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AndrewT
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2008 02:11
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Quote: "Sooo that must mean that BatVink is your mother or something."


How'd you guess?!??!?

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Posted: 22nd Dec 2008 03:52
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So that makes Richard Davey your Grandma, meaning...

OMG! Grandma and Richard Davey are THE SAME PERSON!!!


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Agent Dink
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2008 04:01 Edited at: 22nd Dec 2008 04:03
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Here's my desktop. Thanks again to Jeff for the awesome Vista skin. It's beautiful. Basically what I've been looking for for a long time, lol.

(didn't post it in the thread cause it's huge)

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Posted: 22nd Dec 2008 04:14
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Whoa, that's awesome.


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Jeku
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@Gahoo - Time to take a one year break. There is no such thing as free speech on the Internet. As long as you're on this forum you have to obey the rules of the admins and moderators.

@Flashing Snail - Funny how Gahoo photoshopped my avatar into the background image I deleted. Either he saved it before I deleted it, or that is your alt account. If I find out, I won't be happy


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zenassem
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2008 04:50 Edited at: 22nd Dec 2008 04:57
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@Jeff & Agent Dink, Thanks I to installed NextLevel AT. One question though. After I changed it, I seem to have lost the ability to set transparency levels on the window handle and the taskbar. Is it one or the other???

And Agent Dink, How did you get your Firefox to look like that. [all black addr bar, and links bar], was it from the theme, or did you change that elsewhere?

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Jimmy
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2008 04:58
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(I think Jeku's losing it)

Can mods see what we type in parentheses?

OR 'AS IT??!
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2008 05:04
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Ya I think so....


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Jeku
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2008 05:13
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Actually I'm doing my job, take it or leave it.


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zenassem
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2008 05:27
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What happened? I missed it.

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Jeku
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2008 05:40
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Not a big deal--- somebody had a background that was going to start a political flame so I deleted it. Then someone else, a new user (conveniently... hmmm) posted a rant calling me a fascist and photoshopped my avatar into the offending background. I don't really have to post in a thread when I delete a message, but I do just to leave a little bit of a reminder to the forum


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Agent Dink
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2008 06:04
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Quote: "And Agent Dink, How did you get your Firefox to look like that. [all black addr bar, and links bar], was it from the theme, or did you change that elsewhere?"


Well firstly, you need the Glasser plugin for Firefox. This allows other menu bars in Firefox to go transparent like the titlebar of windows. Secondly I am using the 'rein' skin. Makes for a very nice combination with the new Windows skin that Jeff linked us too.

I had the same problem you were having with the Windows skin at first Zennassem. Both NEXTLevel and the NEXTLevel AT folders need to be in Windows/Resources/Themes. If you extracted them straight from the ZIP file to the Themes directory they will both be inside a folder called NEXTLevel for Vista. The transparency does not work if it's like that. Both folders must be in the Themes directory rather than inside the 'NEXTLevel for Vista' folder.

If that doesn't solve it I'm not sure whats up. Good luck

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Kohaku
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2008 12:49 Edited at: 22nd Dec 2008 12:50
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Some interesting desktops there.

A lot of Vista users too!


You are not alone.

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Jeff032
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2008 14:47 Edited at: 22nd Dec 2008 14:54
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@Agent Dink
looks very nice, where could I find your wallpaper?

[EDIT] How did you get that flyout in whatever dock program you are using?

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2008 18:57
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I'm using RocketDock, it's the 'StackDocklet' I think you can get it for ObjectDock as well.

As for my desktop, I dunno where I got it. I usually just do a google image search for abstract desktops and search for extra large images only.

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Quote: "Quote: "why does everyone seem to keep files on the desktop and not just link them to somewhere else? It seems like bad practice to store projects and things on the desktop."
Agreed. And people also seem to like having pictures on the desktop as backgrounds. I find it ugly and distracting. Thus I find you all ugly and distracting. Especially Alucard and his sister, Jeku."


Umm...ehhe...

What do I win?

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Jeku
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Posted: 23rd Dec 2008 01:47
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My PC desktop. It's about 400k.


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Toasty Fresh
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Posted: 23rd Dec 2008 01:50
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Nice.


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zenassem
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Posted: 23rd Dec 2008 02:18 Edited at: 23rd Dec 2008 02:19
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Well most of us appreciate the posts (when something was modded). I saw that image (the original post), and you were on it pretty quick. So I guess we know who the "new" user was.

And please organize your files Jeku. How can you stand to have pics on the desktop like that? It's killing me.

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Posted: 23rd Dec 2008 02:31
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Quote: "And please organize your files Jeku. How can you stand to have pics on the desktop like that? It's killing me."


Hehe--- actually today I've been merging a bunch of crap from various backup drives in preparation for a full Windows reinstall, hence the icon madness. I don't usually do that


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flashing snall
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Posted: 23rd Dec 2008 03:14 Edited at: 23rd Dec 2008 03:16
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Oh man. here is my desktop AGAIN, but this time, without some of the disturbing content

JEKU: I believe we have settled our conflict via email, again, sorry about that.

EDIT: on second thought, I need to do some more cleaning...
EDIT: ah HA! I think its all good now...


This is my WIP, not even ready for a WIP thread yet though.http://smallgroupproductions.com/

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 23rd Dec 2008 06:18
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I have dev folders on my desktop for easy access. There's a few zillion other ones in the "work" folder as well, but I always put whatever I'm currently working on on my desktop. It's easier that way for me personally, rather than having to sort through however many folders it'd be otherwise.

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Agent Dink
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Flashing Snall... how can you stand such a slapped together desktop lol!

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Inspire
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Posted: 23rd Dec 2008 07:23 Edited at: 23rd Dec 2008 07:27
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Quote: "The picture is of my obsession with Chernobyl."


LOL, I used to have one of those too. Luckily I managed to get over it...

My excellent Halo desktop...

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JoelJ
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Posted: 23rd Dec 2008 07:37 Edited at: 23rd Dec 2008 07:45
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Quote: "My excellent Halo desktop... "

There is no such thing.


Here's what my Ubuntu desktop looks like:



and THAT was a lot bigger than I expected


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Benjamin
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Posted: 23rd Dec 2008 07:40 Edited at: 23rd Dec 2008 07:41
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Way to completely stretch the thread out. With a 3MB image.

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DINK: I love it, cause im never on my desktop, so when I close out of everything to see it, I see all the things that I find really cool, or funny. So its inspiring.


This is my WIP, not even ready for a WIP thread yet though.http://smallgroupproductions.com/
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Agent Dink
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Hey, if it works for you!

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zenassem
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Posted: 23rd Dec 2008 17:51
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Yeah, I keep a shortcut to my main dev folder, and then usually another one direct to the project I am currently working on.

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Well, here goes mine!
Just a heads up, the image is 1680x1050.

I got the flow wallpaper here


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Thanks for the link to that wallpaper Modulator! I love it.



Merry Christmas everyone! And Happy New Year!
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Posted: 24th Dec 2008 01:38 Edited at: 24th Dec 2008 01:40
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Hey Jeku, what are your impressions of OSX in general so far? (I've got a 24" / 3.06GHz / 4GB iMac on order, due to arrive on the 29th - so hopefully it's good )


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Posted: 24th Dec 2008 02:00 Edited at: 24th Dec 2008 11:37
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Here my desktop...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tH75EIB_oI

It's a video because a screenshot would show only a black screen.

Further on my stuff at...
TurboSquid.com
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Jeku
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Posted: 24th Dec 2008 04:57 Edited at: 24th Dec 2008 04:59
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Quote: "Hey Jeku, what are your impressions of OSX in general so far? (I've got a 24" / 3.06GHz / 4GB iMac on order, due to arrive on the 29th - so hopefully it's good )"


So far it's exceeded my expectations. I too use a 24" screen and most of the software I need is there. I'm using the top Mac Mini available now--- it's pretty fast for how big the unit is. It's a bit of a pain switching all the wires and restarting when I want to go back to my PC, but I saved a lot of money (total cost was around $700 IIRC).

I'm just using it primarily for iPhone development as the iPhone SDK only works with OSX and I didn't want to mess around and install it on my PC. Why are you getting one? To mess around with too?

There are a few weird things that I'm not used to. With my keyboard all the standard Ctrl functions work (i.e. CTRL-C, CTRL-V, CTRL-S, etc.) but you have to substitute the CTRL key with your Windows key. It will feel odd at first but you'll get used to it soon.

Also I haven't found a good way to maximize a window. If you can do this, let me know.

When you ALT-TAB it only shows 1 of every program, so if I have 3 Firefox windows open I can't ALT-TAB between them all.

Also it's interesting how most programs you download come as a DMG file which you mount as a drive. When you've installed a program most of the time it's just 1 icon in your Applications folder, so you don't have to mess around with things like registries, program files, etc.

The "it just works" is BS. I've plugged in 2 different webcams (a cheapie and an expensive one), neither of which just worked. They didn't even have native or 3rd party drivers, but you can hardly blame Apple for that I guess.

Also it's weird when you close a program's main window it will probably stay open so you have to CTRL-Q to shut it down for good. I'm having a hard time getting used to the way the Menu Bar is at the top of the desktop instead of the window itself. Bizarre.

One more thing, does anyone know how to get the END and HOME keys working like they do in Windows editors? I'm using XCode for iPhone stuff and I expect HOME, END, CTRL-HOME, and CTRL-END to work like they do in Windows.

I'm loving the various function-key abilities--- F11 is great

Anyways, that's probably a much larger response than you wanted


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Posted: 24th Dec 2008 11:00 Edited at: 24th Dec 2008 11:05
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So as with anything I suppose, it's decent but with a few oddities. And yeah, I am sort of messing about too - but I'm planning to use it as my main coding machine along with a virtual machine of XP to host compiler/debugging/testing etc. since nothing I make is especially visually strenuous, and I don't play many games - so I thought a mac might 'fit the bill' so to speak (I've also been wanting to try OSX for ages).

I had the same arrangement inside Linux a while ago with virtual box - but this machine has a far weaker processor, and by the looks of it, VMware fusion etc. are far more polished in terms of specific features for the Mac, so it should be much more 'enjoyable' to run a VM. I suspected the "just works" thing was BS also - although I'm wondering whether the lack of webcam drivers is a deliberate ploy to force iSight upon everyone

Quote: "Also it's weird when you close a program's main window it will probably stay open so you have to CTRL-Q to shut it down for good."


That's also something that's really inconsistently explained by Apple / Apple's site, which makes me wonder whether it'll gradually become an annoyance working with a lot of programs / windows


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Quote: "Also I haven't found a good way to maximize a window. If you can do this, let me know.
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What OSX does when you click the green "maximation" button on the top of windows is scale it by how big the webpage is, so you don't have to waste any space. I prefer this, as you save a lot of space, you'll get used to it eventually.

Quote: "Also it's weird when you close a program's main window it will probably stay open so you have to CTRL-Q to shut it down for good"

That's actually in my opinion pretty useful for most apps, as for example when you have multiple windows open in a web browser you can close them all and then just open a new one without having to start the application again, which makes it a lot quicker.
Then again, each to his own.


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When it comes to OSX, don´t forget to try this:
Ctrl + Command (or the Windows key) + Alt + 8.

I think that was it, believe me, you will know if it is !

There is no greater virtue, then the ability to face oneself.
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Ctrl + Command (or the Windows key) + Alt + 8.

I think that was it, believe me, you will know if it is !
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Hehe.


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I'm too lazy - just imagine this cute background I made:

http://sunnykatt.deviantart.com/art/Gleam-107197484

With nice little dock on the left of the screen.

Join team [logo] - The most epic logo creation team out there! Click below...

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You guys are way to organized, check mine out





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Just do the hide icons thing, it makes it so much prettier. My desktop is fludded with folders, so if I made them visable, I wouldnt be able to see anything.
if you rightclick on your desktop, then go to view/arrange Icons by, and then show desktop icons... I cant really remember the exact stuff for XP, ive moved onto Vista.... and all its might.


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Here's my new MBP's (Yeah, ewww a Macbook pro. Let's all throw carrots at it. ) main monitor.


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I normally never post my desktop, but here it is.

I always have some wallpaper to get in the mood of whatever holiday is coming up

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How I ask you do you keep that desktop!
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I normally never post my desktop, but here it is.

I always have some wallpaper to get in the mood of whatever holiday is coming up"


Merry Xmas dude

Quote: "Here's my new MBP's (Yeah, ewww a Macbook pro. Let's all throw carrots at it. ) main monitor."


Wow, um ok that desktop is different very simple
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When it comes to OSX, don´t forget to try this:
Ctrl + Command (or the Windows key) + Alt + 8.

I think that was it, believe me, you will know if it is !"


I don't trust you the post below is laughing can someone tell me what it does?

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When it comes to OSX, don´t forget to try this:
Ctrl + Command (or the Windows key) + Alt + 8.

I think that was it, believe me, you will know if it is !"

I don't trust you the post below is laughing can someone tell me what it does?"


I Believe it inverts the the colors of the screen, so it is easier on your eyes.

Wiki article

like this


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Too.. much.. Windows...

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Not a lot on it since my refomatting..

Your signature has been erased by a mod - Please reduce the combined size to 600x120 maximum size

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My new desktop =) And yeah the background has opaque video playing over wallpaper.



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@Roxas, That desktop exudes awesomeness!!!

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Thanks it took time to customize it a bit =) And i still want to modify the video background program source to fix one bug.

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