Nimi Visuals: Add Various Eye Candy Effects to Windows

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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