This VISION desktop took hours to get just right. @philipbrunner had gone through several versions and tweaks to get to this final version. I decided that I wanted my own icons with text to create an even look on my Finder and dock, so Philip created the .psd file for me to use and I created icons for practically all the applications on my Mac, which also took several hours. So now I have almost 200 custom icons. Yay! But why stop there? I then decided that my dock wasn’t good enough. Again, Philip came to the rescue and created this dock that is sand gradients on a clear dock. Perfecto!

This weeks Appleviews flickr pool desktop is by something1138. It is titled Earth wallpaper with GeekTool. The only information he left about the screenshot is that he used GeekTool and where he got the icons. From what I can tell, he used GeekTool for the time, date, uptime, load averages, temperature, memory usage, and GT usage. He may have used GeekTool for iTunes information but I am not sure. For his dock icons, he got them from Nick Caron on Flickr (I went on the link but it was invalid). I chose this desktop because it has a unique look to it. Great job something1138! If anybody wants share feedback on the tools that you think were used on this desktop, feel free to comment and share the wealth with our fellow readers!

This weeks custom desktop goes to…..drum roll please…..cain novocain’s Black & Smoke GUI. Yay cain novicain!
He has an interesting background wallpaper that is simple. On his Flickr account for this design, he was inspired by Chabi69’s Windows desktop and he accented it with the HUD Installer along with the Magnifique skin Mistikon Dark theme. He also has aLunch and Adium in the menubar. For the calendar, he used DateLine and for the RSS reader, he used Snackr (which is shown closed in the upper left hand corner). This is a really nice setup cain novocain! If you want to see more of his work, click his favicon at the top.

We’ve been pretty busy trying to figure out how to create unique desktops. Also, the current trend seems to be minimalistic, but it is hard to figure out. There are tons of different styles of desktops on the Internet. We decided to create a simple desktop + since we like the iPhone and its apps, we decided to be creative and make a ‘Brain Monitor’ app. LOL. The concept is simple. When you think of an Apple (or any other computer), you often hear the term “brain” of the computer. Hence, we found a brain on Google and hooked it up to the iPhone to create the app using PhotoShop. We used GeekTool for the Macs top processes, but made it look as if it were an actual app reading the ‘brain.’
P.S. We set up an account with Flickr so that readers can submit their designs and start a discussion on topics like GeekTool, Rainlendar, SuperDocker, anything that pertains to creating awesome desktops. This can be a useful tool for readers to share ideas and learn from one another. Click the icon to be directed to the Appleviews Flickr group.