My desktop on the iBook

This is the desktop on my faithful iBook. It's almost three years old and it's chugging along steadily. Since I see my desktop daily, I wanted to use it as my vision board. If you've read The Secret, you'd know what's a vision board.

So for a few months, I had a Mini Cooper wallpaper. After a while, it didn't work out for me because I wanted to put more things into my vision board. So I looked on the Internet for an application that would let me add tiny photos onto my desktop, and I found Photo Desktop. The latest version isn't free, and with our exchange rate, it's much too expensive. So I decided to do it the hard way, and turned to Pixelmator that I bought during the last Macheist.

But before that, I used Photo Drop to create borders around my vision pictures. Photo Drop is a widget that lets you add visual effects to your images, such as Tape and Pin that you can see on my desktop. I then used Pixelmator to combine the wallpaper and the vision pictures created by Photo Drop. And now I have a nice wallpaper AND have my vision board at the same time.

Other things I did to my desktop:

I keep my morning affirmation displayed on my desktop using Geektool.
CoverSutra gives me a quick glance at the music I'm listening to.
I keep an eye on my system resources with iPulse.
And use StickyWindows to keep TaskPaper always within reach for quick access.
Finally, the desktop wallpaper calendar is from Smashing Magazine.