The One-Dock Home Screen [Featured Home Screen]

By Whitson Gordon Oct 18, 2011 5:00 PM 5,227 2

Reader jainer123 put together this good-looking home screen with a number of text widgets, with one single dock across the bottom for his favorite apps.

Jainer lists the tools he used to make this setup:

Do you have an awesome, tweaked-into-oblivion home or lock screen of your own that you'd like to share? Go ahead and post it on the #homescreenshowcase forum with a description of how you made it and it may be the next featured home screen.

The One-Dock Home Screen | #homescreenshowcase

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The TRON-Inspired Desktop [Featured Desktop]

By Alan Henry Oct 13, 2011 5:00 AM 41,923 19

Flickr user asbrekenridge wanted a desktop that was informative and attractive. After spending some quality time with GeekTool, he put together this desktop that shows the time and date, a calendar, and available system resources at a glance.

If you have a Mac and want to get the same look on your desktop, here's what you'll need:

The TRON Desktop wallpaper from Rasmus NielsenNocturne from Blacktree to turn the menubar blackGeekTool to set up the geeklets for time, date, calendar, running processes, and system resources

Update: It looks like a similar desktop was posted to Mac OS X Tips by user baldrailers who reached out to share his page there, complete with all the geeklets he used to make it happen! Head over to download them there if you don't want to set them up from scratch.

You'll need to match the colors to the ones on the desktop, and while asbrekenridge didn't say which font he used, you can get the same effect with the font of your choice. If you're not familiar with how to set up GeekTool, check out our guide to setting up a great desktop with it. Most of the geeklets used here are also explained in our tutorial.

If you're a Windows or Linux user, you should be able to get the same effect with Rainmeter or Conky (respectively) to recreate the scene in your OS of choice.

Do you have a great, beautifully productive desktop of your own that you'd like to share? Go ahead and post it to the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell Flickr Group with a description of how you made it and it may be the next featured desktop.

Desktop | Flickr

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The Wood and White Workspace [Featured Workspace]

By Adam Dachis Oct 10, 2011 4:30 PM 22,853 11

Boo Fa's home office is another example of how the use of natural elements—from light to wood—make for a compelling workspace. The iMac is backlit by a large window atop a beautiful wooden desk, and everything is brightened up by the sun. Additionally, Boo Fa's raised the iMac and mounted speakers to the wall, keeping the iMac's display at eye height and reducing desk clutter. It's all very simple, but looks like a great place to get things done.

If you have a workspace of your own to show off, throw the pictures on your Flickr account and add it to the Lifehacker Workspace Show and Tell Pool. Include some details about your setup and why it works for you, and you just might see it featured on the front page of Lifehacker.

Untitled | Flickr

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The iAndroid Home Screen [Featured Home Screen]

By Whitson Gordon Oct 11, 2011 5:00 PM 14,436 9

Reader TapasEaswar created this iPhone-looking home screen with the help of the previously mentioned MIUI ROM and a few UI tweaks.

TapasEaswar explains his setup quite well, so we'll just leave it to him:

Let's start off by saying that I own an HTC Desire not running Stock Android nor the Sense UI. I got bored of both of them really fast so I moved over to MIUI.us and I haven't looked back.

Currently, I'm running version 1.7.22 of MIUI, with the Extended Settings Mod. This mod is really cool because by default the ROM will show your carrier's name in the notification bar, much like iOS does. And unlike Cyanogenmod, by default you can't hide the time from your notification bar. Using this Mod (flashing the .zip file like anything else through recovery) will change that. Oh, and it will also allow you to disable wallpaper scrolling because in MIUI by default you do not have that option available to you.

The icons are part of the QQ Theme, which can be found using the theme engine inside of MIUI.

The homescreen wallpaper I found using Lifehacker, in the minimalism edition of Wallpaper Wednesday.

The dock that the icons are sitting on at the bottom can once again be found using the MIUI theme engine, but it is in Chinese, so you might have some difficulty finding it. The slide down lock screen (not shown, mildly almost kinda sorta NSFW) is called Dark White, which can be found also in the MIUI Theme Engine, or over here if you want the actual .mtz file.

The clock is a part of MIUI as well. Using this ROM I'm not really restricted in what I'm able to do, which is good because I seriously dislike having to install third party applications if I'm able to do it right out of the box itself.

Do you have an awesome, tweaked-into-oblivion home or lock screen of your own that you'd like to share? Go ahead and post it on the #homescreenshowcase forum with a description of how you made it and it may be the next featured home screen.

The iAndroid Home Screen | #homescreenshowcase

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The Transparent Home Screen [Featured Home Screen]

Reader Xstray put together this stylish, monochrome home screen featuring a number of transparent widgets and icons.

Here's what you'd need to recreate it:

Do you have an awesome, tweaked-into-oblivion home or lock screen of your own that you'd like to share? Go ahead and post it on the #homescreenshowcase forum with a description of how you made it and it may be the next featured home screen.

The Transparent Home Screen | #homescreenshowcase

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