This weeks Desktop Screenshot from the Appleviews Flickr Pool is by Ferdifand. The tools she used on her desktop are GeekTool, DragThing and Bowtie.
The items in her menubar are Last.fm, Adium, DragThing, QuickSilver, Bowtie, iAntiVirus, Mozy, Growl, Caffeine, and iStat.
Finally, she obtained the desktop background from DeviantArt:
http://xanthousis.deviantart.com/art/Yellow-submarine-111709318
Congratulations, Ferdifand for a great customized desktop!

To enter your customized desktop in the Appleviews Flickr Pool, go to http://www.flickr.com/groups/appleviews/pool/ and enter your desktop. It’s that easy!

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.

The size is 1,900 x 1,200

This wallpaper is for all the Batman and Mac fans out there.

1,900 x 1,200

Below is the background used for the SpiderMac Desktop. Feel free to download.

1,608 x 1,204

(Click the image to view a larger size.)

Since Halloween is right around the corner, I wanted to make a realistic spider web effect sucking in the Apple logo. My husband is the guru when it comes to design, so he created a cob web and added the Apple logo and gave the effect of it being pulled into the spider web. In fact, there are spiders in the screen, can you see how many there are? I wanted to make this fun for those viewing it, so I had him add some spiders, and asked the audience to see how many they can count. To add to the effect, I used GeekTool to add a countdown of how many days left to Halloween and used the echo to add ‘days to go’ behind after the countdown number. There is of course a way to do it without having to add an extra shell command, but we didn’t see the code until after the fact. However, you can use the echo command to add text to your screen though, so this is why we added it to this article. We used the Moon Phase II Yahoo Widget for the moon. Here are the commands for GeekTool:
Days To Go shell command:
echo "days to go"
CountDown shell command:
echo '<?=(int)((strtotime("Oct 31")-time())/86400)?>' | php
To add the Yahoo Widget, click on the moon to be directed to the download page on Yahoo Widgets.

To download the background without my desktop screen, go to the Freebies tab in this site for the download. This concludes this article, if you have any other GeekTool commands or Yahoo Widgets, please, leave a comment to help fellow readers. Also, check out more designs by my husband at http://philipbrunner.com.

Todays article is about the creative implementation of GeekTool and Yahoo Widgets by Zack. He has done an excellent job implementing these tools into everyday scenes. Check these out.
GRAFFITI
On this desktop, Zack chose to use Graffiti as part of his customization. He used several fonts in GeekTool for the clock, date, month, weekday, CPU, RAM, Uptime, Top Processes, to do list and calendar. He used Yahoo widgets for the battery and weather. Blending it all into the background. This design was also featured in Lifehacker.

Wallpaper:
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/949/train_with_graffiti.html
Dock Information:
www.bresink.de/osx/TinkerTool.html
Font Information:
Degrassi	http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=degrassi
Time 65pt Date 36pt Uptime Text 18pt
Searfont	http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=searfont
Month 48pt
Vandalism	http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=vandalism
Weekday 36pt RAM Text 24pt
Garage Shock (Condensed)	http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=garage+shock
Calander 17pt
Turntablz Bold	http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=turntablz
To Do List 14pt Uptime 13pt Top Processes 12pt
Graffiti Treat	http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=graffiti+treat
RAM 24pt CPU 24pt AM & PM 36pt
Graffonti 3D Drop	http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=graffonti
CPU Text 24pt
Geek Tool Commands
Top Processes	top -FR -l2 -o cpu | grep -v 0.0% | cut -c 7-24| sed -n '15, $p'
Time	date "+%l:%M"
AM & PM	date +%p
Date Number	date +%d
Month	date +%B
Weekday	date +%A
Calendar	cal
To Do List	Create a text file with TextEdit but make sure you click Format>Make Plain Text before save. Then select the file in path in GeekTool.
Uptime	uptime | awk '{print "" $3 " " $4 " " $5 }' | sed -e 's/.$//g';
RAM	top -l 1 | awk '/PhysMem/ {print "" $8 " "}' ;
CPU	top -l 2 | awk '/CPU usage/ && NR > 5 {print $12, $13}'
Text, Uptime, CPU, RAM	Another text file, remember have to Make Plain Text before saving
Yahoo Widgets
Weather Widget	widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/widescapeweather
Battery Widget	widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/wdscp-battery
Icons
iCal	www.blocksoft.net/iconical.html
Folders	http://jr050680.deviantart.com/art/Pry-System-95517859
Hard Drives	http://thvg.deviantart.com/art/Slick-Drives-95235862
Others
http://rimshotdesign.deviantart.com/art/Milkapp-26790473
http://kano89.deviantart.com/art/iPhoto-08-93032097
http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/details.php?id=1980 (alumi icons)
Coversutra for iTunes integration – www.sophiestication.com/coversutra/

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