TUAW Desktops of the Week for 4/30 - 5/5/07 | TUAW

This week I found it impossible to choose just one image from our TUAW Desktops Flickr group, so I chose four - two desktops and two honorable mentions. The first, simply titled My Current Desktop (how about some more unique names for these desktops, eh?), is from Flickr user tj scenes and is quite the melding of OSes, interesting wallpaper, minimal icon design and unique choices in applications. What you're looking at is not yet another ShapeShifter theme, no - it's Parallels running in Coherence mode with a black Windows XP theme and the Windows taskbar stifling Mac OS X's menubar. You're also looking at the custom icon set Amora, ClearDock and - believe it or not - Winamp, the good ol' media player for Windows that could. It's quite an interesting setup, though tj scenes neglected to mention one thing: what wallpaper he's using, and where he got it (ok fine that's technically two things).

Next up is Mac OS X Desktop in a Mosaic from Flickr user blumensath, a desktop that is interesting primarily due to the way it was created. Blumensath used MacOSaiX, a mosaic generating app, and plugged in Flickr pictures tagged with "osx" to create a cool mosaic of... well, Mac OS X.

These next two images from t_szuba receive honorable mention for their minimal setup and shout out to the old school days of Apple. They're both running Panic's Stattoo and Sophia Teutschler's CoverSutra, and both feature custom app icons for the left-aligned Dock and Unsanity's ShapeShifter. While t_szuba mentions the wallpaper designers for both desktops, no link was provided (yet).

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 (if available). Keep those desktops rolling in!

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Steve

The ShapeShifter theme in the last two shots is PhotoPro and it can be found on InterfaceLift :)

May 01 2007 at 8:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Johnald126

Yea, I really like that icon theme in both wallpapers. I have Shapeshifter and I'd like to download whatever theme that is but I can't find the name anywhere. Can anyone help me out?

April 30 2007 at 4:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MachacO

where can i download the icons of the last desktop???

Ty

April 30 2007 at 2:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tjscenes

Richard, well i guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder, what is it? you don't like graffiti?
I really liked the picture and that's why i put it as a wallpaper, and i am 32 so i must be the oldest teenager in the world. Bad taste! hahahah!

April 30 2007 at 12:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Thomas

I believe that first desktop is using a picture by Lars P. Mathiassen. I went to his website to look for it, and he has changed the layout recently. More of his pictures can be found at www.cityscapewallpapers.com

April 30 2007 at 11:17 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Thomas Szuba

Yeah, both of my desktop pics can be found on deviantArt;
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35476511
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/13712325

and one I did not post (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35474391)

- Thomas

April 30 2007 at 9:27 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bob Vork

Someone posted the link to the classic apple desktop in the flickr comments:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35476511/

So don't thank me, thank manuel martensen :)

April 30 2007 at 8:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

RichardFranco

That first wallpaper is the ugliest and saddest I have ever seen. That is bad taste. Wouldn't our societies be better off without that crap? Stupid teenagers...

April 30 2007 at 7:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mfilmerboy

Yes, I also like the classic apple logo wallpaper. Anyone know where I can download it?

April 30 2007 at 7:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jay

Yep - Interfacelift....
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details.php?id=900

April 30 2007 at 12:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply