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13 June 2008

Time for another round of "What's on your desktop?" →[More:]I'm not quite happy with my icon placement yet. But I do like the new wallpaper I grabbed this morning!

post by: tr33hggr at: 08:19 | 29 comments

Desktop? I'll give you my whole office! Bonus view out the window.

posted by Wolfdog 13 June | 08:27

I can't really post a screenshot of my work desktop (security and all that) but here's my wallpaper.

posted by octothorpe 13 June | 08:28

I actually haven't changed it since the last time - I just like it too much!

posted by muddgirl 13 June | 08:51

Wolfdog, is that . . . Lee's Chapel? Is Traveller burried to the left of the structure?

posted by rainbaby 13 June | 09:00

Also: the morning ride in and some ideas taking form slowly around the room (that's my real desktop for getting things done!). Sorry, I don't so often have a camera, and was a little enthusiastic this morning.

posted by Wolfdog 13 June | 09:00

Yes, and Traveller's grave is on the right as you face the chapel.

posted by Wolfdog 13 June | 09:02

OMG! Score!

I know, on the right as you look at it, but on the left if you are in the building.

That is one of the freakiest museums. See Lee's beard clippings!, etc.

Beautiful campus, beautiful town.

posted by rainbaby 13 June | 09:05

I have this picture.

posted by JanetLand 13 June | 09:16

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posted by mygothlaundry 13 June | 09:50

Plain black background, old-school Windows theme, folders marked 'Personal,' 'Work' and 'Old Work,' Recycle Bin. I mostly try to keep the [computer] desktop empty.

posted by box 13 June | 09:52

I win the most boring desktop contest! Same as I've had for over a decade.

Any clever nerds out there who can work out why I use it?
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posted by TheophileEscargot 13 June | 09:54

Mopyfish! It doesn't work sometimes tho due to low memory issues. :(

posted by Melismata 13 June | 10:01

The daffodils are attacking!!

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posted by gaspode 13 June | 10:02

TE: Pong?

posted by Melismata 13 June | 10:02

You need something with a 4:3 aspect ratio handy?

posted by Wolfdog 13 June | 10:03

Hey, how do you do a screenshot in OSX?

posted by Stewriffic 13 June | 10:06

Cmd-Shift-3 for the whole screen or -4 to drag and capture a region.

posted by Wolfdog 13 June | 10:07

Oh, nice. figured it out. But it's a .tiff, which I can't seem to upload to photobucket, darn it.

posted by Stewriffic 13 June | 10:12

That's peculiar that it saved it as a tiff, but if you open it in preview you can save as any format you like.

posted by Wolfdog 13 June | 10:17

Ok, I did it through preview. will now try via shortcut key.

AWESOME! Thanks.
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I need a better wallpaper.

posted by Stewriffic 13 June | 10:18

Clarification: I took a screenshot through Preview first, because that's what Help came up with. So then I did it your way, which THANK YOU!!! YAY!

posted by Stewriffic 13 June | 10:19

I also can't screenshot due to security concerns, so I'll just link you to the flickr page of the photo I'm currently using as wallpaper.

posted by lonefrontranger 13 June | 10:31

Today's special.

posted by brina 13 June | 10:51

I can do a screenshot due to this being a crappy work computer with barely any RAM and no photo editor, as far as I can tell, but the wallpaper is my most recent cat pic:

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posted by BoringPostcards 13 June | 11:55

Make that, I CAN'T do a screenshot due to... etc etc

posted by BoringPostcards 13 June | 11:56

The photo is from a Mefite's flickr stream.

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posted by deborah 13 June | 13:34

This pic, cropped and resized. And a whole mess of files that should really be deleted or moved.

posted by Zack_Replica 13 June | 20:56

Here's the picture I'm using:

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posted by bmarkey 13 June | 23:22

Wolfdog almost had it. My desktop has rectangles of 640 by 480 pixels, and 800 by 600 pixels, because those were the standard resolutions of small monitors. When building a computer program with a user interface or a web page, I can line it up with the rectangle and quickly check that it all fits.

posted by TheophileEscargot 14 June | 01:05

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