AveDesk

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AveDesk

AveDesk lets you add cool desklets to your desktop. Developer: Andreas Verhoeven Latest release: 1.3 / October, 2005 OS: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista Genre: OS Customization License: Freeware Website: AveDesk Website

AveDesk is a desktop enhancer application created by Andreas Verhoeven that adds desklets to the desktop. With AveDesk, you can add large icons to the desktop that display hard drive or folder information, or when paired with SysStats run mini-applications such as weather desklets and display system information.

AveDesk is freeware, but donations are gladly accepted.

Contents 1 User Experience 1.1 How to use AveDesk 2 Creating Themes 2.1 Adding desklets to your desktop 3 Features 3.1 Desklets 4 History 4.1 Current Version 4.2 Beta 5 Links 5.1 Product Information 5.2 Downloads 5.3 Documentation & Help 5.4 Tutorials

User Experience

How to use AveDesk

Installing AveDesk is quite simple: just download the file, unzip it, and run the avedesk.exe. There is no installer required.

Creating Themes

Adding desklets to your desktop

AveDesk comes with several pre-packaged desklets you can add to your desktop. The most commonly used feature of AveDesk is the PidlShortcut. These are shortcut icons that reside on your desktop and can be set to display information about the shortcut, such as hard drive space, number and size of files in a folder, or how many files are in the recycle bin.

When in combination with SysStats, AveDesk can function much like DesktopX in the kinds of desklets it can run. These can include weather desklets, rss readers, converters, system information monitors, clocks, calendars, and more.

Features

AveDesk can not only be eye candy sitting on your desktop, but can also be functional and uses a small amount of RAM (about 10mb).

Features in 1.3:

• Widget/desklet support
• Hardware accelerated effects
• New interface
• AveScripter support
• Showcase (similar to Exposé on OS X)

Desklets

AveDesk comes with several default desklets.

• FTP - setup a desklet to upload to your FTP any file dropped on it
• PidlShortcut
• Puzzle
• Chalkboard
• Stickynotes
• Translator
• WordSearcher

and more.

History

Current Version

1.3, October 2005

Beta

2.0, August 2006 - Public beta

Links

Product Information

• AveDesk Website

Downloads

• AveDesk 1.3
• Desklets on AveDesk.org
• SysStats Configs for AveDesk

Documentation & Help

• AveDesk Forum on Aqua-Soft.org

Tutorials

• AveDesk: Basics - Adding desklets to your desktop