July Desktops

[Giaguara]

So what do you have as your desktop right now? :D :)

[eyelikeart]

actually...the first night of Geek Fest...

Mr. Anderson aided me in this one... ;)

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
actually...the first night of Geek Fest...

Mr. Anderson aided me in this one... ;)

Ha! I have that one too, but I'm cycling between images so it comes up once in a while......still a killer shot!

D

[ratspg]

really plain, just formatted back to 10.2 from panther :) lol

i miss expose hehe
http://www.kmastudios.com/images/dessk.jpg

[Veldek]

Took this one from Apple:

[Pete_Hoover]

Well, if I posted my desktop picture, people would probably hound me(I use windows, can't afford a mac). But It is just the regular old WIn Xp theme thingy.

[wdlove]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
actually...the first night of Geek Fest...

Mr. Anderson aided me in this one... ;)

Very nice eyelikeart, that's a great collaboration with Mr. Anderson. This make you two a pair, the only ones on Macrumors to have the same desktop! :p

[King Cobra]

A little something for the desktopographers around here...

[medea]

here's my current one.

[pivo6]

Same theme as Giaguara, but a flower instead of a weed. I compressed to 800x600

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
actually...the first night of Geek Fest...

Mr. Anderson aided me in this one... ;)

nice picture

how long exposure?

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
nice picture

how long exposure?

heh...thanks...the exposure was 22 seconds at ISO 200 with f3.5...

are u sure u believe those colors are real though? ;)

[shadowfax]

yay, july! got this from breedart, an image called "emporium." ****ing awesome stuff there.

http://www.deskmod.com/files/ssmac/files/36433-screen001.jpg

[BaghdadBob]

But I hardly ever think about this one, which is good enough for me. I'm usually a chronic background changer...

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
nice picture

how long exposure?

I also added a fill flash with my camera to bring in the foreground pylon - worked really well. We ended up doing a bunch of those that night.....:D

D

[WinterMute]

The 17 PBook arrived back from its second trip to Germany today, a mere 5 days after being shipped, they've taken my drive abd stuck it in a new machine:D :D :D

Works like a charm at the moment, no sign of the problems (touches wood)

Anyway, here's july (pics on rotation)

[BaghdadBob]

Originally posted by WinterMute
Works like a charm at the moment, no sign of the problems (touches wood)
Dude....I don't know about across the pond, but over here the phrase is "knock on wood"...however, what you're up to while composing your posts is entirely your own business...

[WinterMute]

rotflmao:D

We say "touch something wooden" for luck, but I take you're point.

[MrMacMan]

Meh, my rotation:

http://macsnaps.com/snaps/screengrab/1057107514.jpg

[mactastic]

I see some great desktops this month so far. That shot of the bridge from geekfest is fantastic. Anyway, here's mine. I just got back from a weekend in the Big Sur area, and got some sweet pictures. Here's the current one...

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by mactastic
I see some great desktops this month so far. That shot of the bridge from geekfest is fantastic. Anyway, here's mine. I just got back from a weekend in the Big Sur area, and got some sweet pictures. Here's the current one...

That's a great view! Do u have anymore up on the web for viewing?

[mactastic]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
That's a great view! Do u have anymore up on the web for viewing?
Thanks! No, I haven't put any up on the web yet, I'm still sorting through the 90 or so pictures I took, but that one really jumped out at me.

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
heh...thanks...the exposure was 22 seconds at ISO 200 with f3.5...

are u sure u believe those colors are real though? ;)

yeah, i am just so brilliant with my humor that no one could tell i guess. and what's funny is, besides the thing moxie mentioned (losing image quality mainly), in my mind, it doesn't matter whether you do stuff in camera or in post, it's the result that counts.

eye/duke- yeah, that's a cool effect... i took a picture of the stars out at the grand canyon with a bulb exposure (i think around 20 seconds), and at some point my bro took a picture with his flash.... here's the result (notice the tree in the top right.... hard to see on some screens i've noticed):

[eyelikeart]

oh ye of brilliant humor... ;)

that's a cool shot...was t hat ISO 200 or 400?

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
oh ye of brilliant humor... ;)

that's a cool shot...was t hat ISO 200 or 400?

well it was using my dad's dimage 7 on shutter priority (or maybe on manual, if that's required to get bulb? maybe it is... hmm).... in any case, i'm not sure which iso i set it to, or if it set itself, then you probably know better than i... i'd guess 400 though.

it was literally impossible to see what i was doing and we only had some small little flashlight that i tried to hold and mess with the cam at the same time.

not a great pic overall, but the tree thing was neat.

[eyelikeart]

definitely...the tree is pretty cool there...

reminds me of the movie ET...

u should try some 30 second bulb exposures in total darkness facing some trees sometime... ;)

[Giaguara]

I needed some rain.

[pEZ]

It's not easy being green...

*reaches for mint chocolate chip ice cream*

[job]

i like my desktop clean. no dock, no hard drive icon.

scaled down from 1024*768 to 800*600

[filmcutter]

here's a snap I took at a recent balloon fest...

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by job
i like my desktop clean. no dock, no hard drive icon. do you have it popup on mouseover, then? a stupid question, perhaps, but i figured i would double check and make sure you weren't somehow running some cool 3rd party system to load stuff without a dock and what not.

[job]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
do you have it popup on mouseover, then? a stupid question, perhaps, but i figured i would double check and make sure you weren't somehow running some cool 3rd party system to load stuff without a dock and what not.

yeah, i'm using mouse over.

of course, if you wanted to be really slick, you could set the terminal to be a startup app and open every app through the command line. you would never need the dock again. ;)

[Sleix]

http://www.tigress.com/sleix/screencap.jpg
Must...show...off...screen...cap...

No, actually, I thought I'd show what limited resources I have on this puppy. ;)

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by job
yeah, i'm using mouse over.

of course, if you wanted to be really slick, you could set the terminal to be a startup app and open every app through the command line. you would never need the dock again. ;) yeah, pair that with shortcut keys for all your main apps and you're set, really. or you could just assign a shortcut combo to a finder window and launch apps that way.

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
definitely...the tree is pretty cool there...

reminds me of the movie ET...

u should try some 30 second bulb exposures in total darkness facing some trees sometime... ;)

do you still use the dimage 7 or you using the 7i? or something else? i get yours and moxie's cams mixed up...

problem i had is that i have to hold the button the whole time, which makes blur more likely even with a tripod.... am i missing something?there some way to automate it?

[iNari Rachs!]

http://www.emartinpr.com/pics/G4desktop0703.jpg

...just couldn't resist! I think Giaguaro's desktop looks killer, very cool effect...

[janey]

ooh...my desktop background was something i found over at spymac, it's the "here's to the crazy ones" thing...this screenshot is from last week though :(

[job]

Originally posted by iNari Rachs!
...just couldn't resist! I think Giaguaro's desktop looks killer, very cool effect...

err...you've got....some...errr...large.....*hard drives* there. *ahem* ;) :p :D

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
eye/duke- yeah, that's a cool effect... i took a picture of the stars out at the grand canyon with a bulb exposure (i think around 20 seconds), and at some point my bro took a picture with his flash.... here's the result (notice the tree in the top right.... hard to see on some screens i've noticed):

Ha, using a fill flash for night shots on foreground images is key - nice Big Dipper shot :D

If you'd have kept it open much longer you might get little streaks instead of stars....

D

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
do you still use the dimage 7 or you using the 7i? or something else? i get yours and moxie's cams mixed up...

problem i had is that i have to hold the button the whole time, which makes blur more likely even with a tripod.... am i missing something?there some way to automate it?

I'm using the 7i. Moxie had one, then a 7hi, now a d100...now I want one! :D

As for the shutter release, I know what u mean. Even with my cheap tripod, I still find I need to stabalize the entire setup to avoid the slightest bit of blur. I should get a release cable, just haven't yet.

[Mr. Anderson]

Yesterday I had to take some pics at work when the company pres made a visit - I used my boss' Fuji digital SLR camera with a 15-30mm aspherical zoom lens.....OMG, it was amazing!

I really need to get a digital SLR.....

D

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
Yesterday I had to take some pics at work when the company pres made a visit - I used my boss' Fuji digital SLR camera with a 15-30mm aspherical zoom lens.....OMG, it was amazing!

ha ha! :D

The photographer at my sister's wedding this past weekend was shooting with a Fuji FinePix DSLR. After seeing her shoot that entire night with such ease, I've given myself 6-9 months to get on with one of my own. I hope the technology shifts a little bit more & the prices slide to make it worth while. ;)

[vollspacken]

da BBQ-masta:

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
If you'd have kept it open much longer you might get little streaks instead of stars....


yeah, i realize that.


eye- ahh. what's a "release cable" exactly?

i guess i actually did a decent job of not moving it while i held it...


i'm looking at either the nikon 5 mp or the dimage 7i... we'll see.

[Rower_CPU]

What's with all the tiled backgrounds this month? Is it a new trend or something?

[pEZ]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU
What's with all the tiled backgrounds this month? Is it a new trend or something?

I think we just feel kinda dumb posting a picture without words. Adds a little effect anyway.

[trebblekicked]

Originally posted by medea
here's my current one.

wow. that's wierd. here's mine:

[szark]

Here's my work desktop: (XP, unfortunately)

[shadowfax]

what's with that classic scheme man? gross! get an OS X one!

[mactastic]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
what's a "release cable" exactly?


It's a cable that screws into your shutter release that allows you to hit the release without jiggling your camera around by pressing it with your finger for those looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong exposures. Very handy.

[Gaz]

Just a shopping mall in Chicago a few weeks ago shot through a fisheye.

Just bought a Canon 10D and it's amazing but haven't really had any chance to play with it much.

Got some other cool black and white ones from chicago and some amzing ones of Great White Sharks when i went cage diving in South Oz last month. I'll post some tomorrow.

G

[scem0]

Here is mine:

(thanks for the link shadowfax)

[wdlove]

Originally posted by Gaz
Just a shopping mall in Chicago a few weeks ago shot through a fisheye.

Just bought a Canon 10D and it's amazing but haven't really had any chance to play with it much.

Got some other cool black and white ones from chicago and some amzing ones of Great White Sharks when i went cage diving in South Oz last month. I'll post some tomorrow.

G

I like your study in black and white Gaz. A very interesting picture!

[Warren]

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[shadowfax]

Originally posted by scem0
(thanks for the link shadowfax) word, i hadn't seen that one. that's pretty cool.

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by Warren
...

Hahahaha - sorry, nice image, but the layout screams something else entirely.

Angelina Jolie thermal scan?!?:D ;) :p

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
Hahahaha - sorry, nice image, but the layout screams something else entirely.

Angelina Jolie thermal scan?!?:D ;) :p heh. it looks like he rotated it 90 degrees and then mirrored it horizontally... doesn't look a thing like sunset though, so i don't see why you'd bother about mentioning that...

[job]

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
Angelina Jolie thermal scan?!?:D ;) :p

What, no shoulders? ;) :p

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by job
What, no shoulders? ;) :p

What? She has shoulders? :confused: :p

[scem0]

Harry Potter Thermal Scan, maybe?

scem0

[jbomber]

Originally posted by scem0
Harry Potter Thermal Scan, maybe?

scem0

i definitely prefer the idea of an angelina jolie thermal scan. why must harry potter ruin everything?!?! :D

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by scem0
Harry Potter Thermal Scan, maybe?

scem0 it's not a thermal scan of the face....

[mac15]

cheers to Eyelikeart at the fotohaus for getting this shot to me :)

sorry for the super poor compression

[shadowfax]

what's that paw in your menubar?

[Zenith]

Here's my current desktop. Can't wait for september... :D

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Zenith
Here's my current desktop. Can't wait for september... :D why did they misspell physics on that? is it a joke or just a bad speller?

[Zenith]

LOL! Thanks for pointing out... Gotta edit.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Zenith
LOL! Thanks for pointing out... Gotta edit. no prob, it's like a disease i have, if you want to call noticing spelling errors that. it's an interesting image, did you use a picture as a base or do it all from scratch in some sort of 3d renderer? you should put a goldfish in it :p

[Zenith]

Here's the goldfish! :D I used a couple of images as a basis and made the reflexes, shadows, backgrounds and final layout and design.

[wdlove]

Originally posted by Zenith
Here's the goldfish! :D I used a couple of images as a basis and made the reflexes, shadows, backgrounds and final layout and design.

I really like it Zenith, thank you. It brought a smile to my face!

[mac15]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
what's that paw in your menubar?

its called tigerlaunch, just another menu app launcher

[beg_ne]

Warning: Newbie Alert!

Been enjoying these forums for a while but haven't registered until now. After all who can pass up a good desktop pics thread?

http://beg_ne.home.att.net/20030702desktop.jpg

[Billicus]

Mine, running KDE under X11 - thanks Shadowfax.

[shadowfax]

ahhhh, rats, i forgot to make you that list of cool stuff to do to set up KDE. can you PM me the link to that thread where i was going to do that? i don't remember where it is :(

looks pretty good, heh.

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by mac15
cheers to Eyelikeart at the fotohaus for getting this shot to me :)

sorry for the super poor compression

he he...thanks for the props... ;)

[scem0]

Originally posted by Billicus
Mine, running KDE under X11 - thanks Shadowfax.

Once upon of time I had that image as my desktop.

scem0

[BaghdadBob]

Taken on a short hike today, the trail start is about twenty minutes from my house. Taken with my little $200 Sony digital. Had a feast of pics out there...just beautiful.

The river is the Nooksak.

Washington rocks :D

[funkywhat2]

This one I'm using Win98, and that's MusicMatch and AppleWorks 6 running in the background. Sorry it looks like crap, but I had to use Adobe Photodelux (ewww) to crop it and such, and it screws with the text. :(

edit: I forgot to mention, that error window is a "Confirm File Delete" window, and it got stuck there when Explorer crashed. I took a screen shot and use it as my desktop.

edit 2: fixed the image, w/o a crop (hassle this late at night)

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by funkywhat2
This one I'm using Win98, and that's MusicMatch and AppleWorks 6 running in the background. Sorry it looks like crap, but I had to use Adobe Photodelux (ewww) to crop it and such, and it screws with the text. :(

edit: I forgot to mention, that error window is a "Confirm File Delete" window, and it got stuck there when Explorer crashed. I tokk a screen shot and use it as my desktop. you're supposed to crop the dimensions too, not just leave all that white :p. it looks like you used MS paint to me, not an adobe product. lol.

that's kind of a sadistic background though.

[Wardofsky]

Here's mine.

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by Wardofsky
Here's mine.

hey man...nice shot... ;)

so what's the story with that particular shot?

[funkywhat2]

Aww ****!

Yeah, I resized it with Paint (freaking POS) and did the final export in PhotoDeluxe. Strange, the white didn't show up in PhotoDeluxe.....

Oh well, gotta fix it.

[funkywhat2]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
i don't think you fixed it. i would just delete it from that post, request a mod to delete it, and repost. i think there is abug in the vB code about changing the images. i dunno though :confused:

Oh? It looks right to me. Could it be AOL messing with my head?

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by funkywhat2
Oh? It looks right to me. Could it be AOL messing with my head? maybe it's a bug with safari's cache... dang.. that's a pisser. i think that's what it is. let me pull that comment.

[Wardofsky]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
hey man...nice shot... ;)

so what's the story with that particular shot?

Well, I was going around my suburb with camera in hand a few weeks ago.

Noticed that the sun was coming in from the South-West saw the top of the church, nothing but blue behind it zoomed in and decided rather than centering I'd put it to the left.

When it got developed I thought it would work well as a background.

In terms of a story, one really windy night a few years ago, the top was completely blown off so I thought better take one while it's still there :D

----------------

This is the church.
This pic (Below) is really quite fresh (I just ran down there 2 minutes ago).

[vniow]

Mine:

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by Wardofsky
.
This is the church.
This pic (Below) is really quite fresh (I just ran down there 2 minutes ago).

wow...that blue sky is awesome... :D

does it look that nice often?

[Billicus]

Originally posted by vniow
Mine:

Is that the Panther Alpha/Beta?

[wdlove]

Originally posted by BaghdadBob
Taken on a short hike today, the trail start is about twenty minutes from my house. Taken with my little $200 Sony digital. Had a feast of pics out there...just beautiful.

The river is the Nooksak.

Washington rocks :D

That is a very nice cool, calm, & relaxing scene to view, thank you!

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Billicus
Is that the Panther Alpha/Beta? it's probably just a theme in jaguar.

[Wardofsky]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
wow...that blue sky is awesome... :D

does it look that nice often?

Generally, it's winter here now so it's more likely to be overcast except for some golden days :D

I want to do a time lapse of a road some where to get the streaking lights effect one day...

[Billicus]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
it's probably just a theme in jaguar.

The only reason I asked was because I saw the windows minimized in thin air per exposé.

[vniow]

Originally posted by Billicus
Is that the Panther Alpha/Beta?

Smooth Stripes theme and Minimize in Place, 10.2.6.

Does Expose do something like that?

[BaghdadBob]

Originally posted by vniow
Mine:
Ah, am I the only one who's wondering why there's a picture of sparkleytone on your desktop? :confused:

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by vniow
Smooth Stripes theme and Minimize in Place, 10.2.6.

Does Expose do something like that? Oh, yeah, MIP. MIP rocks. that's a prerelease Jaguar feature, actually, that they pulled from the final. you can get it here (http://www.mcgavern.com/mac/mip/), billicus. i've been using that for a long time, heh.

vniow-no, exposé doesn't really do that, but it uses the same window scaling technology, i assume.

Bob: i assume that sparkleytone uses his picture for an AIM icon, and that she was chatting with him in iChat. when you minimize a chat, it becomes the buddy's icon, and if you have MIP, you can drag it all over your screen like a window.

[Warren]

A little less suggestive.

[shadowfax]

i couldn't keep that on my desktop for long, i would have to keep running for the bathroom all the time. :eek:

[BaghdadBob]

The shoot didn't exactly require much photoshopping to get good stuff, but a little inversing and some curves to bring definition out in the rocks made this one look kinda cool...reminds me of a movie but it escapes me which one.........

[MacFan25]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
Oh, yeah, MIP. MIP rocks. that's a prerelease Jaguar feature, actually, that they pulled from the final. you can get it here (http://www.mcgavern.com/mac/mip/), billicus. i've been using that for a long time, heh.
That's a pretty cool effect. thanks for the link. i may have to download it. ;)

[taeclee99]

here's mine.

[wdlove]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
i couldn't keep that on my desktop for long, i would have to keep running for the bathroom all the time. :eek:

So you have the ole immature bladder syndrome! :p

I also wondered why vinow has a picture of sparkleytone on her desktop. Maybe it was a mistake and there is a budding romance that we don't know about! :p (It's a joke vinow)

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by wdlove
I also wondered why vinow has a picture of sparkleytone on her desktop. Maybe it was a mistake and there is a budding romance that we don't know about! :p (It's a joke vinow) apparently he's the only guy she's sleep with, 'cos lord knows "he's so hot."

[BaghdadBob]

Oh, he's totally got the "Malcolm in the Middle" thing going on. I think he's pretty sexy myself. :p

[Billicus]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
apparently he's the only guy she's sleep with, 'cos lord knows "he's so hot."

lmao!:D:D:D:D

[janey]

Originally posted by taeclee99
here's mine.
is that a MICROSOFT WINDOWS START MENU BUTTON i see in your MAC OS X DOCK?!
blasphemy!!! blasphemy i say~!!!
*groan* if you need VPC at least hide the ugly icons :p :D

[BaghdadBob]

Originally posted by übergeek
is that a MICROSOFT WINDOWS START MENU BUTTON i see in your MAC OS X DOCK?!
blasphemy!!! blasphemy i say~!!!
*groan* if you need VPC at least hide the ugly icons :p :D
Hopefully in a year or two that symbol will be the "this is th button I push to play all the PC games that don't come out on the mac -- only faster than on the PC" button. :D

[taeclee99]

Originally posted by übergeek
is that a MICROSOFT WINDOWS START MENU BUTTON i see in your MAC OS X DOCK?!
blasphemy!!! blasphemy i say~!!!
*groan* if you need VPC at least hide the ugly icons :p :D

OK...no more start menu in the dock.

[janey]

Originally posted by taeclee99
OK...no more start menu in the dock.
cooolllll!!! family guy!!!!!!!
ohhh stewie is soooo adorable :D :p

[Wardofsky]

Originally posted by übergeek
cooolllll!!! family guy!!!!!!!
ohhh stewie is soooo adorable :D :p

Don't you mean "plotting evil over the world" adorable.

[taeclee99]

my other computer.

[wdlove]

Originally posted by übergeek
cooolllll!!! family guy!!!!!!!
ohhh stewie is soooo adorable :D :p

A like father, like son type of approach to cooking there taeclee99 !
:p

[vniow]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
apparently he's the only guy she's sleep with, 'cos lord knows "he's so hot."

Hot indeed...mmmmm...

*drools*

[BaghdadBob]

What's wrong with me anyhow?

But....why not.

Picture PSd for extra green...

[Billicus]

Originally posted by BaghdadBob
What's wrong with me anyhow?

But....why not.

Picture PSd for extra green...

Do you enjoy watching movies on the train?

[BaghdadBob]

Originally posted by Billicus
Do you enjoy watching movies on the train?
No, those are Joe's.

Unlike on a Microsoft machine, I don't like naming everything "My Blahbhalbha" -- I know it's mine! Ha!

Unless it's Joe's train movies...

[cr2sh]

mine yo... downtown dansville, kentucky at dusk... reduced to 80% its original size (17" powerbook)

[tazo]

Originally posted by BaghdadBob
What's wrong with me anyhow?

But....why not.

Picture PSd for extra green...

What exactly is that a picture of? I like it though, very relaxing :)

[BaghdadBob]

Just a short hike we took on Thursday. The start point is about twenty minutes from where I live, by the Douglas Fir campground. It goes along the Nooksak river. We took about 200 photos on the Sony digital in less than half an hour, just everywhere you look was photogenic. It was a real problem. It was my first of what will be many hikes in this awesome state.

Most of the best pictures were actually portrait oriented, I might hunker down and do some photoshopping on those to make them a cool desktop, because there are some great shots.

And that's my baby sitting on a mossy rock. :)

[chibianh]

http://homepage.mac.com/chibianh/.Pictures/snaps/july.jpg

[BaghdadBob]

Oh yeah, with your Warcraft III "The Frozen Throne" disc. Showoff ;)

[AhmedFaisal]

The wallpaper is my own homebrew, including the chick. The OSX Theme is the new Jaguar Extreme from Max Rudberg adding the Panther stripes & window style to OSX.2 also notice the sunken Apple on the menu bar. Running apps are XNap, Clock & Safari.

[Wardofsky]

My BG on a different computer.

http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=409480

[janey]

Originally posted by Wardofsky
My BG on a different computer.
cool stuff...nice bg...where did you get that image it looks really familiar...

[shadowfax]

that is an image of Hong Kong, as displayed on apple publicity photos for the 22/23 inch cinema displays... i have it, myself. it's gorgeous but gets old fast.

[janey]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
that is an image of Hong Kong, as displayed on apple publicity photos for the 22/23 inch cinema displays... i have it, myself. it's gorgeous but gets old fast.
ahhh...where can i get it? would resexcellence or macdesktops have it?

[BaghdadBob]

There's a thread called "desktop help" or something started by tazo I think that has a link on someone's FTP.

[BaghdadBob]

Originally posted by AhmedFaisal
The wallpaper is my own homebrew, including the chick. The OSX Theme is the new Jaguar Extreme from Max Rudberg adding the Panther stripes & window style to OSX.2 also notice the sunken Apple on the menu bar. Running apps are XNap, Clock & Safari.
FYI, everyone try to skirt desktops in this thread that get too racy, I think we all know that a thread can get shut down in that manner. I don't think this particular desktop is at that threshold, but let's not have a competition for the sexiest desktop.

Besides, I have a desktop of Carmen Electra before she started acting like a ho (if there was such a time) and it kicks all your sexy desktop's asses :D

[Schiffi]

http://www.reallifehosting.com/~schiffi/desktoposx.jpg

[BaghdadBob]

Just to keep the thread going, this is the first of three more. Why? Cuz it's kinda fun.

This one's from Warcraft III, available at Blizzard.

[BaghdadBob]

oops, forgot the file

[shadowfax]

cool. except i hate watermarks, i either won't use the images with them or i edit them out. with that one, i would edit it out no problem.

[BaghdadBob]

This is the background I made when I was spending thirty hours a week playing Diablo I with my lvl 39 Rogue "BloodAnjil", originally named "Ifalna" but that had to change when i went on Battle.net

[BaghdadBob]

This is a desktop I made for my baby's PC. I tried to rearrange thing to make some sense of how this would look on a PC...but of course that's impossible, no Mac could be that ugly...

[BaghdadBob]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
cool. except i hate watermarks, i either won't use the images with them or i edit them out. with that one, i would edit it out no problem.
I usually do too, but in this case it's kinda inoffensive to me as it's a nice font, and I like Blizzard a lot as a company.

[shadowfax]

what's going on? a dock and no toolbar or start bar? why?

[BaghdadBob]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
what's going on? a dock and no toolbar or start bar? why?
I was trying to make it look like a Windows machine geometrically...I just cropped out the menu bar, moved my icons to the left (which is why that bar is there) and turned dock hiding off.

[Billicus]

Originally posted by BaghdadBob
I was trying to make it look like a Windows machine geometrically...I just cropped out the menu bar, moved my icons to the left (which is why that bar is there) and turned dock hiding off.

Why try to make your perfectly good Mac look like a PC? And how did you get rid of the menu bar?

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Billicus
Why try to make your perfectly good Mac look like a PC? And how did you get rid of the menu bar? apparently he just cropped it out of the image.

[BaghdadBob]

Originally posted by Billicus
Why try to make your perfectly good Mac look like a PC? And how did you get rid of the menu bar?
Yes, I cropped it out. I originally made it for the little lady's PC. I put the bar on the left there so she could color match her desktop items' text background color to the bar. It is a gradient, but the gradiation does not start until about half way.

It looks much better without the bar, as you can see, the Kangi and ripples are centered in the center of the image, the bar was just an afterthought.

And did anyone notice the skulls under the water?

[BaghdadBob]

So I'll just post another one. The demon is from the Warcraft I manual (it was line art) and the torso is from Poser II. This one's a few years old, I probably made it in PS 3

[shadowfax]

yeah, bob, these threads tend to stop getting traffic in the first week or so of every month... posting multiple times and making it just a string of pics from one person will get it closed in shame. just a heads up. ;)

[BaghdadBob]

Yeah...I was just trying to make it look exciting around here and maybe see other people post some more...but it just doesn't seem to have been working so I think it's a good idea to give it up :(

I know! I'll go post on Spymac! :rolleyes:

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by BaghdadBob
I know! I'll go post on Spymac! :rolleyes: now that was low. i lurk on the galleries over there, but i wouldn't post if you held a gun to my head. that place is scary.....

[BaghdadBob]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
now that was low. i lurk on the galleries over there, but i wouldn't post if you held a gun to my head. that place is scary.....
lol! :D

[Wardofsky]

Originally posted by übergeek
ahhh...where can i get it? would resexcellence or macdesktops have it?

http://home.iprimus.com.au/netgainz/hkbg.jpg

I'm taking it down soon.

Image taken down. (Not at the request of Apple Legal :D)

[XnavxeMiyyep]

I've had this background since my Graphite iMac G3, and I never intend to change it.

[jbomber]

an oldie but a goodie for me...

the original is 1600x1024

[ExoticFish]

here's my july desktop

[Billicus]

What application is that in your dock ExoticFish that has the satellite dish/windows icon in it? Remote Desktop or something like that?

[BaghdadBob]

And here I thought the thread was dying...I like the bee thing, what's that from, or is it just a desktop?

The blue one reminds me of a sea of heads I made a long time ago...I would post it but I think I've reached my limit ;)

[ExoticFish]

Originally posted by Billicus
What application is that in your dock ExoticFish that has the satellite dish/windows icon in it? Remote Desktop or something like that?

Yeah it's Microsoft Remote Desktop Client. I use it at work so i can sit at my TiBook and not have to look at my *shutters* Windows machine.

[ExoticFish]

Invader Zim just plain old rocks. Oh yeah.

[jbomber]

Originally posted by BaghdadBob
And here I thought the thread was dying...I like the bee thing, what's that from, or is it just a desktop?

The blue one reminds me of a sea of heads I made a long time ago...I would post it but I think I've reached my limit ;)


The bee thing's just a little something i did for the heck of it.

I'd post my Tyra series, but i think we're trying to keep this thread from getting too racy.

:D

[wdlove]

Originally posted by XnavxeMiyyep
I've had this background since my Graphite iMac G3, and I never intend to change it.

You sound like me, once I setup a destop it remains for months! I only changed to my current one to be patriotic after 9/11!

[pivo6]

Took this while camping this weekend. Scaled down to 800x600

[Wardofsky]

Another photographic background...

[Mike Teezie]

pivo6...that pic is amazing! Its so relaxing.....

Here is mine for the past few months:

http://mikesgear.justblow.us/images/desktop.jpg

[Billicus]

Originally posted by Wardofsky
Another photographic background...

What's the application there that tells time in different parts of the world?

[mc68k]

another natalie portman desktop

[Rower_CPU]

New pic, taken today at Balboa Park.

[Wardofsky]

Originally posted by Billicus
What's the application there that tells time in different parts of the world?

World Clock Deluxe (http://www.mabasoft.com/products/worldClockDeluxeX.html)

[Wardofsky]

Another one:

[wdlove]

A very nice clean desktop there Wardofsky!

[Wardofsky]

Originally posted by wdlove
A very nice clean desktop there Wardofsky!

It's nice to keep things simple, the icons are just hidden.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Wardofsky
It's nice to keep things simple, the icons are just hidden. the dock may be hidden, but those icons are monstrous!

[BaghdadBob]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU
New pic, taken today at Balboa Park.
I love Balboa park, haven't been there in ages (ages=soemthing like 10 years). I'm a native of SD...lemme guess, was that taken from the little bridge in the area behind the museum of natural history (really guessing at this point, don't remember what the big garden area was really)?

I once attended a Rathiatra there, but I've been there countless other times...and they did a haunted house or two there as I recall...

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by BaghdadBob
I love Balboa park, haven't been there in ages (ages=soemthing like 10 years). I'm a native of SD...lemme guess, was that taken from the little bridge in the area behind the museum of natural history (really guessing at this point, don't remember what the big garden area was really)?

I once attended a Rathiatra there, but I've been there countless other times...and they did a haunted house or two there as I recall...

It's at the reflecting pool outside of the Botanical Garden, so yeah, that general area.

We're doing touristy stuff since we've got family in town. Here are a couple of pics from today. I'll let everyone guess where. ;)

http://www.organicallydigital.com/images/pic1.jpg

http://www.organicallydigital.com/images/pic2.jpg

[BaghdadBob]

The first one is where they have that statue, and the second one it a big military graveyard...how'd I do?!?

Is the reflecting pool the one that has the little bridge go over it or is it a different one?

[Rower_CPU]

Yeah, Cabrillo National Monument and Fort Rosecranz National Cemetary.

The reflecting pool has a little bridge, but not much of one.

[Wardofsky]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
the dock may be hidden, but those icons are monstrous!

Yeah, they are a bit big.
That's not my main user, it's on a different computer that I barely use...

[Diotro]

Here is my desktop....

http://diotro.3mbc.com/My%20Desktop.jpg


I kinda used a brused red type theme... Hope you like :)

[Billicus]

Originally posted by Diotro
Here is my desktop....

I kinda used a brused red type theme... Hope you like :)

I like the red dock icons. The Quake III Icon fits right in...:p

[XnavxeMiyyep]

Originally posted by Diotro
....

I kinda used a brused red type theme... Hope you like :)
...
How do you change the Finder icon in the dock?

[phess]

kids lr hope this works

[phess]

JC Maxwell said (and there was light):

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by phess
JC Maxwell said (and there was light):

What does this have to with desktop pictures?

[ExoticFish]

i was wondering the same thing

[Diotro]

Well, I used Can Combine Icons. and loaded the Finder Icon in one of the wells. and changed the tint... Thats pretty much it. And btw I love the color red!:D

[wdlove]

Originally posted by phess
kids lr hope this works

Your daughter will yell in utter horor someday if she realizes that picture was shown in public! :p

I'm shocked no Mac in the picture! A very nice fireplace!

I like the simple silver background and the red icon's on your desktop, Diotro!

[BaghdadBob]

Originally posted by Diotro
I kinda used a brused red type theme... Hope you like :)
Is all the hard, cold, abrasive metal meant to be contrasted by Brittney's soft cleavage or what?

Just a theory...it does kinda...stand out from the rest of the theme...

[Diotro]

Nah, she's not really part of the theme I added it because... well I don't actually know why, she's just there... I quite frankly enjoy it there :)

[Roger1]

Here's my desktop at 50%

[jadariv]

The South Park character is about as close to a true picture of me as you can get.

[wdlove]

So then jadariv do you wear glasses and have a mustache and goatee?

[jadariv]

Yup. And spiky hair and i wear lots of black mock turtlenecks with blue jeans.

[wrc fan]

Here's my new desktop; I just took the pic a couple days ago. I really like how it turned out.

http://homepage.mac.com/havepenwillwrite/cube-background.jpg

[mac15]

man thats one nice photo

what camera do you have?

[wrc fan]

Originally posted by mac15
man thats one nice photo

what camera do you have?

It's an Olympus C-4000 with the additional 1.45x zoom lense.

[Physiognome]

here is my peecee desktop:

http://www.geocities.com/hgiv@pacbell.net/nsshot.txt

depending on your browser, may need to be saved to disk and renamed

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by Physiognome
here is my peecee desktop:

http://www.geocities.com/hgiv@pacbell.net/nsshot.txt

depending on your browser, may need to be saved to disk and renamed

Can anyone explain how you made it into a .txt file and it was still an image. :p

Originally posted by mac15
man thats one nice photo


I will have to steal that line from mac15 here, that is a really nice photo.

[Physiognome]

It's a trick to get past Geocities' hotlinking guard dogs, since certain browsers recognize the JPEG header and stop caring what the filetype is reported as. Mozilla doesn't seem to be one of them any longer, though. I think you have to give it some encouragement by loading it with an IMG tag first.

http://www.geocities.com/hgiv@pacbell.net/nsshot.html (it's a real HTML file)

[mangoman]

took this on the way home from work, then doctored the word Restaurant later...

[crenz]

Nice shot, mangoman! And nice idea to work on it! We all need some rest :).

I'm curious, how do you get the folders at the bottom of the screen? I've been missing them. I loved them under OS 9.

[mangoman]

The bottom left folders are from DragThing, a really nice shareware app. Dig around in the MacRumors forums... you should be able to find more info. I bought it several years ago -- highly recommended.

[Mr. Anderson]

I used to use drag thing on OS9 - it was great. Still have it on one machine. Never got the OSX version, isn't it a bit redundant with the dock?

D

[mangoman]

I thought it might be redundant, too, but until the dock really lets me loose as far as customization, I'll still use DT as my main 'launcher'

[Giaguara]

http://homepage.mac.com/zisa/desk17.jpg

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