Are you a Mac user? If yes, is your desktop unique or outstanding from others? Always, you can find yourself or other Mac users doing desktop customization to bring up new and different interfaces. Mac OS customization therefore is so common today. Hence, learn it and make a trendy difference to your Mac OS desktop as well.

Every single element on your desktop can be customized and tailored to your preference, from the window shape, wallpapers to icons. By Mac OS customization, they all are saying that you can bring your desktop from zero to hero. You merely need to be creative to replace words or icons and pick up a cool background. Then, you have already started to customize OS X. Getting more and more familiar, there are a lot of stuffs that you can play around with your desktop customization.

Simply enlarging icons or changing font styles, you can feel the difference in your desktop appearance. If you are photographer, you can put up the most favorite masterpiece from your collections to be your desktop wallpaper. It just seems as the showcase for your photographic works. Besides, wallpapers can be changed within a preset time period. Hence, you can view different pictures or have various desktop interfaces in one day. Sure, desktop customization does not stop in here. You can magically transform it into super hi-tech experience, as long as you can hit it on the right track with some tools and your brain.

Across the internet, you can easily find some useful widgets, applications or tutorials to teach you how to customize OS X to your satisfaction. GeekTool is one of the popular tools to customize OS X desktop. It receives a lot of positive compliments and comments. Compared to other alternatives, it can be considered as a neat and user-friendly utility that directs you to run little scripts or “geeklets” to show out all necessary and useful information such as RAM, CPU usage, calendar and images on your Mac desktop.

After the Mac OS customization, what you can tell is not only the visual enhancement of browsing your desktop, but also the useful and convenient functions. For example, you can add in the basic system statistics, current weather, news feed or more gadgets to ease your daily life needs. Furthermore, customization does not necessarily equal to complexity. You can either make it as a tech-geek or simple and nice. Minimalism is often used to develop and customize OS X to a user’s heart content.

Desktop customization, or specially referring to Mac OS customization, can allow you to create your personalized beautiful and productive desktop space. Whenever you feel bored, you can remake it with your innovative and intelligent mind.

Enjoy their desktops!

Seattle Harbor + Geektool + Yahoo! Widgets

Widgets should be arranged in the way not to block the harbor view.
Seattle Harbor + Geektool + Yahoo! Widgets

Shorty’s GeekTool Setup

Left and right columns incorporate all the things well.
Shorty's GeekTool Setup

Desktop 2 – OS X Tiger

With more widgets, your desktop color and images must be carefully chosen.
Desktop 2 - OS X Tiger

May shot

A plain purple background fully tells you what is minimalism.
May shot

Desktop – OS X Leopard w/Dock Expanded

Putting icons and widgets in four desktop corners is a great idea too.
Desktop - OS X Leopard w/Dock Expanded

Skyrim – Desktop Screenshot

Keeping icons small and aside will make your desktop more neat.
Skyrim - Desktop Screenshot

Gaia 09 for Snow Leopard

Color palette is crucial to define the feelings of your desktop.
Gaia 09 for Snow Leopard

OS X – Leopard

Again, wallpaper should be simple when more widgets are on the screen.
OS X - Leopard

Veritas feat. Neon

Homogeneous is helpful to achieve a minimalist’s concept.
Veritas feat. Neon

OSX Lion custom desktop

Colorful desktop will not lead to complicated feeling.
OSX Lion custom desktop

Grays

Desktop could be as modern as your working space.
Grays

My Desktop by santoscreative

Cute icon sets gain popularity and attention.
My Desktop by santoscreative

Mac Toon Customization

Without any gadgets, it is quite comfortable.
Mac Toon Customization

New Mac Screenshot

A desktop seems like a photo frame.
New Mac Screenshot

Urban Desktop

Picking up the right wallpaper is imperative in doing customization.
Urban Desktop

Mac OS X

You can choose only displaying what you need on the window screen.
Mac OS X

Africa ss

This customization sounds like asking you to throw away all icons and left out the wallpaper.
Africa ss

My Mac OS X desktop by ibnadem

Make your widgets as part of the wallpaper.
My Mac OS X desktop by ibnadem

Back to me

Focusing on window screens and folders, instead of the wallpaper.
Back to me

Bokeh

You can notice the clock and time inside the bokeh.
Bokeh

Mac Os Lion September

When you see it, you hear the waves.
Mac Os Lion September

locol

Black and white often produce the beautiful things in our life.
locol

My Desktop for Easter by ivica221

Your desktop could be your room, so do arrange it well.
My Desktop for Easter by ivica221

Passing the Days

It is so seductive when you open your Mac each time.
Passing the Days

Tlo

Putting all pictures aside in small size is great, isn’t it?
Tlo