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TUAW Desktop of the Week - Happy Puppy

by David Chartier Dec 3rd 2006 at 12:00PM


Since we've already taken care of the holiday-themed Desktop of the Week, we can get back to the fundamentals of the ideal desktop like function, form - and a happy puppy! Flickr user bc_lau wins the award for *almost* making me spit out my morning coffee with a desktop like this.

Besides a happy puppy (sure, that could be a yawn, but 'happy' is more fun), bc_lau is clearly a freak for at-a-glance information and statistics. The first row of transparent info (two clocks, the date, the temp, and current iTunes track) is the work of Panic's Stattoo. The second row, with system statistics like CPU usage, hard drive space and temperatures is the iStat 2.0 application we're such big fans of here at TUAW (both as an app and as widgets). As one comment on this photo at Flickr already states, bc_lau gets bonus points for using a Boba Fett Dock icon for Safari.

If you'd like to see your unique, functional or otherwise interesting desktop featured in our TUAW Desktops of the Week series, check out past featured desktops as well as the original post for the rules and to get an idea of what we're looking for. Then, upload your desktop screenshot to our TUAW Desktops Flickr group. We'll feature one or more desktops each weekend, giving credit to the desktop owner, wallpaper creator and any apps featured in the screenshot. Keep those desktops rolling in!

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Carl de Cordova

wow.. Istat is a very cool little app

I love the layout of all the info. Now I dont have to run activty monitor as much!

December 04 2006 at 12:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David Chartier

#4: Most modern Mac OS X browsers should give you a button or a link for the actual TUAW RSS feed, but it's pretty basic:

http://tuaw.com/rss.xml

Hope that works!

December 04 2006 at 4:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Keith

I was wondering why I con't get the RSS feed from TUAW to work with Stattoo. I tried several different ways to tyoe it in but none work.

An address to the RSS feed, please, thank you.

December 04 2006 at 3:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Marc Edwards

#1 : I just checked with Brad... we're going to try and sort that out in the next release for you :) Good suggestion. We'll certainly do what we can.

#2 : The iStat widgets and application use the SpeedIt kernal extension for Intel temps. We're also working on getting fan support happening.

iStat temps support doc:
http://islayer.com/support/?p=6

SppedIt download:
http://www.increw.com/downloads/speedit/

December 03 2006 at 5:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
neil

i'm sure thats normally a cute dog, but here it looks like a vampire dog from blade 3. iStat looks cool, but it's temp reading for intel is lacking and disappointing. bugger.

December 03 2006 at 5:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jon Stieglitz

one of my hot corners is desktop, which moves all windows to the side of the screen. the problem is that when i do this, even though istat is pinned to the desktop, it moves to the side of the screen. this seems pretty stupud because i am going to the desktop to look at this. can anyone think of a way to fix this? statoo does not have this problem.
either way- these programs are great
thanks again tuaw

December 03 2006 at 1:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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