February 2009 Desktops

[JosephYang]

@MasterC : Mactracker

[scokem]

Here's mine from my work's PC (XP):

Clean (yes I have everything hidden so I just see my wallpaper):

Dirty:

I made the wallpaper myself and the theme is Watercolor Emico - Black.

[SMELTN]

here is mine. nothing complex this month

what is that top bar thing?

Looks like Rocketdock to me

[Morphene]

Voila, my desktop.

Whats the theme you're using? It looks like a variation of Win7 but a lot cleaner. Oh the weather dock too.

Thx!

[Guest sendmarksmail]

I think the theme comes with RocketDock. Just download the FREE program and look for the theme. It comes with 20+ themes if I remember correctly. I personally don't use it anymore. Tried it for a week and didn't see the point. Just not for me I guess.

[tHE pRODiGY 2k2]

here ya go!

[MasterC]

@MasterC : Mactracker

Thanks :)

[TakeNothingBack]

Vista x64..

What are the specs for your desktop mods?

[Bazooka Joe]

Could you post the name of the weather gadget you're using? Ta. :)

Actually, it's the default weather widget from Yahoo! Widgets. Works really well with my wallpaper, n'est pas?

http://widgets.yahoo.com/

:)

[ron963]

what is that app your using to display the icons?

[MasterC]

what is that app your using to display the icons?

http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/

[valderrama]

okay i just changed mine up a little bit. Got rid of the old rocket dock. Thanks to Bazooka Joe for showing me the new top bar :p

Works much better.

what's the name of the "new top bar"?

[iMilan]

Name is informer and it's widget for yahoo widgets ;)

[Loso]

okay i just changed mine up a little bit. Got rid of the old rocket dock. Thanks to Bazooka Joe for showing me the new top bar :p

Works much better.

details on the wallpaper please

[mail]

^desktop.

[Loso]

thanks man

[SMELTN]

^desktop.

hey Mail. Great desk.. Can you give me details of your Firefox? What theme, what addon's/extensions to make it look identical to yours? That looks perfect to me!!

Thanks

[mail]

Yeah I use:

ChromiFox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8782 (custom modded)

Stylish: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108

Personal Menu: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3895

[Dark_ph0enix]

Probably not to everyones' taste, but I'm happy enough with it :)

Firstly the "splash page"

Basically, the magic doesn't happen until you click on the star-in-the-circle, just under the satellite, at which point the desktop changes to the following:

Each column is an RSS feed, being parsed through php. At the moment it's the BBC News headlines, the EmpireOnline.com headlines, and my recently played list on last.fm (I'll switch that one out for something else probably)

As for the icons towards the bottom of the desktop (L - R):

The "Home" icon resets the desktop to the satellite version. The Calendar icon opens a pop-up window with a simple (and i do mean simple - I'm using a .txt file to store the data, as opposed to a .sql db) calendar that's mostly a Todo list more than anything. The last two, the Photo Album, and Paperclip just open My Images, a folder on my HDD, and the paperclip opens OpenOffice.

So yep, that's my desktop - who said ActiveDesktop is dead and buried :D

Oh - and as for the HiroProtagonist / Dark_ph0enix thing. I capped it for a thread over on Geekscape, where I use the username HiroProtagonist.

[Kamnitzer]

Probably not to everyones' taste, but I'm happy enough with it :)

Sweet ! Very nice done ! I'm going to search for active desktops again =)

[9UnknownMen]

[SMELTN]

OMG YAY!! My first ever Mac screenshot!!! I am so excited

[wahoospa]

Wallpaper please?

Hey, I found the wallpaper you want.

It is here: http://dj-corny.deviantart.com/art/Windows...paper-102371744

[Dark_ph0enix]

Sweet ! Very nice done ! I'm going to search for active desktops again =)

Cheers - Yep I'm definitely a fan of the whole ActiveDesktop route. I understand why they weren't popular to start with, due to the process being a bit of a system hog, but there's no excuse these days.

'cept Widgets :whistle:

[Hardi]

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