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Oh, what Mac users do with their beloved desktops.

If you have been roaming around looking for wallpapers in digital artist Vlad Gerasimov’s website, you may notice that aside from the wonderful desktop wallpapers being offered for download (for free or through paid membership), there are wallpaper clock files as well.

These files are loaded on your computer through utilities that support .WCZ files. There is one available for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

How does this work? Every minute, the wallpaper is updated to show the current time. It’s something similar to a slide show, but the slide show happens on your desktop, and the only item that changes is the information about the current time.

To see how it looks, I have downloaded the Wallpaper Clock utility for Mac OS X and got two wallpaper clocks, and see how they look:

If you want to try the utility as well, here’s the direct link to the Wallpaper Clock page.

How I wish I can do this on my MacBook.

Remember the Flying Toasters module from early Windows 3.x and Mac screensaver AfterDark?

Now we can have the same screensaver on Windows and Mac (sans the theme song), courtesy of Uneasysilence.com:

How’s that for being nostalgic? I remember staring on my computer’s screen just watching the toasters fly by — and I even sing to the theme song!

Download it here.

Just this morning I downloaded a utility that replaced the default battery monitor display for Mac OS X.

SlimBatteryMonitor is the name of this simple app. Instead of horizontally displaying the battery icon, it displays it in several more ways that in effect consumes less space on the menu bar.

Download it here.