Today’s pick of the day is DeskShades. There are certain applications that grab my attention so much that I just hit “Buy Now” fully knowing that as the host of this show I can get a review license very easily. Maybe he will give me a couple of licenses to give away to you guys.

DeskShades was one of those that as soon as I visited the web-site and saw what it could do, I had to have it NOW.

DeskShades is made by MacRabbit Software. They are probably best known for their popular CSSEdit 2. DeskShades is a US$12.99 desktop enhancement/management utility. Version 2.1 provides enhancements to this application and makes it compatible with Leopard. Some of these enhancements include an enhanced automatic updater, sleep behavior options and stability fixes.

DeskShades enables you to hide all that clutter from your desktop icons with a smooth fade, and then it allows you to pick your favorite desktop and see it rotate on 3D cube or other nice effects. You can also customize your desktop from within DeskShades using it’s new desktop organizer to select your personal photos and turn them into interesting desktop elements. On of the features I find myself using most on DeskShades the built-in Color variation tool. Using this tool I’ve been able to make subtle and not so subtle changes to the existing “Stock” icons and my pictures without have to use a more powerful picture editor like Photoshop Just drag a picture straight from a web page to DeskShades and edit away.

DeskShades links, includes a new link format to allow one click desktop downloads. You are given six desktop transitions to choose from, so switching desktop pictures finally becomes more visually pleasing. For even more

Finally there is the ability o play a movie on your desktop while you are using the desktop. I was watching Starwars on my desktop last night while working on organizing my desktop. So try DeskShades and see it it make you have to have it NOW too.