Sep 08
Desktoptopia
Desktoptopia is a desktop background manager for the Mac that automatically loads and displays designer desktops from our ever-growing master collection, on your monitor, as often as you wish. Made for designers/by designers to keep you inspired with the freshest desktops. The master collection grows everyday, so you’re sure to to be inspired with the freshest and latest designs. If you are interested in purchasing Desktoptopia ($20), Web Designer Wall’s readers can enter coupon code “luckyme” at checkout will get 50% off (valid until Sept. 18, 2007).
The founder explains the story behind Desktoptopia…
Desktoptopia came about when my artist friends and I would share art for inspiration. We’d make these folders full of images to use for our desktops, to admire while we work. It was all about finding/ sharing new art styles. Everyone who saw our desktops would ask for the images, so we thought maybe other artists and people at large
might like something like this.
The technology is actually pretty cool. We’re using RSS feeds to send the images and there’s a rating algorithm to show you art you like more often, and art you’re not crazy about less often. There’s also a place in the system preferences where you can add your own feeds from sources like Flickr.
We have a database of desktops artist have submitted, and we take great care as to what makes the cut. Artist review submissions and only the best make it in. And of course, it’s all work safe imagery. Nothing you’d be embarrassed about if your mom saw it.
The artist like it because it’s a source of inspiration, and a way to get discovered. All art submitted links back to the artists site from the Menubar icon in Desktoptopia. We’ve already gotten reports of artist getting work from Desktoptopia.
Our team is very diverse and global. Our programming work is done in Germany, Marketing in the USA and our artists are from all over the world.
So far it’s been very well accepted, and we have a ton of great ideas to enhance Desktoptopia in the future.
Here are some nice samples from the gallery:
Free Texture Stock Photos Photoshop Secret Shortcuts
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21 Sky
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:04 am
Hello, i’m 64 living in France…I love so much the background of your home
page…I’ll be so glade to have one for desktop of my computer…
Best regards…Mme…S.L
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19 Yana DOMASHITSKY
November 12th, 2007 at 1:58 am
lol or you can do what I did… keep it for 10 days as a trial and printscreen all the best desktops and use them at your own leisure.
18 Search Scripts http://www.search-scripts.com
October 8th, 2007 at 3:52 am
Is there a copy of dektoptopia available for windows xp as well?
17 IronMAN http://ironman.artlogo.ro
September 26th, 2007 at 9:08 am
do you mind if you share the codes for that nice gallery?
16 Julien Maffre
September 19th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
it would be perfect if desktoptopia would have a cover icon fonction like the one in deskshade.
I’m a little messed-up
15 ballookey
September 11th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
The thing is, some of the better desktops featured on this site are certainly available for free from the original artists. I recognize David Lanham’s work in the samples shown above, and it’s free to download the wallpaper from his site - which curiously enough, isn’t linked in the artist’s profile at Desktoptopia. Also, one of the iPhone wallpapers is an older version of the Hicks Design logo.
14 Syzygy
September 11th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
I don’t mind the price for this, I go through desktop images often so it would be worth it to me, but I hate macs and will never own one.
13 Fireproof83 http://www.fgingras.com
September 10th, 2007 at 11:36 am
Well… I’ve got a PC, but I wouldn’t pay so much for that app if I had a mac.
12 Rikas http://rikas.ath.cx
September 9th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
I have a mac but i won’t buy this. Too much for such a simple app! Too bad!