Active Desktop Calendar is a software calendar with appointments notes, tasks, alarms and contacts that provides seamless integration and interactivity with the desktop background. You can organize your data in layers and share them with other people on a local area network.

The program can integrate with Outlook to show its appointments and tasks on the desktop. There are options for changing calendar icons, fonts and colors, marking weekdays of choice and marking dates with notes and/or alarms. You can have a text only version of the calendar and choose between displaying one, two or three months on the desktop.

Recurrence patterns are available for both notes and alarms. An alarm can be stand alone or attached to a note. If interactive desktop option is enabled, the program accepts direct clicks on dates, notes and tasks displayed on the desktop. You can set each note to normal, private or invisible desktop view. Private notes are displayed as generic text reminder and invisible notes are not displayed at all.

Printing calendar data is easy and includes an option to choose date range for printing notes. Built-in address book allows you to maintain detailed information about all your contacts, personal and business alike. Importing contacts from Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows Address Book is possible.

Google Calendars are supported through direct connection with their iCal addresses. Special desktop pictures option will let you add some of your pictures to existing desktop background. For importing and exporting calendar data the program supports iCal and comma separated values CSV formats. Tablet PC users should not worry as the program detects desktop orientation changes automatically. Finally, Active Desktop Calendar comes with world clock screen saver that shows your computer’s system time, plus five major time zones around the world.

Developer: XemiComputers
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 4.0 MB
Download Active Desktop Calendar 7.57.080729 link

DeskSpace significantly increases your desktop space, allowing you to work and play on multiple desktops. With DeskSpace you can work with multiple desktops in 3D, and quickly switch between desktops using the mouse and keyboard.

Don’t have enough space to fit all your icons and windows on a single desktop? DeskSpace gives you more room to store everything you need for your day-to-day work and play. DeskSpace eliminates desktop clutter by giving you the ability to store your windows and desktop icons across multiple desktops.

Can’t find the application you want because your screen is full of windows? DeskSpace gives you the ability to place your applications on separate desktops and then quickly switch between desktops to find the application you need. With DeskSpace, you can find the application you want when you want it.

Does limited desktop space make it hard for you to stay organized? DeskSpace helps you organize your work flow, allowing you use a separate desktop for each of your tasks. With DeskSpace, you could have a one desktop for web browsing, a separate desktop for word processing, and another desktop for spreadsheets. DeskSpace helps you to stay organized by giving you the ability to use different desktops for different tasks.

Developer: Otaku Software
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 9.7 MB
Download DeskSpace 1.5.4.4 link

Talisman Desktop (Talisman) is a desktop alternative and shell-replacement for Windows 9x/ME and NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista, capable of transforming your desktop into an interface organized as you like. The program’s basic purpose: Launch other applications in a new interface, instead of the standard Windows desktop. But the opportunities presented by Talisman are much broader. The program does not limit your computer fantasies - draw anything you like and arrange it as your imagination tells you to. When you get tired of looking at the same screen - change it all over again. If you are in a good mood - throw flowers and favorite photos on the screen. If you’re not feeling so bright - leave the black screen with lonely Norton Commander or winking Bill Gates. Create invisible buttons - they will open those places and the pictures, known only to you. Construct galleries of the best pictures and photos. Simply create your own little world, created by and for you, instead of staring at the same lines of icons on your desktop, year after year.

With the help of Talisman you can create your own interface or use one of the hundreds ready themes that are available in our collections and in the internet. Interface (theme) is a set of screens, forms, “rooms” and objects. All these objects are interactive and respond to movements or clicks of the mouse.

Developer: Lighttek Software
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 7,4 MB
Download Talisman Desktop 3.0.3003 Beta 2 link

DisplayFusion is a fantastic application that can make your dual monitor (or triple monitor or more) life much, much easier! From allowing you to use a different wallpaper on each monitor, to integrating with Flickr for image searching, to providing hotkeys for managing your application windows.

Here are just a few of the things you can do with DisplayFusion:
* Set a different desktop wallpaper on each monitor (either a picture or solid colour)
* Set a desktop wallpaper that spans all monitors (either a picture or colour)
* Change your desktop wallpaper on a timer
* Easily manage application windows with fully customizable hotkeys:
o Move windows to the next monitor
o Move windows to the next monitor and maximize them
o Move windows to centre of the screen
o Move windows to centre of the screen and size it to 75% of the work area
o Tile windows along the top, bottom, left or right side
o Maximize windows so that they span all monitors
o Customize your own hotkey to do anything you can imagine
* Integrated Flickr image search & download
* Drag maximized windows to other screens

Developer: BinaryFortress
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 0.5 MB
Download DisplayFusion 2.1.1 link

BioniX Wallpaper is certainly the most advanced wallpaper changer/wallpaper manager in the world. It can cycle the pictures on your desktop at your chosen time intervals (from 1 second to months). The images can be stored in different directories, on different hard disks, even on different computers.

Why is BioniX Wallpaper Manager special?
BioniX Wallpaper Manager is the choice of millions of users because it offers several unique features that no other wallpaper manager can offer:
* State-of-art playlist editor. You can make multiple thematic playlists and switch between them whenever you want to.
* Lock on folder - unique feature that allows BioniX Wallpaper Manager to monitor a folder and automatically update its playlist when pictures are added/deleted.
* Smart stretch, smart tile - an advanced algorithm is used to determine how the wallpaper can be stretched on your desktop without loosing quality
* Desktop tools: show time on desktop, boss button, hide icons, hide taskbar…
* Damn small size. The whole package is only 2MB (with few wallpapers included). Because you don’t need to install it, it can also run from a Flash stick.
* High quality image resampler. A resampler allows you to magnify an image 100 times without loosing too much quality. We offer you not just one but 7 resamplers
* Preview panel - This allows you to quickly preview wallpapers and wipe them from your computer (if you don’t like them) with a single push of a button.
* Quick access: remote control, system tray icon, contextual menu and keyboard shortcuts.
* Full access to the wallpaper enhancement functions.
* Embedded screensaver.

Developer: CubicDesign
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 1.7 MB
Download BioniX Wallpaper 5.7.77 link

DesktopPlant  brings life to your desktop. Plants grow directly on your desktop and need your care just like real plants! There are several different plants to choose from Azalea, Cactus, Maple Tree, Philodendron or Sunflower.

Key Features
* Amazingly realistic growth (realistic plant development depending on water, fertilizer, environmental parameters, etc.)
* Random effects will guarantee that each plant is unique
* DesktopPlants are 3D models of a real plants with enhanced visual effects
* Optimized routines for beautiful photorealistic graphics
* DesktopPlants grow directly on the desktop - above the selected wallpaper but below the icons
* Adjustable size and position
* Many plants can be displayed simultaneously
* and much more…

Developer: DeskSoft
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 2.4 MB
Download DesktopPlant 2.3.0 link

Let enchant you of this fascinating adventure and enter into a living three-dimensional world. Your icons behave now, thanks to the powerful physics-engine, like real objects that you can touch and move as on a real desk.

Features Real Desktop Light:
# Running behaviour
* 3D Sound
* Activatable Antialiasing
* No performance losses with resting condition of the symbols
* Very less resources needed
* Very efficient, thanks to the “Reality Engine”
# Design
* Reflecting surface
* Icons are reflecting the environment

Developer: Schillergames
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 3,7 MB
Download Real Desktop Light 1.32 link