One of the largest collections of Rainmeter skins and suites.

Hub for all things Rainmeter on reddit.com

Very Strong Community support and available skins that are found nowhere else.

A free alternative to Notepad, with a lot of extras. Great for Skin editing

Rainmeter syntax highlighting plugin for Notepad++.

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. Excellent for creating and editing Rainmeter.

This package for Sublime Text 2 makes creating and editing Rainmeter skins even more fun!

AutoIt has become a key element in expanding Rainmeter's capabilities, but is also great as an integrated tool.

Also an excellent accompanying software to Rainmeter's capabilities, but also has numerous applications that he average person may be interested in. Recent Update: Now compatible with Vista and Windows 7

Core Temp can be utilized as a portable Core temp measure for Rainmeter

SpeedFan is utilized as a third-Part plug-in to Rainmeter to monitor CPU and Fan speeds. The latest SpeedFan download and information can be found here.

Find that perfect free font to use and include in your skins.