Mac SpotLight Desktop

Written by on October 28, 2009 in Apple Views Screenshots - Comments Off

We really like how in the Batman Movie, the Bat symbol is displayed in the spotlight. Really cool. So, we decided to emulate the spotlight with the Apple Logo using PhotoShop on a Cityscape background. Here are the tools we used to tweak the background:
For the time in the top right corner, we used the Gorgy Clock Yahoo Widget.

For the CPU, RAM, and UPTIME, we used GeekTool:
RAM:
top -l 1 | awk '/PhysMem/ {print "" $8 " "}' ;

CPU:
top -l 2 | awk '/CPU usage/ && NR > 5 {print $12, $13}'

UPTIME:
uptime | awk '{print "" $3 " " $4 " " $5 }' | sed -e 's/.$//g';
For the calendar, we used Dateline.
The font used in GeekTool and DateLine Calendar is Eurostile Regular.

Here is a download of the wallpaper (without my desktop screen) for all the Batman and Mac fans out there.

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The size is 1,900 x 1,200

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About the Author

I am currently working on an Associates in Art for Web Design. My interests include finding various apps for Mac OS and iPhone/iPad and tweaking the system. I also like finding ways to tweak my internet experience on Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome. I also enjoy learning new things from others along with course work.

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