Desktop Apps

hi all, may i know how do i get my desktop to look like this? im refering to the area on the left, with the weather, time, song playing, etc. where to download apps like these???

and the dock and stuff. ive seen really nice customised ones but how do i go about doing these.

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e117/theguywhoeatsrice/Desktop-1.png

that looks sexy wow..
its like jailbreaking your mac lmfao

That's not OS X, that's a GNOME desktop. Nonetheless, widgets like that might be possible on OS X with Yahoo Widgets.

totally just made me cry

nice. i really like it

care to elaborate on the gnome part?

am i able to do that on my mac?

vansmith said:

That's not OS X, that's a GNOME desktop. Nonetheless, widgets like that might be possible on OS X with Yahoo Widgets.

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Gnome must have changed significantly since I used it last

GNOME

It is a desktop environment for *nix operating systems (of which OS X is one). You might be able to compile it but it would require a lot of effort and I'm not actually sure gdesklets (what I imagine is actually providing the widgets) would work.

Have you looked into Yahoo Widgets?

Dysfunction said:

Gnome must have changed significantly since I used it last

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Plain GNOME is fairly boring (although I enjoy simplistic) but it cant be skinned to look really nice. When did you last use it?

tried yahoo widgets. but those are floating apps. the one in the pic i posted seems to be displayed right off the desktop background.

They are widgets too, assuming it's gdesklets powering those widgets.

Is it just me, or is GNOME usually a Linux environment (yes, I know OS X is a Linux kernel but...)?

OS X does not use a Linux kernel - it uses the Mach kernel. And yes, GNOME is used a lot on Linux distributions but is used on other *nix OSes such as Solaris (it is the default DE for openSolaris). You can compile it through MacPorts (see here) but it is far from worth it IMHO just to get those widgets.

for the itunes app, i got gimmesometune. but the only problem with it is i cant get the window to open automatically, i gotta manually open it

but after that it works pretty good. gotta tweak the settings a lil, and it show asif it in your background. pretty cool

You know that could be a Samurize Desktop on windows, I see those types all the time over at Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done If you do some browsing around I think they have some that are setup on a mac and they give you instructions on doing so.

I'm sorry, but isn't that like Ubuntu? I used that messenger for Linux.