Make Your Desktop Feels like Windows 8

The new tablet-based Windows OS, codename Windows 8, will most probably be available only at the midst of 2012. For those who are eager to have a taste the new Metro UI but do not dare to make your hands dirty by installing the buggy developer preview, there is actually an alternative for you.

Pulmon is probably one of the most stable application around that emulate the metro UI experience. It takes just split seconds to set up and best part is, it doesn't require installation. Just launch the app and set it to "run on startup". Then at the setting, you can also select the widgets that you want to display on your desktop. Some widgets such as the Firefox Aurora widget and the Microsoft Office Widget might not work, but most of them does integrate pretty well with the Windows 7 system. My personal favourite is the ability to customize our own full screen wallpaper, instead of relying on the default ugly greenish background, you can replace it with your own HD photos or wallpapers. To see Pulmon in fullscreen, you have to select the fullscreen mode, located at the setting. Once you are done with the setting, you can hide the setting panel to your taskbar tray and auto-hide your taskbar to make your desktop interface more neat and tidy.

Note: Pulmon also come with a metro UI optimized browser named Zuro which claim to bring a brand new web browsing experience. However it's hope that you don't take it seriously as its still very buggy and full of error.