Today’s desktop screenshot from the Appleviews Flickr Pool is by taipan_snake titled Interloper Desktop. I chose this desktop for the week because of the simplicity of the buildings and the setup of GeekTool and Adium.
He used GeekTool for the date and time.
The Bowtie theme he used is the Zukunft Bowtie Theme by janik at DeviantART.
Download the bowtie theme here: http://janik.deviantart.com/art/Zukunft-bowtie-theme-109443279
The icons are The Kohbens Iconset by Roberto Urso.
Downloaded The Kohbens Iconset here: http://www.robertourso.com/goodies/goodies.html
The wallpaper is interloper by ether at DeviantART.
Download the wallpaper here: http://ether.deviantart.com/art/interloper-153447829

To view taipan_snakes other work on Flickr, click his favicon (to the left).
Well done taipan_snake! Remember, to be included in the Appleviews Group Pool, you need to upload your work!

Today’s desktop screenshot is by Cain Novocaine and I must say, it is awesome! I appreciate the detailed notes that he left on Flickr as to how he did this. Here are the notes from his Flickr page.

Not a significant change, but an evolution with some more uniformity and style. I consider this a strong fusion of the best visual elements of OS X, Windows, and Ubuntu linux. Feel free to copy it for yourself. I consider this theme done, GLASS HUD:

Main Elements

-**MENUBAR: Black Menubar(s) originally seen in Sweatshop Union’s Photostream. I also inverted all of the program icons I use in the menu bar (1. Locate the Application, 2. Right Click to Show Contents, 3. Replace or invert the current black icons, and save, 4. Restart the Application). I also used SECRETS to move the dock to the left side of the screen.

-**DOCK: Mirage for Snow Leopard to make the dock transparent. I also replaced the status indicators while I was at it with the status indicators from Adium Minimal HUD. For the dock icons, I used Opacity Folders with my own personal modifications.

The Easy Parts

-Adium theme is Minimal HUD, this is also where you can extract the status indicators (1. navigate to the file, 2. show contents, 3. copy contents) for your dock.

-Bowtie theme is Snowtie

-Wallpapers are from the DUST at fiftyfootshadows.net

The Boring Part

-GeekTool is used for the bottom bar, which is a 22 pixel tall black PNG as long as the width of your resolution. Its opacity is brought down to match the top bar. I also added a 1 pixel tall white border on top.

-Instructions on time, date, day, and weather can be found at this link. Remember to use the Lucinda Grande font at size 14 to match the menubar.

**The elements of this theme require replacing many default files of Snow Leopard. You should be fine if you back up what you replace, but I can’t guarantee any result for you.

Thanks Cain Novocaine for another great screenshot. To view his other desktops, click on his icon.

This week, we chose the desktop by taipan_snake titled Minimal Desktop. It has a nice and clean look and I also love the use of the dock, especially using spaces to divide certain applications. The wallpaper is ‘Minimal’ by thirteen-eightyone (http://thirteen-eightyone.deviantart.com/art/minimal-147371148) and the dock icons are Kobhens (http://www.robertourso.com/goodies/goodies.html) and he used GeekTool for the time (am/pm), and the date. Again, very nice minimalistic desktop taipan_snake.

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!

For the SuperMac design, we decided to go with a cityscape background and used PhotoShop to create an alley with rundown, broken PC’s. And the Mac to the rescue.  The tools we used to create this look was PhotoShop (for the design), GeekTool, Magnifique (Titanium), and the Moon Phase II Yahoo Widget.
The fonts used are as follows (they can be found at www.dafont.com):
Amsterdam Graffiti for CPU, Uptime and RAM
Graffonti Atomic Bomb for the Day of Week and Day of Month
Graffonti 3d Drop for the Month and Year
Here are the codes used in GeekTool:
CPU
top -l 2 | awk '/CPU usage/ && NR > 5 {print $12, $13}'
UPTIME
uptime | awk '{print "" $3 " " $4 " " $5 }' | sed -e 's/.$//g';
RAM
top -l 1 | awk '/PhysMem/ {print "" $8 " "}' ;
Day of Month
date +%d
Day of Week
date +%A
Month
date +%B
Year
date +%Y


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Image size 1,280 x 800

I was looking for Mac applications through Google the other day when I ran into this website (Vladstudio) that had wallpaper clocks. To my curiosity, I installed the Wallpaper Clock, which is free and added some of their free themes. What I found to be really unique about these wallpapers is that the clocks actually worked. Normally, I use GeekTool to produce my date, time, etc. but these functions were built into the wallpaper. The wallpaper that I used for the theme shown is the Metal clock. I still used GeekTool to add This Day in History and the Quotes using Kraken Thin for the font.  The website where I downloaded the wallpaper clock from has many wallpapers to choose from. Some are free and some are for registered users only. To become registered, they offer a Lifetime account (which is currently on sale for Halloween and never expires) at $19.99, a 3 Month account for $9.99 and a 12 Month account for $19.99. Below is the GeekTool command for the Quotes and This Day in History commands:
Quotes:
curl http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/feeds/rssfeed.aspx?type=quote | grep description | sed -e 's/\(.*<description>\)//' -e 's/<\/description>.*//'
This Day in History:
curl http://www.infoplease.com/rss/dayinhistory.rss | grep CDATA | sed -e 's/\(.*\[\)//' -e 's/\].*//'
This concludes todays customized desktop. Enjoy.
-TINA