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JANUARY DESKTOPS
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It's even easier than that, Grab is activated, by default, as a keystroke - Command + Shift + 3 takes a desktop snap sans mouse cursor.Phat_Pat said:
So yeah, here's my January desktop (not posted it yet, heh). It's minimalist, because I took out my 1GB stick of RAM, back to 256. The dock is tiny because I use Quicksilver.
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I know people prefer screenshots posted as JPGs, but why is this when the PDF results are so far superior?
quidire - you can get good results with JPEG's, if you just know the settings to use. people use JPEG's mostly because they can be displayed as thumbnails if you attach them here on the forums. if you use a PDF then you can't see a thumbnail, all you see is that a file is attached. if someone does that with a PDF i usually skip past it...
cb911 said:
How hard would it be to use ImageMagick or somesuch to create PNG or JPG thumbnails of PDFs?
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cb911 said:well here is mine. i just changed back to Lutetium and found a bunch of nice wallpapers at Veer.com.
I've always liked the Veer selections, although they don't update them as frequently as I'd like. They make a good starting point for tinkering around, at least.
Phat_Pat said:Backlight 2
Although i wouldn't run it if your doing anything heavy.... i just use it to show it off
edit: heres my new desktop
where can i get that wallpaper?
Nice! A lot of good bands in that stack... Air, A Silver Mt. Zion, Radiohead, Massive Attack... you win the thread!TrenchMouth said:
Guess I should post my desktop. Click for hot hot full-size action:
Cless said:Nice! A lot of good bands in that stack... Air, A Silver Mt. Zion, Radiohead, Massive Attack... you win the thread!
Guess I should post my desktop. Click for hot hot full-size action:
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Thanks, I will see what I can come up with in Feb to keep it interesting.
Is that Adium you are using? And if so, how did you get it to look like that? I like how simple it is, very friendly looking. Also, how did you get the dock to stay over to the side like that? I like it, though it might not be as useful for me because I am on an iBook and stuck to 1024x768, but thats a great idea for people with big screens that dont like having it right in the middle or off on one of the sides.
If you download TinkerTool, you can make the dock stay in a corner, rather than centered on the edge of the screen. I believe TransparentDock will do it for you too.TrenchMouth said:
Cless said:Nice! A lot of good bands in that stack... Air, A Silver Mt. Zion, Radiohead, Massive Attack... you win the thread!
Guess I should post my desktop. Click for hot hot full-size action:
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What's this application you're using to get your icons lined up on the side?
Probably using either StyleXP or the uxtheme.dll patch (google it) and a theme from themexp.org, they've got some pretty nice ones.dotdotdot said:
Download either TinkerTool or TransparentDock (just google search for either one).theonenonlyjoey said:
If you mean the dock, that's already been answeredTinkerTool. If you mean the icons on my desktop, they're just shown with the text to the right and aligned to a grid. That's under View > Show View Options with all other Finder windows closed (Cmd+J). If you mean the transparent black panel behind them, that's DeskCoverX, useful for helping you read the white text for the icons when you have a light-colored background. It's nicely customizable, you can use colors, add a little border, do gradients or solids... very cool.Axeon said:
And to the other person who asked, yes, it's Adium X, just using the Mockie (small) list layout and a custom color scheme I built by sampling colors off my desktop wallpaper.
