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Roundup: Icons & Desktop Pictures Sources
Yesterday, we
asked you what were your favorite sources for icons and desktop pictures for customizing your Mac. We've compiled your
responses into a few lists below. A few others have compiled similar lists elsewhere: NonStopMac and Ask MetaFilter. Hours of browsing. Enjoy!Icons:
- InterfaceLIFT Icons
- IconFactory
- Pixel Girl Presents
- ResExcellence
- David Lanham (click on tiny icons at left)
- guiKit Icons
- Railhead Design Icons
Desktop Pictures:
- Mandolux
- Caedes
- InterfaceLIFT Wallpapers
- Pixel Girl Presents
- Veer
- Patrick Bennett
- ResExcellence
- Flam3 (fractals)
- Weather Photos
- MacDesktops
- DeviantArt (the Apple section)
- Sports Cars
- Skins.be (celeb skin)
- Vlad Studio
- Digital Blasphemy
- Twisted Sun
- David Lanham (click on tiny icons at left)
- guiKit Desktops
- Flickr (1) (2) (3) (4)
- Some panoramas (for multiple monitors)
- Don Synstelien
- Atacama Design (some widescreen)
- My Desk City (Chinese, but hi-res)
- AquaSoft
- Railhead Design Desktops
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
otherside said 10:13AM on 3-17-2006
about http://www.mydeskcity.com/
It's a Chinese site, not Japanese. :)
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Trudy said 11:06AM on 3-17-2006
The language on "My Desk City" is Chinese.
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Alex said 12:57PM on 3-17-2006
I'm just looking for a good "My Downloads" or "Downloads" folder icon that matches the rest of aqua look. Does anyone know of anything?
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Jacob said 12:58PM on 3-17-2006
Don't forget Gridface:
http://www.gridface.com/desktops/
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jbelkin said 4:07PM on 3-17-2006
The problem with GUI Kit is that most of the icons sends you to another site/page - only to find out it's Windows icons or just tiny JPEG's you have to then use to make your own icons.
Xicons.com is nice also but the best fan set of icons are at:
http://www.macbillboard.com/
While I don't have the time to do the complete MacBillboard setup - it would be a cool way to confuse people since it would be hard to figure out from the desktop that a stapler is your photo folder :-)
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Jeff Powell said 11:37AM on 3-18-2006
By all means, be sure to check out Plasma Design ( http://www.plasmadesign.co.uk/ ) - who's focus is on widescreen Macs. A fantastic Mac small business who creates cool stuff specifically for other Mac users.
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Mark Brooks said 11:55PM on 4-06-2006
Don't forget http://www.icons.cx/icons/ for icons; http://www.theapplecollection.com/desktop/dtplinks.shtml for desktop images; and, http://www.dualscreenwallpaper.com/ for dual-screen desktop images
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