Today we are going to share a new and absolutely free customization software for Windows users.
Nimi Visuals (formerly known as Tophaz) is a very small program that adds various eye candy effects to Windows. These effects can be adjusted by the user.
These effects include:
Transparency effects, with fading
- Desktop shadows - turn all windows transparent and click-through when desktop is selected. Holding mouse with button pressed over transparent window activates it again.
- Window fading in on creation - fade in window on it's creation
- Contrast screen - creates contrast between active and non-active windows
- Taskbar and start menu transparency(no fading)
- Ttransparency on window move and resize
Jelly effects
- Window kinetics - window will its momentum during move
- Jelly windows - deform window shape depending on direction of its move in wobbly style
- Jelly bounce - Makes window bounce on activation
Illusion effects
- Creation sparkle - creates sparkle on titlebar at window creation
- Contrastful windows - decrease saturation of non-active windows.
Other
- Window quiver - minimizes or restore non-active windows on active window quiver movement
- Window snap - maximizes window to half-width of screen when it's left more than half outside screen
- Picture wallpaper-board - generate wallpaper filled with random images from User picture folder or Nimi folder in application data folder
- Picture highlight - generate wallpaper containing one image from User picture folder, highlighted on adapted background
- Screen frost - cover wallpaper under ice.
It supports Windows XP, Vista and 7 and should also work in Windows 2000.
This article was posted by VG in following section: Software, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP.
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LA
Hmmm
The effect that to works to me only Taskbar & start menu transparency, Picture board, and Screen frost. I like the picture board effects, can we arrange the picture?
Enable on system start doesn't work on my xp pro, i have installed .NET 3.5 installed.
Nice little program, but needs a lot of improvement
LA
"effect *that works* to.."
Sami
>ON XP, no effects seemed to work (atleast on my computer). There is no point of trying
please detail what OS precisely You were using SP, x64 maybe etc. And I can't agree that there is no point in trying - You see each computer is different, for example on all computers in my house & work it works fine (range from various vista and xp versions), and the same with many other Users.
From my latest study over .NET it seems it's build issue(what I still don't understand how it could be published) - and can be fixed by updating it to latest version along with installing all service packs.
>Hmmm
>The effect that to works to me only Taskbar & start menu transparency, Picture board, and >Screen frost. I like the picture board effects, can we arrange the picture?
Idea of picture board were to randomize - but I can think of releasing update of my picture viewer with such option (and setting image as wallpaper) in nearest future.
>Enable on system start doesn't work on my xp pro, i have installed .NET 3.5 installed.
hmm ok will check it - thanks to now :)
>Nice little program, but needs a lot of improvement
3v4n
Wow, another rip-off on Linux. Linux tries to do something different, but Microshaft takes the idea and sells it >:( . Windows users will love this though! :)
SCBright
Don't work on my Vista Ultimate and put an "Start" over the orb.
Mameluk
Hey guys did you bother to read the license agreement (pre-installation agreement)???
It said something about transmitting info about your computer usage, etc. Quite suspicious.
I did not proceed with installation.
Mimorqleko
((extract from the license agreement part 3. Miscellaneous))
(c)APPLICATION might DOWNLOAD - including, but not limited to - SOFTWARE, COMPONENT PARTS, INFORMATION, PACKAGES, THIRD PART PACKAGES without USER confirmation.
(d)APPLICATION might UPLOAD - including, but not limited to - SOFTWARE, COMPONENT PARTS, INFORMATION, PACKAGES, THIRD PART PACKAGES without USER confirmation.
(e)LICENSE can change without USER confirmation.
(f)APPLICATION can UPLOAD, DOWNLOAD AND STORE STATISTICS WITHOUT ANY LIMITATION and USER confirmation.
In other words this program can upload any sort of info without your knowing about it.