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.

WM Recorder - Very good program for recording streams Windows Media. To record a media stream to a file, you must run and enable recording directly before clicking links on web-page on which to begin media playback. There's also a mode with a URL-address, which is important, for example, when listening to Internet radio, where the flow is virtually no end. Although the setup program and are not rich, they can not be neglected, for example, if you do not put a check mark next to the item "Seekable": the files will be impossible to "rewind" with the scroll bar.

SMPlayer is a new multimedia player. It uses the award-winning MPlayer as engine, so it's able to play the most known video & audio formats without the need of external codecs: avi, mkv, ogm, mpeg, vob, 3gp, asf, mov, wmv, mp3, ogg. You can also play DVD discs and Internet streams, supports an impressive list of features and options.