Just as swapping parts in your rig can make all the difference, so can custom building an interface into your very own OS. Mods like Rainmeter have spawned communities dedicated to trickin' out their user interfaces--many with dramatic and beautiful new looks. Check out our 20 favorite in the gallery after the jump! 
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Today is April Fools Day, that magical time of year when productivity grinds to a halt as every website under the sun tries to outdo itself with a zany prank that everyone saw coming. But don't worry, we're going to spare you the rigamarole. We're not a bunch of Stiffly Stiffersons around here, though, so we've put together a list of our 10 favorite tech pranks--a mix of this years best best April Fools pranks, along with some classics that you can use yourself. Read on for more!Smartphone Tech Trends of 2011
Strong, healthy competition in a budding market has aided significantly in the rapid advancement of Smartphone technology that we’ve seen so far this year. Smartphone performance alone has grown by leaps and bounds, at rates which we likely won’t see again for several years, but this doesn’t mean progress will be stifled. In fact, things should continue along at this accelerated rate throughout the rest of the year.
While most mobile technophiles at this week's CTIA show were drooling over new products that are a couple of months away, Samsung held a small, private "Mobile-ization" event in San Jose yesterday to talk about what's coming from mobile devices that are... several months away. In these days of hyperactive product cycles, that's about the most advanced, long-lead demo/preview one can get.
Ah, hard drives, how far you've come. It's incredible to think that only 30 years ago, the top end hard drive you could get stored 5MB of data and ran with a separate controller entirely! But, that's technology for ya'. Technology doesn't grow gradually, it grows exponentially, and watching that growth is one of our favorite things to do. In the spirit of this, we present to you the evolution of desktop storage, in image form. Enjoy! 
Internet Explorer 9 is finally available in final form to the general public, and we’re pleased to say that it represents a big leap forward for Microsoft’s web browser. We know that many of you Maximum PC reader’s have gotten turned off to IE in recent years (and understandably so) but Internet Explorer is suddenly a lot more competitive, and worth a look.
