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TUAW Desktop of the Week

by David Chartier May 20th 2007 at 7:00PM



This week's Desktop of the Week may include a little Windows paraphernalia action, but don't let that distract you from some of the mod action that Flickr user dannyuncensored has going for his brand new black MacBook. First up is the wallpaper he's using - it appeared in a February rumor we ran of a possible Black iMac. The actual image was linked by TUAW reader Smitty, and is part of a wallpaper pack at - where else - deviantART. Here are the rest of the resources dannyuncensored is using in a handy list format:
  • ShapeShifter theme: TenFive from InterfaceLIFT
  • Byte Controller (free) for iTunes in the menubar
  • MacBook icon from InterfaceLIFT
  • Windows Vista icon for the Boot Camp partition created by dannyuncensored's friend (perhaps they would be willing to share it?)
  • Statistics in the middle of desktop are, again, provided by Panic's popular Stattoo
  • The clear Dock is provided by Unsanity's free ClearDock
Dannyuncensored also included a nice touch with changing Photoshop's icon, though I have to admit that since installing the CS3 Web Premium suite (as well as After Effects CS3 which runs like butta'), the default 'periodic table of Adobe applications' branding philosophy has grown on me.

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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staniks

Sooooo How does one change the Windows VISTA HD icon when Windows is formatted for NTFS and is only read-only in OS X because cut-n-paste sure as sh!t doesn't work?

May 27 2007 at 12:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rick Lyon

Daniel- Yes the desktop is linked to DeviantArt as a EXE file! THis is a mac site so assumably we all have macs and thus the EXE file is useless.

May 21 2007 at 6:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Martin

It would make me puke if everytime I saw my desktop, I had to look at the Windoze icon.

May 21 2007 at 5:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rodolfo

Where can I download the wallpaper, I love the vibrant green colors

May 21 2007 at 2:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Danny Perez

To Mile : Stattoo > Preference > Icon Transparceny > Slide the slider all the way to the right.

To Kevin : I took a screen shot of my deskop while in the Dashboard mode, I then photoshopped the wallpaper to have it placed at the bottom, its not a hack, its a picture > perfectly aligned to the amount of my icons.

To Oomu : The wallpaper is form DeviatART it's linked under the picture above.

To Joe : It's actually not all that bad of a CPU eater. I use many computer's with virutally the same spec's all day, it all runs the same. Nothing you'd ever notice. .003 slower in real world use, but it makes me happy my mac is my mac and not like everyone elses, :-P

To Timothy : Look at the picture, look at the Macintosh HD, now look under it, Windows XP Icon.

Thank everyone!



May 21 2007 at 1:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Shunnabunich

Danny (and anyone else who wants the perforated bottom): if you've got Photoshop or something similar, it's a breeze to make it yourself, and with the advantage of using any wallpaper you want, to boot.

Navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices. Right-click on Dock.app and select "Show Package Contents", then in that window, navigate to Contents/Resources. Find the image named perf.png; that's the image Dashboard uses for its widget tray. Copy it onto your desktop.

Now open both it and your wallpaper of choice in your image app. Choose "Define pattern..." from the Edit menu, and set perf.png as one of the patterns (or equivalent procedure). Now in the wallpaper, create a rectangle measuring the width of the wallpaper itself by the height of perf.png (118 px). Now just set the perf pattern as the rectangle's fill, add a drop shadow/gradient fill, maybe an outer bevel if you want, and presto.

May 21 2007 at 12:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
DinnyHoon

This desktop is great. I've even made mine look similar!

I have one request - could you share the wallpaper you're using with the iPhone-style footer?

May 21 2007 at 12:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Peter

to move stattoo go to the add/remove capsules mene. once that is open, two lines will appear in the center of the bar. you can click and dragh here to move everything up or down.

May 21 2007 at 11:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
The Rock

I really dig the desktop. I've even made mine to look similar. Nice job!

May 21 2007 at 10:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
vert

Top right, below the blackbook icon.

May 21 2007 at 8:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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