Nimi (formerly known as Tophaz) is a small program that adds various window effects that can be adjusted by user. Currently, those are:
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 and Vista and should also work in Windows 2000.
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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.