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Desktop Screenshots: Summer '09

fluxflux
edited June 2009 in Everything Else
It's summer now and everyone knows what that means.

Post your desktop screenshots! Here's a screenshot from my new Macbook.

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  • DkongDkong
    What's it really matter, honestly? I have a wallpaper folder with like 200+ wallpapers from 4chan and 4scrape, and a few other places around the net. I change my wallpaper usually every week or two. I haven't changed the actual icons on the desktop in months.
    I have a Firefox icon, and icon to launch Firefox and Pidgin at the same time (it's a shortcut to a batch script, nothing fancy), and an icon for Mplayer so I can drag and drop files onto it to play them.
  • ......
    edited June 2009
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  • Li_AkahiLi_Akahi
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  • Nine BoomerNine Boomer
    It's Joe Boomer here, and everyone knows what that means.

    Well, you guys are lucky that I reinstalled XP a month ago, so you won't have to suffer that much, but here we go:
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  • AndrewAndrew
    Whoa dude, you have way too many icons on your screen. Get launchy.
  • Nine BoomerNine Boomer
    Whoa dude, you have way too many icons on your screen. Get launchy.
    How do you think I survive without a launcher of some sort? I can't survive without it.
  • ......
    so you won't have to suffer that much
    Wut? You're the one suffering from the mess, such stupidity is hilarity for us. ;)

    Really, start by just removing everything from your desktop.
  • RochelleRochelle
    After seeing that scary desktop of joeboomer's, I then looked at his Firefox window. O_O
  • Nine BoomerNine Boomer
    so you won't have to suffer that much
    Wut? You're the one suffering from the mess, such stupidity is hilarity for us.;)
    Your eyes aren't burning? You don't need to cleanse them with a chemical wash?
    After seeing that scary desktop of joeboomer's, I then looked at his Firefox window. O_O
    Wut? >.>
  • ......
    edited June 2009
    Your eyes aren't burning? You don't need to cleanse them with a chemical wash?
    Not at all. You see, you said it yourself.
    It's Joe Boomer here, and everyone knows what that means.
    So I put on my goggles, and they work for something as simple as this. I was prepared! MUAHAHAHA. (I also set the max-width for images on this forum to 50 em after the freaking tab bar topic)
    Wut? >.>
    She probably read the "Post your tab+search bar so we may giggle at your porn search and numerous tabs to these forums"-thread.
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  • fluxflux
    Joe Boomer's screenshots always have Easter eggs.
  • GreyHugeGreyHuge
    edited June 2009
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    I really liked Gankutsuou.
    EDIT: I read Apreches post and realized that you can in fact delete the Recycle Bin Icon.
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  • AprecheApreche
    1) Download files to a Download folder. Delete files in this folder after you use them.
    2) When you install a program, let it do whatever it wants in the start menu, so launchy can find it, but don't let it do anything to the desktop.
    3) If a program makes a desktop icon anyway, drag it to the recycle bin immediately.
    4) Don't take screen shots when you are looking at flying dicks or Skyping "teh friends."
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    The worst part about that screenshot is I am now wondering what happens if you type "flying dicks" into Google.
  • AprecheApreche
    Here is my mac desktop at work. I replaced the purple outer space default with better outer space. Horsehead nebula ftw!

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  • SailSail
    I haven't changed either of my computer backgrounds since the last one of these. So here's my phone, instead.

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  • Loganator456Loganator456
    edited June 2009
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  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
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  • ErynEryn
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  • AprecheApreche
    I hate it when someone makes an awesome wallpaper, then ruins it by putting some random text on it. Dear wallpaper makers, no text on wallpaper, not even your name or URL or anything. Interfacelift doesn't do it, and they're getting a lot more hits than you.
  • ErynEryn
    edited June 2009
    Yeah, I tend to prefer textless wallpapers and user icons in most cases (unless good humour is involved). I'm pretty much just ignoring the text on the bottom right now in favour of the rest of the beautiful wallpaper.

    EDIT: Here's how it looks when I set the wallpaper to Tile mode. Text is gone, which is nice, but in terms of aesthetics, I prefer seeing more of the girl's leg and boot there (even if the figure's a bit squished), so I'm going to keep it on the version with text for now.

    EDIT 2: Nah, on second thought, the textless version looks more acceptable the longer I look at it. Let's go with that one instead.

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  • AprecheApreche
    edited June 2009
    Why stretch the image? Just use Photoshop to remove the text altogether.

    Also, Mac people. The same thing goes for your dock that goes for joe boomer's desktop. The point of quicksilver is that you launch things with that. If an icon is in your dock that you don't use, drag it to the trash. See my dock? Pretty much all those icons are for apps that are currently running.
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  • VentureJVentureJ
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    Nothing too spectacular, really.
  • ......
    edited June 2009
    @Eryn, nice name for your porn folder. Just plain denial.
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  • ErynEryn
    edited June 2009
    @Scott - Eh, chalk it up to laziness in this case. I've done it before for really egregious text choices, but it's not a huge problem to me right now, so I'm not going to bother.

    As for the dock, I actually find it quicker to launch something by clicking on its dock icon than using QuickSilver. Those icons are all applications that I use very often. The rest I launch with QuickSilver when I need them.

    @Nineless - Yeah, you should see the mountains upon mountains of lolicon and guro in there. And no one ever suspects a thing. *shhhh*

    Nah, it really is for stuff that isn't mine. My mom and my brother use my laptop sometimes, and I make them save anything they need there.
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  • DkongDkong
    1) Download files to a Download folder. Delete files in this folder after you use them.
    2) When you install a program, let it do whatever it wants in the start menu, so launchy can find it, but don't let it do anything to the desktop.
    3) If a program makes a desktop icon anyway, drag it to the recycle bin immediately.
    4) Don't take screen shots when you are looking at flying dicks or Skyping "teh friends."
    Regarding 3 and 4, I actually just have a shitload of program shortcuts all thrown into one folder called "shortcuts" and then I have launchy index that folder and then whatever other folders I feel like having it index. It works well. I then just tell all my installed programs to do nothing to the start menu.
  • WalkerWalker
    Today I seriously cleaned up my desktop. This is so much nicer.

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  • ......
    edited June 2009
    Today I seriously cleaned up my desktop. This is so much nicer.

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    Fixed that for you.
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  • Li_AkahiLi_Akahi
    I always hesitate to post in these threads as my desktop changes every five minutes, but this was too awesome to pass up.
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  • sK0pesK0pe
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    I find it particularly difficult to find great wallpapers with resolutions native at 2560x1600, unfortunately anything bellow 1920x1200 is really obvious on my monitor.
    I already use Interfacelift, any other sites anyone could recommend?
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