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« on: September 19, 2007, 08:37:44 PM »
Here's mine:

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« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2007, 10:36:49 PM »


It's always rare to find a really good 1680x1050 wallpaper, so I always end up resizing a grotesquely high resolution image to fit...
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« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2007, 02:53:44 AM »


This is what I have on my computer at work.  I actually have a clean desktop, but that is because last month my hard drive crashed and I had to get a new one and start all over
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« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2007, 03:17:43 AM »
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« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2007, 06:52:54 AM »
Who's Heather?  
Why must all things be so bright? Why can things not appear only in hues of brown! I am so serious about this! Dull colors are the future! The next generation! I will never accept a world with such bright colors! It is far too childish! I will rage against your cheery palette with my last breath!

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« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2007, 07:16:59 AM »
Here is mine


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« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2007, 07:38:30 AM »
I have to say, I'm pretty much an OSX convert.

I don't see myself ever going back to Windows for everyday use.
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« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2007, 07:40:56 AM »
My desktop must be the messiest so far.

I have a rotation of wallpapers created from covers of DVDs in The Criterion Collection. I didn't make 'em, and obviously they don't fit my massive iMac monitor. This is a sampling of three, I think I have about 20.



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« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2007, 08:01:57 AM »
Does Bill really play so much Half-Life that it's necessary to have three links on his desktop?  Why not just one link to steam?

Also, Winamp?  Who the Hell used Winamp anymore?  What is this--1998?
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« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2007, 08:19:44 AM »
I like his Legend of Zelda gold cartridge icon for some Adobe something or another.  Bill will just have to give me that!
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« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2007, 12:48:19 PM »
I'm so surprised no one has tiger launch . . . best app ever to keep a nice clean dock =)

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« Reply #11 on: September 20, 2007, 01:03:10 PM »
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Does Bill really play so much Half-Life that it's necessary to have three links on his desktop?  Why not just one link to steam?

Also, Winamp?  Who the Hell used Winamp anymore?  What is this--1998?

Because I like clicking on each individual icon when I want to play each game! =)

And Winamp is awesome and simple, things that iTunes and WMP and whatever else people use are not...
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« Reply #12 on: September 20, 2007, 01:04:09 PM »
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Does Bill really play so much Half-Life that it's necessary to have three links on his desktop?  Why not just one link to steam?

Also, Winamp?  Who the Hell used Winamp anymore?  What is this--1998?

Because I like clicking on each individual icon when I want to play each game! =)

And Winamp is awesome and simple, things that iTunes and WMP and whatever else people use are not...


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« Reply #13 on: September 20, 2007, 01:09:14 PM »
Nuh uh, I don't have Lord of the Rings Online on mine...
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« Reply #14 on: September 20, 2007, 01:25:58 PM »
Okay here we go =D

First up, the "bare bones" UI. Basic desktop nothing open and up on screen:





The desktop picture is somewhat customized. It used to have a WoW picture in it but I re-edited it and fit in some concept art from Star Craft 2.


Now here's that tiger launch app I was talking about:





It's a free app and it's been around for a long long time. It lets you customize what apps appear in the dropdown box from a check list. I like it because it keeps the dock relatively clutter free.



And lastly . . . triforce icon for the HD =D


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« Reply #15 on: September 20, 2007, 01:49:30 PM »
Oh GP... you play LOTR online? *sigh*

Oh, by the way, I really like my desktoip before the one I'm on right now, it was proof positive I was a fanboi!

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« Reply #16 on: September 20, 2007, 02:46:31 PM »
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And Winamp is awesome and simple, things that iTunes and WMP and whatever else people use are not...


I use Foobar2000, I don't think you can go any more simple than it.

This is what my desktop looks like for the time being.


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« Reply #17 on: September 20, 2007, 04:17:48 PM »
 Really, the whole concept of a desktop is terribly outmoded and I'll be glad to see it die. Never the less, here is mine:

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« Reply #18 on: September 20, 2007, 04:20:16 PM »
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Really, the whole concept of a desktop is terribly outmoded and I'll be glad to see it die.


And be replaced by?

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« Reply #19 on: September 20, 2007, 04:45:30 PM »
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« Reply #20 on: September 20, 2007, 04:49:36 PM »
Okay time for a mini rant.
The whole windowed operating system has outlived its usefulness and needs to go away. So you boot up your computer to the desktop and what's the first thing you do? COVER IT UP WITH A MAXIMIZED WEB BROWSER. This is what most people do.  So oopsy,  now those icons on your desktop aren't easy to access! what to do? I know, let's put them all program lists under a start button. Well digging through five button clicks just to play Solitare is a pain, so let's list the most used apps in the first part of the start menu. Hmm, that still requires a click to show the start menu. I know! let's make a quick launch bar and put it on the taskbar. Better yet, let's also put a program icon in the group of icons on the right that load on startup. NOW WE HAVE FIVE ICONS FOR INTERNET EXPLORER SCATTERED HITHER AND YON ACROSS THE OS. Remember those early pictures of Windows where the desktop showed cascading windows with a spreadsheet, a photo and your calculator all layered over the top of each other? NO ONE USES THEIR PC THAT WAY. All major applications are maximized and dragging and resizing windows is useless for most of the time you are working at your computer.

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« Reply #21 on: September 20, 2007, 04:52:53 PM »
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Okay time for a mini rant.
The whole windowed operating system has outlived its usefulness and needs to go away. So you boot up your computer to the desktop and what's the first thing you do? COVER IT UP WITH A MAXIMIZED WEB BROWSER. This is what most people do.  So oopsy,  now those icons on your desktop aren't easy to access! what to do? I know, let's put them all program lists under a start button. Well digging through five button clicks just to play Solitare is a pain, so let's list the most used apps in the first part of the start menu. Hmm, that still requires a click to show the start menu. I know! let's make a quick launch bar and put it on the taskbar. Better yet, let's also put a program icon in the group of icons on the right that load on startup. NOW WE HAVE FIVE ICONS FOR INTERNET EXPLORER SCATTERED HITHER AND YON ACROSS THE OS. Remember those early pictures of Windows where the desktop showed cascading windows with a spreadsheet, a photo and your calculator all layered over the top of each other? NO ONE USES THEIR PC THAT WAY. All major applications are maximized and dragging and resizing windows is useless for most of the time you are working at your computer.


If only an operating system came along that wasn't like that . . .

lol try a Mac =)

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« Reply #22 on: September 20, 2007, 04:56:31 PM »
I remember the good ol' days when every program was always maximized and there was only one place to find all your apps. It was called 'Mac OS 6 before Multifinder'. Ah, those were the days.
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« Reply #23 on: September 20, 2007, 05:05:18 PM »
Mac is better, it's true. but it has the same fundamental flaws.  Something like Palm OS is the way to the future


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RE:Post your desktop! (nsf56k) (nsf h-scroll) (mod approved)
« Reply #25 on: September 20, 2007, 05:15:12 PM »
Oh yeah baby. I claim first dual screen.

And no I don't have a background image to fill it. I work with Photoshop and Flash and Illustrator and have two email clients running along with Trillian all day so the less resources used for filling space I never see the better.



And yes I'm as bad with my Half-Life icons as Bill is. You'll also find FEAR and UT2004 in there.

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« Reply #26 on: September 20, 2007, 05:15:41 PM »
"now those icons on your desktop aren't easy to access! what to do?"

Well if you're on Vista, you click the "Show Desktop" button right next to the Windows icon in the bottom-left of the screen... =3

Also, Vista has a pretty convenient way of shuffling through all your maximized windows...

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« Reply #27 on: September 20, 2007, 05:18:12 PM »
Wait I am missing something . . . what's redundant?

What's the overlap? you mean like one window over another?

Also, you don't have to have icons appear on your desktop it's an option (one I always have off).

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« Reply #28 on: September 20, 2007, 05:27:55 PM »
Here is Expose on Mac (which is one of my favorite features of the OS and has been around for like 2 years or so maybe longer):

This is using the "show all" function mapped to the F9 key natively but can be changed to your liking. It shows all open windows running and you can click on whichever to bring it up.



Need to see the windows for one running program only? Like say photoshop? Just hit the F10 key:



Need to get back to your desktop? F11 pushes everything to the side:




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« Reply #29 on: September 20, 2007, 05:34:21 PM »
Check it



All you Mac people need to get on Quicksilver and get rid of all that damn clutter!

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« Reply #30 on: September 20, 2007, 05:46:58 PM »
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"now those icons on your desktop aren't easy to access! what to do?"

Well if you're on Vista, you click the "Show Desktop" button right next to the Windows icon in the bottom-left of the screen... =3

Also, Vista has a pretty convenient way of shuffling through all your maximized windows...


Please. Show desktop has been around since the Win 98 days. Cascade has been around since Win 3.1! Both OS interactions are KLUDGES. They solve a symptom, but do not solve the problem. You need to come around the Miyamoto Philosophy.

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« Reply #31 on: September 20, 2007, 05:47:29 PM »
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Shyguy, could you hook me up with that wallpaper?

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Well if you're on Vista, you click the "Show Desktop" button right next to the Windows icon in the bottom-left of the screen... =3

XP had a "show desktop" button, too.

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Also, Vista has a pretty convenient way of shuffling through all your maximized windows...

Your operating system is definitely better at shuffling through windows than mine. But that's only because I'm running Jaguar, which doesn't have glorious Exposé.    
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« Reply #32 on: September 20, 2007, 05:58:13 PM »
Man wandering you gotta upgrade bud! =D

Once you get expose you can never go back. Though I guess at this point you're probably waiting for OS X 10.5 which would make sense.

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« Reply #33 on: September 20, 2007, 05:58:21 PM »
"XP had a "show desktop" button, too."

Oh, never realized...Then what's the problem?  Besides, you know, ShyGuy going wacko? =)
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« Reply #34 on: September 20, 2007, 06:01:02 PM »
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Okay time for a mini rant.
The whole windowed operating system has outlived its usefulness and needs to go away. So you boot up your computer to the desktop and what's the first thing you do? COVER IT UP WITH A MAXIMIZED WEB BROWSER. This is what most people do.  So oopsy,  now those icons on your desktop aren't easy to access! what to do? I know, let's put them all program lists under a start button. Well digging through five button clicks just to play Solitare is a pain, so let's list the most used apps in the first part of the start menu. Hmm, that still requires a click to show the start menu. I know! let's make a quick launch bar and put it on the taskbar. Better yet, let's also put a program icon in the group of icons on the right that load on startup. NOW WE HAVE FIVE ICONS FOR INTERNET EXPLORER SCATTERED HITHER AND YON ACROSS THE OS. Remember those early pictures of Windows where the desktop showed cascading windows with a spreadsheet, a photo and your calculator all layered over the top of each other? NO ONE USES THEIR PC THAT WAY. All major applications are maximized and dragging and resizing windows is useless for most of the time you are working at your computer.


Well you could just use an application like Quicksilver. Basically it keeps an index of everything on your computer and lets you bring up a search window with a simple Command+Space keyboard entry. From there you type the name of anything on your file system and it finds that item and anything related to it. I don't keep anything on my desktop anymore and nothing in a Quick Launch bar because I can just use Quicksilver as an app launcher once it finds an app I'm looking for. That concept combined with a Windowing application seems like the true future to me. Why bother digging through the HDD when you can make the computer do it for you?
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« Reply #35 on: September 20, 2007, 06:03:25 PM »
Good points from Mr. Jack.

I don't use Quicksilver but I literally fly around my comp. Everything is a single click away and I am never resizing windows. Expose can shift stuff aside if need be if I have lots of stuff running ::shrugs:: I don't see the big deal or how windowed OSes have outlived their usefulness.

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« Reply #36 on: September 20, 2007, 06:07:48 PM »
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Well you could just use an application like Quicksilver. Basically it keeps an index of everything on your computer and lets you bring up a search window with a simple Command+Space keyboard entry. From there you type the name of anything on your file system and it finds that item and anything related to it. I don't keep anything on my desktop anymore and nothing in a Quick Launch bar because I can just use Quicksilver as an app launcher once it finds an app I'm looking for. That concept combined with a Windowing application seems like the true future to me. Why bother digging through the HDD when you can make the computer do it for you?


That's a good concept if you stick to the keyboard most of the time. Problem is, mouse or touchpad or stylus is the preferred form of input. Moving back and forth is a slow down. Don't get me wrong, I know how much faster that input can be. Put someone proficient in Word Perfect 5.1 against some proficient in Word 2007 and they non-GUI app will win everytime.

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« Reply #37 on: September 20, 2007, 06:10:49 PM »
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Problem is, mouse or touchpad or stylus is the preferred form of input.


But but I just showed you how easy it is with the normal standard mouse input . . . with the aide of one keyboard key here and there =)

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« Reply #38 on: September 20, 2007, 06:10:50 PM »
Wow people can type faster and more accurate on Word Perfect than Word 2007? Learn something everday.
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« Reply #39 on: September 20, 2007, 06:14:24 PM »
Yes, you can type faster and make adjustments to your document formatting faster because your hands never leave the keyboard. WP5.1 was text based and command were done through keyboard shortcuts not menu or point and click.

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« Reply #40 on: September 20, 2007, 06:19:20 PM »
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Yes, you can type faster and make adjustments to your document formatting faster because your hands never leave the keyboard. WP5.1 was text based and command were done through keyboard shortcuts not menu or point and click.


Why do I get the impression I am talking to a bunch of elitist computer nerds?
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« Reply #41 on: September 20, 2007, 06:29:14 PM »
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Yes, you can type faster and make adjustments to your document formatting faster because your hands never leave the keyboard. WP5.1 was text based and command were done through keyboard shortcuts not menu or point and click.


Um, Word has keyboard shortcuts. Even if you have to hit alt and a few other keys to get to something.

Non-Word example. Say I'm working in Photoshop and I want to crop a selected area. ALT-I-P does the trick, and its quicker than reaching for my mouse to drag the cursor to the menu and select it.

All it takes is for someone who works in it all the time and is truly interested in saving time with what they do.

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« Reply #42 on: September 20, 2007, 06:49:54 PM »
Yay, desktop thread, the excuse I always use to clean it up.

It wasn't that bad though



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« Reply #43 on: September 20, 2007, 07:04:45 PM »
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« Reply #44 on: September 20, 2007, 07:06:46 PM »
Not sure if someone already mentioned this, but ShyGuy, you just have to hit Windows-Icon + D to show your desktop quickly..
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RE:Post your desktop! (nsf56k) (nsf h-scroll) (mod approved)
« Reply #45 on: September 20, 2007, 07:11:37 PM »
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Um, Word has keyboard shortcuts. Even if you have to hit alt and a few other keys to get to something.


Of course it does, but people still reach for their mouse because it's easier.

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Not sure if someone already mentioned this, but ShyGuy, you just have to hit Windows-Icon + D to show your desktop quickly..


The keyboard shortcuts aren't the point. The point is that people don't have three hands.


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« Reply #46 on: September 20, 2007, 09:45:38 PM »
What happens when we all convert to tablet computing?
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« Reply #47 on: September 20, 2007, 10:27:06 PM »




Been switching back and forth between the two every now and then pending what mood I am in.

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« Reply #48 on: September 21, 2007, 12:41:35 AM »
Shyguy fails for not addressing my comments.

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You can set any of your mouse buttons for Expose on Mac and you can also set it to the sides of screens if you want it to activate =D

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« Reply #49 on: September 21, 2007, 04:37:24 AM »
Sorry Mashiro, let me respond. If it works for you, great, There's nothing wrong with that. I just don't think 90%  of the computer using audience would be as productive with it as you are, or to put it a better way, they wouldn't put the effort forward to be as productive as you are with Expose.

It's like dual analog vs the wiimote. Dual Analog may work fine for some people, but it's a barrier and there is a better way to control video games. Nintendo proved that by doing something new.

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« Reply #50 on: September 21, 2007, 06:19:48 AM »
I have enough trouble getting my drivers and legacy programs to work correctly with Windows Vista.

With that being said...
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« Reply #51 on: September 21, 2007, 10:14:13 AM »
Just a warning, I way too lazy to clean up my desktop......



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« Reply #52 on: September 21, 2007, 10:30:57 AM »
Stevey's gonna turn it into a hawtness thread again...
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RE: Post your desktop! (nsf56k) (nsf h-scroll) (mod approved)
« Reply #53 on: September 21, 2007, 10:33:22 AM »
One can only imagine what treasures lie within the Girl Link Hawtness folder.

EDIT:  Oh Gawd, I just noticed the folders along the left edge of the desktop.

I how Malon Porn is a separate folder from regular Porn and Malon Doujin is separate from Hentai.
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« Reply #54 on: September 21, 2007, 11:14:12 AM »
I am calling stevey out on staging that desktop!
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« Reply #55 on: September 21, 2007, 11:51:51 AM »
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Sorry Mashiro, let me respond. If it works for you, great, There's nothing wrong with that. I just don't think 90%  of the computer using audience would be as productive with it as you are, or to put it a better way, they wouldn't put the effort forward to be as productive as you are with Expose.

It's like dual analog vs the wiimote. Dual Analog may work fine for some people, but it's a barrier and there is a better way to control video games. Nintendo proved that by doing something new.


Thank you for addressing my comments good sir =)

Also Stevey wins the internet and all internets across the interweb for the best made up desktop ever =D

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RE:Post your desktop! (nsf56k) (nsf h-scroll) (mod approved)
« Reply #56 on: September 21, 2007, 01:19:34 PM »

My Wife put it up but it's my sisters art.
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« Reply #57 on: December 16, 2007, 03:25:48 PM »
Bumping for my new desktop before it get cluttered

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« Reply #58 on: December 17, 2007, 03:55:57 AM »
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I don't keep anything on my desktop.  Before I had my own computer, my mom would keep dozens of icons on the desktop, and most of those were just folders with dozens of icons inside them.  I always said when I had my own computer, my desktop would be empty.  And it is!  (except for that one folder and that one image)  I even keep my Dock hidden.
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« Reply #59 on: December 17, 2007, 05:47:59 AM »
That's an awesome background matt oz, it reminds me of the things I'd see in architectural/travel/interior design books...
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« Reply #60 on: December 17, 2007, 01:15:23 PM »
I've had Forza2 since I bought my Elite one month ago, but only today have I finally played some of it. It's quite a good game I must say. Here's a photo, of me, driving, taken in photo mode when in replay,
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« Reply #61 on: December 17, 2007, 01:47:24 PM »
I cobbled this together from various internet sources.

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RE: Post your desktop! (nsf56k) (nsf h-scroll) (mod approved)
« Reply #62 on: December 17, 2007, 02:08:51 PM »


Ubuntu.  Me likes.  Gnome > KDE.  Multiple desktops for the win (bottom right, organized by function).  App switcher + dictionary tool at top, system monitor and force quit at the bottom.  Favorite apps top left.  Very nice.

No compiz-fusion for me though, stupid radeon x1900.  I bought it for gaming, but I don't even PC game anymore (pretty much because that would require me to reinstall windows, which I DON'T want to do).  Oh well, everything's at least running smoothly now (except for connecting my pocket pc to my virtual XP machine, but that's a different issue...)

As an aside, if I absolutely had to reinstall windows, it would be XP.  I tried Vista and liked it at first, but after a while I just got so sick of it malfunctioning.  Vista caused what I actually think were software based hardware failures, something which I have never experienced anywhere else.
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« Reply #63 on: December 17, 2007, 02:47:30 PM »
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« Reply #64 on: December 17, 2007, 02:56:23 PM »
Hey Crimm, that's an awesome wallpaper you got there. Where is it from?

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« Reply #65 on: December 17, 2007, 02:59:46 PM »
Why doesn't Crimm have a desktop with worms?
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« Reply #66 on: December 17, 2007, 03:14:59 PM »
FLCL art.  

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« Reply #67 on: December 17, 2007, 03:27:48 PM »
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Hey Crimm, that's an awesome wallpaper you got there. Where is it from?

Do you mean who made it or what the series is?  If the latter, it's FLCL, or Fooly Cooly...Or Furi Kuri, it doesn't really matter...

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« Reply #68 on: December 17, 2007, 03:30:42 PM »
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« Reply #69 on: December 17, 2007, 05:13:28 PM »
Crimm's still on IE6
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« Reply #70 on: December 17, 2007, 06:18:52 PM »
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Thanks for that link



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« Reply #71 on: December 17, 2007, 06:21:56 PM »
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That's an awesome background matt oz, it reminds me of the things I'd see in architectural/travel/interior design books...


It's a picture I downloaded of some valley on Santorini, one of the Greek isles.  I got it from interfacelift.com, a good site for hi-res widescreen wallpapers.  I prefer photography and natural shots, instead of cartoon or graphic design stuff.  I've gotten a ton of great skyline shots from that site.
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« Reply #72 on: December 18, 2007, 12:34:10 AM »


Yes, my Start bar is on the side.

For the Record I like Gnome as a Desktop and I like the Apps that come with KDE.  Though its been 2 or so years.
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« Reply #73 on: December 18, 2007, 04:12:47 AM »
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Ah, cool. Thanks for the link too.

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« Reply #74 on: December 18, 2007, 07:01:31 PM »


Ted Nasmith is my favorite Tolkien artist, because it's so easy to put yourself in his paintings. Can't you just imagine yourself walking down that winding path?
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RE: Post your desktop! (nsf56k) (nsf h-scroll) (mod approved)
« Reply #75 on: December 24, 2007, 05:22:07 AM »
Shesh, nothing but Mac and Windows thus far?  What gives?


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« Reply #76 on: December 24, 2007, 06:03:39 AM »
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You should pay closer attention I have seen a couple of Gnomes and mine was a KDE.  The one with the space shuttle.
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« Reply #77 on: December 24, 2007, 08:12:08 AM »
I use a bunch of browsers actually.  They're all under the extended quick-launch bar.  I just happen to like IE6 more than IE7.  I have no security concerns and I like the IE6 layout more.
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« Reply #78 on: December 27, 2007, 08:36:55 AM »
here are the desktops for all my computers:

My Mac:


My iMac:


My Work Mac:


My PC Laptop:


My Gaming PC:

 
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« Reply #79 on: January 05, 2008, 04:03:41 PM »
I know the date is off, but is still full of win. I didn't make it though, so don't shoot me.
 
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« Reply #80 on: January 05, 2008, 04:23:16 PM »
How many freakin' computers do you HAVE capamerica?!?!
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« Reply #81 on: January 05, 2008, 07:50:32 PM »
Some one gots the yellow fever


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« Reply #82 on: January 06, 2008, 07:06:33 AM »
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LOL oh wow. I have never heard of it being called that.  LOL

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« Reply #83 on: January 06, 2008, 09:21:26 AM »
Guys... let's NOT turn this into the hawtness thread shall we?
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« Reply #84 on: January 06, 2008, 09:56:33 AM »
This thread is one reason we need better forum software.  I really like how some forums let you "hide" pictures in spoiler tags - then the thread can load normally and you can just load the large images as needed.

Anywhoo, My desktop sucks.

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« Reply #85 on: January 10, 2008, 12:22:31 PM »
Silly monkeys; give them thumbs they make a club and beat their brother down. How they survive so misguided is a mystery. Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an a eye to heaven conscious of his fleeting time here.