Omnimo

If you intend to transform your entire desktop into a news center, you can take a look at Omnimo. It's a stylish Rainmeter widget that provides you with news from various online sources such as BBC, CNN and Reddit, while giving you the possibility to customize it in detail when it comes to number of panels, colors and layout.

To be able to set it up, you must have Rainmeter installed. During setup, you can opt for the Metric or Imperial system, along with dark or light interface mode. Then, you can pick a preferred theme and desktop resolution.

Omnimo mimics the Metro look, showing large flat buttons over a panel. You can check out the latest headlines, click links to read full articles, run Google searches, as well as quickly launch favorite apps.

The Omnimo overlay is accompanied by a menu, which gets opened by clicking the hamburger button on the upper-right corner of the screen. From this area, you can temporarily hide the tool instead of exiting, set up additional panels, or install more addons.

As far as the style of the theme is concerned, it's possible to pick different colors, enable or disable Aero Glass effect, and adjust the opacity level of the overlay. In advanced mode, you can also change the font and sidebar colors.

Different layouts can be arranged and saved to easily toggle them. Moreover, you can set a hotkey for toggling Omnimo, switch to another interface language, set a weather location, or ask the utility to automatically run on system startup and to hide the desktop icons on launch.

Taking into account its wide range of customization features as well as general ease of use, we think that Omnimo is capable of grabbing the attention of many users interested in creating a stylish news center on their desktops.