MP:logo MacPhoenix: Tech

What You Do

Mac OS 8, 9 and X

  1. Click and hold, or control-click, on the link with the size that you wish to download.
  2. When the contextual menu comes up, select “Download Link to Disk.”
  3. Save the image where you can easily find it again, maybe your Desktop.
  4. Control-click on the current background, and select “Change Desktop” from the contextual menu.
  5. Drag the image that you just saved into the Appearance window.

Windows

  1. Replace hardware and operating system with those offered by Apple.
  2. Follow the instructions above, except curse Apple for not including a multi-button mouse.

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MacPhoenix: Desktops

“spinleaf”

spinleaf Desktop Picture
Available in:
800x600
1024x768

Whenever i start working on something—whether it’s an image or a song or whatever, it always starts off as something really simple and very concrete. Often, by the time the original idea has traveled through all the creating and tweaking, it doesn’t always convey where the idea has evolved to. —rich(e)rich

“Dragonfly”

Dragonfly Desktop Picture
Available in:
800x600
1024x768

Maybe i could make a desktop picture to send to Supa to put on his website... I haven’t seen a new one in a little while. —rich(e)rich

“The Professor”

The Professor Desktop Picture
Available in:
800x600
1024x768

About time for a new one, I think. —Jonathan

“Stream Evening”

Stream Evening Desktop Picture
Available in:
800x600

I ran across this picture and made a desktop picture of it. —Vicky

Our Lady Peace “Gravity”

Our Lady Peace Gravity Desktop Picture
Available in:
800x600

I’m creating this desktop picture for no apparent reason. —Vicky

“Raw”

Raw
Available in:
800x600
1024x768
1280x1024

“Raw” is a poem that I’ve recorded into a spoken word/music track with Pthelo, and now it is also this disturbing desktop picture. Enjoy. —Jonathan

“Verdant Hype”

Verdant Hype
Available in:
640x480
800x600
832x624
1024x768
1152x870
1280x1024
1600x1200

Green reminded us of nature, but now it just means get the hell out. —Jonathan

Katie Holmes

Katie Holmes
Available in:
800x600
1024x768

Why Ms. Holmes? Don’t know. Love the pose. And the composition just screamed out to be made into a desktop background. Yeah, and it doesn’t hurt that she’s cute. —Jonathan