You mean it WORKS?

So last week I was talking jailbreaking with a buddy.  "Oh yeah, that reminds me....there's this spiffy JARVIS interface someone was building for the iPhone..."  I'd found it a year ago and was utterly jonesing for it but it's clear that the project has been abandoned.  

Serious bummer.  I'd love a JARVIS interface for my phone.

Poking about to see if anyone else has made something like that, what do I find but....someone has a spiffy looking interface on their PC screen.  It's a really good version of the blue touchscreens from Stark's lab.  Wait....that's not a background?  You mean it DOES STUFF?  IT ACTUALLY WORKS??!!!!

I AM SO THERE!!!!

Turns out you need a program called Rainmeter, and these interfaces are skins.  Some are just a simple tool like the date and weather.  Others are completely new interfaces to the PC (sorry, Mac users, I have no idea) based on themes.  And yes...there are S.H.I.E.L.D themes, Iron Man themes, Star Trek themes, you name it.  And some of the very best skins are in the Rainmeter group here on DA.  And YES, these skins have the ability to DO SHIT when you click on them.  It's not just pretty pinups, it's fully functional!!!

Well HOT DAMN.  

A mere hour or two later, after poking around, I had one of the Iron Man skin themes running.  There were a lot of busted links...but it's super easy to edit the file for each piece of the theme and change what gets executed.  I now have all the stuff I use on a daily basis running off this skin, which displays on my second monitor.  Now I'm most of the way towards making a simple change to the basic interface so the text is as easily changed as the links!  

Earlier today I blew away a hard-to-impress coworker when I showed it to him; at first he thought it was just a background until he saw the CPU and network stats changing and the clock running, then his jaw dropped when I started opening browser tabs and applications from it.

With sufficient tweaks to this thing, I can probably render my laptop well-nigh unuseable for anyone else.  They're already having trouble with the Kinesis keyboard, the StarkTech interface will completely throw them.

Muha!