Desktop Thread.

[Mota-Lev]

My new one. Thought and suggestions welcomed.

[Sugarlumps]

How do you guys do all that! Especially dock placement! And the iTunes thing!
Lol at the sitting on the dock, nice touch

[Mota-Lev]

For the side bar down the left all made in Geektool.
The dock is SuperDocker.
The music is Ecoute.
The sitting on the dock I didn't mean.

[Noodle]

Mota, we both have singers on our desktop. O_O

But really that hayley one is nice.
edited since I realized I had a much bigger image of the same photo

[Slapzy]

WIP

[TaxiService]

what is that. o_o

[Mota-Lev]

His mac done goof'd so he's using a windows?

[Slapzy]

My mac works. Just the 700mhz is a bit behind the times.

And bought this 2.4GHz quad 6600 Desktop for $400. (Although due to a fail PSU which surged when I installed a new graphics card.. Had to rebuild like.. most of it.)

[Mota-Lev]

Windows is so much more customisable then mac. Some of the windows clocks I've seen dick over almost every mac one I've seen.

[Slapzy]

You can customize your mac pretty good too. Think about it, straight off the bat when you get your mac/pc.. your customization is pretty much limited to a couple built in themes, and your chosen wallpaper.
Mac and windows both have pretty much the same functionality here, you can edit some basic colors of your UI some transparencies, and that's about it. It's the third party applications that really allow for customization to occur with ease. Mac has geektool for desktop overlays, shapeshifter, and a few other apps that allow for "some" theming. Usually those apps aren't all that impressive though, at least not to me. Windows however, has all sorts of powerful applications. (Larger user base, more developers for this platform, more powerful applications in some instances.) Stardock creates an entire customization suite of apps, like windowblinds, that makes theming incredibly simple. One you have your theme set up, you can edit your login screen and bootscreens. (You can do this on a mac too, but it's a little tricky for the average user.) Then, instead of geektool, the primary application for desktop overlays is called rainmeter. Which so far has proven to be more stable, and more powerful that geektool in my experience. But, take away these third party apps, and you're stuck with pretty much the same basic functionality between the two OS's.

[TaxiService]

meh, it's probably because the mac users do not want to customize so much that there are not so many customizing applications.

i mean, if something does not need to be changed, why changing it? o_O but blargh how do i try to prove a point without sounding like a fanboy..? -_- just nvm.

[kiddten]

http://cl.ly/d8e0978f6ba77939ea06
yes I know I suck at photoshop >.>

[Noodle]

^Just bought that album btw

Also

Uploaded to facebook and was too lazy to upload bigger at photofucket. Deal with it.

[TaxiService]

Hello there trippy gradient mapped shot of paris!

[Slapzy]

>Trippy