Welcome to Amazing Brass - the most powerful
enhancement tool available!
Current Brass version: v0.22
(18th September 2006) - Download Now!
What is Brass?
Brass is a "dynamic Windows enhancement tool".
Sure, you've probably seen other programs that say they're plugin
enhancer tools, so you might be wondering what makes Brass so powerful...
Brass is the most powerful
enhancement tool around - see the comparison chart!
Unlike other tools, Brass doesn't just put fancy
displays on your desktop (although it's very good at doing that!).
Brass can work with Windows and other applications at an internal
level far deeper than any other tool. Brass is a system enhancer,
not just a desktop enhancer!
- Ever wanted to skin your task bar
so that it has a bitmap background? Brass can do it.
- How about displaying your Outlook data
and getting new email notifications, without
even loading Outlook? Brass can do that too.
- Want to have an RSS news feed
directly from a website displayed on your
desktop? Yep, Brass can do it.
- How about adding mouse gestures to
any application you use, so you can control it with
a flick of your wrist? You guessed it, Brass does it again with
Mime
- mouse gestures in any application!
These are just some of the amazing things Brass
can do, and there are loads more plugins ready for you to download
and use. There's no need to install one, two, or ten applications
because Brass can do it all for you!
Windows Vista and Brass
- why you should use both
Brass also comes with its own integrated
plugin development system, so if you can dream up a plugin
you can write it! Plugins are developed in a programming language
that was specifically written for Brass. It was designed to be so
easy to use that anyone can write a plugin, even if you've never
programmed before. The Brass developer
guide is right here, why not take a look and start writing that
plugin you always dreamed of...
Wow, tell me more!
A picture is worth a thousand words, so here's
just one to get you started. Click on the Screenshots
or Plugins links to see even more
shiny cool stuff.
Click for full size image
Want to see Brass in action?
Watch the movies on the Brass Media Page - click here!
A little bit more about Brass
Right from the start Brass was designed to be fast,
easy to use and modular. All these cool features are no use if your
PC grinds to a halt every time you look at one. That's why, unlike
other plugin based enhancer tools, Brass
doesn't use any scripting languages - Javascript, XML
DOM and even Visual Basic are all nice ideas but they're just too
slow and bloated to be user friendly. Even the Shiny language used
to write plugins is compiled to bytecode!
Brass is written in a mixture of C++ and Assembly
language to give maximum performance. By using "real"
development languages instead of abstract scripting systems, Brass
can literally do anything you can imagine. If you've tried other
system enhancement tools you've probably watched your system grind
to a halt, and heard the old "sorry but there's no way our
tool can do what you're asking". Now it's time to give Brass
a try - it's fast, efficient, small and full
of shiny magic!
Brass was created by the team behind a very popular
website for teaching people how to code 3D games and demos using
DirectX. The site was acknowledged as one of the foremost DirectX
development sites on the web - even Microsoft were impressed enough
to make it a community partner site, listed directly on the Microsoft
developer website. In other words, you can be sure that Brass was
created by someone who knows how to get the most magic out of your
computer :-)
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