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Fantastic Resources For Desktop Customization

Posted on 04 March 2010 by Tina Brunner

In the article ‘Effective Apps To WOW Your Mac Desktop,’ you’ll find a list of effective apps to help you create your own desktop that suits your needs. You can even find items off the Internet to help. Things like backgrounds, a variety of icons (for your dock or apps), fonts, etc. There are even sites that provide tools to use with PhotoShop like brushes, patterns, textures, etc. This list consists of useful links for finding the tools you need to get started in creating an amazing desktop. It is sorted by category.

VERY USEFUL SITES

The following links are the usual locations to find lots of icons, fonts, backgrounds, etc.

deviantART

http://www.deviantart.com/

Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/

Google Images

http://images.google.com/

Pixel Delicioso

http://pixeldelicioso.blogspot.com/

IconsPedia

http://www.iconspedia.com/

InterfaceLift

http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/downloads/date/any/

dafont.com

http://www.dafont.com/

Brusheezy

http://www.brusheezy.com/

Vecteezy

http://www.vecteezy.com/

ICONS

The following links are full of icons for folders, apps, and your dock. There is a large variety to choose from in these sites.

Dryicons

http://dryicons.com/

Free Icons Download

http://www.freeiconsdownload.com/

Icon Archive

http://www.iconarchive.com/

IconFactory

http://iconfactory.com/freeware

IconFinder

http://www.iconfinder.net/free_icons

the iconblock

http://iconblock.com/

FONTS

The following links contain a huge selection of fonts to download for free.

Acid Fonts

http://www.acidfonts.com/index.html

Font Freak

http://www.fontfreak.com/main.htm

Font Reactor

http://www.fontreactor.com/

Font Squirrel

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/

MaxFonts

http://www.maxfonts.com/

CLIP ART

artvex

http://www.artvex.com/

Clker

http://www.clker.com/

VECTOR IMAGES

The following links contain sites that give you many vector images to choose from. These images are editable in applications like Adobe Illustrator.

123freevectors

http://123freevectors.com/

All Silhouettes

http://all-silhouettes.com/

Cool Vectors

http://coolvectors.com/

I Heart Vector

http://www.iheartvector.com/

Qesign

http://tools.qesign.net/

QVectors

http://qvectors.com/

Vector Junky

http://www.vectorjunky.com/

Vector Portal

http://www.vectorportal.com/

Vector4Free

http://vector4free.com/

VectorArt

http://vectorart.org/

VectorStock

http://www.vectorstock.com/

FREE STOCK IMAGES

These links offer free stock images to spice up your desktop.

everystockphoto

http://www.everystockphoto.com/

Free Photos Bank

http://www.freephotosbank.com/

stock.xchng

http://www.sxc.hu/

stockvault

http://www.stockvault.net/

MISCELLANEOUS IMAGES

Bittbox

http://www.bittbox.com/

Colorburned

http://colorburned.com/

Lord of Design

http://lordofdesign.com/

Obsidian Dawn

http://www.obsidiandawn.com/

PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES

These links offer free brushes for PhotoShop.

123Freebrushes

http://123freebrushes.com/

FBrushes

http://fbrushes.com/

Free4Photoshop

http://free4photoshop.com/

FreePhotoshop

http://freephotoshop.org/

PS Brushes

http://www.psbrushes.net/

QBrushes

http://qbrushes.net/

PHOTOSHOP TEXTURES AND PATTERNS

These links are full of textures and patterns for you to use with PhotoShop.

Amazing Textures

http://amazingtextures.com/textures/

Grunge Textures

http://www.grungetextures.com/

Love Textures

http://www.lovetextures.com/

Shizoo

http://shizoo.frozen-media.de/textures.php

Texture King

http://www.textureking.com/

Texture Lovers

http://www.texturelovers.com/

Texture Warehouse

http://www.texturewarehouse.com/gallery/

TextureVault

http://www.texturevault.net/

Urban Dirty

http://urbandirty.com/gallery/

WALLPAPERS AND BACKGROUNDS

These links offer a variety of wallpapers and backgrounds to choose from and some of them allow you to download the specific screen size for your Mac.

Desktopia

http://www.desktopia.com/

Pixelgirl Presents

http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/

Vector Wallpapers

http://vectorwallpapers.net/

Vladstudio

http://www.vladstudio.com/home/

Wallpapers.com

http://www.wallpapers.com/?a=9061&adid=undefined&adtype=undefined

WallpaperStock

http://wallpaperstock.net/

There are many more resources on the Internet that offer valuable tools to use in creating your desktop. The links in this list are easy to navigate and offer free downloads. The Calvin and Hobbes Theme can be found here. If you have a site that is as good as the ones in this list, leave a comment with the link. If you liked this article, don’t forget to share it with others.

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Creative Implementation Of GeekTool And Yahoo Widgets

Posted on 06 October 2009 by Tina Brunner

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
GraffitiOn 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
degrassi
Searfont http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=searfont
Month 48ptsearfont
Vandalismhttp://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=vandalism
Weekday 36pt
RAM Text 24pt
vandalism
Garage Shock (Condensed)http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=garage+shock
Calander 17ptgarageshock
Turntablz Bold http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=turntablz
To Do List 14pt
Uptime 13pt
Top Processes 12pt
turntablz
Graffiti Treat http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=graffiti+treat
RAM 24pt
CPU 24pt
AM & PM 36pt
graffititreat
Graffonti 3D Drop http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=graffonti
CPU Text 24ptgraffonti
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
Calendarcal
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 Widgetwidgets.yahoo.com/widgets/widescapeweather
Battery Widget widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/wdscp-battery
Icons
iCalwww.blocksoft.net/iconical.html
Foldershttp://jr050680.deviantart.com/art/Pry-System-95517859
Hard Driveshttp://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/

SPIDERMAC
spidermac

On this desktop, Zack made it in Lifehacker (2nd time) & Gizmodo!!!  On Flickr, Zack states that from reading what his viewers had commented on the Graffiti Desktop, viewers would rather have everything easier to read, so he came up with this idea, which is ingenious. All of the text bubbles have information such as CPU, RAM, Uptime, a To Do list, & Hard Drive. He used GeekTool along with Yahoo Widgets and a few other cool tools. See below for the goodies ;-)

Wallpaper:
www.flickr.com/photos/zackshackleton/3406234712/
Font:
Comic Book – www.dafont.com/comic-book.font
Taskbar/Finder:
Magnifique UNO-AE Themehttp://magnifique.pcwizcomputer.com/forum/filebase.php?c=2
Yahoo Widgets:
Weatherwidgets.yahoo.com/widgets/widescapeweather
Batterywidgets.yahoo.com/widgets/wdscp-battery
GeekTool 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
Calendarcal
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}’
Hard Drive Space df -h | grep disk0s2 | awk ‘{print $4 }’
The Text Uptime, CPU, RAM, HDD Space
Another text file, remember have to Make Plain Text before saving

TIMES SQUARE DESKTOP
timessquaredesktop
Zack used a picture of Times Square, which he photoshopped to better suit his needs.
On Flickr, he stated that his favorite part of this desktop is the calendar with a twisted look as if it were on the street (all created with GeekTool). Here are the tools and information he provided on Flickr.

Wallpaper
By Michael Shanewww.flickr.com/photos/mbshane/2450094084/
Yahoo Widgets
Weather Widgetwidgets.yahoo.com/widgets/widescapeweather
Battery Widgetwidgets.yahoo.com/widgets/wdscp-battery
GeekTool
Calendar using a picture from i61.photobucket.com/albums/h52/TheAEBeachbum/April.png (when I checked this link, it did not work). Zack did not leave any other GeekTool information for this desktop. If you have any questions though, he would more than likely give a response.


INTERESTING BOOK DESKTOP
interesting books

On this desktop, Zack used GeekTool on some of the spines of the book. (CPU, RAM, Hard Drive Space, Time, Date and others hidden in the spines.) He also used some Yahoo Widgets. He didn’t give too much detail about the GeekTool user commands on this design.

Wallpaper
By OutofPrint  – www.flickr.com/photos/22309082@N07/2157407789/
Yahoo Widgets
Weather Widgetwidgets.yahoo.com/widgets/widescapeweather
Battery Widgetwidgets.yahoo.com/widgets/wdscp-battery


As you can see, there is a ton of information listed. Some of it is duplicate information but was necessary to include so that you may know what exactly was used for each design. Zack has all of his designs on Flickr and is seen in various groups. If you have any questions for Zack, you can find him on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/zackshackleton/ and he will be happy to answer any questions you may have. Sorry this was such a long article guys, I just really like the creativity that Zack has shown using several of the available tools for Mac. You can also click on the link below the article to be directed to his information. Thanks!zackshackeltonicon
-TINA

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