Hey,
Today I bring you another favourite from my freeware collection, GradientDesk. The author's site is
http://www.amok.am/en/home/ but I couldn't find the program listed there anymore so I uploaded it to
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0BPQJ8Y6
GradientDesk is a wallpaper manager with a twist. It sets a user-defined sexy looking vertical or horizontal gradient as your wallpaper. And it takes almost no RAM. For example let's assume your system runs a 1024x 768x24 bit display: just 4 kB of space would be required to hold the full screen gradient bitmap. The wallpapers are pretty neat, excellent for purists. You can define and save your own color presets. The application is fully portable and stores its settings in its root folder. GradientDesk doesn't need to be running to keep the wallpaper, you can assign one, then exit the program, windows will keep the wallpaper even after a reboot.
Now, this would be most useful for laptop or specially netbook users who already run a somewhat underpowered machine. I'm writing this post on a quad core Q6600 PC with 4GIGs of RAM and I still use GradientDesk's wallpaper, I guess I've kinda gotten used to it but I'm sure some of you will also find it useful. I've only tested it on XP, if you happen to run this on Vista or Windows7, please share your experience here.
