We tend to spend more and more time at our computers, both at work and at home. Many of us even spend our entire working days at a computer and computer related hobbies or utilities are getting increasingly common.

We write and check our e-mails, surf and perhaps we make online purchases, chat with our friends and family, handle our banking online, organize and share our photos, post on forums, write our blogs, play video games, watch films on YouTube or browse our social forums in our spare time. The list of things one can do on a computer is endless!

This makes the computer desktop a really important environment! Imagine just what an impact your digital environment has on you for all that time you spend on your computer!

Lets take a close look at four benefits of customising your desktop.

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Tags: productivity, declutter, folder icons, desktop customization, feel-good, motivation, usability, gui

Here is my take of the folder icon in Mac OS X Leopard. A minimalist folder icon to help you stay productive with neatly organized projects, and in style too!

This collection of computer icons is the first in a new series of folder icons and comes in shades of blue, from turquoise to violet and with some sand thrown in too. Bringing the beach to your desktop with salty breezes, blue lagoons and the feeling of sand between your toes. So head on over to the freebies section to beautify your desktop with Luminous: Blue Folder Icons.

Stay tuned for the next volume of Luminous Folder Icons either by subscribing to our RSS feed or by joining the club for limited edition desktop art and the Marmalade Monthly or by dropping by the web site!

Tags: Luminous, Aqua, water, folder icons, productivity, declutter, Mac OS X, Leopard, Windows, Vista, desktop customization

Sick of that boring, impersonal, generic computer desktop but not quite sure how to change it and make it yours? The Help Desk is open! Here you you can find out how to use icons to declutter your desktop and create a personal and productive work space.

Step-by-step tutorials walk you through how to save desktop art to your computer with ease and how to change the desktop icons on Mac OS X or how to customize the icons on Windows, how to use system replacement icons as well as how to customise your desktop picture on a Mac or your wallpaper in Windows with just a few clicks. Tutorials both for Windows and Mac.

There is no need to worry about which operating system you are using! These simple steps work in both Windows Vista, Windows XP as well as the classic, older Windows operating systems. Mac users can use these tutorials both to customise Mac OSX Leopard, the previous verisons of Mac OSX and the classic older versions of Mac operating systems.

There is also a printable PDF version that provides a way for you to keep an offline copy or print a copy for later use. Sometimes it can be handy to have a printed version on one's desk, whilst going through the different steps.

It's fun and easy to beautify your desktop! To make your digital working and leisure environment personal, functional, organized, uncluttered, practical, productive, gorgeous, delightful, to give it the look and visual cues you want it to have!

Tags: gui, guide, how-to, desktop customization, productivity, declutter, interface, Mac, Mac OS X, Leopard, Windows, Vista