----------------------------------- md Sat Aug 20, 2005 3:25 pm Desktops August 2005 ----------------------------------- Since no one has posted theirs yet, and I've finally got my computer in a state which I can live with (very long story...) Here's what my current desktop looks like ** Note that it's windows... in case the background didn't give it away... ** Note2 It'd be great to have a bit more upload space so I could say, leave the screen shot of my desktop from june up too... ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:35 pm ----------------------------------- Why don't you just upload these somewhere else? There are many free image hosts... I would post my desktop, but the background is very plain and there are icons filling up the whole screen :lol:. ----------------------------------- Mazer Sat Aug 20, 2005 5:10 pm ----------------------------------- This month I tapp-- damn, I already wasted my Circle of Protection joke. Now I have nothing to talk about. PS: Why not save them as JPGs? ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Sat Aug 20, 2005 5:42 pm ----------------------------------- Your post inspired some testing... Both .png and .jpg are pretty good formats. It seems that it matters on the pictures on which is better. If you save that .png as a .jpg (best quality/lowest compression) it goes down around 70kb, but then if you save that .jpg as a .png again it will be 140kb larger than the origninal :?. Here's a pretty good format I came up with. http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/1627/augustdesktopcen43wn.th.jpg ----------------------------------- md Sat Aug 20, 2005 5:57 pm ----------------------------------- Most interesting... I think I'll just stick to my whining for more space and png format... ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Sat Aug 20, 2005 6:05 pm ----------------------------------- :lol: Just upload your images to http://imageshack.us/ - saves Compsci space. ----------------------------------- Mazer Sat Aug 20, 2005 9:19 pm ----------------------------------- Imageshack?! NOOOooooo! ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Sat Aug 20, 2005 10:20 pm ----------------------------------- Well then try some alternatives... http://www.imgsharing.com http://www.picvault.info/ http://www.uploadimages.net http://www.simpload.com and so on... ----------------------------------- Mazer Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:29 am ----------------------------------- Y'know who usually gives out a bit of storage space? Schools. Here at Teh Newbian, we each only get 20MB or so in 1MB chunks (still, would work for upping desktop screenshots), but there's are other resource operated by students that offers anyone webspace with no limit (as long as you don't get carried away). ----------------------------------- md Sun Aug 21, 2005 1:26 pm ----------------------------------- Yeah, I *could* put stuff om my 100mb UW account, but it's just so much work... if I even have something important to host I might do that... (notice where my avatar is? ;)) Back on topic... where are other people's desktops? ----------------------------------- Notoroge Sun Aug 21, 2005 4:26 pm ----------------------------------- http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/1672/asdf2am.th.gif ----------------------------------- timmytheturtle Sun Aug 21, 2005 4:57 pm ----------------------------------- http://home.cogeco.ca/~chrisbarrett/screenshot.PNG ----------------------------------- Notoroge Sun Aug 21, 2005 9:25 pm ----------------------------------- Ugh, she's hot, but, doesn't the white back-drop just burn your eyes? :shock: ----------------------------------- md Sun Aug 21, 2005 9:28 pm ----------------------------------- I don't mind white backgrounds myself; I much prefer lighter backgrounds to darker ones. You get used to it being bright after a surprisingly short period of time. ----------------------------------- Notoroge Sun Aug 21, 2005 9:32 pm ----------------------------------- Light ones I don't mind, mine is light. :) But just, *white*. I'unno, I tried to have one of Jamie Presly, but I couldn't hack it. Had to squint too much because of the white background. It's like staring into a lightbulb. :? Update: BTW, any mod wanna get rid of that double post? :? Kinda, uh, don't know how that happened. ----------------------------------- timmytheturtle Sun Aug 21, 2005 10:21 pm ----------------------------------- I got used to white background quickly. It does hurt when going from dark screen to the background quickly while the light's off. ----------------------------------- wtd Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:31 pm ----------------------------------- http://familygeek.com/screenshot.png http://familygeek.com/screenshot-tn.png ----------------------------------- Hikaru79 Sat Aug 27, 2005 10:17 am ----------------------------------- Neat :D What font is that, and how did you get the file type to be displayed under it? ----------------------------------- wtd Sat Aug 27, 2005 12:39 pm ----------------------------------- "Sans 10" And in System -> Preferences -> File Management -> Display, you can set the Icon Captions. More information is displayed the further you zoom in. My default zoom level for icon view is 100%. ----------------------------------- wtd Sun Aug 28, 2005 11:00 pm ----------------------------------- http://familygeek.com/ubuntu-in-ubuntu-tn.png Click to embiggen. Breezy Colony 3 in qemu, within Hoary. ----------------------------------- square74 Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:36 am Award ----------------------------------- Ugh, she's hot, but, doesn't the white back-drop just burn your eyes? :(! You should definatly be given smoething for that. :X