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Where can I find this wallpaper for my 12" powerbook

Originally posted by Powerbook G5
That whole area is beautiful, I really am tempted to move out there after school.
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I grew up an Air Force brat, so I didn't really have one place I called home. We were happiest in Spokane, though (which is when we most frequently visited Tacoma), and hoped to return to it for my Dad's last two years in the service. Unfortunately, that didn't work out. We got sent from lush, cool, green England to the Mojave Desert in California. You've heard of culture shock? This was climatological shock. It did something to me. I decided that as soon as I got a chance, I wanted to live in western Washington. I very nearly went to University of Washington in Seattle, but for other compelling reasons went elsewhere. Now that I've graduated from college, you'd think I'd be there, but again compelling circumstances have brought me back to the desert. I sympathize with the Isrealites who lived for 40 years in Sinai. I consider myself a Washington state expatriot. But some day I will finally get there. I hate heat. I hate lifeless, barren deserts (in all fairness, some deserts are nice, but not this one).
 
Originally posted by Powerbook G5
Here's a screenshot of my background after resizing it to letterbox format (my personal favorite). I'm sorry about the insanely large size, but with how insanely beautiful this picture is, I couldn't stand to size it down.
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Nice pic!!!

Totally OT, but what are those two icons on the left on your menu bar? throughput and ...?

Thanks.

[edit] removed image!!!![/edit]
 
The first one is Backlight, which allows me to start, stop, and switch my screen saver as my Finder background on the fly and the second is RAM usage from Menumeters, both which are freeware programs I got from Version Tracker.
 
Originally posted by Awimoway
Near Brown's Point? I have an uncle (cousin, actually, but he's old enough to be more like an uncle) who lives there with a gorgeous view of the harbor, city, and mountain. We would go there every summer to swim in his backyard pool and take the trail from his backyard down to the beach. Nice place. Nice neighborhood, for that matter.
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There just off of 30th street at the top of the hill if you know what I am talking about.

I really like the geography of western washington but personally can't stand the towns. I am very happy with were I live in Oregon but can't stand the politics. So basically I'm going to stay with what I know for the time being because I really like the location it's just got a little bit of every type of geography near by.
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
It's a great city. Most of it is safe. Nothing like LA, New York, or even Seattle though when it comes to gangs and violence.
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I looked it up and Protland had 3 LESS murders in 2002 than did Providence (my city), yet, Portland is much larger.
 
Originally posted by latergator116
I looked it up and Protland had 3 LESS murders in 2002 than did Providence (my city), yet, Portland is much larger.
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Yeah it's pretty open though. Because of the way the town is laid out people spend a lot of time moving around and through places so there's no real ghetto part of town. There use to be but they spent a lot of money to revive it and it seems they have done a good job. There are still places I wouldn't venture to at night though.
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
Yeah it's pretty open though. Because of the way the town is laid out people spend a lot of time moving around and through places so there's no real ghetto part of town. There use to be but they spent a lot of money to revive it and it seems they have done a good job. There are still places I wouldn't venture to at night though.
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Wow! you are making it sound even nicer! Here in Providence, basically if you do not have loads of money and live on the east side then you live in the ghetto/dangerous part of town. Thats why I hate this place so much (I live on the west side.)
 
Originally posted by latergator116
Wow! you are making it sound even nicer! Here in Providence, basically if you do not have loads of money and live on the east side then you live in the ghetto/dangerous part of town. Thats why I hate this place so much (I live on the west side.)
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The Portland area is pretty sprawled out. It pretty much ends with Forest Grove on the very west ends with Troutdale in the far east about an hour away. Within that area of an hour there's about 1.5 milion people so the population density is really low compared to most towns of it's size. Also to note is that the Portland area has nearly 2/3 the population of all of Oregon.

Oh, and by the way the weather really sucks here and you won't like it.:p

It's just a joke we as Oregonians are always complaining about the influx of outsiders. The funny thing is most of the people doing the complaining are from California and they don't realize that they are the people we would like to get rid of.
 
The weather is the only real drawback. But then again the weather here sucks too. Tomorow we are suppsed to have a high of 15 degress farenhiet and I hate the cold! I guess I don't really mind that it is a sprawled out city, because here, everything is packed closely together. Plus isn't there an apple store in Portland? hehe..jk
 
Originally posted by latergator116
The weather is the only real drawback. But then again the weather here sucks too. Tomorow we are suppsed to have a high of 15 degress farenhiet and I hate the cold! I guess I don't really mind that it is a sprawled out city, because here, everything is packed closely together. Plus isn't there an apple store in Portland? hehe..jk
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Oh, the weather isn't bad. The summers are warm but not blisteringly hot. The winters are mild. Maybe it rains a lot, but humidity is good for the skin and a price must be paid for luscious greenery. :)
 
Originally posted by latergator116
The weather is the only real drawback. But then again the weather here sucks too. Tomorow we are suppsed to have a high of 15 degress farenhiet and I hate the cold! I guess I don't really mind that it is a sprawled out city, because here, everything is packed closely together. Plus isn't there an apple store in Portland? hehe..jk
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There will be 2 Apple stores very soon. Really the weather is not bad at all if you don't mind grey winters and rain. It usually doesn't get very cold and there is not much ice. The summers are very dry and nice though.
 
Much of the area generally falls into that magical spot where you can literally go without heat or a/c all year round. I remember in the Tacoma area hearing that it usually varies between 45-75, which is nearly perfect either way.
 
Originally posted by latergator116
Thanks guys. I will definately look into both of these programs. Is there an easy quick way to resize pictures in Mac OS X (i.e. for free)
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If you aren't averse to a bit of command-line mojo there's an extremely powerful image manipulation utility called ImageMagick that's available in Fink. Convering an image from pdf to jpeg is as simple as "convert image.pdf image.jpg". Scaling and resizing are similarly easy.
 
latergator116:

I have a good program that you could use to edit and resize your photos for free if you want, just check out my homepage and go to my iDisk folder (I labeled it "My Stuff"). It's syncing now but should appear anytime now.
 
I was browesing gettyimages.com awhile back for pictures of Hong Kong, and noticed that there was the picture for Apples HD display. Anyway, you can download a 11mb file of the 20inch display w/ the image you guys are talking about.

Here it is!
 
Originally posted by superwagon
I was browesing gettyimages.com awhile back for pictures of Hong Kong, and noticed that there was the picture for Apples HD display. Anyway, you can download a 11mb file of the 20inch display w/ the image you guys are talking about.

Here it is!
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Thanks.

For those without broadband I have downloaded this and cropped the photo out of the picture of the 20" display. The photo is now 1422x890. I saved it out as a high quality Jpeg and it's 1.1MB. If anyone wants this new higher resolution photo just PM me again and specify that you want this one.
 
Thanks Kaosfere and Powerbook G5. hehe.. I was thinking of installing fink. My brother insatlled it and it looks pretty cool/powerul. I don't have to partition my hard drive do I?

Powerbook G5: I can't seem to find the program in your iDisk. All it has is a story (hydrophobia). Is it still uploading to your iDisk?
 
I still say GraphicConverter is the utility knife of the photo world. It opens and saves just about every format imaginable and throws in some decent photo editing and manipulation tools. To top it all off it's shareware and you can use it without paying for as long as you like or need since it doesn't have a time limit you just have delay on startup.
 
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