I was inspired by ~rissol from deviantart. This guy is the dude as far as Mac Theme-ing goes! So I looked up theme-ing the Mac. Thought I’d give Magnifique (a Mac theme-ing app) a try. Sadly, there is a pretty scary warning on the Magnifique website which reads.

WARNING: DO NOT use Magnifique on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. It’s almost certain that it will mess up your system beyond repair. We are planning a complete rewrite of Magnifique once Snow Leopard is released. Thanks for everyone’s support

GingerBreadMan

Needless to say, I was quite bleh-ed out after reading that. So thought “Oh well, might as well do something!“. Low and behold.

Desktop Wallpaper:

http://abstract.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/59848/

Geektool Quote of the day:

curl -s http://www.dailyzen.com/ | sed -n “/<!–Add Quote for correct day–>/,/</TD>/p”|sed -e “s/<[^>]*>//g” |strings|fold -sw60

Geektool Time

date +%D

What amused me the most was placing the VLC icon. I couldn’t help but stop grinning looking at that VLC Slalom Pole Cone Icon nested at the Gingerbreadman’s feet. Bwahaha!

I know, the desktop looks very ordinary, but come-on, not bad for 5 mins of effort. And the cone looks awesome! It really does!! … Oh well

I promise my next one will be awesome

Enjoy

UPDATE: For those of you who are unable to use the ‘Quote of the day’ script, please scroll through the comments where I have linked the original article. The code gets messed up when one copy pastes into/from WP to Geektool. Dunno why. The fonts are also linked in the comments section . Also, feel free to check out the desktops from July-November for other Geektool inspirations here. I personally prefer Newspaper desktop from October

Newspaper - Desktop of the month - October

Description:

• Calender on the top


echo
echo `cal` |
sed "s/$(date +%e) / $(date +%e | sed 's/.*/@/g') /" |
sed s'/Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa//g' |
sed s'/ */ \| /g' |
sed s'/^ \|//' | sed s'/ \|//' | sed s'/\|/ /' |
sed s'/\|/./g' | sed s"/$/ $(date +%A)/"

Try this guys. Hopefully the spacing doesn’t go haywire with this formatting. Thanks darryl for the suggestion. If it still doesn’t work, lemme know, i’ll email it

• Hourly RSS of the top news from Yahoo on the right

http://lifehacker.com/5169445/put-news-on-your-desktop-with-geektool

• Date and month, to add the ‘newspaper’ effect

Day of week – date +%A
Month – date +%B
Date – date +%d
Time – date +”%I:%M”
AM/PM – date +”%p”

• iTunes track + album + artist display on the left.

http://www.keynote2keynote.com/?p=119&akst_action=share-this

• Signature on the bottom right

echo Andy Kashyap

Fonts used:

• Top Calender & Signature – Jane Austen Handwriting font – here
• Right News – Old Newspaper font – here
• Left iTunes info – Veteran Typewriter Font – here

Wallpaper can be found here

Feel free to comment!

Desktop - July

Wanted a different color this time. Enough of black/ white/ grey and all the other nuances of black. Surfed for 10 minutes on deviantart and found this.

Most of the things are created using geektools

• Wallpaper is from deviantart.
• The icons are also from deviantart.
  To replace conventional Mac icons, select the icon you want to replace. Press Cmd + I. In the small thumbnail on the top, paste the .png icon file you wish to have as your new icon
• Most of the stats on the desktop are simple geektool commands.
• Weather is from yahoo.

I hope you guys liked it. Feel free to comment on it.

So, I started off modifying my Mac. I used Lifehacker to touch base first and know the basics of desktop modding. The more i read from LH, the more I learn. It’s truly a wonderful website.

To start off, here is my desktop

I will be outlaying some of the steps that I took to come up with what you see above

• Replaced the traditional Aqua theme with iLeopard theme
• Downloaded GeekTool.
• All the scripts for Date – Time – iTunes – Network and CPU Usage – Weather can be found online by simple googling.
• Sit and spend some time on your desktop. And the result will be nice.
• Delete all desktop icons or put them in your documents folder, and you can remove your HDD icon by going into Finder system preferences and unchecking it from Advanced.

I shall try something more colourful next time. Any suggestions/comments will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Mihir: Aaaj mere paas HDTV hai, XBox 360 hai, Graphics card hai…kya hai tere paas?
Andy: Mere paas Mac hai!