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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Lifehacker's Guide to Customizing Your Desktop

Lifehacker's Guide to Customizing Your Desktop


Wallbase.net - Wallbase.net can simply be described as a searchable wallpaper database, containing almost endless amounts of wallpapers.
InterfaceLIFT - InterfaceLIFT is an excellent resource for all kinds of wallpapers with the ability to sort out any types of images that don't work for you. The site provides a catalogue of themes and icons as well.
Digital Blasphemy - Has a free section for wallpapers.

Top 10 Free Wallpaper, Fonts and Icon Sources
Chris Pirillo's Favorite Free Wallpaper Sites - Chris Pirillo's big on wallpapers, and he's posted a lot of resources he likes to use to find some great images.


Rainmeter

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An example of rainmeter using gaia10 configs.


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If you ever wished you could add skin-able Windows Gadgets (or OS X Widgets) directly to your desktop, well, that's what Rainmeter does for Windows users.

Rainmeter lets you extend your desktop image into a living design by providing always-updating meters that sit right on your desktop. With skins and some good design sense, you can make your meters look truly integrated and come up with some pretty incredible looks. Here are some of the favourites :

The Gaia Desktop
The Enigma Desktop
The Cave Story Desktop
The Monochrome Grey Desktop


For more Rainmeter themes, there's the Rainmeter deviantART page.



Custom Icons

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If you like the structural uniformity of iOS rounded rectangle grid, you'll want to take a look at the IconFactory's Flurry.


Flurry Icon Sets | The Icon Factory

Here are some of the more popular deviations too :

Token by ~brsev
Icon Pack by ~aablab
Icon Pack 2 by ~aablab
Lucid: Icons by ~leechiahan



Well, that covers the basics. To know more, you can read the full list here :

Source : http://lifehacker.com/5681775/customize-yo...op-this-weekend
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