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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Grays
Desktop could be as modern as your working space.

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

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

New Mac Screenshot
A desktop seems like a photo frame.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


1 comment
Stacy Summers says:
Jul 23, 2012
Cool wallpapers! A big piece of inspiration for me
Thank you for sharing