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#1 User is online   RobbieD90 

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Posted 19 December 2011 - 03:42 PM

I'll start it off here is mine.

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Posted 19 December 2011 - 03:51 PM

This thread has been sponsored by...... ;)
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Posted 19 December 2011 - 03:53 PM

He hasn't paid me yet. :)

It was a serious post though.

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Posted 19 December 2011 - 03:53 PM

Nice free advert ! Awesome!!

+1 :D

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Posted 19 December 2011 - 03:56 PM

Actually, on a serious note - your desktop makes mine look like poo!


Why don't you make your portfolio site in that style??

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Posted 19 December 2011 - 03:57 PM

View Postoakleaves, on 19 December 2011 - 03:53 PM, said:

Nice free advert ! Awesome!!

+1 :D


Never mind :rolleyes:

Can we get back on topic please. Tut Tut. :search:
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Posted 19 December 2011 - 03:58 PM

View PostRobbieD90, on 19 December 2011 - 03:57 PM, said:

Can we get back on topic please. Tut Tut. :search:


doh :nea:
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Posted 19 December 2011 - 04:00 PM

View Postoakleaves, on 19 December 2011 - 03:56 PM, said:

Actually, on a serious note - your desktop makes mine look like poo!


Why don't you make your portfolio site in that style??


It's a pitty I didn't draw or have anything to do with the design of it. It was downloaded from here.

I may have a go though. It could be a more interesting style and less like a fag packet :mf_rudolph:
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Posted 19 December 2011 - 04:02 PM

View PostRobbieD90, on 19 December 2011 - 04:00 PM, said:

It could be a more interesting style and less like a fag packet :mf_rudolph:


:lol:


..on topic Robbie.. :girl_devil: tut
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Posted 19 December 2011 - 04:03 PM

One of my four screens! Different Animal for each screen :)

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Posted 19 December 2011 - 04:03 PM

View Postoakleaves, on 19 December 2011 - 03:58 PM, said:

doh :nea:


Just joking. 888
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Posted 19 December 2011 - 04:05 PM

I daren't show mine in case I've left anything incriminating !
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Posted 19 December 2011 - 04:05 PM

View Postskidz, on 19 December 2011 - 04:03 PM, said:

One of my four screens! Different Animal for each screen :)

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I do love a Mac desktop. Always looks alot more organized than Windows.
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Posted 19 December 2011 - 04:06 PM

View PostRobbieD90, on 19 December 2011 - 04:05 PM, said:

I do love a Mac desktop. Always looks alot more organized than Windows.


Ar! don't start that one we'll be here till Christmas
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Posted 19 December 2011 - 04:07 PM

I've decided to make this another +1 thread, it is Christmas after all..

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Posted 19 December 2011 - 04:08 PM

View Postoakleaves, on 19 December 2011 - 04:05 PM, said:

I daren't show mine in case I've left anything incriminating !


I had to delete a few icons before I posted.

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Ar! don't start that one we'll be here till Christmas


I am right though. :drinks:
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Posted 19 December 2011 - 05:58 PM

Nice thread nice to see something that isn't some one complaining.

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Posted 19 December 2011 - 06:40 PM

My very minimal desktop as I don't like it to be messy.
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Posted 19 December 2011 - 07:06 PM

View PostDizi, on 19 December 2011 - 06:40 PM, said:

My very minimal desktop as I don't like it to be messy.
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That's far to neat and tidy.

I'd show mine but i've been trying to organise all the files on it for months.
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Posted 19 December 2011 - 07:14 PM

View PostWBC, on 19 December 2011 - 07:06 PM, said:

That's far to neat and tidy.


It's funny I'm the messy one around my house but I'm a little OCD when it comes to the files and folder on my pc :pp
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Posted 19 December 2011 - 07:44 PM

I try to keep it tidy I just never seem to be able too. I must clear and tidy it at least once a week but it always ends up in a mass of icons by the end of the week. I do try. I'm tempted to shove all of them into a new folder just to keep it clean and tidy.
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Posted 19 December 2011 - 09:22 PM

Main screen:

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Posted 19 December 2011 - 10:38 PM

Here's my desktop:

I am a Mac sidebar man, none of this 'at the bottom' stuff lol

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Posted 20 December 2011 - 12:50 AM

Here's my home rig. The right monitor is a 24" in portrait mode, so it's a bit taller than the 30's, hence the back area.

Forgive the huge image, I had to put it down to 60% quality to make it sort of reasonable.

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Posted 20 December 2011 - 07:10 AM

Here's mine. I never use the desktop for temporary files, I always use a TEMP folder, so my desktop is always neat.

I've got an old XP computer which has a lot of other browsers like Chrome, Opera, Safari for testing, and other programs like VLC media player, Skype, Camedia (Olympus) camera software, so I try to keep my main PC with just what I use frequently.

Notice how the two mods plus Dizi (I count you as a mod) so far have the neatest desktops? That says something. Skidz has a neat desktop, but with that many icons I'd never find anything quickly. Porkchops? Neat but confusing with three windows.

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Posted 20 December 2011 - 07:57 AM

View PostWickham, on 20 December 2011 - 07:10 AM, said:

Notice how the two mods plus Dizi (I count you as a mod) so far have the neatest desktops? That says something. Skidz has a neat desktop, but with that many icons I'd never find anything quickly. Porkchops? Neat but confusing with three windows.


teehee I did wonder who the third mod was that posted :pp

Though I think that Renaissance just put all his desktop clutter in the 'to sort' folder like Robbie suggested just to make it look like his is tidy :pp
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Posted 20 December 2011 - 08:31 AM

View PostRenaissance-Design, on 19 December 2011 - 09:22 PM, said:

Main screen:

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You cheated Chris :)
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Posted 20 December 2011 - 09:13 AM

View PostRobbieD90, on 19 December 2011 - 04:05 PM, said:

I do love a Mac desktop. Always looks alot more organized than Windows.


How is one desktop with a row of icons t the bottom any different from another desktop with a row of icons at the bottom any different?

Currently not at my desktop but I'll post it up when I am. Be warned it's a ver boring Vista desktop though.
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Posted 20 December 2011 - 09:28 AM

Have some +1's on me.

Renaissance that is scarily like my desktop!

Porkchops - that backdrop took a while to load on my missus' Dell mini, but it was nice!

:)
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Posted 20 December 2011 - 09:42 AM

View PostMikeChipshop, on 20 December 2011 - 09:13 AM, said:

How is one desktop with a row of icons t the bottom any different from another desktop with a row of icons at the bottom any different?

Currently not at my desktop but I'll post it up when I am. Be warned it's a ver boring Vista desktop though.


I just like the way the mac looks that was all. :)
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Posted 20 December 2011 - 09:46 AM

Must say as a work laptop this has had very little abuse in terms of files thus far :p, but my desktop however is a mess .. (pics soon to come) ... picture 2x 40" monitors full of icons and you'd get the idea :unsure: .

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Posted 20 December 2011 - 09:50 AM

View PostCSN-UK, on 20 December 2011 - 09:46 AM, said:

Must say as a work laptop this has had very little abuse in terms of files thus far :p, but my desktop however is a mess .. (pics soon to come) ... picture 2x 40" monitors full of icons and you'd get the idea :unsure: .

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That sounds cluttered :)
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Posted 20 December 2011 - 10:19 AM

I'm in class right now and my PC here and at home is no where near as nice as y'all. Still using XP can't afford a new PC yet, bloody bills out my ears...

Here's my PC in class anyway.

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Posted 20 December 2011 - 11:03 AM

I think mine is kinda messy.....

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so I cleaned it


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View PostD.Schuster, on 20 December 2011 - 11:03 AM, said:

I think mine is kinda messy.....

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so I cleaned it


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How did you get that bar at the top?
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Posted 20 December 2011 - 11:11 AM

View PostRobbieD90, on 20 December 2011 - 11:09 AM, said:

How did you get that bar at the top?


http://rocketdock.com/

Enjoy, it's super useful! I keep all my webdesign stuff in there, well 80% of it.
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Posted 20 December 2011 - 11:12 AM

View PostD.Schuster, on 20 December 2011 - 11:11 AM, said:

http://rocketdock.com/

Enjoy, it's super useful! I keep all my webdesign stuff in there, well 80% of it.

Thanks. I'll have a look.
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Posted 20 December 2011 - 11:13 AM

View PostRobbieD90, on 20 December 2011 - 11:12 AM, said:

Thanks. I'll have a look.


No problem man, you can even use it to substitute your windows taskbar by configuring the settings to minimize windows to the rocket dock. but I prefer to have it as a sort of "shortcut" bar
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Posted 20 December 2011 - 10:28 PM

Here's my home PC, formatted it last week, still reinstalling programs and I just changed the wallpaper yesterday...

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Posted 20 December 2011 - 10:44 PM

This is my desktop (tidied up). The image is a photo I took on one of my training walks down by the local river.

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