Desktops

[imported_Grev Drasen]

If this isn't allowed on this forum, go ahead and trash it. I was modding my desktop a little and figured I'd get some ideas if anyone was willing to post theirs.

If you're unsure just goto your desktop and hit "print scr", which is to the right of F12. Then goto into an image editter like Adobe or MS Paint and just paste it.

Current desktop. (http://awa.hypermart.net/october.gif)

[Nupraptor]

Oh, hey... I've played this game before. :)

My current Desktop @ 64.4k (http://nupraptor.clanhappy.com/temp/desktop.jpg)

[imported_Grev Drasen]

Nice wall, and I see you're a fan of Hitman II also.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

ah HA! Mine: http://lilaena.clanpages.com/desktop.jpg OR it will be shortly, as soon as I can get the durn page to load up.

[TheHolo.Net]

Heres my simple one, shrunk down to a more reasonable resolution:

http://216.194.72.142/mneh.jpg

[Dae Jinn]

pretty oggies :mneh

I have a LOTR wallpaper on mine *ashamed of her Windows 98*

[Nupraptor]

No icons on Ogre's desktop! :eek

And yeah... I had to shrink mine down, too. So it's kind of blurry.

[TheHolo.Net]

I despise icons on the desktop, so I have them all on my start bar, neatly grouped within categories. :)

[Nupraptor]

I usually like a single row of icons. My desktop looks barren without them. If it gets longer than one row, I start deleting lesser used shortcuts.

[TheHolo.Net]

I guess I kind of look at my PC monitor as sort of a decoration when I’m not using it, somewhat like a picture on the wall or something like that. My start bar is set to auto hide so when I’m not using my PC, all you see is desktop image.

[Nupraptor]

Bonus points to anyone who can figure out what song I was listening to when I took that. :)

[TheHolo.Net]

Originally posted by Nupraptor
Bonus points to anyone who can figure out what song I was listening to when I took that. :) I can make out the artist name "Jewel" but not the title. :p

[Figrin D'an]

I don't really like a lot of icons on the desktop either... the basic ones are fine, but I just don't like the clutter created by lots of shortcuts... so, I use auto-hide toolbars. Keeps the desktop clean and allows for quick access to programs and files. :)


http://my.execpc.com/~kroken/Desktop.jpg


Grev: I see you have a couple of console emulators on you machine. If you haven't already, check out Project64. It's worth the download. :)

http://www.pj64.net/

[Nupraptor]

You don't like clutter, yet you have all that crazy stuff on the right side of your screen? o_O

And yeah... there's a shortcut to P64 on my desktop. ^_^;

[Figrin D'an]

That would be shortcuts for Winamp playlists... I just changed the icon of each playlist to an album cover of the given artist. :)

And the song by Jewel is called "Everybody Needs Someone Sometime," if memory serves. :)

[Morgan Evanar]

www.casalecustomsbroker.com/misc/dsktp.jpg

[Nupraptor]

Fig Newton got it :)

[imported_Firebird1]

Originally posted by SWFans.Net
I guess I kind of look at my PC monitor as sort of a decoration when I’m not using it, somewhat like a picture on the wall or something like that. My start bar is set to auto hide so when I’m not using my PC, all you see is desktop image.

Same here, no reason to have it look like a computer screen when it can look like a peice of art.

[Sejah Haversh]

Whenever I finish a new piece of art, I try to make a background out of it. So, I have a new wallpaper about once every week and a half, though this has been one of my most popular. J'ktal is just cool, and I had fun with that one.

[Sejah Haversh]

This, however, is my current one.

[Nupraptor]

I have a new wallpaper nearly every day. I change it depending on what mood I am. Very often, it'll be a screenshot of some sort of eyecandy.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Mine works now.

I'll post it again for the lazy:

http://lilaena.clanpages.com/desktop.jpg

[Morgan Evanar]

Woman, www.trillian.cc STAT. Keep yahoo for the webcam and ditch the rest.

[Vega Van-Derveld]

http://liquid2k.com/faithjk/desktop.jpg

:)

[Bette Davis]

I have trillian..but the direct connect never worked for me, so it just ended up making me mad.

[Severen Morkonis]

Not bad...I like Jennifer Love Hewitt to..nice choice :)

[Ishan Shade]

Originally posted by Sieken Kasstra
Not bad...I like Jennifer Love Hewitt to..nice choice :)


I second that! :)

[Dae Jinn]

:lol

I like the one Vega has :D
<img src=http://216.73.105.30/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=409244>

[Figrin D'an]

My new desktop... :)

http://my.execpc.com/~kroken/Desktop.jpg

[Marcus Telcontar]

My former desktop

[Jackson DeWitt]

http://www.bama.ua.edu/~hicks020/pics/desktop.jpg

[Levi Argon]

http://www.undertaker.com/downloads/wallpaper/images/lg01.jpg

Tis my current desktop wallpaper.

[Leeloo Mina]

I'm pretty sure I've played this game before too.

http://leeloosdomain.clanpages.com/desktop.jpg

My current Lain-themed desktop.. I change it all the time.. last it was a bunch of ringwraith stuff.

[Dasquian Belargic]

:thumbup @ Figrin. Love that wallpaper :)

[Dae Jinn]

Me too. I want it, where did you get it? LOTR.net?

[Leeloo Mina]

see URL at bottom of pic.. :)

http://lordoftherings.net :p

Lazy - http://lordoftherings.net/media/desktops/tt_poster_1024.jpg

[Dae Jinn]

thanks.

Gollum gollum! :D

[ReaperFett]

"Woman", you keep AIM. Im sick of trying to show people things and so on, and never being able to :)


My current one:

[Nupraptor]

That's because people don't know how to configure it properly. She has AIM, Y! and MSN all installed. Trillian is a much better solution.

[ReaperFett]

I prefer it pure over all that contaminated stuff :)



And there lies my point. ANyone who isnt some computer wizz always has gaps. So it obviusly ISNT a great program, as you have to have a good knowledge to use it :)

[Leeloo Mina]

I used to have trillian and AIM installed.. but I got rid of AIM not too long ago, when I figured out how to send pictures.. ^_^;

Nice desktop, Fett

[ReaperFett]

ty :)



BTW, does anyone know of a program to run random wallpapers?

[DarthDarkCloak]

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[Leeloo Mina]

more.. CLONE TROOPERS! Looks like my SW shirt ^_^

[Dae Jinn]

I only have it all seperate cos my mother uses my computer on occasion and she uses Y! I never do unless some absolutely needs me on it. I don't feel like having her ask me ten million questions about another thing on here :)

[Leeloo Mina]

I almost don't need trillian.. I really only use AIM, sometimes MSN to talk to my brother in orlando.. but I have it anyway, for some reason.. ^_^;

[Nupraptor]

Because it uses less memory than AIM to run, doesn't have any advertisements, is fully skin-able and is generally more flexible?

[Leeloo Mina]

Yeah, actually.. I think that's why :)

Oh.. and I can sign onto like three+ AIM accounts at the same time without cloning aim :x

[ReaperFett]

my AIM doesnt have adverts, what you talking about? :)

[Sanis Prent]

I've found trillian to be crash-happy, so I never bothered.

[Leeloo Mina]

Yeah, when I had AIM, I messed with it and put a pic there.. :crack

You can dl deadaim to get rid of the ads..

[ReaperFett]

WHAT ADS? :)

[Leeloo Mina]

....Hmmm... :Poke you have some crazy british version or something? o_O

[ReaperFett]

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[Leeloo Mina]

It's always like that - no ads?

Wow.

[Leeloo Mina]

When I had AIM and edited it.. I put a picture there and had to edit another file to stop AIM from changing it to an ad after a few secs.

[ReaperFett]

Yep, its always like that. THINK it is aim theUK flavour. You can try it too :)

[Leeloo Mina]

Well.. if I need AIM for something, I'll be sure to get that one instead.. :)

Oh yeah.. have you seen AIM 5.5? :x I dont like it..


[random comment]OH!!! And look at what I just found!

http://wavthis.com/S/SuperChicken.zip

I love that song now. :)[/random comment]

[Figrin D'an]

You can hack the ad-ware out of AIM, but if you don't know what you are doing, you can screw up the program completely.

I'm a big Trillian fan. Even though I only use ICQ and AIM services, Trillian makes this easy. ICQ is a pretty good program, but I don't trust anything software-wise from AOL... just look at what they did to Netscape.

[Leeloo Mina]

Yeah, that's what I did. I made a neat little picture to stick up there. Also changed the logon pic thingy.. took a little bit to figure out where they kept those things though ^_^;

Anyway, Trillian does seem to crash slightly more often than AIM did.. but that's okay, it doesn't bother me too much.. I like being able to talk to diffrent people on diffrent names and such.. Trillian has alot of cool features like that. It took me a bit to get used to it though.

[ReaperFett]

I honestly mean it when I say there is no hack on my AIM :)

[Leeloo Mina]

*is checking it out now*

Amazing. He does not lie.

That's pretty nifty.

[ReaperFett]

UK AIM: Rains on the parade of Trillian ;)

[Leeloo Mina]

Nah uh :p

But it doesn't have ads, that is pretty neat.

Still sticking to trillian :D

Look.. I have trillian skinned.. THAT'S cool :crack.

[ReaperFett]

Looks cheap, and youre using something that sounds like a fish :)

[Leeloo Mina]

:lol WTF

And I like my skin :mneh

[ReaperFett]

Youd be scared of salt without it ;)

[Leeloo Mina]

I'm already scare of salt.. though I like it on rice :D

[ReaperFett]

:)

[Morgan Evanar]

UK AIM: Rains on the parade of Trillian

If you only use AIM. Can you connect to ICQ, MSN and Yahoo! ? Even if you don't, here is a very compelling reason not to use AIM:

http://www.casalecustomsbroker.com/misc/aimsucks.gif

[ReaperFett]

19MB doesnt bother me :)


I only otherwise use YM for the Webcam. IF I used 5 or 6 services, then maybe Id use it. But I never will :)

[Figrin D'an]

Morg's example = Trump Card

:)

[Figrin D'an]

19 MB doesn't bother you? For an IM program, that's a huge memory hog. That's about 15% of your system memory if you have 128 MB. That's pretty ridiculous if you ask me.

[ReaperFett]

See Figrin, Morgs example ISNT a trump card, because it doesnt bother me. Most moan about Ads. I dont have Ads. MY trump card :)

[Dark Lord Dyzm]

Er, Yeah, well, my current Wallpaper is Dante...

Which makes me so sad that I don't have him as my Charachter... he one of my most favorite video game charachter...

Edit: Well, aint that gay, I have my image at 50K but it won't allow me to post it... To lazy to change image again.

[Leeloo Mina]

Morg has a good example - but if Fett doesn't mind having that much memory taken up.. well.. maybe he's a little crazy..;) but, that's okay. :)

I don't usually mind too much how much memory a program takes up.. unless I can actually notice it..




Edit - Dyzm.. upload it to somewhere!! *has an obsession with everyone else's desktop*

[Morgan Evanar]

Right Fett, but you continue to argue against trillian vs AIM, when there is no reason to. Instead of arguing ad naseum, why don't you just say I don't like it and shut up for a change?

[ReaperFett]

Ironic, considering you dont.

[imported_Grev Drasen]

Whenever I used AIM it never had any type of ads or popups, either. And I'm not from the UK. Same with Kazaa, when I used the real version (yes, in my days if ignorance), it never had any popups to go along with it.

[Leeloo Mina]

I've never had pop-ups with AIM.. but there were always ads on the version I had. And Kazaa annoys me, even the lite version but it's about the only thing I have :x I need to find a better program..

[Figrin D'an]

Kazaa has lots of nasty spyware though... there is a way to remove it, but I'd rather just use another piece of software all together.

[Melicia Nephthys]

:x I hate Kazaa... It kills my computer. Especially my Gram's computer. It took me 3 days to download a song that's onmy 2 minutes long! and I had a really tough time getting anything else to work while that was happening.

[imported_Grev Drasen]

Kazaa comes in handy for certain downloads, like rare songs and clips. Other than that all I use is mIRC, and private servers.

[Dae Jinn]

Originally posted by Sanis Prent
I've found trillian to be crash-happy, so I never bothered.

Exactly. :lol

[Nupraptor]

I have Trillian running 24/7 and it crashes a whole lot less than anything else. :)

New OS, completely new desktop look: http://nupraptor.clanhappy.com/temp/desktop.jpg

[imported_Grev Drasen]

Nice, what XP skin is that?

[James Prent]

Oooh...my computer sucks...or rather *I* do, because I can't get it to do cool stuff. :(

[Leeloo Mina]

Ooohh... awsome Nup.. Vinny just sent me that desktop the other day.. haven't used it yet.


James - My computer sucks, and I can get it to do some cool things.. so it's not you :D

[Morgan Evanar]

http://www.casalecustomsbroker.com/misc/dsktop.jpg

Return of dual montiors ^_^

Its actually 2302x864 but I reduced it to 2048x768 to shave off about 30k

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Zat is purty durn kewl.

[Ryla Relvinian]

My humble desktop. (http://www.ryla.net/images/desktop.jpg)

Booya!

[Morgan Evanar]

Ryla girl, you need some Phoenix luv. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/

[Destiny Stormrider]

Great desktop Ryla!

[Jared Mriad]

My usual wake-up call wall. (http://www.cloud6.com/~nupraptor/desktop.jpg)

[Zasz Grimm]

Night Elf!! Very nice, Morg!!!

I have a basic Win98 wallpaper. I change it every now and then, but it's my parents computer, they yell at me when it was changed.

And plus it looks all cluttered with all the Icons they have on here, anyway.

[Zasz Grimm]

Oh, and I thought I would post my trillian skin. I favor this one, nice color and graphics.

[Nathanial K'cansce]

The one I've been using for about a week now:

http://static.elderscrolls.com/images/downloads/trib_darkbrotherhood1024.bmp


The one before that:

http://static.elderscrolls.com/images/downloads/trib_helsethguard1024.bmp

One I might use in the future:

http://static.elderscrolls.com/images/downloads/trib_indorilguard1024.bmp


*pulls the map of Mournhold out and hides behind it.*

[Xenodoros Stormrider]

Mine.

http://aisoku.netfirms.com/desktop.png

EDIT: Geez, all my hosts suck.

[Vega Van-Derveld]

We're doing this again? :lol

[Jamel Croko'yn]

I have a plain normal one, and I'm pretty happy with it ^_^

[imported_Grev Drasen]

After reformatting. (http://awa.hypermart.net/desktop.jpg)

[James Prent]

<a href=http://panic.hopto.org/swf/lilly/untitled.jpg>Current Desktop</a>

:D

[Dasquian Belargic]

Nice wallpaper, Grev.

Blurry image, but still... Desktop (http://members.lycos.co.uk/dasquian/desktop.jpg). :)

[imported_Grev Drasen]

It's from digitalblasphemy.com... great stuff.

Here it is now. (http://awa.hypermart.net/desktop_new.jpg)

[Leeloo Mina]

Where'd you get that desktop, Dasq? everytime I see it, it's too small of a pic to use -_-

[Dasquian Belargic]

Off of the site you got the vid-cap from Ava Adore, that you posted at TP.

[Leeloo Mina]

OOOHH.... I knew I should have looked at that site more ^_^;

Anywho.. my current desktop.. in 800x600.. -_-


I'm not using the PC I normally use so I've been too lazy to make this one intresting. And I made the crappy wallpaper a while back out of ava adore screencaps :D

[Silus Xilarian]

Current Desktop (http://panic.hopto.org/swf/silus/desktop.jpg) @ 1280 x 1024 pixels ^_^;

[Morgan Evanar]

ARGH THE MUTANT RESOLUTION! KILLLLLL

1280x960 > 1280x1024