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Customize the Login Screen of Mac OS X Lion Easily with Loginox

Dec 7, 2011 - 11 Comments
Customize the Login Screen of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

We recently showed you how to manually change the login screen wallpaper, but if you don’t want to deal with resizing images and digging around in the filesystem, you can use a free app called Loginox. Loginox sets new background wallpaper at the click of a button, resizing the images for you to the native … Read More

Change the Login Screen Wallpaper in OS X Lion

Dec 2, 2011 - 31 Comments
Change the login wallpaper in Mac OS X Lion

NOTE: New instructions are available to change the login screen background image within OS X Mavericks. Please refer to those if you are looking to customize the login wallpaper in the latest versions of OS X. Here’s how to change the wallpaper that lies behind the standard login screen on OS X Lion & Mountain … Read More

45+ Wallpapers from the National Geographic Photo Contest

Nov 13, 2011 - 9 Comments
Nature wallpapers

The entries into the 2011 National Geographic Photo Contest make for some spectacular wallpapers, one of which was shown in a recent tip screenshot and requested. You can find them split between TheAtlantic and National Geographic: NationalGeographic: National Geographic Contest Entries Wallpapers TheAtlantic: National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 Most of the wallpapers are best on … Read More

6 Colorful Aurora Wallpapers

Nov 8, 2011 - 1 Comment
Colorful Aurora Wallpapers

Looking for a few more gorgeous wallpapers for your desktop? This pack of colorful aurora themed images should do the trick, with two variations of each image, one with a Windows 7ish aurora stripey look and the other a blurred faint aurora more reminiscent of OS X. They all look great, and with the 2560×1600 … Read More

Change Launchpad’s Background Image Effect in Mac OS X Lion

Oct 30, 2011 - 12 Comments
Unblur Launchpad background Mac OS X Lion

Bored with Launchpads background? You can make some changes to it in Mac OS X Lion by changing the background images default blur effect to three other options: unblurred (shown above), black and white blur, or black and white unblurred (both shown below): Open Launchpad Hit Command+B to cycle through the background image effects Update: … Read More

Night Sky Starfield Wallpaper

Oct 30, 2011 - 7 Comments
Blue Sky Star Field wallpaper

Here’s another nice background picture, by request, it’s the blue sky star field wallpaper that was shown in a recent screenshot of Mission Control. This one isn’t part of a pack, but it does include the base PSD file so you can make your own variations of the blue night sky if you are up … Read More

6 Beautiful Aurora Wallpapers

Oct 20, 2011 - 4 Comments
Where to find a DeviantArt download link

By request, here is a great 6 wallpaper pack of original variations on the classic OS X Aurora style wallpaper, each image is 2560×1600 and looks great on any Mac (or iPad). This pack was sent in to us but we can’t track down the source again, so thanks to whoever that was. Download them … Read More

Change Launchpad Icon Size in Mac OS X Lion from Large to Small

Oct 19, 2011 - 29 Comments
Shrink Launchpads Large Icon Size

Of all the Launchpad tips and customizations, one that has been greatly desired is the ability to manually adjust the icon size of apps. A tip sent in by Rohan Agashe moves us in that direction, allowing you to change the Launchpad icon size down from the large icons in OS X 10.7.2 to the … Read More

Enable Motion Blur in Mission Control for Mac OS X Lion

Oct 17, 2011 - 27 Comments
Motion Blur in Mission Control on Mac OS X Lion

Mission Control in Mac OS X Lion has a hidden motion blur effect that can be enabled quite easily:

Get the Grey Linen Wallpaper Tiles Found in Mac OS X & iOS

Oct 15, 2011 - 23 Comments
Mac OS X Lion's grey linen wallpaper tile

The lightly shaded large linen wallpaper from the OS X Lion developer previews didn’t end up being the final shipping version, instead a linen repeating pattern and tile came with the final release of OS X Lion and is still around in Mountain Lion and beyond. This linen tile appears everywhere in new versions of … Read More

TinkerTool for Mac OS X Lion is a Must Have for Customizing 10.7

Oct 7, 2011 - 6 Comments
TinkerTool for Mac OS X Lion

If you are a fan of Mac tips and tricks and customizing OS X, you absolutely have to get TinkerTool for Lion. TinkerTool is broken into 12 main sections covering Finder, Dock, General, Desktop, Applications, Fonts, Font Smoothing, Login Items, Safari, iTunes, QuickTime X, and Resume (OS X Lion’s Restore feature), each section has a … Read More

Remembering Steve Jobs: Wallpaper Tribute

Oct 6, 2011 - 16 Comments
Steve Jobs silhouette within the Apple logo

This is a rather simple but beautiful tribute to Steve Jobs in wallpaper form. The image is of the Apple logo with silhouetted profile of Steve Jobs forming the bite. Full size wallpaper here (2560×1600) or click the image above.

Add a Separator & Time Stamp Between Terminal Commands to Increase Readability

Oct 3, 2011 - 21 Comments
Custom Terminal separator and timestamp for Bash

If you want to customize the Terminals appearance a bit beyond the prompt and a custom background, you can make the Terminal much more readable by using this nice trick to add a separator and timestamp between each executed command. This also bolds the current command text and anything that is available from tab completion.

iOS-Like Dark Menu Bar for Mac OS X Lion

Sep 23, 2011 - 25 Comments
dark menu bar in Mac OS X

If you’ve been using Nocturne to get the black menubar in Mac OS X but don’t care for any of the features outside of the darker menu bar, check out MenuBarFilter. All it does is turn the Mac menu bar color into a dark black gradient, closely resembling iOS. Download MenubarFilter now or head to … Read More

Use Special Characters & Emoji Directly in the Finder of Mac OS X

Sep 16, 2011 - 3 Comments
Access Special Characters & Emoji from the Finder in Mac OS X Lion

If you want to quickly style your folders or Launchpad with Emoji, you can access the Special Characters panel directly from the Finder in Mac OS X and then drag or enter those special characters or emojis into the folder or file names.

Style Folders in Mac OS X with Emoji Icons

Sep 15, 2011 - 7 Comments
Emoji folders in Mac OS X

Thanks to the inclusion of Emoji in Mac OS X, you can now customize the appearance of Finder items by inserting Emoji characters into file and folder names. This offers yet another way to customize the appearance of a Mac OS desktop, and it can provide an easy visual identifier for file and folder names … Read More

Make iPhone’s iOS Look Like Mac OS X Lion

Sep 13, 2011 - 19 Comments
Mac OS X Theme for iPhone

We’ve shown you how to make Mac OS X look like iOS, but what about going the other way? If using a jailbreak doesn’t freak you out, this winterboard theme makes an iPhone look and behave freakishly similar to Mac OS X Lion and includes a variety of features that are borrowed from OS X … Read More

Change the Text & Icon Size of the Mac OS X Finder Window Sidebar

Sep 12, 2011 - 8 Comments
Change Text Size of the Mac Finder Windows Sidebar

The font size of the Mac Finder window sidebar is customizable, allowing you to adjust to a larger or smaller font size of both the text and icons found in the Finder sidebars of OS X. If you’ve been busy customizing the Favorites folders and colorizing the Finder sidebar icons, you might want to change … Read More

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