CPU cores 5-8. It can be found as a variant of the Background skin (Background-8core.ini).
UPDATE 17-01-13: Replaced the silly little thermometers with a circular temperature gauge.
UPDATE 18-01-13: Fixed an error in the uTorrent skin that prevented it working properly on some machines.
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~ferdin08 6 days ago
thanks your wallapaper plz :D
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~Hemeroc Mar 31, 2013
Awesome! :)
Just one question: how can i change the weather location from Oslo to something else?
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~Mordasius Mar 31, 2013
Easy. Read the reply below which says: First go to Weather.com [link] and type your location in the search box. You'll see a weather code like NOXX0029 in the address bar at the top of the screen. Now go to the rectangular skin launcher and click on the settings icon which is on the far right to open the User Variables file . Then put your weather code where it says WeatherCode=NOXX0029.
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*jazzilady Mar 28, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Awesome! :clap:
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~kamikazeinferno Mar 28, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
amazing
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~jalloyd Mar 2, 2013
I am pretty new to this whole idea. I have clicked the links and keep getting shunted around, but what I want is the download. Maybe I am an idiot, but I would really like to be able to use this skin. Can anyone help me out here?
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~Mordasius Mar 2, 2013
Start by installing the latest Beta version of Rainmeter. Get it from here [link] . Then download the bb_b_steampunk_1_2.rmskin file by clicking on the "Download File" link on this page. Once downloaded, double clicking on the .rmskin file will automatically install the skins and display them on your desktop.
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~jalloyd Mar 2, 2013
Many thanks. I seem to be getting an error message when downloading that I should get the C++ manually, but when I try the download stalls out. Any suggestions?
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~Mordasius Mar 2, 2013
Are you getting that message when installing Rainmeter on Windows 8? If you are, try looking at the solution for Error 193 on this page [link]. If that doesn't solve the problem I suggest you post it on the Rainmeter Forums under Help Rainmeter Application here [link]
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~jalloyd Mar 3, 2013
I am using windows7 and have not upgraded (and am hoping to skip that generation as I did vista). Is 2.5 non compatible with 7?
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