What's your desktop look like?

Here's mine. It's a project I've been working on for several days and finally completed it. It's of my family. And they insisted I put 'me' in it. :rolleyes:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/FCTrep/Desktop2.jpg

http://www.premier.net/~cspedale/opus/images/bill2.jpg

I have Bill the Cat on my desktop. :D

Molly I have no idea who Bill the cat is but that is one crazy cat, LOL. :D

Back in the '80's there was a political cartoon called "Bloom County". Bill the Cat was the resident "presidential candidate and 'vegi-sexual' who was having an affair with Jean Kirkpatrick and under went the indignity of hosting Donald Trump's brain after the Trump yacht anchor fell on his head". He was quite the cartoon character back then. . .

http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/pages/index.asp

Tim's desktop is the evil monkey from Family Guy... mine's boring (I usually keep the Windows issued Stonehenge picture up; right now it's just some wavy green thing) but, hey, I'm home with the kids today and you've inspired me, Lynn! I'm gonna get busy one one like your's!

It's a photo that my boyfriend took with his digital camera when we were having a wine spritzer thingy at the airport before my flight home in August. We had been up most of the previous night to squeeze in every last possible waking moment together, that's why we look like zombies :p

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/canadian_daisy/desktop.jpg

Charlotte, you are so pretty -- every time I see your picture, I have to say, it reminds me a lot of Hilary Swank!

Charlotte, you are so pretty -- every time I see your picture, I have to say, it reminds me a lot of Hilary Swank!

Well, thank you :o

I have to say, I don't see the resemblance to her, but if you insist!

picture of my OM in va beach

At the moment it's a pomegranate. It changes according to mood.

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/4007/image24pc.jpg

Mine is a great pic that a friend sent me...

It's a mom and dad with their daughter...the mom and daughter have white shirts with holes cut out for their "girls" and the girls are all dressed up like minnie and mickey mouse.

Yes...I'm a pervert. *grin*

I like to think I'm sticking it to the mouse.

Nadine.

I have a picture of my Wife on the desktop, from this weekend we stayed in a wooden cabin at the Blue Ridge Mountains.

It was very romantic :D

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c387/Gtsnapper/tn_untitled.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/canadian_daisy/desktop.jpg

Seriously, you don't see it?

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/KelleyGreenEyez/ci.jpg
Give this girl bangs and I wouldn't bat an eye if someone said it was you.

Mine has a picture of me and my husband right now. He frequently changes the desktop tho. I usually dont fool with that kinda stuff. He keeps it interesting.

Now why is it that everybody has the little thingies on their desk top all lined up and mine's a mess ? :confused:

Ya gotta line 'em up Aline!! :D

Now why is it that everybody has the little thingies on their desk top all lined up and mine's a mess ? :confused:

I have mine organized as per application type, ie: graphic editors, video editors, media players, hardware configuration shortcuts, scanning software, text editors, games, favourite directories and communications software (IM's/webcam/email).

It just makes it easier to quickly access what I want when it's in "proper order" :)

I tided mine up a little before I let anyone here see it :D

I have mine organized as per application type, ie: graphic editors, video editors, media players, hardware configuration shortcuts, scanning software, text editors, games, favourite directories and communications software (IM's/webcam/email).

It just makes it easier to quickly access what I want when it's in "proper order" :)

But I have a Mac, maybe that's why. All of those applications are in the finder and what's on the desk are just files that I save for a while, then I either toss them in the dust bin or keep them in a file.

I have a news picture of my police cruiser after I was rear ended at 65 mph last winter. Reminds me that life can be interesting at times. :cool:

I have a picture made by Luis Royo, I think its called Black Angel.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b196/Joelstrouble/forum-animations/Desktop.jpg

Ya gotta line 'em up Aline!! :D
Right, like I have to tidy up my closet oooooone of these days :D

Yikes!! The icons some of you all have on your desktop is phenomenal.

And Charlotte I have to agree with MrsH. You're a deadringer for Swank.

Come on the rest of you, post those desktops. You all have one! :D

Mines a Pic of my son in his Pooh Bee costume!!

http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/2706/screenhunter0012ul.jpg

:eek:

Okaaaaaaaay.

mine's this pic of, gah, i don't know what you'd call it....modern art squigglies?

to me, it looks like a big frickin' blood splatter, it rocks.

What I want to know is how you can take snapshots of your desktop.

What I want to know is how you can take snapshots of your desktop.

You press Ctrl+Print Scrn, then you open up Paint then you past it in with hitting Ctrl+V... and voila :D

Lynn, I LOVE this thread! Great idea. And I really love what you did with your desktop. Did you go to a particular website to do that? I'd love to do the same with my photos, too.

I always have a photo of either Remi or one of my kids on my desktop. This is what's on mine right now. This is Remi.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-1/575257/DesktopImage.jpg


btw, I agree with Kelley -- Charlotte looks like Hilary Swank, only more beautiful in my opinion.

Mark, you can follow the instructions Aina provided, or if you have a Print Screen button on your keyboard, you can hit that while viewing your desktop and then paste it into Paint. You then have to house it on a photo hosting site and then insert it into your post.

Skibunny sweetie, I am definitely gonna resize your photo for you. :D

Well, I did see it until I posted my post, and now only an X. I even went into her post to retrieve the URL, but that site where it's housed is down, which may explain the red X. I PM'd her and gave her my email address. I'll resize it for her if she wants me to.

I have a picture of Marilyn Monroe reading a book and smiling over her shoulder at the camera. The other one that's my favorite is a painting called Winter Landscape By Moonlight by a German Expressionist. It's my favorite painting, sorry you asked?

:o

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c53/ray1959/WaterfallScreen.jpg

Hehe :o I'd post mine but I'm waaaaay too emabarrassed about the clutter. I have a messy messy desktop - in fact you can barely seen the pic behind all the mess.

My picture is from last summer's field season - it's the view of my zodiac anchored along shore taken from the top of a cliff I was working on. It keeps me inspired during the boring winter (stuck in the office).

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/1276/catsdesktop6lj.jpg

Lynn, I LOVE this thread! Great idea. And I really love what you did with your desktop. Did you go to a particular website to do that? I'd love to do the same with my photos, too.


Thanks Katrina! :)

I just used photoshop to create my desktop. I have elements 2.0 and photoshop 6. I just used 2.0. I like it best. Then took a bunch of photos, and created individual frames for each, then stuck it all together to make the collage. I do stuff like this all the time. Valentines day last year I made hearts for everyone. If you want help doing yours let me know, I'd be glad to help.

CabinFever just shove all that junk in a folder and get your desktop on display. Come on, don't be shy! ;)

Ok, fine Lynn, here ya go (PS thanks for the nudge to get my desk cleaned off ;) ).

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-12/1124871/screen.jpg

Sorry it's sooooo big - I don't know how to shrink it - I think it's the web host :confused:

Yay!! And that is inspiring. Looks like it could be around here. If you don't mind my asking, what kind of work do you do in the summer?

Thanks Lynn. I'm an ecologist, so I try to get outside as much as possible and get my hands dirty. Last year I was studying forest dynamics. This pic was taken in the Gulf Islands off the BC coast.

Wow, that's sounds like fun work! I love being out in the wilderness. And BC is not far from me at all! No wonder it looks like the landscaping around here. :)

This is the pic on my desktop


http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/2491/145dolomiti0149eu.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

LOL Looks like I am the only person with Eye Candy as my desk top ...Because for the past month or two mine has looked like this

http://img498.imageshack.us/img498/8951/screen0xs.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Never fails to brighten my mornings :D

I'll show you my windows XP desktop! I'd show you my Fedora Core desktop but I run 8 of them...ahhh, virtual desktops! And that would just get boring.

http://www.anrjb.org/screenshot110062small.bmp

The pic is one I took on a boat, on the mighty Mississip....only it wasn't SO mighty because it was in St. Paul Minnesota.

needed something more cheerful today. How's this ?

http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/3299/image20vl.jpg

Here's mine...

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/2082/desktop0to.png

I've been using that desktop background for awhile. Believe me, it fits....*ahem*

And I keep all my shortcuts in organized folders. Applications for general applications. System Maintainence folder has my system utilities in it. Game shortcuts, obviously.

The only app that doesn't go in the folder is my Trillian Pro, cause I use that so much. And I hide most of my icons in the system tray...once again, only my trillian shows. Hid my sound, NOD32 antivirus and Kerio Firewall icons.

Lol Lol Lol Lol

Classic Dan! I'm right there with ya.

Why don't we hook up a channel on Freenode or something free? You using IRC or other clients?

http://www.infinitetraveler.com/iris/tk_wallpaper800.jpg


This is mine desktop, I love Thomas Kincaid and his paintings of english country houses, couldn't decide which one I wanted to put up, so a friend of mine did this pic for me. I love it, its looks fantastic.

Paris

This is cool! My screensaver is transparent falling snow....

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-12/1124118/MyDesktop.jpg


Im jealous, that's cool :D

Trish...you runnin' Windows 98 or is that "classic mode?"

That is either '98 or ME, I would venture to guess...

Notice how the background on the icons/text is not transparent? I believe in 2000 and up it's transparent.

Wow Trish, is that your house?

Normally I am quite skilled with a computer...I have to say however that this process of uploading pics is kicking my ***...so instead of throwing a temper tantrum I will just describe my desktop :confused: Mine is a picture of my boyfriend under his parachute!

http://www.geocities.com/naesezs/desktop.JPG

hehe mine is the most messy. :o

OK, I think I did it...HUGE THANKS to Lynn for helping!


http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e294/irishflying/desktop.jpg

Ahh that's sweet to say. But it is you who did it! So is that a pic of you or your boyfriend?

@ ashiteru, my golly girl, how can you live with all those icons? LOL that is incredible. :D

Here comes Mr. Anal Rentitive Computer Geek in me...

Just as a lil note...the more icons you have on your desktop, the more memory it uses and the slower it is to finish booting up.

Dont know how you all "copied" your desktop.....

This is mine, actually its the picture. I took this in Northern Ireland, outside Belfast at a magical place called the Giants Causeway. Still in awe of it....

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d43/mimi59/giantscauseway.jpg ]



(how come my picture came out so little?)

Here comes Mr. Anal Rentitive Computer Geek in me...

Just as a lil note...the more icons you have on your desktop, the more memory it uses and the slower it is to finish booting up.

Woohoo, I actually knew that Dan!! *note my measly 3 icons on my desktop* ;)

But (showing my ignorance again), I have a folder 'My Stuff' that holds loads of junk. Is that the same as having them plastered all over the desktop?

Mine has Josh Groban sitting at the piano in his little red shirt--SO adorable. Just can't get over him, sigh.... :) :o

Mine has Josh Groban sitting at the piano in his little red shirt--SO adorable. Just can't get over him, sigh.... :) :o

That one I want to see! My daughter is a HUGE fan of Josh Groban.

He is a cutie...don't know how to get his pic on here though.

Woohoo, I actually knew that Dan!! *note my measly 3 icons on my desktop* ;)

But (showing my ignorance again), I have a folder 'My Stuff' that holds loads of junk. Is that the same as having them plastered all over the desktop?

*LOL*

Nope, not that I know of. I notice a difference when I have them all sitting there nilly willy. However, when I have them in folders...like you do and like I do....it is quicker. Doesn't take as long to draw all of those icons.

This is my desktop :)

http://www.prtc.net/~collriv/desktop.JPG

Lynn,
That is actually my bf under his canopy. I have a few of myself in the air but I just love the way he looks flying over the camera :D

This pic with various icons...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/allprorock/petemud.jpg

I'm having some kind of crazy Smallville phase right now.. but my desktop tends to change too.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/371358/desktop.JPG

Hi everyone. I'm new here but I just had to add my desktop to this thread... such a great idea :)

Dusky

Ahh that's sweet to say. But it is you who did it! So is that a pic of you or your boyfriend?

@ ashiteru, my golly girl, how can you live with all those icons? LOL that is incredible. :D

Lol! i'm a lazy person. I put all the files that i used daily on desktop so that it's easier to access. :o :p

I'm having some kind of crazy Smallville phase right now.. but my desktop tends to change too.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/371358/desktop.JPG


Thank you Genevieve I feel so much better now that I am not the only one that has Eye Candy on my desktop :D

Thank you Genevieve I feel so much better now that I am not the only one that has Eye Candy on my desktop :D

LOL SheWolf, even when I do change the desktop there is ALWAYS some kind of different flavor of eyecandy on it! Hehe.. hey, if I can't have it real life, I want to turn on my computer and be greeted by a hunk every time! :D




(sad, I know! but who cares!) LOL