Control Option Command

I’ve been a Solid Grey Desktop man for ten or twelve years, but GeekTool; a tool that lets you add all sorts of more or less useful info to your desktop, made me spring a pretty colorful theme today (click the image…). Not in the least because it requires some fiddlin’ around in the terminal and such to set up right, which means that I get to feel special, which I’m all about.

I’m not really satisfied with the actual desktop picture (apologies to the artist. Just too much…) but it does the job for now. I’ve been searching for hours on end for wallpapers and I’m frankly amazed at how difficult it is to find good stuff.

GeekTool itself warrants a post, but I can’t be arsed right now. Here’s some links to get you by:

Theme My Mac.
Smoking Apples.
Gallery of GeekTool desktops.

Have fun!

I’m a sucker for nice illustrations, and these are pretty damn awesome.

Wordle is cool. Give it a URL and it’ll generate pretty word clouds from the site content.

Actionscript generated prettiness by the ever-awesome Keith Peters.