FF desktops!

[Corona688]

I went through the entire threadlist for computers and technology to make sure there wasn't one I was missing, and much to my suprise, we don't have a "show your desktop thread."

I am a linux user. If you're looking for premade themes for any linux windowmanager you'll find 3 different kinds:
Blue.
Penguin.
Blue penguin. I like neither blue nor penguins, so I shuffled along with various weird mishmashes for awhile until now. I've now assembled a more cohesive color-scheme and window-widget set from a variety of sources(modified solaris (http://www.gunfleet.com/solaris/images/cde1.png) color scheme, fahrenheight (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=2108) window decorations, "iKons" icon-set, nonstandard fonts, my very own (http://burningsmell.org/skinfu/blueskew.html) theme for XMMS and dual flowers, lucky google find for a desktop image (http://burningsmell.org/powerbook_xray.jpg)) and tweaked a whole lot to create this:
http://burningsmell.org/2005_03_27_desktop-small.png (http://burningsmell.org/2005_03_27_desktop.png)

FFers, what's your desktops?

[Ymir's blood]

Click Here (http://web.infoave.net/~pitshade/desktop.jpg)

[Corona688]

Nice desktop, ymr! Any chance you could thumbnail (http://burningsmell.org/ymir-desktop-small.jpg) that, though? It's huge and distorting the thread.

[Dingfod]

Uh, how do you do this?

[viscousmemories]

XP tosses unused desktop icons into a folder, so you don't see many. I use those quick launch icons to start most apps. I don't have any windows open 'cause I use everything at full-screen and switch between windows using alt-tab or the links at the bottom.

[Crumb]

My rather boring desktop.

[livius drusus]

Daamn... That is seriously badass, Corona. I've just got your basic XP silver theme going on, and in general I keep my desktop as spartan as possible. Right now it's sporting a gorgeous picture of Venus I found at Caedes.net (thank to Ex-zombie who posted it in our Links section).

http://www.freethought-forum.com/images/desktop.jpg

(Attaching the full-size view)

[Ymir's blood]

XP tosses unused desktop icons into a folder, so you don't see many.
That was one of the first things that got turned off on my XP machine. Arranging my icons is pasttime!

[Dingfod]

One mo' time:

[viscousmemories]

That was one of the first things that got turned off on my XP machine. Arranging my icons is pasttime!
:chuckle: I like it 'cause I never use desktop icons.

[Skep]

Here's what I use most often for my desktop background. It is a portion of M17, The Swan Nebula. Like all the desktop backgrounds I use, I got it from APOD (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html).


http://img40.exs.cx/img40/3639/m17postable2.jpg

[livius drusus]

That's a beautiful picture, Skep. Have you checked out the space category (http://www.caedes.net/Zephir.cgi?lib=Caedes::Gallery&gallery=space) at Caedes? I prefer it to APOD for wallpaper purposes just because it offers high quality pics for different screen resolutions.

[Skep]

No, liv, I've never seen that site before. Thanks for posting the link. Yeah, one of the drawbacks of APOD is that some pics don't have a high res version available. Fortunately, that is not the case with the M17 pic. :)

[Ex-zombie]

Here (http://img77.exs.cx/img77/1713/desktop07rf.jpg) is my desktop.


Very cool desktop, Ymir's blood.

[Ymir's blood]

Here (http://img77.exs.cx/img77/1713/desktop07rf.jpg) is my desktop.
What is that? I keep seeing skulls in the way the shapes interact.


Very cool desktop, Ymir's blood.
The artist's name is Matthew Goodsell. I found it while looking for vampire pics on GIS.

[Ex-zombie]

What is that? I keep seeing skulls in the way the shapes interact.


It is one of the desktop themes my daughter installed on my computer. I did a google search for the file name-Water Bubbles. Looks like it was made by Wanda's Themes n Things. It seems the website has been temporarily taken down due to hacker activity.

[livius drusus]

Man, I stared at that for half an hour looking for skulls, but the bubbles are too rounded and pretty for me to see them that way. :xbones:

[pescifish]

Even with the pins violently impaling the rounded tops of the skulls? Didn't take much study for me, but I'm a bit warped. :study:

pesci desktop (http://www.pescifish.net/images/pesciDesktop.jpg) As you might notice, I am using a large version of Ymir's blood's avatar as my desktop image.

[livius drusus]

Sheeit. I didn't even notice them as pins. Now that you point it out I see it, of course, but before then they just looked like towel racks to me. :blush:

[ceptimus]

I tidied it up a bit since I took this photo for a thread on skepticalcommunity.

EvilYeti's desktop photo put mine to shame though - his workstation made mine look like a model of minimalist neatness.

My desktop (http://www.mround.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/JREF/image/desk.jpg)

[Shake]

I used this one (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights2_dmsp_big.jpg) from APOD for quite a while.

[viscousmemories]

I tidied it up a bit since I took this photo for a thread on skepticalcommunity.
Lemme guess... A tall, skinny blonde in a bikini sprawled out on a hot rod? :D

[Ymir's blood]

Man, I stared at that for half an hour looking for skulls, but the bubbles are too rounded and pretty for me to see them that way. :xbones:
It takes decades of practice. I find skulls in wallpaper patterns, floor tiles, clouds, even Shake's desktop image:

[livius drusus]

Erm... :scratch: No idea how that's a skull, Ymir's blood. Perhaps if I start training now I'll catch up with you in a few years?

[Ymir's blood]

http://web.infoave.net/~pitshade/icons/skull.gif

[livius drusus]

Yeah see, to me, that just looks like John Merrick when he wore that shroud thing.

[Ymir's blood]

:eek: :hmph:

[Ensign Steve]

I steal all my background pictures from NASA's astronomy picture of the day. (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html) I think the current one is the sun or something? I dunno, I've had it up for a while.

[Ymir's blood]

I steal all my background pictures from NASA's astronomy picture of the day. (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html) I think the current one is the sun or something? I dunno, I've had it up for a while.
It looks like the face of the devil.

:pitch:

[Ensign Steve]

Hey guess what. I just figured out what APOD stands for.

[Ymir's blood]

Hmm, what does APOD stand for? (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2223)?

:popcorn:

[Bella]

How do you take a picture of your desktop?

[livius drusus]

This thread (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1773) explains several ways to do screen captures. :)

[Bella]

Thanks, liv!

[viscousmemories]

Holy crap. Is that Windows 98 I see? :shudder:

[livius drusus]

You're welcome, princess. (Could be W2K too, vm.)

[Bella]

Holy crap. Is that Windows 98 I see? :shudder:
Yup. We're poor :D.

[livius drusus]

Good lord, woman! There's poor and then there's broke-ass destitute. You have my deepest sympathies. :comfort:

Still, Cowboy Bebop is pretty cool at least.

[freemonkey]

Hey, don't be knocking Win98, it has its uses, especially when connected to the internet. :yup:

I don't change my desktops around all that much, because I just don't think to do it. But I love that one of Venus, liv. I've bookmarked that site and maybe I'll download some to use on my other computer.

[livius drusus]

/me squeals
Oh, freemonkey, she's soooooo gorgeous! I love how you've curved your folders around her fluff on the right side too.

Caedes is a great site, isn't it? There are some truly drop-dead pictures on it. You should join and contribute. :yup:

[Crumb]

/me is using windows 98 too. :kickscan:

[livius drusus]

Aw... Poor boy. :badday:

[JoeP]

My current one... it's a view of Scottish castle ruins off the net.

[JoeP]

Although I'm seriously thinking about using this image. No prizes for identifying it.

[livius drusus]

Is it from The Incredibles? I haven't seen the movie but the aesthetic reminds me of the trailers.

I love the castle, though. It's absolutely gorgeous.

[viscousmemories]

Yeah that castle pic is beautiful.

[JoeP]

Is it from The Incredibles? I haven't seen the movie but the aesthetic reminds me of the trailers.

I could say you're wrong ... but it would be nitpicking. It's from the short "Jack-Jack Attack" on The Incredibles DVD - it doesn't appear in the movie itself. The baby Jack-Jack discovers the power of setting himself on fire (to the babysitter's horror). The following sequence where he toddles around the room accidentally setting fire to things and gurgling with happiness is a delight!

Anyway i have changed my desktop to a different image, taken by me:

[viscousmemories]

Wow, nice pic Joe. :yup:

[Crumb]

My current one... it's a view of Scottish castle ruins off the net.

Um...where can I get this picture? :lecher:

[xavierOnassis]

from a cruise I took a month before Sept 11

[livius drusus]

Beautiful picture, xavierOnassis. Is the prow of the Christina, by any chance. ;)

[viscousmemories]

Wow, that water is beautiful. :welcome: to the FF, xavierOnassis.

[JoeP]

My current one... it's a view of Scottish castle ruins off the net.

Um...where can I get this picture? :lecher:
http://www.toddadams.net/
Some of his pictures of Ireland are stunning.

[Ensign Steve]

Here's a new screenshot, in honor of my new computer! :D

[Ymir's blood]

My new desktop:

:lovey:

[JoeP]

Latest. Yes, two screens.

[Ensign Steve]

What's that, a hurricane?

[JoeP]

Yes, it's a shot from the IIS. If I found the filename I could tell you the hurricane's name.

[TomJoe]

Here is a screen capture from my new laptop.

[viscousmemories]

Is that Aslan?

[BracesForImpact]

Here's mine!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/BracesForImpact/desktop2.bmp

[Skep]

Here's my latest.

[TomJoe]

Is that Aslan?

Possibly. I just like it. Found it at deviantART.

BTW: It looks a lot cooler on the WXGA screen of my new laptop than it does on the flat screen monitor of my desktop.

[livius drusus]

I like that spacescape, Braces. Where did you find it?

[TomJoe]

Just changed mine.

[livius drusus]

I like it, TomJoe. I prefer the white to the brown Aslan background color, and the spheres are appealing in a minimalist way. :yup:

[Corona688]

I like it too. Can you give a link to the source please?

[Crumb]

Here's my new one.

[TomJoe]

I like it too. Can you give a link to the source please?


I find most of my wallpapers at deviantart.com.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/17572471/

[BracesForImpact]

I like that spacescape, Braces. Where did you find it?

Deviantart (http://www.deviantart.com/)

There's lots of different skins, wallpapers, etc. That particular one is under wallpapers/science fiction.

[livius drusus]

You know, I visit dA at least once a week on account of my smiley addiction, but I've never once checked out their wallpapers. :doh:

[Ensign Steve]

This thread needs resurrecting. I like it more than the "post your clipboard" thread (which is also fun, don't get me wrong).

[livius drusus]

That's great looking, Ensign. Green rules.

I've been changing my wallpaper a lot lately, thanks to dA.

[Ymir's blood]

This is my new favorite. I just can't get enough of it.

[viscousmemories]

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:






:glare:

[livius drusus]

:yay!:

[curses]

ooh, I like this thread! The attached one is my work desktop. I'm a tad bit proud of it since it's my work (both the photography and the Photoshop). They're canopic jars from a local museum. It's been so long I can't remember what the actual dates were for the jars, but they were in fantastic condition. I think they're New Kingdom, post 18th Dynasty.

Ymir, is that desktop form April a picture of the singer from Collide? The photo looks familiar for some reason.

[livius drusus]

Oh wow, minus, that's absolutely beautiful work! I love a spartan desktop look anyway; combine that with the elegant photography, subjects and arrangement and you've got something special.

:qex:
:bastet:

[Crumb]

Oh wow, minus, that's absolutely beautiful work! I love a spartan desktop look anyway; combine that with the elegant photography, subjects and arrangement and you've got something special.

I like that look too, but I don't do it too often because most of the time the middle of my desktop is covered by a window. So I'd rather have something that I can at least see the edges of. Otherwise I wouldn't mind going with a more pristine desktop.

[livius drusus]

I keep most of my windows maximized anyway, so it's all the same to me. I just like having a nice look for when I first boot up. :loading:

[Crumb]

I keep most of my windows maximized
Oh, you're one ot those... :shudder:

[livius drusus]

You're otiose. :hmph:

[Crumb]

Oh yeah, well you're obscure! :ptht:

[livius drusus]

Hey, I was just (mis)quoting you. :giggle:

[Ensign Steve]

That's great looking, Ensign. Green rules.


Thanks. There's actually a cute pair of clown fish in the middle, when they aren't obscured by a window.

In case anyone didn't get the joke, I kept taking a picture of my desktop, and then opening it, and then taking another picture. Kind of to get an infinity effect, only with six instead of infinity.

[Zikes]

http://www.thezikes.com/static/desktopthumb.png (http://www.thezikes.com/static/desktop.png)

Icon Set:
GANT (http://www.deviantart.com/view/3035321/) by ~mattahan (http://mattahan.deviantart.com/)

Wallpaper:
Jark (http://www.deviantart.com/view/10838116/) by `DivineError (http://divineerror.deviantart.com/)

Windows XP Skin:
CodeOpusC (http://www.deviantart.com/view/9240396/) - DeviantART Compact Color Scheme by *b0se (http://b0se.deviantart.com/)

Winamp (http://www.winamp.com/) Skin:
MMD3 (http://www.deviantart.com/view/772598/) by ~bartibartman (http://bartibartman.deviantart.com/)

Rainlender (http://tinyurl.com/ca6fd) Skin:
Shadow3.1 (Default)

[livius drusus]

Show-off! :giggle:

[Zikes]

Show-off! :giggle:

:giggle:

It took me two days to get all those icons applied without a program, I had to go into the registry and do them manually :eek:

[livius drusus]

:jawdrop: No way. That's nuts, Zikes, seriously. I'm both impressed and a little scared.

[Zikes]

bah, it wasn't too hard, mostly just time consuming. Finding the icon's registry entry is pretty easy, I discussed that in a comment (http://comments.deviantart.com/1/18789373/139124662) on my dA post of this desktop, the hard part was finding a suitable icon to replace the default one ;)

I actually used several sets by mattahan, he has 4-5 different variations of his GANT icons. I think he even has a new one coming out soon :plotting:

[Ymir's blood]

ooh, I like this thread! The attached one is my work desktop. I'm a tad bit proud of it since it's my work (both the photography and the Photoshop). They're canopic jars from a local museum. It's been so long I can't remember what the actual dates were for the jars, but they were in fantastic condition. I think they're New Kingdom, post 18th Dynasty.
Very nice. I like the minimalist look on desktops. Nice work on the image.

Ymir, is that desktop form April a picture of the singer from Collide? The photo looks familiar for some reason.
Yes, that's kaRIN.

The photo is still actually my desktop, btw. Last night's was just temporary.

[viscousmemories]

That little Rainlendar application is really cool, Zikes. Thanks. :thumbup:

[Zikes]

That little Rainlendar application is really cool, Zikes. Thanks. :thumbup:

No prob :D

[curses]

Yes, that's kaRIN.

Ah, that's her name. She's cute.
The photo is still actually my desktop, btw. Last night's was just temporary.
I was wondering how one would manage to have that as a desktop and not have seizures :)

And thanks to everyone for all the nice words on my desktop. It's enough to keep me working on my photography.

[Crumb]

Here's Crumb's current desk top.

[ceptimus]

My new laptop came with this wallpaper installed, and I've not changed it yet.

[livius drusus]

I had to bump this thread because I so love my latest wallpaper. :wriggle:

[Crumb]

This has been my desktop for a bit. It reminds me of Alaska.

[livius drusus]

Oo... Pretty, Crumbles. :picasso:

[Crumb]

Thanks to whoever posted it in that art thread.

[TomJoe]

My lastest work desktop. Windows XP side.

[JoeP]

liv, you have cool taste. (Crumb and TomJoe, like yours too!)

[Ymir's blood]

Still using the Collide one. I just like the colors.

[Legs]

This is my current desktop

http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/3357/desk0lz.gif

[livius drusus]

:stunned:

[Ensign Steve]

Crumb, what OS is that?

I just like to take a moment to show off how spartan my desktop is:
http://www.ensignsteve.com/desktop.jpg

[livius drusus]

That's pretty damn spartan, although you still have more visible shortcuts than I do. :pleased:

[Ensign Steve]

That's the dock. It doesn't go away. Though I suppose I could remove everything from it. In my defense, I use every single one of those shortcuts every day. (I'm only a little embarrassed that the trash isn't empty.)

[TomJoe]

ES,

I thought that with the Mac, you could make the dock disappear when it's not in use. Then, if you need to use it, you bring your cursor to the bottom of the screen.

[Veritas]

This is the desktop. The laptop's slightly different. Another picture of Ian Thorpe, in a different pose and a couple more spyware/anti-virus icons.

[livius drusus]

That's how I have my Start bar set, TomJoe.

[TomJoe]

That's how I have my Start bar set, TomJoe.

Heh, cool. Didn't know this was possible for Windows XP until you mentioned it and I did a little searching. Now my taskbar is hidden too ... for the time being anyways. I need to see if it bothers me or not.

[livius drusus]

It took me a day or two to get used to it -- I'm not usually a fan of things appearing and reappearing when your mouse wanders about -- but now I love it completely. When my programs are maximized they take up the full height of my screen. Es muy bueno. :pclove:

[TomJoe]

I miss the clock already though. :cry:

[livius drusus]

It's an addiction, man. Embrace your recovery.

[Crumb]

Crumb, what OS is that?
Win 98

I wouldn't want my "start bar" to disappear, I like to look at it too often. After all looking at the clock tells me whether my computer has frozen or is just sneezing.

[Ensign Steve]

That's how I have my Start bar set, TomJoe.

Heh, cool. Didn't know this was possible for Windows XP until you mentioned it and I did a little searching. Now my taskbar is hidden too ... for the time being anyways. I need to see if it bothers me or not.

You are correct, I could auto-hide the dock just like can be done with the start bar in windows. Only, I. Hate. That. I have tried it, for Sparta's sake and for the benefits liv mentioned, I just can't deal with that thing jumping out at me when I bring my mouse to the bottom (or side or top) of the screen. Usually I'm trying to get to something that's down there, and the start bar or dock pops up and covers up whatever I'm trying to get to! Grr!

[Petra]

Mine changes every now and again. Sometimes it's a APOD, sometimes it's a painting, sometimes it's a photograph, sometimes it's a cartoon - whatever takes my fancy at the time. And I also dislike a cluttered desktop. Spartan rules. :yup:

At the mo, it's a matching set with my avatar. Yesterday, it didn't match my avatar, but was a rillyrilly cool photograph of the inside of the Guggenheim. In a few days it will change again, I suppose. :)

[godfry n. glad]

I'm currently using this photo from the space shuttle Columbia:


http://www.marcmorales.com/images/columbia.jpg

[JoeP]

Lovely picture g, but it's not a raw photo. The day/night contrast would be much greater than that ... there would almost always be more clouds ... and I don't know if you could see the seabed contours like that. It's a composite made by the NASA imaging team.

I'm using the image I posted a few weeks ago of Orion's belt, Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0510/OrionBeltx_demartin_f45.jpg

[godfry n. glad]

Every party's got a pooper and this party's pooper's you... :notes:

I suspected as much when I didn't see a single cloud in that vast expanse. And, that largish conglomeration of light in inland northern Algeria aroused suspicions, too. Like...there's not community of any size down there. (Maybe it's one of the secret CIA interrogation camps?)

I still like it anyway.

[Petra]

It certainly is a cool pic, godfry.


I've got this at the mo:

[Petra]

The space pics blow me away. Wow.

[erimir]

I'm not using any of these right now, but it wouldn't let me upload the one I'm using cuz it's too big. But I use rotate through diff pics, including these ones.

The deer skull is a picture I took myself (manual camera).

[MonCapitan2002]

Crumb, what OS is that?

I just like to take a moment to show off how spartan my desktop is:
http://www.ensignsteve.com/desktop.jpg
Where is that catgirl from?

[Widget]

mine for the moment.

http://img421.imageshack.us/img421/8837/widget9ay.gif

[Ensign Steve]

What, no holiday themed desktop? Mine is cycling through about eight Christmas pictures, one per minute.

[livius drusus]

mine for the moment.

http://img421.imageshack.us/img421/8837/widget9ay.gif

:lol: Why not just a giant phallus?

[Widget]

:lol: Why not just a giant phallus?

That was last weeks desktop.

[livius drusus]

:ffgiggle:

[Widget]

time for a change

http://img451.imageshack.us/img451/1601/widget38ee.jpg

[Adora]

I'm sure someone here will appreciate this.

http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/5665/spider2aa.jpg

Well, I thought it was Chrismassy. :tmwink:

[livius drusus]

Of course it is.
:tmspider:

[CaDan]

Spider Jerusalem kicks almost as much ass as Faye Valentine.

Almost.

[CaDan]

Here's mine with no windows open

Clicky-Linky (http://www2.bitstream.net/~appelget/pics/screencap.png)

[Dingfod]

Here's mine at work:

[Widget]

Here's mine at work:


So why 2 Google Earths?

[Adora]

Spider Jerusalem kicks almost as much ass as Faye Valentine.

Almost.
Spider > Faye, simply because Spider actually wins whenever he gambles. But yes, Faye is awesome, as is Spike and Jet and Ed and Ein. Cowboy Bebop is love.

[Dingfod]

Here's mine at work:


So why 2 Google Earths?I work with idiots.

[Danhalen]

My current desktop created controversy with a blue-hair.

[livius drusus]

Here's mine with no windows open

Clicky-Linky (http://www2.bitstream.net/~appelget/pics/screencap.png)

A few too many icons on that bottom toolbar for my taste, but overall that is a kickass desktop.

[Ensign Steve]

Here's mine with no windows open

Clicky-Linky (http://www2.bitstream.net/~appelget/pics/screencap.png)

You sure have a lot of shit on your dock. Do you really use all those apps?

[Dingfod]

I changed mine:

[Adora]

Is that Naomi Watts? Because after King Kong, I just want to smack her. And not in the good way.

[Dingfod]

Yes, it is Naomi Watts. I haven't seen King Kong yet, I probably will today.

[Ymir's blood]

No room in the <strike>Inn</strike> cemetery.

[livius drusus]

Damn. They weren't kidding when they said no vacancy. Time to make some bone walls and open the place up a tad.

[Ymir's blood]

Should the bones be disguised as a deadfall?

[nvexio]

Here's my main's desktop:
http://www.nvexio.com/desktop.jpg

I'll post my laptop's desktop later, and an actual picture of my deskspace once my new monitor comes in tomorrow morning =P

[livius drusus]

Nice skin. :thumbup:

[Ensign Steve]

Ooer, showing some skin, are we?

[nvexio]

desktop updated a bit, got my new monitor in today, i'll post some pictures after I run to the store to pick up some batteries for the camera.

[MonCapitan2002]

Here's my main's desktop:
http://www.nvexio.com/desktop.jpg

I'll post my laptop's desktop later, and an actual picture of my deskspace once my new monitor comes in tomorrow morning =P
Is that a Windowblinds skin?

[nvexio]

no, just a .msstyle file, able to use it by cracking a few windows files that disables custom themes, get all the spiff of a custom theme without losing any resources in windows. The icons are a program I ran across that adds that information on the side.

[nvexio]

Not a desktop, but what the hell.
Firefox setup: http://www.nvexio.com/firefox.jpg

[MonCapitan2002]

no, just a .msstyle file, able to use it by cracking a few windows files that disables custom themes, get all the spiff of a custom theme without losing any resources in windows. The icons are a program I ran across that adds that information on the side.
How did you pull that off? I wouldn't mind having that skin (so long as I can shrink the height of the taskbar).

[nvexio]

lol yeah, the taskbar can be resized, i just like things big and spacious, i generally have alot of windows open when I'm working, taller taskbar gives me more space and organization. I'll round up some links and send you a PM here shortly.

[Ensign Steve]

Hee hee. You have MuggleNet in your favorites.

:snaperlz:

[nvexio]

Yeah, I'm an HP fan, what can i say? =P

[Widget]

new for 2006.

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/9256/widget59mt.jpg

[nvexio]

Desk picture I promised:
http://www.nvexio.com/desk.jpg

[Ensign Steve]

Hee! My desk is behind the couch like that too. I'd close the door to the toilet for photos, though. ;)

[nvexio]

hell I opened the door =P

[Ensign Steve]

:laugh:

[Legs]

This is the computer I post from at home

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/2769/newcomp29wp.jpg

[nvexio]

Your picture, legs, has inspired to me rearrange my apartment. I'll post pictures tomorrow after I'm done =P

[MonCapitan2002]

Desk picture I promised:
http://www.nvexio.com/desk.jpg
Holy shit! I think you are using the same desk I am using. :wriggle: I really like my desk. What brand is your display, by the way?

[Legs]

Your picture, legs, has inspired to me rearrange my apartment. I'll post pictures tomorrow after I'm done =P


Wow, that's great... I don't think I have ever inspired anyone before :vibes:

[MonCapitan2002]

My latest (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/EmperoPants/My%20Desktops/Current-Desktop.jpg) . :ffboogie: I got the image from Wikipedia,by the way. It is the Pleiades Cluster.

[Legs]

My desktop, this ship will be my home for 10 Days in August :seacaptain:
http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/2018/deskship27fd.gif

[nvexio]

http://www.gateway.com/programs/lcd/index.shtml?cmpid=index*home*Products*21lcd*programs/lcd/index~~shtml
my monitor, Mon.

[MonCapitan2002]

My display is a Dell. It is their 20" widescreen display. So what did you think of my desktop background?

[MonCapitan2002]

Not a desktop, but what the hell.
Firefox setup: http://www.nvexio.com/firefox.jpg
I just noticed something. You have admin access to the boards? I noticed it when looking at the screencap of your Firefox set up. I guess that makes sense since you designed the skin and graphics for the site.

[nvexio]

eh, not anymore, did in that screenshot though, was after I added the widescreen version of this style. I only get admin when I'm needed =P

[MonCapitan2002]

Oh. Okay. That makes sense. So how long did it take you to make the widescreen skin?

[nvexio]

About a minute if you counted me having to login to the control panel and navigate to the appropriate template.

[MonCapitan2002]

That's it? I thought the process would have taken longer.

[MonCapitan2002]

No one has new desktop backgrounds to post? :(

[Ymir's blood]

A few days ago, I decided to clean up my desktop. Being unwilling to get rid of all the shortcuts, folders were created for them.

[Widget]

this weeks desktop.

[Legs]

Ymir's blood ~ I love your recycle bin :wriggle:

Widget ~ you are scaring me with all these cars :eek:

[Legs]

This is the Lido Deck of the Golden Princess (http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/4276/myscreen6hb.gif) ~ my home for 10 days in August. :hellyes:

[MonCapitan2002]

What happens if the ship sinks before get on board?

[Legs]

before? well then I would celebrate that fact :D

[MonCapitan2002]

But then you would not be able to board it. Unless you mean you were on board it this past August.

[Legs]

No, I would not be able to board it... but I would have been lucky not to have been on board during the sinking. I would get my money back and go somewhere else :yup:

[MonCapitan2002]

Ahh. I see. So where is the cruise going to be? The Caribbean?

[lisarea]

I know this is kind of big, but I didn't want to lose any detail or anything.

My desktop. (http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/lisarea/desktop2.png)

[Dingfod]

Wow, how Minimalist, lisarea.

[Legs]

Ahh. I see. So where is the cruise going to be? The Caribbean?

:nope: I don't like the Caribbean in August.

It sails from Southampton England to Landsend Cornwall, Holyhead Wales, Dublin Ireland, Belfast Northern Ireland, Glasgow, Edinburgh & Inverness Scotland. :yup:

[lisarea]

Wow, how Minimalist, lisarea.

You're picking on me for being poor, aren't you?

[MonCapitan2002]

Ahh. I see. So where is the cruise going to be? The Caribbean?

:nope: I don't like the Caribbean in August.

It sails from Southampton England to Landsend Cornwall, Holyhead Wales, Dublin Ireland, Belfast Northern Ireland, Glasgow, Edinburgh & Inverness Scotland. :yup:
I see. Cool. I hope you have an awesome time. Don't forget to bring a camera and take lots of pictures. You will post them in the Gallery as well. This I command request.

[Legs]

Oh sure, Iwill get lots of 'up kilt' shots for the FF girls :yup:

[MonCapitan2002]

I might have to object to that little practice, Legsy. Or will you be getting permission from the kilt wearers?

[Legs]

Believe me, it won't be a little practice :giggle:

[Ymir's blood]

Ymir's blood ~ I love your recycle bin :wriggle:
Thanks. That was full, empty is attached below.

I found the two in a set of punk .ico files. The other ones are modified from pictures found online.

[Legs]

:aww:

[Adam]

Here's what my current desktop looks like when I'm not doing anything. It's completely unremarkable except for the fact that it stretches over two monitors, which is useful in that I keep chat windows, media players, etc. open over on the right hand monitor and whatever I'm actually working on open in the left monitor. The wallpaper is just some random Natalie Portman thing I stumbled across while Googling for something else. If I remember later, I'll take an action shot later while I'm gaming on the left monitor and browsing :ff: on the right. :cool:

[Adam]

While I'm at it, here's my old PC, which mostly acts as a file server these days, so I havent' gone to the effort to clean the desktop in ages (and it shows). It shares the right monitor from my main desktop via a KVM switch. The wallpaper is self-explanatory...I think I found it on deviant art.

[Adam]

OK, here's something a bit more like how my desktop normally looks. Warcraft on the left, :ff: on the right...awwww....yeah.

[pescifish]

Adam -- is it hard to jump back and forth between those two monitors? What size are their screens in inches?

Ymir's blood -- I love the icons for "words" and "pictures", too. But the recycle bin is
too excellent!
:witcharc:

Here's my desktop for my new Media Center desktop computer -- I have barely learned what it can do (I'm pretty sure it's baking a nice loaf of whole wheat bread while ripping a CD and recording a tv show as I type this.) I definitely like the 24" Dell Ultrasharp. It can go to 1920x1200 but I've got it set at 1680x1050.

[MonCapitan2002]

OK, here's something a bit more like how my desktop normally looks. Warcraft on the left, :ff: on the right...awwww....yeah.
What resolution is your display at?

[username]

Here's my desktop for my new Media Center desktop computer -- I have barely learned what it can do (I'm pretty sure it's baking a nice loaf of whole wheat bread while ripping a CD and recording a tv show.) I definitely like the 24" Dell Ultrasharp. It can go to 1920x1200 but I've got it set at 1680x1050.

Judging by your desktop icons you have had this machine for less than a month.

A Media Center PC really can't do much of anything unless you have compatible devices which there are none including M$'s own Xbox 360(unless you get lots and lots of updates and do lots and lots of fiddling).

In theory you should be able to download an MP3 or MPEG video on the PC and have it stream to your TV, but M$ does too much copyright respecting shite to actually have it work.

[MonCapitan2002]

Adam -- is it hard to jump back and forth between those two monitors? What size are their screens in inches?

Ymir's blood -- I love the icons for "words" and "pictures", too. But the recycle bin is
too excellent!
:witcharc:

Here's my desktop for my new Media Center desktop computer -- I have barely learned what it can do (I'm pretty sure it's baking a nice loaf of whole wheat bread while ripping a CD and recording a tv show as I type this.) I definitely like the 24" Dell Ultrasharp. It can go to 1920x1200 but I've got it set at 1680x1050.
You have an XPS? Awesome! I do as well. I don't have the 24" display, though. I own the 20" widescreen display. I have it set at 1680 by 1050. The best thing about having my computer is that I now have the muscle to watch high definition movie trailers. Having that ability truly rocks.

[pescifish]

A Media Center PC really can't do much of anything unless you have compatible devices which there are none including M$'s own Xbox 360(unless you get lots and lots of updates and do lots and lots of fiddling).Oh, I think I forgot to mention it was also doing a load of laundry and is now making ham sandwiches with that fresh baked bread.

Seriously, though, I have tried out quite a few of the Media Center functions and am quite pleased with what it can do. I never intended it to be my PVR since I'm not willing to leave my computer booted up 24/7, but if it had been my desire, I would be quite happy with its capabilities. It did an excellent job of recording a couple of shows which were easily and quickly burned to DVD. The remote for Media Center and a wireless keyboard and mouse and the large monitor will allow me to set it so that I can sit in a different chair farther back from the monitor -- a distant that seems to reduce the multiple images I usually get at regular desk sitting distances.

Still, I realize there were plenty of packages and setups to do all those things with standard winXP. But this was out-of-the-box easy. And yes, I've barely had 20 hours total on this new computer to date.

[pescifish]

You have an XPS? Awesome! I do as well. I don't have the 24" display, though. I own the 20" widescreen display. I have it set at 1680 by 1050. The best thing about having my computer is that I now have the muscle to watch high definition movie trailers. Having that ability truly rocks.I went with Dell because they had a zero percent dealie going and my work has a 12% discount. I was pretty close to buying another Alienware, since I loved my previous one so much.

I'm very happy with this computer and glad I went for it. Also, IMO you just can't beat those Ultrasharp LCDs from Dell! I saw the 37" Ultrasharp tv/monitor and was tempted; if I hadn't already purchased the 24", I would have. Even though I have an awesome living room home theater set up, like you, I am pleased to have the muscle to watch video/DVDs/tv -- there is so much more content available for download that it does make a difference.

[MonCapitan2002]

Do you have the gargantuan XPS 600? That is the model I have. It has 1 GB of ram and dual graphics cards. I do want to upgrade the ram to 2 GB, though.

[Adam]

Adam -- is it hard to jump back and forth between those two monitors? What size are their screens in inches?

Not hard at all...they act like one big monitor, so I just move the mouse off the edge of one and it appears on the other. The left one is 19" and the right is 17". I'm hoping to upgrade the left to a 21" widescreen that a friend might sell me when he gets a biger one soon, in which case the current left monitor woulf become the right monitor and the current right monitor would end up in the closet.


Here's my desktop for my new Media Center desktop computer -- I have barely learned what it can do (I'm pretty sure it's baking a nice loaf of whole wheat bread while ripping a CD and recording a tv show as I type this.) I definitely like the 24" Dell Ultrasharp. It can go to 1920x1200 but I've got it set at 1680x1050.

/me drools

[Adam]

OK, here's something a bit more like how my desktop normally looks. Warcraft on the left, :ff: on the right...awwww....yeah.
What resolution is your display at?

The left is 1600x1200 and the right is 1280x1024.

[livius drusus]

Pompinator?

[Adam]

Pompinator?

Hush, you. :glare:

I have a friend who's been using the name Perm (after the Big Perm character in Friday) at least as long as I've been using Pomp(ous Bastard). He named his mage Perminator, and Pompinator mostly exists as a joke on him. For that matter, Circumstance mostly exists because I didn't want someone else taking the name.

[livius drusus]

Okay Circumstance is funny, I'll give you that. :pat:

[MonCapitan2002]

I have a new one to share.

Clicky! (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/EmperoPants/My%20Desktops/Transparency.jpg) :D

[livius drusus]

That transparent skin kicks ass, MonCap. Do you find it at all annoying to read a thread, say, when you can see the city lights behind the words?

[Ymir's blood]

An image found on the web somewhere. It was entitled Sin.

[Legs]

Nice and dark.

I am still in love with your recycle bin :skullove:

[Adam]

That's very asthetically pleasing, MC, but I'd think the transparency would get irritating after a while. Do you have any problems withit?

[MonCapitan2002]

That transparent skin kicks ass, MonCap. Do you find it at all annoying to read a thread, say, when you can see the city lights behind the words?
Thanks. I am glad you like the transparency. *Hugs latest Nvidia drivers.* It does get somewhat problematic reading threads, though. It would be more effective if the background behind the transparency were blurred a little. I am still tweaking things to optimize the effect. As such, I am using Firefox and another program to test out the transparency effect. Once I get the best look, I'll make it standard across all the programs I use most with Mozilla (not Firefox) being the exception.

[MonCapitan2002]

That's very asthetically pleasing, MC, but I'd think the transparency would get irritating after a while. Do you have any problems withit?
It does a little. I am still in the process of optimizing things.

[livius drusus]

My desktops are usually far more spartan than this, but I just love the colors and patterns in this fractal.

[pescifish]

I used to have a shirt very similar to those colors and pattern.

[Cynical-Chick]

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/752/xtidesktop23pk.th.jpg (http://img510.imageshack.us/my.php?image=xtidesktop23pk.jpg)

I've also been using a pic of Sydney Harbour. :)

[Megatron]

I have the bestest desktop evor.

Behold!
(1MB image, slight modem rape)

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/1125/desktopapr2420065zl.th.jpg (http://img152.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktopapr2420065zl.jpg)

[livius drusus]

Dance, bitches!
:starscrm:

[Megatron]

Damn right.

[Stormlight]

My desktop (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/Stormlight/capture_04252006_203242.jpg)

Or alternatively:

This one (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/Stormlight/capture_04252006_203008.jpg)

[livius drusus]

I vote for the Serenity one. :thumbup:

[lisarea]

Sssh. Don't tell how I'm playing the solitaire and listening to the rock music when I'm supposed to be working.

[livius drusus]

You know, I never would have pegged you as the Hubble pic desktop type. It's a little disconcerting, frankly.

[lisarea]

You know, I never would have pegged you as the Hubble pic desktop type. It's a little disconcerting, frankly.

I just thought it looked dirty. Does that make you feel better? Or at least distract you sufficiently to make you quit PICKING ON ME?

What did you think I should have, little Miss Bossy McKnowEverything?

[livius drusus]

I dunno. Some kind of stick figure in a horrific but amusing rictus, maybe. Or possibly Sluggo sniffing Maturin's ass while TLM cheers him on. Either way, it would definitely look dirty.

[lisarea]

For a while, I put lemonparty as my wallpaper because I thought certain people were being way too casual about using my computer alla time. I didn't want to issue an outright prohibition or anything, but I figured as a sort of behavioral modification tool, you know? Make a guy think about whether he really needs to be using my computer.

You know, I should probably be posting this in one of those "Parenting Advice" threads.

[Ymir's blood]

Sssh. Don't tell how I'm playing the solitaire and listening to the rock music when I'm supposed to be working.
Cool. It looks just like a...

Dragon :dragon:

[Dingfod]

At work, right now:

[MonCapitan2002]

My desktop (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/Stormlight/capture_04252006_203242.jpg)

Or alternatively:

This one (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/Stormlight/capture_04252006_203008.jpg)
I demand you tell us where you got the Serenity wallpaper!

[Stormlight]

My desktop (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/Stormlight/capture_04252006_203242.jpg)

Or alternatively:

This one (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/Stormlight/capture_04252006_203008.jpg)
I demand you tell us where you got the Serenity wallpaper!

:giggle:

I have to check later at home. Stay tuned.

[Stormlight]

Here you go:

Serenity wallpaper (http://www.slayerverse.org/tanet/net_buffy_us/index.php?navi=news.php&id=25782)

[Perry]

Future postcard for Palm Springs:
http://www.SnowBunnies.US

[TomJoe]

My desktop is starting to get a bit cluttered.

[pescifish]

New desktop image for me. 24" monitor at 1680x1050, so it really does seem like looking out my kitchen window on a pretty day.

[seebs]

My desktop is a 1600x1200 thing of blank grey pixels; I run Unix, and I don't have a "desktop" file manager of any sort.

I never use desktop backgrounds; I used to, but I found them more annoying than beneficial, so I went to flat colors. Grey, mostly.

[livius drusus]

Gorgeous mountain view, pesci. Are those geraniums in the hanging planters?

[slimshady2357]

My desktop at work is from our trip to the Toronto Zoo.

[pescifish]

I never use desktop backgrounds; I used to, but I found them more annoying than beneficial, so I went to flat colors. Grey, mostly.That's the way I usually feel about it. I'd been using the mostly black XPS desktop image that came with this Dell computer since I got it beginning of this year. But I couldn't resist this reminder to ..erm... get my butt outside every once in a while.
Gorgeous mountain view, pesci. Are those geraniums in the hanging planters?Thanks! I imagine my near-backyard may look nice someday if I ever get around to landscaping it... And :yup: Those geraniums usually aren't blooming so much this time of year, but we had a week or so of 80:degrees:+ weather and they gave me a nice late fall show.

slimshady, that hippo looks like he was posing just for your photo! Amazing how those creatures can move so fast even with such massive bulk.

[slimshady2357]

slimshady, that hippo looks like he was posing just for your photo! Amazing how those creatures can move so fast even with such massive bulk.

He certainly was an excellent model, just stood there looking magnificent.. for a rhino :giggle: :giggle: :giggle:

This is a hippo silly!

[pescifish]

Oh yeah. That's what I meant! : :study: :blush: :laugh:

[livius drusus]

:bump: because I love my pretty new wallpaper (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/44997021/) and desktop icons (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/29649503/). :wriggle:

[Shelli]

How do you post a pic of your desktop, liv?

[livius drusus]

If you're using Windows, all you have to do is press your Prt Sc (print screen) button, then open any graphics program and click on Edit-Paste. Save the pic, attach to the post and voila! :)

[Shelli]

Oh, cool. :thankee:

However, I keep getting this message when I try to upload it.

The Dimension limits for this filetype are 620 x 280. We were unable to resize your file so you will need to do so manually and upload it again. Your file is currently 800 x 600.