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2012 desktop thread (nsf56k)

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    You tell me it's too small to have guests.

  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    The picture is to scale.

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    I've been using this for about four years now:

    steampunkish.jpg

    I found it on Depthcore.

    I occasionally rotate this one in:

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    which I got from someone I used to be friends with

  • Dox the PIDox the PI Registered User regular
    Y'all sure do love Batman

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    What I replaced my current desktop with (I'll probably get a larger picture if I feel like it, it looks fine right now).

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  • Desktop HippieDesktop Hippie Registered User regular
    Small version of my current desktop

    StarryTARDIS_Small.jpg

  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited January 2012
    Vann Diras wrote:
    is it bad that i pretend all the lady bats just don't exist, aside from barb

    like who are they even

    Batgirl 1 and current Batgirl - Barbara Gordon
    Batgirl 2 - Helena Bertinelli (aka the Huntress) for like a week
    Batgirl 3 - Cassandra Cain
    Batgirl 4 and best Batgirl - Stephanie Brown (formerly and now Spoiler, one time Robin)

    Batwoman and best drawn comic ever - Kate Kane

    Garlic Bread on
  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    Antimatter wrote:
    yeah, Nightwing was something Superman used. Flamebird, an identity that Jimmy Olson used, has been taken by Bette Kane in Batwoman's book.

    That's worded a bit weird

    Bette Kane has been Flamebird since 1989; she's appearing in Batwoman's book currently

  • SpoochSpooch Registered User regular
    Can anyone tell me how to customize my desktop icons? Tried googling how but it doesn't seem to be working for me

    Assuming direct control O-O
  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
  • SpoochSpooch Registered User regular
    Windows 7

    Assuming direct control O-O
  • skettiosskettios Enchanted ForestRegistered User regular
    edited January 2012
    thanks to this thread, I've finally set up rotating wallpapers
    variety

    skettios on
  • CymrilCymril Son, we just crossed the street. Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    Tam wrote:

    also this is an old standby
    bg0hi.jpg

    M83, the Southern Pinwheel:

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    You two are men after my own heart! I manually rotate (though I'll be upgrading to Windows 7 in the next week, so I'll definitely be using the switcher) between a bunch of supernova remnants. The best part is, most of the pictures floating around are already huge and easily cropped into backgrounds or even used raw.

    Gonna in-line them because you can't link dropbox folders for some reason.

    Cassiopeia_A_Spitzer_Crop.jpg

    Same as the last one, but true colour, because a lot of them are cross-spectrum photos;
    Cassiopeia%20True%20Colour%20Hubble.jpg

    Crab_Nebula.jpg

    Emission%20Nebula.jpg

    EtaCarinae%20-%20Might%20be%20a%20hypernova.jpg

    Large%20Magellanic%20Cloud.jpg

    Main_tycho_remnant_full.jpg

    Viel%20Nebula%20-%20Cygnus.jpg


    Also, this is currently my iPad desktop, and thanks to the way the iPad handles the transparency, the background is all black and it actually looks better then the white it shows up as.

    Chibidalee%20and%20Udyr.png

    Cymril on
    Shut up Francis. Something about Vietnam. Horseshit.

    D3: Cymril#1411 || League of Legends/Steam/Xbox/Origin: Cymril
  • FirmSkaterFirmSkater Registered User regular
    Let's see how horribly this breaks H-scroll:

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  • LegbaLegba He did. Registered User regular
    Not at all, thanks to the automatic resizing. Really, tall desktops (like I post) are way worse.

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    @Keith I honestly hadn't even heard of that Flamebird before last week

  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    Antimatter wrote:
    @Keith I honestly hadn't even heard of that Flamebird before last week

    She really hasn't been used too much over the years; I didn't know a lot about her either

  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    @Rankenphile your gallery on google+ is awesome but god dammit why won't it let me download the full rez versions off of it.

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    hey satan...: thinkgeek amazon My post |
  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    I've hit the final version of my desktop, thanks to Enigma style in Rainmeter and a little Empiric edit to my start button:

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  • MetroidZoidMetroidZoid Registered User regular
    No man, that's my apartment.

    The laundry room, right?

    9UsHUfk.jpgSteam
    3DS FC: 4699-5714-8940 Playing Pokemon, add me! Ho, SATAN!
  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    Spooch wrote:
    Can anyone tell me how to customize my desktop icons? Tried googling how but it doesn't seem to be working for me

    Rightclick-> properties ->change icon

    Only works for shortcuts I think, if you open up properties and it says its an .exe (application) file then right click ->send to desktop/make shortcut and you can edit that

    And I'm glad you guys like rainmeter so much!

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Daft-Punk-daft-punk-10563460-1280-800.jpg

  • MetroidZoidMetroidZoid Registered User regular
    Anti you have good tastes

    9UsHUfk.jpgSteam
    3DS FC: 4699-5714-8940 Playing Pokemon, add me! Ho, SATAN!
  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    shucks

  • Napalm DonkeyNapalm Donkey Registered User regular
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    and
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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    Rainmeter a lot more stable than it used to be.
    Also decided I'd try using Trillian instead of Pidgin for chat for a bit.
    Clean
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    Dirty
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    Left monitor pretty much has fullscreen Chrome 24/7 though.

    Abracadaniel on
  • skettiosskettios Enchanted ForestRegistered User regular
    SH: In chrome, do you get just the icon by removing the bookmark name? Or is there an extension that does that?

  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    Never gonna dual screen.

  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    skettios wrote: »
    SH: In chrome, do you get just the icon by removing the bookmark name? Or is there an extension that does that?

    Yeah, just right click the bookmark in the bookmark bar and delete the text.

  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    Why in god's name would you not want dual screens?

  • skettiosskettios Enchanted ForestRegistered User regular
    I have dual screen
    Main is a nice and big
    Secondary is a little old server monitor. On the front it says "Rackmount Flat Panel"

  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Smart Hero wrote: »
    Why in god's name would you not want dual screens?

    Why would he cut down from 6? Plebian...

  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    Smart Hero wrote:
    Why in god's name would you not want dual screens?

    Who said anything about not wanting to dual screen?
    :cry: I will never be able to afford it

  • ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    My second monitor is my 42" tv.

    It is pretty nice. I just drag vlc or whatever browser I want to watch something in over and maximize it on the tv. My speakers are also a surround sound system in my room.

    http://atlanticus.tumblr.com/ PSN: Atlanticus 3DS: 1590-4692-3954 Steam: Artreus
  • LegbaLegba He did. Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    I'm getting close to how I want my desktop.

    wallpaper2.png

    It rotates a dozen or so pictures in the same style. I still want to add an RSS feed in the style of a magazine cover headline.

    Legba on
  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    is your monitor really portrait style? that's interesting.

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    edited January 2012
    a lot of people who code professionally orient their monitors vertically

    (though I don't know if this guy does, maybe dude just likes it this way)

    Shorty on
  • LegbaLegba He did. Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    Yup. I tried it out on a lark once and never looked back. It's just so much nicer.

    I mean, 99% of what I do on my computer is reading, writing, doing layout design and web browsing, and for all of those, portrait style gives me more realestate and less scrolling.

    The only time I wish I had a horizontal screen is when I want to watch a DVD or a YouTube video in fullscreen. Otherwise it's golden - I can even float VLC at the bottom of my screen and not have it get in the way of my work.

    Legba on
  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    Annex%20-%20Mifune,%20Toshiro%20%28Seven%20Samurai%29_NRFPT_01.jpg

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