My Desktop
John has a great meme going on where we display what’s on our desktop. My year-old Dell Inspiron laptop is my main machine these days, so I’ll show what’s going on there. Here’s my desktop in all of it’s 1280×800 pixel glory:
The picture is me and my two boys, taken at Hat Rock State Park last July. I did some tomfoolery with the GIMP to get the effect of the natural tones mixed in with the sepia background. I keep a pretty clean desktop, so I don’t have a lot of icons on display. From top to bottom, I’ve got Computer, Documents, Pictures, Videos, Trash, and a shortcut to my USB drive. The real action takes place in the lower left hand corner of the screen, where I keep shortcuts to most of my apps on the taskbar:
After the Start menu button, from left to right:
- Show desktop
- That cool cascading thing that Vista does with open apps
- Google Docs uploader
- Dreamweaver 8
- Paint Shop Pro X (seldom used, not available any more)
- Picasa desktop
- The aforementioned GIMP (my main image editor these days)
- Google Earth
- Google Desktop (seldom used any more)
- iTunes (What did we ever do without it?)
- Latest and greatest release of Firefox
- Flock (I’m still using it; just not right now)
- MSN Messenger (still have a few peeps on there)
- Windows Live Writer blog editor (The Ferrari of desktop blog editors)
- Thunderbird (Mozilla’s answer to Outlook Express–I combine it with GMail to meet all of my e-mail needs)
- Evernote (Got my beta invite, now I just need to spend some time with it to figure it all out)
I’m tagging everybody for this.
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:42 pm
in my macbook pro’s dock… left to right…
finder, mail, itunes, address book, firefox, indesign, illustrator, photoshop, fetch, dreamweaver, icalendar, ichat, netnewswire, photo booth, word, excel
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:48 pm
answered at my site!
joshua’s last blog post..…i’ll show you mine if you show me yours
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:54 pm
http://www.iamlivingproof.org/images/desktop.jpg
That is Space 2 in-between Space 1 which just has Firefox and MacSword and Space 3 on the right with just iTunes full screen.
Joe Louthan’s last blog post..What I Am Listening To, Part 1: Showing My Age
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Saw another post this AM about desktop layout and responded… Must be making the rounds today!
http://www.danbyron.com/blog/2008/04/23/my-desktop-april-2008/
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:55 pm
@Crystal Renaud: I would think with your design skillz, you’ve got a pretty nice desktop. Got a screenshot?
@joshua: Cool grunge look.
@Joe Louthan: Is Twitterific just a Mac app? Everybody I see that has it also has a Mac.
@djByron: Yeah, I got mine from John’s as well. Nice layout there. Thanks for the Twitter add, gotcha back.
Thanks everybody for the comments.