Post your desktop

[KEK Inc.]

Since the staff is very knit-picky on images, I'd ask that you link images that are larger than 800 pixels wide.  I'm going to post a thumbnail of mine that links to a bigger picture.  Supposedly resized images through javascript (with the width=800 tag) still lags some archaic browsers.  Of course, people who use dial-up should upgrade, but that's a different topic.   



OS:  Windows 7 Professional
Resolution:  1366 x 768 (laptop)
Rainmeter: Omnimo 2 by fediafedia (inspired by Windows Mobile Theme)
Visual Style Theme: Clearscreen Sharp by k-Johnson. 

To post a screenshot, here's a little mini-guide. 

Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7
Press [printscreen] to create a screenshot that will be placed on your clipboard.  Press paste ([CTRL]+[V]) on any image editing program like MS Paint.

Mac OSX 
[Command]+[Shift]+[3] will create a screenshot and a file.  You can press [Command]+[Shift]+[Control]+[3] to copy it to a clipboard for you to edit directly on an image editing program like GIMP.

Linux w/ GNOME
Menu > Applications > Take Screenshot
You may edit them on GIMP. 

[agentsteel53]

I reduced it by precisely 1/2 from 1280x1024 to 640x512.  

I need to re-crop that background image.  Originally it was a 3:2 aspect ratio, and then I cropped it so it fit 1280x1024 to fit the background, but I forgot to account for three rows of application tabs.  Somewhere I have a better version of that photo!

(Old Blewett Pass, US-97 in Washington, btw... October, 2007.)

[corco]

Please tell me you plan your trips with Notepad

[agentsteel53]

Please tell me you plan your trips with Notepad

nope, was watching a video and making notes in ... yep, the application specifically designed for that!  Places to go back to and do screen captures of old signs. 

[corco]

nope, was watching a video and making notes in ... yep, the application specifically designed for that!  Places to go back to and do screen captures of old signs. 

Darn- I was hoping I was getting confirmation that I'm not the only human on the planet that writes out entire trip itineraries in Notepad for no reason whatsoever

[agentsteel53]

Darn- I was hoping I was getting confirmation that I'm not the only human on the planet that writes out entire trip itineraries in Notepad for no reason whatsoever

anything I need to remember while on the road, I record on my mobile phone - I right now have a list of "old signs to see" (62 items), "california old alignments" (41 items, including Nevada) and don't ask about my to do list which is over 100.

[BigMattFromTexas]

Pittsburgh Penguins .
BigMatt

[rawmustard]

Meh, why not? (Click to see in original resolution.)



For some time, I had used a slideshow of my photos as wallpaper, but I have decided to stick with my favorite team. This particular wallpaper was made by a blogger and although the file was stated to be 1280x800, it actually works fine having it centered. (And of course, Photobucket decides to shrink the original on me. Not cool, man!)

[bugo]

The wallpaper is a photo I took near Velva, ND last summer.

[J N Winkler]

I need to replace my wallpaper, actually--I am thinking of Puente Nuevo.

[Chris]

Mine is a picture of a deserted A28 freeway near my city, which is currently being widened to six lanes. It carries 90,000 vehicles per day.

[Alps]

nope, was watching a video and making notes in ... yep, the application specifically designed for that!  Places to go back to and do screen captures of old signs. 

Darn- I was hoping I was getting confirmation that I'm not the only human on the planet that writes out entire trip itineraries in Notepad for no reason whatsoever

You're not. (:

[Duke87]

I have screenshots of every desktop image I've used for the past six years. Here's the latest one (click for fullsize):


Don't recognize anything? Those are the bosses from Megaman 10.

[KEK Inc.]

Please tell me you plan your trips with Notepad

nope, was watching a video and making notes in ... yep, the application specifically designed for that!  Places to go back to and do screen captures of old signs. 

I use that program to make really simple web pages. 

http://img.johninteractive.net/wb/index.html

I actually invited Nintendowhiz to upgrade it, since I have no knowledge of HTML.  I was too lazy to make images to make it look fancier, but he was content with it.  Then again, most of his website uses Times New Roman on a blank background.  D:

[kj3400]

My desktop shows a region I'm working on in Sim City.

[Scott5114]

[Bryant5493]

Be well,

Bryant

[Ian]

[Bryant5493]

^^

Where's that bridge?


Be well,

Bryant

[agentsteel53]

looks to me like the Ben Franklin Bridge.  US-30 in Philly.

[algorerhythms]

I think I need to delete some junk off the desktop...

[Truvelo]

Here's mine. As you can see, I don't waste memory by having fancy wallpaper which you can't see when you're using a problem so what's the point in making an i7 system perform like a 486?

[J N Winkler]

Here's mine. As you can see, I don't waste memory by having fancy wallpaper which you can't see when you're using a problem so what's the point in making an i7 system perform like a 486?

I disagree.  I have a four-year-old laptop with 500 MB of memory, and since my desktop wallpaper is cropped and resampled down to 1:1 correspondence with screen pixels, it is just 159 KB as a JPEG file and 3 MB--less than 1% of the total memory available--as an uncompressed Windows bitmap.  Screen resolution has been climbing a lot more slowly than RAM on commodity PCs, so properly resampled desktop wallpaper imposes even less of a drag on newer computers.

It is true that you can't see the desktop wallpaper when a program is maximized, but quite often I work with programs (Notepad, various batch files, . . .) which run in windows which are smaller than the desktop, and when I am away from my computer briefly, I typically minimize all active windows and expose the desktop.  It helps me compose my mind to be able to look at a picture I like when I sit down to my computer.

[6a]

For some reason I pictured more of you guys as Linux nerds



_{edit: you can click for big if you really want to}

[Ian]

looks to me like the Ben Franklin Bridge.  US-30 in Philly.

Indeed it is.