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26 March 2007
Desktop thread! Searching the site revealed that the last one was last year, unless that in my laziness I missed one, so... →[More:]
Here's mine. I admit that I cleaned it a little, but that's why there's a folder called stuff in there.
But I keep coming back to this illustration because it's one of my fave cartoons and clean and simple to arrange icons around the two characters, which is a nice effect.
Mine (at work) hasn't changed because I can't change it :-( ≡ Click to see image ≡
I have no desktop at home, because my beloved computer is in storage at present :-((
Heh, just this morning I moved about thirty icons from the desktop to the quicklaunch, deleted a bunch of html links from the desktop and generally recovered most of the real estate. I wish you had asked this question in a day or two when my new toy arrived though. =P
dg, if you wanna cheat at work, look in the right corner of your desktop bottom toolbar. I forget what the icon is called, but on my work PC the checkbox that locks you out from changing wallpaper is in there. Unless it's just company policy, not an actual IT lockout, preventing you.
shane, I can actually change the desktop by opening an image in my browser and right-clicking "set as desktop background", but it reverts to the exciting blue with IP, last login etc (which seems to be a generated-on-the-fly jpg) every time I log in. I got sick of changing it every day and gave in to the corporate dullness. If I try various back-door ways to change the desktop (which I have through pure orneriness), I get a message about restrictions in effect on this computer. Our machines are fairly comprehensively locked-down and, even after hacking the administrator password, I still can't get access to it.
The last few months, it's been this photo from the Heli-Africa post. It's on the Skeleton Coast of what is now Namibia. There's just something of Ozymandias about it, or maybe Tattooine.
Under windows minimize all your windows and then press your Print Screen key. That'll copy the current screen to the clipboard which you can paste into the photo editor of your choice.
If you have photoshop it has the ability to create a new canvas the size of the current clipboard contents which is really handy.
Seanyboy that system tray notification area is scary.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
photo by ethylene
