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Fabulous GeekTool Screenshots From February 2010

Tina Brunner — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:18:42 +0000

There are some really cool GeekTool desktop screenshots out there on the web. This list contains 20 screenshots uploaded in February from DeviantART and Flickr. (To view more information about the screenshot, click the link below their titles.)

FROM DEVIANTART

Geektool desktop by D-Money-16

http://d-money-16.deviantart.com/art/Geektool-desktop-124906820

Hit the Bottom by iamthejaypaul

http://iamthejaypaul.deviantart.com/art/Hit-the-Bottom-152531275

Mac desktop feb 10 by woomera

http://woomera.deviantart.com/art/Mac-desktop-feb-10-153983449

Modern X – Screenshot by FloStyler0408

http://flostyler0408.deviantart.com/art/Modern-X-Screenshot-154072937

screenshot 21-02-10 by multini

http://multini.deviantart.com/art/screenshot-21-02-10-154819762

Sing Along by Sharcuk

http://sharcuk.deviantart.com/art/Sing-Along-152549885

veritas pro by 11tsetm1

http://11tsetm1.deviantart.com/art/veritas-pro-153360965

FROM APPLEVIEWS FLICKR POOL

City by tomcraig

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33209565@N06/4264048772

Citypark Desktop by taipan_snake

http://www.flickr.com/photos/taipan_snake/4334310586

Current desktop wallpaper by KingScooty

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kingscooty/4389854481

Desktop 1-31-10 red by JediSLUzer

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jedisluzer/4326913578

Geektool Desktop by Peter Thomas Simmons

http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterorpete/4383831494

Geektool Desktop by Peter Thomas Simmons

http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterorpete/4383840322

Interloper Desktop by taipan_snake

http://www.flickr.com/photos/taipan_snake/4358157333

untitled screenshot by I2not_know

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35167705@N03/4392518048

minimal by jeffmincey

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffmincey/4372492100

My Current Desktop by DaveBinM

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davebinm/4391264252

Zoom in, there is some cool stuff going on…by Cain Novocaine

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29349409@N07/4344401351

Other Favorites

New desktop :D by Automatic Entropy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/automaticentropy/4344491243/

Peaceful (with sidebar) by TeknoFTW

http://www.flickr.com/photos/teknoftw/4369960534/

If you have any interesting or unique GeekTool desktop screenshots you’d like to share, click here to go to the Appleviews Flickr group and upload to share them with others. If you liked this article, don’t forget to spread the word and leave a comment.

Thinking Differently Desktop

Tina Brunner — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:20:32 +0000

For this weeks desktop, my husband created this desktop. He wanted to create something different (hence think differently) by using animal prints and other odd items to the background. I used DragThing to make my frequently used folders on the bottom right (Helvetica font) and ecoute for playing music without having to open iTunes. For the calendar, I simply tweaked DateLine (using Helvetica font and customizing the colors). Please, feel free to upload your customized desktop to the Appleviews Flickr Pool….see the link on the right. Enjoy!

Halloween Spider Mac Desktop

Tina Brunner — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:10:02 +0000

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 '' | 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.