Your Desktop

Post by **Stuart** » 12 Apr 2010, 10:54

ADT wrote:
Koko_Lion wrote:Yea! To stop the haxx0rs!

Haha the Paranoia

They want to access his National Pornographic archive.

Koko_Lion · Post by **Koko_Lion** » 12 Apr 2010, 10:58

Something like that

Mykhal · Post by **Mykhal** » 12 Apr 2010, 20:07

...maybe the same nice people from the police that I mailed our "Moderation Game" thread to...

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 23 Dec 2010, 17:22

Post by **Ron2K** » 23 Dec 2010, 17:24

It's a trap!

DeathStrike · Post by **DeathStrike** » 24 Dec 2010, 00:47

Hi Guys.

I have been looking to remove desktop items and customize my windows install. what is the best program to use to display stats and weather etc on my desktop.

@DAE. Like your minimalist look. What do you use?

PS. Will be looking to do something similar to Ubuntu install. so any program ideas that i can use for Ubuntu would also be most grateful.

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 24 Dec 2010, 02:55

Ron2K wrote:It's a trap!

STILL WANT!!!

Koko_Lion · Post by **Koko_Lion** » 17 Mar 2011, 23:57

Felt like uploading my Windows 7... cluttered but efficient.

Tribble · Post by **Tribble** » 18 Mar 2011, 05:21

And a beautiful photo too

Post by **ryanrich** » 18 Mar 2011, 07:37

Tribble · Post by **Tribble** » 18 Mar 2011, 07:59

Oh wow Ryan - that is stunning. Such a beautiful photo

Post by **ryanrich** » 18 Mar 2011, 08:29

Thanks Tribs. I have tons of pics downloaded from Interfacelift that change every 30 mins, so just happened to be on that one, also love it.

Tribble · Post by **Tribble** » 18 Mar 2011, 08:36

Stunning. I am going to check it out

thEnaileDonE · Post by **thEnaileDonE** » 18 Mar 2011, 13:46

ubuntu11-04 by nlstzhn-flickr, on Flickr

Spicy-McHaggis · Post by **Spicy-McHaggis** » 19 Mar 2011, 11:39

Koko_Lion wrote:image

i LOVE the long way down!

*Pilgrim* · Post by ***Pilgrim*** » 20 Mar 2011, 20:13

My Desktop by *Pilgrim*, on Flickr

Tribble · Post by **Tribble** » 20 Mar 2011, 21:15

It says it is private

Synthesis · Post by **Synthesis** » 10 Jun 2011, 09:40

Ok, so with some free time on my hands and after seeing what could happen to my beautiful desktop if I do not intervene quickly (Thanks KK) I cleaned my work laptop up a lot.

First, here's a full image with everything expanded:

I'm using Rainmeter & Rocketdock. That's it. 2 amazing totally freeware programs that use minimal system resources.

The screenshot speaks for itself. I have my gmail, facebook notifications and favourite RSS feeds all right there plus the extra system thingies all over to make me look cool.

At the bottom I have Rocketdock. I don't need desktop icons with this. What I love most about it is it's extremely fast and smooth transition of autohiding and showing itself. So no more minimizing or searching for programs while I have another program open fullscreen. This boosts my productivity noticeably.

THEN, with just one click of a button in the top-right, My rainmeter desktop gets hidden. So no worry about privacy of my mails or facebook. And so it's nice and clean.

Ok, this was a quick setup. Haven't even looked for other skins and addons yet so this will change soon. Haven't done this in ages and I'm having loads of fun. The latest versions of these apps seem to have improved 10 fold as to reliability and resource management.

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 10 Jun 2011, 09:49

I played with Rainmeter about a year ago - was fun making it rain!

Your desktop looks great - nice work, but why would you run it on a laptop?

It keeps your CPU ticking along at about 5% utilization constantly - at lest it did on my Q9550 CPU.
With all the stuff you have loaded it probably does a fair deal more than that. Fine for a desktop, not ideal for a laptop IMO

Synthesis · Post by **Synthesis** » 10 Jun 2011, 10:01

I was worried about that but honestly, I had about 5 windows gadgets running before and rainmeter has improved performance compared to windows gadgets. Rocketdock is running at an average of 12 000K and Rainmeter at 20 000K Memory according to Taskmanager. Most of the rainmeter skins you see there are just taking info from the system. I don't like 3rd party apps that have their own way of getting info from the system.
As far as why I'm using this on my laptop. I use it in the field with lots of multitasking. So it's neat and clean now and with my dock at the bottom it's so much better to get what I want without clicking through 12 folders or searching my old messy desktop.

Even with Autocad, PS and Office apps running at the same time I haven't noticed a slow-down in performance. I'm surprised a little, but not complaining. I keep my background services to a minimum through msconfig.
I'm running a core i3 2.40GHz on 2GB RAM.

*edit* P.S. My laptop is my desktop basically. I'm away from home for almost 2 months at a time so it's all I have to keep me company. I treat it like I would my desktop. It's my entertainment system, communication device and work tool.

DJT · Post by **DJT** » 10 Jun 2011, 10:21

My Work PC Desktop...

THE_STIG · Post by **THE_STIG** » 17 Jun 2011, 13:33

WTF is with the prius??

Tribble · Post by **Tribble** » 17 Jun 2011, 18:11

@Synth - why does it look like your icons are toppling over? Very disturbing

DJT · Post by **DJT** » 18 Jun 2011, 10:38

THE_STIG wrote: WTF is with the prius??

It was supposed to be for Sturat

Its not really my desktop

Synthesis · Post by **Synthesis** » 18 Jun 2011, 11:38

Tribble wrote:@Synth - why does it look like your icons are toppling over? Very disturbing

They're aren't icons on my desktop. It's the style of my stardock app. I just chose to open it up in "fan" mode. It's quicker than grid, which is just a plain boring square with everything neatly inside.

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