When it comes to customizing your desktop, OS X seemingly provides anything you could want—there are a number of Apple-provided images, there are connections to your user’s Pictures folder and iPhoto ...

Changing a Mac's appearance settings, accent and highlight colors and even individual application color schemes can make quite a style statement. But these adjustments can enhance functionality, too.

Windows users have been able to choose the exact color of their desktop forever. With Apple OS X 10.7 Lion, now Mac users can do this easily, without creating a colored graphic image and choosing it ...