This week's TUAW Desktop is a bit on the dark side ladies and gents; dark and interesting. Titled Blackness and Hailing from Flickr user Matt Lew (who *ahem* failed to include any details of what he has going on here), the primary ingredient here is the Ecto Wallpaper Pack which can be had at deviantART. I'm also seeing some text-based icon replacements in the right-aligned Dock (which I know I've seen before but I can't find a link), a minimal Adium theme and what looks like iTunes controls in the menubar which I believe are provided by Synergy. Of course, there's also a ShapeShifter theme going on here, though I'm not quite sure which one. All in all, Matt did a nice job of putting together an all-over black aesthetic using a wide variety of tools and tweaks.
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!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-13-2007 @ 11:12PM
Brenden said...
the icons can be found here: http://styrizo.deviantart.com/
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5-13-2007 @ 11:28PM
Nick van der Ploeg said...
that shit is so ugly
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5-13-2007 @ 11:38PM
Greg said...
Interesting. I would love to know how to change the dock to a text based set.
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5-14-2007 @ 12:05AM
Paul said...
That's a Dragthing dock
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5-14-2007 @ 12:30AM
Jonathan Stieglitz said...
nice
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5-14-2007 @ 12:46AM
Ronald Poi said...
Wich i found really weird is the fact that the desktop image wich is loaded in Safari (perfectly aligned with the background) seems to be saved on the desktop (the address bar says so) but there's nothing there, except the OS X and Vista hard drives...
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5-14-2007 @ 5:58AM
Matt_Lew said...
Ooo I guess I'd better upload some details then. ^^" Didn't think so many people would see it. Go to it now and I should have updated the details.
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5-14-2007 @ 6:02AM
Matt_Lew said...
Details are as follows.
Been my desktop for a while, just thought I'd upload it.
Details
Theme - DragonFly found here. rookinc.com/Dan/dragonfly.html (Thanks to KildJean for the link)
Icons - Reflections www.deviantart.com/deviation/43005780/
Wallpaper - Ecto Dark www.deviantart.com/deviation/48274172/
Menubar - Adium, Synergy, CoverSutra, MenuCalendarClock for iCal
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5-14-2007 @ 12:27PM
king said...
does tuaw have something against original wall paper art work? I dont think this wall paper look intresting at all.
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5-14-2007 @ 3:54PM
Casey said...
I like it. Looks like Vista to me.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/232/498418097_236d461d84_o.jpg
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5-14-2007 @ 7:17PM
Elin said...
Look great, Matt. Thanks for including details/credits!
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5-14-2007 @ 7:24PM
(01) said...
Casey, it was brutal enough seeing TUAW on Windows, but in IE? Now you're just twisting the knife :-)
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5-14-2007 @ 7:37PM
Casey said...
Hehehe at least you didn't flame.
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