Post your desktop screenshots!

[tredlow]

Here's mine:

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/4686/walp.jpg

Ah... Relaxes me every time I see it.

Yeah, yeah, I still use an XP like a caveman.

[Will]

Oh nice! I was re-watching Hogfather the other day and remain consistently impressed with their rendering of A'tuin. That couldn't have been cheap for them.

[tredlow]

Oh nice! I was re-watching Hogfather the other day and remain consistently impressed with their rendering of A'tuin. That couldn't have been cheap for them.

Oh, I haven't watched that one! I've only watched Color Of Magic and The Light Fantastic. I heard it was okay.

[taumel]

@tredlow
This definately is a fake. This would be the first clutter free windows desktop i've seen in my life.

[jeeno0142]

@tredlow
This definately is a fake. This would be the first clutter free windows desktop i've seen in my life.

If you right click directly onto your desktop and then select 'view' in the dropdown menu, you will see an option of showing desktop items or not. This is obviously what Tredlow did in this case.

[PecanBlue]

Before I got Windows 7, I had a clutter-free desktop on my Windows XP too. It's nothing unusual. Some people just don't like shortcut icons and use docks or fences, or just use the start menu.

EDIT: ^ or that.

[taumel]

@jeeno0142
Which no one uses in real.

[JedExodus]

The CGI in the Discworld features Sky did was really astonishing, especially for something that came from Sky TV

Oh and here's my desktop

http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1472&stc=1&d=1273696039

Also, marvel at my mighty peak download rate on Steam

http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1473&stc=1&d=1273696039

[jeeno0142]

@jeeno0142
Which no one uses in real.

? I'm thinking it's quite possible in this case considering that Tredlow set up this thread to show of his desktop wallpaper, and not his icons. I may be wrong though, i'm just saying it is a strong possibility.

It should be easy enough to find out -

@Tredlow
How come there are no icons present on your desktop? I for one am now very curious to know!:)

[taumel]

Before I got Windows 7, I had a clutter-free desktop on my Windows XP too. It's nothing unusual. Some people just don't like shortcut icons and use docks or fences, or just use the start menu.

EDIT: ^ or that.
I'm more happy with Windows 7 than i was with XP but still i have to clean up the desktop from time to time, same on OSX. I suspect for most people the desktop seems to be somekind of mid term clipboard.

Actually i remember the Amiga beeing a clutter free desktop.

[PecanBlue]

PS. Here is my totally kawaii animu desktop (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v484/Kazooie64/7desktop.jpg).

Look, I... I think the girl is cute, ok? >:( Also there weren't that many high resolution desktop wallpaper choices in my files when I switched to this screen resolution and I got lazy.

I have to scroll over the taskbar to get it to show and also those two shortcut files are photos that my friend transfered over while we were on a trip to clear space on her camera for more photos. She told me to keep them somewhere where I'd remember I put them and not delete them and she hasn't come to transfer them to her own computer in days. SHEESH.

[coolsome]

http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv27/DoctorJoker/bg.jpg

[Jake]

I wish I could show you guys my desktop wallpaper! Muaha.

[Avistew]

I wish I could show you guys my desktop wallpaper! Muaha.

I hate you.

[taumel]

@Jake
Erst Gackern und dann net Legen, Feigling!

[Jake]

@taumel
Tomaten sind die am wenigsten leckeren Tieres.

[taumel]

@taumel
Tomaten sind die am wenigsten leckeren Tieres.
Google Translate still has a way to go! ;O)

Tomatoes are the least delicious animals(s).

[GinnyN]

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/132/6/c/Sam_and_Max_Desktop_by_Ginny_N.jpg

I change my desktop wallpaper all the time.

[Avistew]

Oooh, ooh, what a good idea, I'll speak French so they don't know what I'm saying.

J'vous kiffe à donf', les gonzes. Et les gonzesses aussi d'ailleurs. Mais surtout les gonzes.

(Edit: by the way, I mixed several types of slangs. Hopefully that will throw Google translate off).

[taumel]

@Gertcha
Bring on your porntop.

[taumel]

I mixed several types of slangs. Hopefully that will throw Google translate off).
Easy, that's what it means in finnish, right?

J'vous donf saa pois päältä ", keikari. Ja poikasten, että asiassa. Mutta enimmäkseen keikari.

[Avistew]

Easy, that's what it means in finnish, right?

J'vous donf saa pois päältä ", keikari. Ja poikasten, että asiassa. Mutta enimmäkseen keikari.

It kept "J'vous" and "donf" as is, so I doubt it.

EDIT: Hey, wow, Google translate knows what kiffer means. Dammit, I'll stick with verlan next time, argot and arabic-influenced words seem to be translatable...
Maybe I'll add some louchebem next time, too :P

[taumel]

It kept "J'vous" and "donf" as is, so I doubt it.
No, that's just fine. Finnish people mix words and languages from time to time, kippis!

[GinnyN]

'Tan pa' la cagá weón.

(Let's see if Google translation can translate THAT)

[JedExodus]

What happened to that super-special icon you had partially blurred out Pinchpenny? You know the one i'm on about :p

[Leak]

@jeeno0142
Which no one uses in real.
O RLY?

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/2251/desktoppmh.th.jpg (http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/2251/desktoppmh.jpg)

[taumel]

@Gertcha
Sure

@Leak
O'Reilly, at least no one i know.

[splash1]

Just thought I should...

Yeah, it's small but I'm not good at sizing up images.

[corruptbiggins]

here's my desktop as it currently is...
(click on image for bigger version)

Left hand monitor:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1185/4602452846_aa96b5bec5_m.jpg (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1185/4602452846_aa96b5bec5_b.jpg)

Right hand monitor:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4602452664_cc396438af_m.jpg (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4602452664_f4a686bd90_o.png)

I'm using the background slideshow feature of Windows 7, changing the image every 10 seconds. As the only difference in the images is the colour I get a nice dynamic looking background in 9 different colours. Oh and I got the theme from Rockstar Games' website.

[The Leg]

It's a screenshot from Puzzle Agent. It does change a lot, however.

[Rather Dashing]

My desktop is horribly cluttered. =(

http://i.imgur.com/zaHGi.jpg

[Comrade Pants]

Here's mine:

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/4686/walp.jpg

Ah... Relaxes me every time I see it.

Yeah, yeah, I still use an XP like a caveman.

Hm... a redditor are we, by any chance?

http://i.imgur.com/P3vzL.jpg

Here's mine. I know, I know. It's cluttered. I'll fix it as soon as I upgrade from vacuum tubes to circuit boards.

[Friar]

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/132/6/c/Sam_and_Max_Desktop_by_Ginny_N.jpg

I change my desktop wallpaper all the time.
How did you get the start/taskbar to be multi-coloured? I can only figure out one colour at a time!

Anyway, here's one of mine (i think i have about 7/8 on at the moment; a few doctor who ones, and a few trek ones.

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/8932/89419900.png
Made it myself, hence the dodgy cropping.
Oh, and i have a thing for circles on my taskbar. I did have google earth their but that disappeared...

[Secret Fawful]

Here's mine. I know, I know. It's cluttered. I'll fix it as soon as I upgrade from vacuum tubes to circuit boards.

Why are hidden people, billy mays, and weegee in your taskbar?

Oh yeah, and here is mine.

http://i44.tinypic.com/t7bu5s.png

[GinnyN]

How did you get the start/taskbar to be multi-coloured? I can only figure out one colour at a time!

I downloaded a theme from internet. I have no idea in fact.

[Irishmile]

Mine is simple... and clean.


http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9788/simplep.jpg

[Rather Dashing]

mine is simple... And clean.
is the way you are making me feel tonight

it's hard to let it go

[Comrade Pants]

Why are hidden people, billy mays, and weegee in your taskbar?

Oh yeah, and here is mine.

http://i44.tinypic.com/t7bu5s.png


Because you used tinypic instead of imgur.

[Secret Fawful]

Because you used tinypic instead of imgur.
I know what's really going on here. You're mad because she's black you racist.

[Comrade Pants]

I know what's really going on here. You're mad because she's black you racist.

Nah. It's cool. She has tits. We're good to go.

[Giant Tope]

http://i960.photobucket.com/albums/ae86/GiantTopiary/desktop2.jpg

Everything's on rocket dock. And actually the taskbar is also auto-hide, I just highlighted it so it wasn't just a wallpaper.

...

I like keeping my desktop clean.

[Avistew]

Oh, what the heck, here is mine.
Uninteresting and messy.

http://i42.tinypic.com/x6c0mt.jpg

[Secret Fawful]

Nah. It's cool. She has tits. We're good to go.

Okay I admit it I laughed.

[Rather Dashing]

Oh hey there is a woman behind those tits. Is that normal?

[Comrade Pants]

Okay I admit it I laughed.

So... PS2 and GBA emus... if you're gonna pirate, at least black bar your pirate folders, man. Jesus.

[Secret Fawful]

Oh hey there is a woman behind those tits. Is that normal?

You mean they're two separate things? I didn't know that.

[Avistew]

You mean they're two separate things? I didn't know that.

Of course they are! There is one on the left and one on the right. A woman (usually) connects them together but they're two separate things for sure!

[Hassat Hunter]

Yeah, it's messy, I know.
Always use my own made pictures. Much better than a pic someone else made :D.

[Avistew]

I find pictures too distracting, I can't see what's on the desk if it's all poster-y.
I really use it like a desk. Dump stuff on top of it thinking I'll get to them and deal with them, then every so often clean it off or stuff things into a folder (like the "reference pictures" folder is a week or two old, all the pictures for the plushes were starting to clutter the desk so I stuffed them all in a folder).

[GinnyN]

I find pictures too distracting, I can't see what's on the desk if it's all poster-y.
I really use it like a desk. Dump stuff on top of it thinking I'll get to them and deal with them, then every so often clean it off or stuff things into a folder (like the "reference pictures" folder is a week or two old, all the pictures for the plushes were starting to clutter the desk so I stuffed them all in a folder).

At least you aren't like my sister who dumps all the icons in the desktop and never NEVER cleans. Eventually, the icons started to get out of the screen, and she didn't did anything about it.

[splash1]

At least you aren't like my sister who dumps all the icons in the desktop and never NEVER cleans. Eventually, the icons started to get out of the screen, and she didn't did anything about it.

I used to do that, until the clutter made my computer so slow that it broke my desktop and I had to do everything over again!

[Avistew]

Never had icons go out of the screen, but I've had some stacking over each other and I couldn't remember what all was there.
Sometimes I have too many folders so I make a folder to put other folders in, too xD
Like right now, there is one called "Projects", it's got other folders in it.

Someday I should really clean things up better and organise them all and stuff. Once Ian told me I could erase the files I had backed up for him, so I deleted the "backup" folder, and only after that did I realise there was also the backup from my previous computer. Oops.

[patters]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4602857228_e84e0a9652.jpg

Skies of Arcadia [heart]

[GuruGuru214]

Okay, I'll bite.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/GuruGuru214/desktop.png

I used to use the concept art of the graveyard, but a while after chapter 5 came out, I decided to switch for the warmer colors in this one. If I had a second monitor, I would have the graveyard on it.

[Hayden]

Empty your recycle bin!

[GuruGuru214]

I don't have to if I don't want to! It's not like I'm really hurting for that 2.73 GB...

Okay, fine.

[tredlow]

Wow, your wallpapers are better than mine

[Jake]

Google Translate still has a way to go! ;O)

Tomatoes are the least delicious animals(s).

That is exactly what I told it in English. :)

(I said "animal," singular.)



edit: I can't show my work PC but here's my laptop at home
http://jake2000.shackspace.com/desktop120510.jpg

Got it from the Make Something Cool Every Day (http://www.flickr.com/groups/1012163@N22/pool/with/3301182447/) flickr pool many months ago.

[Giant Tope]

That's a pretty amazing wallpaper. So true as well.

heh... ui_openingcutscene.mov

[GuruGuru214]

This is my previous wallpaper, which I still have on my laptop. It was a wallpaper from Ctrl+Alt+Del (http://www.cad-comic.com), but when the site was redesigned, Tim removed a lot of the old wallpapers from the extras section, including this one.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/GuruGuru214/lightbulb_1280.jpg

And before that, I was using this one, from deviantArt (http://chromakode.deviantart.com/art/Random-9956167):

http://th03.deviantart.net/fs4/300W/i/2004/233/5/9/Random.png

[Jenny]

I like having icons on my desktop. I tend to arrange them around whatever picture I have on my desktop at the moment.

The last couple of weeks it's been:
http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/1960/desktopmay10.jpg

[taumel]

@Jake
It's okay, btw you really should try to read your eMails! :O)

And just to increase the OSX user count:
I haven't found time to replace the standard wallpaper on OSX yet and it's okayish as well. On da PC i have some nice 4bit coloured and not distracting art instead, doing this myself from time to time.

http://guckmal.lurulu.de/gfx/ssa.jpg

[Jake]

@Jake
It's okay, btw you really should try to read your eMails! :O)

when did you email me? :confused::confused:

[taumel]

when did you email me? :confused::confused:
Not recently, i just thought so due to the 1292 unread eMails?

[Jake]

Oh hahah yeah. I have an old account on there that I don't really check, and should probably clean up or get rid of.

[Katsuro]

@Jake
Erst Gackern und dann net Legen, Feigling!

Seit wann haben Feigen was mit Eiern zu tun? :o

[taumel]

@Jake
Imagine all those desperate and unhappy girls then... *sigh*

[taumel]

Seit wann haben Feigen was mit Eiern zu tun? :o
Man merkt deutlich, daß Du schon zu lange im Ausland bist; all die willkürlich eingestreuten Anglizismen, heieiei. :O)

[Alcoremortis]

Oooh! I love all the Doctor Who backgrounds.:D

I change my background every few months, but here's the most recent one, I actually just changed it this morning.

1479

[tredlow]

Before The Great A'tuin wallpaper, I used this image I found in DeviantArt:

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs13/i/2007/009/4/6/All_Lucasarts_Characters_by_NessD.jpg

Then it gave me a headache, so I stopped.

[Avistew]

@Jake
Imagine all those desperate and unhappy girls then... *sigh*

It's okay, approximately a thousand of these emails are from me alone. So the rest is probably mostly spam, maybe a hundred other desperate and unhappy girls or so, but no more.

[Icedhope]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4602857228_e84e0a9652.jpg

Skies of Arcadia [heart]

Patters, I want to high five you. I miss that game.

[Shwoo]

http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1480&stc=1&d=1273753141 (http://clanker.deviantart.com/art/Wallpaper-January-10-151206193)
Image links to a bigger version on deviantART.

It's every rocky planet, every dwarf planet, and every moon larger than the smallest dwarf planet lined up by size across both my screens. I made it with Celestia, which uses a generic asteroid texture for the non Pluto dwarf planets. I can still tell which of those is which, though.

[taumel]

It's okay, approximately a thousand of these emails are from me alone. So the rest is probably mostly spam, maybe a hundred other desperate and unhappy girls or so, but no more.
What should i say, that i'm jealous? :O)

@Shwoo
Wouldn't it be cool if you could place your icons in sort of moons which tag to the planets and orbit around them then?!

[patters]

Patters, I want to high five you. I miss that game.

[high fives]

[Avistew]

Okay, changed my desktop to one that fits me better:

http://i42.tinypic.com/95omsx.png

[JedExodus]

Back row third from the right is me in ten years. And a handsome man he is!!

[GinnyN]

Okay, changed my desktop to one that fits me better:

I wanted to put once the one they sent in the Newsletter before officially announce The Devil's Playhouse. You know, the one with the title "We're working on it!"

[taumel]

@Avistew
*lol* This is a cool picture! I especially like Jake, at least i suspect that's him, and the the guy standing left to him, from a viewers perspective. Wow, the girl on a quick view looks a bit like Nora Tschirner.

I would welcome a touch of such a mood in the games.

[Avistew]

@Avistew
*lol* This is a cool picture! I especially like Jake, at least i suspect that's him and the the guy standing left to him, froma viewers perspective. Wow the girl on a quick view loosk a bit like Nora Tschirner.

That's Nikki, and she's gorgeous, smart and geeky, I hate her with a passion.
Jake is on the back, second from the left (our left).

[taumel]

That's Nikki, and she's gorgeous, smart and geeky, I hate her with a passion.
Jake is on the back, second from the left (our left).
Thanks! Well, as i brought up Nora Tschirner, this somehow already implies that she's quite acceptable. Yep, then i identified the right man as Jake. I have a cool cap as well. Hi there Jake! :O)

[patters]

Thanks! Well, as i brought up Nora Tschirner, this somehow already implies that she's quite acceptable. Yep, then i identified the right man as Jake. I have a cool cap as well. Hi there Jake! :O)

Jake's wearing a beanie, not a cap.

[taumel]

Jake's wearing a beanie, not a cap.
Ah, who cares, language barriers.

[Avistew]

Oh, I know you said she's gorgeous. I was agreeing.

To be fair, I'm not jealous that she's beautiful, clever and geeky, I'm all of these things too to some extent. I'm jealous that she's surrounded by hotties. Damn you, Harper! *shakes fist*

[taumel]

@Avistew
Sometimes you manage to surprise me in little dosages.

[puzzlebox]

I'm jealous that she's surrounded by hotties. Damn you, Harper! *shakes fist*

I call dibs on the guy on our far left, bottom row. You and Nikki can keep the rest of them (lovely as they are).

[Avistew]

I call dibs on the guy on our far left, bottom row. You and Nikki can keep the rest of them (lovely as they are).

Bottom left? You mean Sauntron? Sure, you can have him. If he's fine with it of course. He's younger than me anyways.

EDIT: because I don't want that to sound derogatory, I should add that I'm still processing the fact of being attracted to people who are less than 5-10 years older than me since it's a rather recent development. I'm not ready for an Internet creepy stalking relationship with someone younger than me at this point.

[taumel]

@puzzlebox
I suspect this never would work out as he looks like a diver! :O)

[puzzlebox]

Wow, you made that too easy Avistew... I was prepared to trade you my entire collection of novelty pencil toppers, and offer to do your maths homework for a week!

[patters]

Wow, you made that too easy Avistew... I was prepared to trade you my entire collection of novelty pencil toppers, and offer to do your maths homework for a week!

You can do my maths exams if you want.

Also: bloody women, they're all perverts.

[Avistew]

Oh well, I don't think I have any pencil and I haven't have any homework in close to five years. So I guess that's fine.
If you want me to make it harder though, we can fight in mud or something. The winner gets to decide who she showers it off with!

Or we can, you know, ask them what they think. Except Yare. He'll pretend he doesn't like being stalked by me but that's just an act, so don't ask him for his opinion on the matter.

[Rather Dashing]

If you want me to make it harder though, we can fight in mud or something. The winner gets to decide who she showers it off with!
Why can't you just shower it off together? :confused:

[Avistew]

Why can't you just shower it off together? :confused:

Well... we would, but then what does the winner get?

[Rather Dashing]

Well... we would, but then what does the winner get?
I dunno, first pick of the stuff in the dumpster behind Telltale HQ for a week?

[Avistew]

I dunno, first pick of the stuff in the dumpster behind Telltale HQ for a week?

Pff, I already have that. And that's not even guys-related.

[Rather Dashing]

Pff, I already have that. And that's not even guys-related.
That's OK, because after you've fought for an ambiguous and unknown prize, you'd realize that you're not so different after all, that there are enough guys to share amongst everyone, and that more people(even and possibly especially more people with breasts!) means more love, and that's something the whole world needs right now.

[splash1]

Okay, wow. Did this thread just get incredibly awkward?

[Rather Dashing]

Okay, wow. Did this thread just get incredibly awkward?
Don't worry, it's just you.

[splash1]

Don't worry, it's just you.

Thanks.... I feel 15% better...

[Rather Dashing]

Thanks.... I feel 15% better...
Oh hey! That's 15% higher than my estimated positive impact!

I call this day a success.

[JedExodus]

I refuse to understand what's going on in this thread, all I saw was mud wrestling and knew that Avistew was up to her usual shennanigans

[GinnyN]

Go Alice! Go!

[Vainamoinen]

This thread was about posting desktops once, right??

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/4553/desktop130510.jpg

Still waiting for the S&MS3TDP desktops to come out. :D

[splash1]

Thread de-rail has ended! We're free!!!! FREEEEEEEE!!!

[Avistew]

This thread was about posting desktops once, right??

In my case, it was about posting desktops twice!

Thread de-rail has ended! We're free!!!! FREEEEEEEE!!!

You're never free from thread derails.
But I'll try and be nice.

[Ribs]

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/646/43486258.png
B'tang.

[Irishmile]

Still clean... open any of those three desktop folders for a cluttered mess though.
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/8776/38457824.jpg

[GuruGuru214]

I'm proud to see that the mess on my desktop has yet to be topped. I'll have to take a screenshot of my laptop soon just to cement the title.

[Giant Tope]

Oh we're taking pictures of our laptops now? That sounds fun. *goes finds camera*

[GuruGuru214]

Pictures? Camera? Who said anything about photographs?

That said, here's a photo of my laptop just under three and a half years ago:

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs13/i/2007/006/b/8/Dead_by_GuruGuru214.jpg (http://guruguru214.deviantart.com/art/Dead-46132588)
Click, then click "download" on the left for super high-res.

Someone on deviantArt didn't believe that I'd really cracked the screen. He thought it was a combination of Photoshop and a cracked screen wallpaper. I wish.

[Giant Tope]

I had a friend who's laptop was kinda like that except a bit less severe. She had to keep using it for a couple months afterwards. D:

[GuruGuru214]

I did mine by falling asleep with it on the bed, back when I had a twin sized bed with a down comforter. It fell off the bed and the LCD cracked. I sent it in for repairs and the screen was backordered, then it got lost in the mail. So Dell built a new one and sent it to us. Then the old one here got here the day before the new one.

Funnily enough, now it's the new one that has problems with the screen, although of a different sort.

[Giant Tope]

Huh. My laptop has fallen out of my bed several times. Even dropped onto concrete at a con once. I guess I'm lucky. 0_0;

[GuruGuru214]

Well, I fell asleep and dropped mine quite a few times before it cracked. I guess it hit just right, so I guess I'm the unlucky one. Still, I'd be careful if I were you. I rarely use my laptop these days, but when I do use it at my bed, I have it on a TV tray off to the side and I use a wireless mouse and keyboard. The whole setup is safer and more convenient all around.

[The Highway]

I wish I could show you guys my desktop wallpaper! Muaha.

Awwww, i bet it has some cool screencapture from episode 4...

Well, I have a screencap from a DIFFERENT episode 4! (i change my desktop on a when-i-get-sick-of-looking-at-it-basis)

http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1486&stc=1&d=1273825214

[splash1]

I oughta change my wallpaper, right after I get a good Devil's Playhouse screen.

[Avistew]

My old laptop got a cracked screen too. It was on the floor at the friend's place who has the smallest room you can imagine, basically it's just the bed, a chair and her computer.
I moved the chair, sat on hit, and crack! the laptop was under that.
Kept it with a big black round crack on it for maybe 2 years after that. It gradually got worse, more and more parts got black.
After about 2 years, I got an old monitor for a friend, the type that's huge and looks like a TV, before they made flat monitors. The laptop screen was completely black at that point, but I learned the exact way to switch to the other monitor without seeing what I was doing.
Which was handy.
Then when I moved continents (went back to France in 2007) I just left it behind and got a new one (which is the one I have now).
This one doesn't have a cracked screen, but it's missing some keys, and some of them are switched because I put them back in the wrong place. I'd buy a new keyboard but they don't make them in AZERTY here :(

[Rather Dashing]

This one doesn't have a cracked screen, but it's missing some keys, and some of them are switched because I put them back in the wrong place. I'd buy a new keyboard but they don't make them in AZERTY here :(
...But you live in Canada. French people live in Canada, don't they? Even if you don't live in one of the French parts, surely you can find a store that would ship one to you cheap?

[tredlow]

This thread was about posting desktops once, right??

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/4553/desktop130510.jpg

Still waiting for the S&MS3TDP desktops to come out. :D

That is awesome. I can't believe people still remember that game, it was awesome.

[JedExodus]

Well, I fell asleep and dropped mine quite a few times before it cracked. .

You and I both pal. I had a USB dongle in mine and wrecked the USB ports one evening whenever it fell to the ground. Then I proceeded to fire it across the room in a huff ensuring it had no chance of survival. Hands down the most expensive thing i've ever destroyed, I felt very rock n roll :p

[Avistew]

...But you live in Canada. French people live in Canada, don't they? Even if you don't live in one of the French parts, surely you can find a store that would ship one to you cheap?

Well, it's a laptop and I don't know how to install the new keyboard.
Also, French-speaking people in Canada don't use an AZERTY keyboard but a Canadian QWERTY. I have one of those for my desktop, but part of me feels like it would be betraying my country to get one on my laptop :p

Meh, next laptop I buy in a few years will probably be Canadian. In the meantime this one works adequately. I can still type on the missing keys, it works just fine as long as I aim for the round bit.

[Rather Dashing]

Hm. Depends a lot on a variety of things about your computer model. Of course you could always plug in a USB AZERTY keyboard, but that would be a bit clunky, wouldn't it? Maybe there is a computer repair shop that could do the job?

[Tor]

This one doesn't have a cracked screen, but it's missing some keys, and some of them are switched because I put them back in the wrong place. I'd buy a new keyboard but they don't make them in AZERTY here :(
Most keyboards have keys that can be easily pried off and rearranged! For example, proponents of the Dvorak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard) keyboard layout will convert their QWERTY keyboards that way.

[GinnyN]

Well, it's a laptop and I don't know how to install the new keyboard.

USB ports??... wait, you mean replace the included keyboard? never mind...

[Vainamoinen]

In my case, it was about posting desktops twice!

I meant "once" as in "Once upon a time, this thread was meant to display people's desktops" ;)

That is awesome. I can't believe people still remember that game, it was awesome.

Remember is an understatement. I remember it, play it, use the wallpapers, I'm painting actual fan art (http://needleblade.deviantart.com/art/Jade-hates-DRM-163472779), and in fact, to get the game to run on Windows 7 64 bit, I have just recently bought the game again (from gog.com, without the DRM, because that's what keeps the original retail release from working on my new computer). And all that without really considering myself to still be much of a gamer... :D

[Chyron8472]

I find it interesting that several people here refused to resize their screenshots to fit properly in a forum post.


Here's my laptop. I regularly clean the desktop of stuff since, when I download files, I usually save them to my desktop for easy access at first.

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/3384/31378642.png


For anyone who cares:
- the "Movies" icon links to .mkv rips I'm making of my DVD movies (so I can watch movies on the go without the need for discs)
- the "Play DVD Movie" icon uses MPC to play DVDs, but tells it to open at Title 1 Chapter 1 (to hopefully bypass menus and trailers)
- I use IE and Firefox at the same time when I'm doing something (eg. watching streaming videos) that I don't want to lag my concurrent web browsing.
- yes, I do play RuneScape. My wife and I started playing it in college, and I know more than one rl friend who is much more serious (practically no-life) about it than we are, and I have 99 Runecrafting.
- and finally, this is XP, not Vista or 7. I used a skin (bricopack) called Vista Inspirat (http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.id.130.htm) that merely replaced the system files that xp uses to display menus and icons, such that it looks like Vista/7 but is not and uses zero memory in doing so. I hate memory hogs like WindowBlinds.

[Avistew]

Hm. Depends a lot on a variety of things about your computer model. Of course you could always plug in a USB AZERTY keyboard, but that would be a bit clunky, wouldn't it? Maybe there is a computer repair shop that could do the job?

I use it from my bed. I already have a mouse because the touchpad stopped working a while back, and use the mouse on the computer directly, because my whole work area is the computer itself. Unless I can fit an external keyboard over my existing keyboard without it hiding the screen from me or preventing me from moving my mouse freely, it's not going to be practical.

Most keyboards have keys that can be easily pried off and rearranged!

Yeah, that's what I was told. So I pried the all off to clean under my keyboard, and there are some I could never put back. It's been over a year now.
Also, some I put back in the wrong place (just "Inser/Pause" and "Imp écr/Syst" though so it's not much of a problem).

Some also regularly pop out and have to be put back into place, notably my N key.
I wish I hadn't believed people who told me they can be "easily pried off and put back into place", I'd still have a full working keyboard -_-'

[Chyron8472]

desktop keyboards have easily replaceable keys. not sure about a laptop keyboard since it's custom made and integrated into the machine, as well as the keys are so thin.

sounds like you need a new computer. or two. as I recall, you said that your desktop pc is almost as old as dirt.

[Rather Dashing]

Easily prying off keys is somewhat less common in laptop keyboards, in my experience. For example, my keyboard(while being an absolute pleasure to type on) does not have keys that can be taken off. When one got snapped off, I had to contact my computers' manufacturer and have them replace the whole mouse/keyboard "slot" in the computer(not sure how to describe it adequately or technically).

[Avistew]

sounds like you need a new computer. or two. as I recall, you said that your desktop pc is almost as old as dirt.

Meh, it works fine, just doesn't look good. The desktop one we bought especially to play Tales because the laptop has Linux so we couldn't run it. We upgraded it for the Devil's Playhouse because it couldn't play it, and now it can, so we really don't need a new one either.

[Tor]

Yeah, that's what I was told. So I pried the all off to clean under my keyboard, and there are some I could never put back. It's been over a year now.
Aw, that's too bad. It has worked great on all the desktop keyboards and laptop computers I've owned; unfortunately a sample size of ~8 may not be statistically significant... so the statement in my original post may have been overly optimistic. "Assume makes an ass of u and me" etc.

Fortunately I said "most keyboards", not "all"... so my statement has yet to be proven outright false :)

[Psy]

My work computer's background is something really boring, but this is the background of my laptop:

http://saichotictech.net/ttg/bg.bmp

[Avistew]

I think people should just be careful about things like "easy". I guess it's not rocket science, I removed all keys and could put back like 90% of them. But it's not as easy as I thought it would be from hearing about it, there is a room for error, and if you can't put a key back, well what do you do?

[Psy]

e; caught up in the thread- If you try to clean your keyboard, and it breaks, you can buy a new one. USB keyboards are like $10 or less, or if you don't want to be so distant from your laptop, Netbooks are pretty amazing and incredibly cheap.

And if you run into trouble, find the neighborhood high school nerdy kid and toss him a couple bucks to fix whatever is broken

[Tor]

I think people should just be careful about things like "easy".
It's easy for me, so that means it's easy for everybody, right?

...right?

Yeah, I may sometimes forget that not everyone is a techie who takes electronics apart for fun.

After the ad break, I'll show you how to easily overclock (http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/OverClockTheSlug) the CPU in your network-attached storage device, for fun and profit! Stay tuned, kids... and start warming up those soldering irons!

[puzzlebox]

Add me to the list of people who abuse their poor laptops... I've lost count of the number of times I've tossed mine into hold baggage for a long-haul flight. It's five years old, the case is dented and cracking a bit, the spacebar keeps falling off, but on the whole it's in surprisingly good condition and just keeps chugging along. I'd like to get a new one, but really can't justify it when this one is still perfectly functional.

If you try to clean your keyboard, and it breaks, you can buy a new one. USB keyboards are like $10 or less, or if you don't want to be so distant from your laptop, Netbooks are pretty amazing and incredibly cheap.


It takes a computer geek of the purest form to suggest buying a netbook to replace a broken keyboard. ;)

EDIT: Of course I mean that in the best possible way. :)

[Psy]

it takes a computer geek of the purest form to suggest buying a netbook to replace a broken keyboard. ;) >_>

edit: Of course i mean that in the best possible way. :)
<3

[ShaggE]

It takes a computer geek of the purest form to suggest buying a netbook to replace a broken keyboard. ;)

I'm guilty of things like that myself, but it's nowhere near as bad as my friend Jeff. If somebody asks him for advice on a new video card or processor (or even just a hard drive), he will spec out five or six full PC builds on NewEgg for them. :p

I think us computer geeks are the only branch of hobbyists that can't sleep well until our entire town/city/state/internet community has the latest and greatest hardware, haha.

[Shauntron]

I call dibs on the guy on our far left, bottom row. You and Nikki can keep the rest of them (lovely as they are).

Well then!

[Avistew]

Well then!

Yay!
Shauntron and puzzlebox sitting in a tree...
(Sorry Joop).

[Alcoremortis]

Yay!
Shauntron and puzzlebox sitting in a tree...
(Sorry Joop).

Now if only one of them was an alien... we could have the Alien Love Triangle Times make a comeback!

[flesk]

I removed and cleaned the buttons on my wife's laptop a few weeks ago, and even though it wasn't impossible, it was still a lot more work than I had expected. To me it seems like those who say it's easy is either just bragging about their button removal and attachment skills or their buttons attach with velcro or something.

Anyway, here's my desktop:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1436/4606505347_b6d1d7e8f8_o.png

I know it's not the most exciting desktop ever. Up until this weekend I had Jaunty on my desktop computer and Karmic on this one, but now I have Lucid on both computers and my memory stick, so they all look pretty much the same.

[patters]

Add me to the list of people who abuse their poor laptops... I've lost count of the number of times I've tossed mine into hold baggage for a long-haul flight. It's five years old, the case is dented and cracking a bit, the spacebar keeps falling off, but on the whole it's in surprisingly good condition and just keeps chugging along. I'd like to get a new one, but really can't justify it when this one is still perfectly functional.



I melted one. Halogen lights son't agree with thermoplastics.

[The Highway]

I stepped on my mum's laptop a few months ago. She kept leaving it on the floor in front of the couch, it was really her own fault. Anyway, long story short, she now puts it on the coffee table.

[taumel]

I removed and cleaned the buttons on my wife's laptop a few weeks ago, and even though it wasn't impossible, it was still a lot more work than I had expected. To me it seems like those who say it's easy is either just bragging about their button removal and attachment skills or their buttons attach with velcro or something.

Anyway, here's my desktop:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1436/4606505347_b6d1d7e8f8_o.png

I know it's not the most exciting desktop ever. Up until this weekend I had Jaunty on my desktop computer and Karmic on this one, but now I have Lucid on both computers and my memory stick, so they all look pretty much the same.
I prefer somehow boring more discreet desktops as otherwise it distracts me too much, maybe you could say that boring desktops result into exciting stuff and exciting desktops into boring stuff.

[GinnyN]

Change. Because I have a big Ego.

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/135/5/b/Cold_Sam_and_Max_Desktop_by_Ginny_N.jpg

[Alcoremortis]

I prefer somehow boring more discreet desktops as otherwise it distracts me too much, maybe you could say that boring desktops result into exciting stuff and exciting desktops into boring stuff.

I generally can't see my desktop because I have so many windows open. I don't even know why I even bother changing it.

[The Highway]

funny you should do that, ginny, because i just accidentally changed mine. for teh better!

http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1488&stc=1&d=1273945146

[GinnyN]

funny you should do that, ginny, because i just accidentally changed mine. for teh better!

*Highway Desktop*

*Squealing like a Fan Girl for about 5 minutes*

Awesome! ^^! That's an Honor ^^!

[The Highway]

I'm actually really excited to have these high quality things now, i can barely wait to get them printed! I need to decide whether to print them on that smooth paper some posters are on, or on card like Steve Purcell's are on...?

[GinnyN]

No idea. (I don't really know what are you talk me about :P). I'm just exited ^^!

[Irishmile]

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7060/29870851.jpg

[The Highway]

No idea. (I don't really know what are you talk me about :P). I'm just exited ^^!

Alright, let me word it better:

Posters like this (http://www.telltalegames.com/store/trogdor-poster) are all smooth, like a dvd slip cover.

Posters like this (http://www.telltalegames.com/store/tomi-prints-purcell) are sort of rough, like card.

On closer thought, the rough sort is more suited to hand-drawn and painted illustrations, while the smooth ones are better for glossy images, like yours Ginny. I think I shall choose the smooth kind.

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7060/29870851.jpg

My, my, Irishmile, is that a uTorrent icon I spy in your quick launch bar? You wouldn't be using that for anything illegal now, would you? :D

[GinnyN]

Ahhhh... Opalina! ( That's the Spanish name for cardstock). Now I get it ^^!

[Irishmile]

My, my, Irishmile, is that a uTorrent icon I spy in your quick launch bar? You wouldn't be using that for anything illegal now, would you? :D

of course not :p how else would super rich music industry moguls feed their families..

[Fealiks]

Here's mine. Get it? It's a wallpaper. I'm a funny guy.

[OzzieMonkey]

funny you should do that, ginny, because i just accidentally changed mine. for teh better!

http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1488&stc=1&d=1273945146

May I ask where you go the icons for The Devil's Playhouse and Wallace and Gromit?

[splash1]

Changed my picture.
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk177/splosh11/Secret/Untitled-2.jpg

[OzzieMonkey]

Ok, here's mine:

http://i916.photobucket.com/albums/ad9/MonkeyzRcool/MyDesktop.jpg

Just got a new HDD, so I've cleaned things up a bit.

[Fishstick_Kitty]

And here's mine...

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff67/FishStickKitty/wallpaper.jpg

[OzzieMonkey]

And here's mine...

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff67/FishStickKitty/wallpaper.jpg

Holy shit! I was in shock when I saw that. WTF?!

[Fishstick_Kitty]

It's one of my favorites. :D


(The photo was 'shopped)

[PecanBlue]

That should be "Sydney, Australia" for a more modern feel.

[Alcoremortis]

That's one of the reasons that I never go to the beach.:D

[PecanBlue]

That's a shame, I would think people would avoid the beach more for a fear of drowning, which happens a lot more often than shark attacks, that are actually very minor because they don't really go for humans. In one area of the Florida Keys where my family has a house there's a beach that's a popular swimming spot, and not a few yards away, a popular feeding area for sharks. It's almost always filled with lots of sharks, and people just swimming about close by. There's never been an attack by the way, it's pretty funny.

DERAIL DERAIL DERAIL

[Rather Dashing]

There seem to be a lot of desktop strategies. A lot of people go for efficiency, putting something plain up and filling it with everything they need. Sometimes this had a lot of stuff, widgets, docks, and a wide set of icons, and some are so simple as to have only a few icons in one corner.

I see a lot of really plain desktops, and then I see the ones with pictures that the icons are actually arranged around. I couldn't do that. I always need to set up my desktop, and then the image had better fit into that.

I also don't get why someone would go so minimal, hiding all the icons away. What, is the desktop a picture frame? I like to have access to as much stuff as possible from my desktop, but it seems that a lot of people shun its very existence.

[Alcoremortis]

That's a shame, I would think people would avoid the beach more for a fear of drowning, which happens a lot more often than shark attacks, that are actually very minor because they don't really go for humans. In one area of the Florida Keys where my family has a house there's a beach that's a popular swimming spot, and not a few yards away, a popular feeding area for sharks. It's almost always filled with lots of sharks, and people just swimming about close by. There's never been an attack by the way, it's pretty funny.

DERAIL DERAIL DERAIL

Actually the real reason I don't go to the beach is because I don't like sand. I was just being silly about the sharks. We don't even have sharks where I live except for the occasional great white...

[puzzlebox]

Actually the real reason I don't go to the beach is because I don't like sand. I was just being silly about the sharks.

The only thing that would stop me going to the beach is jellyfish (and maybe nuclear armageddon). They frighten the bejeebers out of me (jellyfish, that is, although I guess nuclear armageddon would be pretty scary too).

My uncle was attacked by a grey nurse shark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_nurse_shark) years ago. He was skindiving/spearfishing and knew it was in the water, but wasn't worried about it because they're supposed to be non-aggressive. It was quite a surprise when suddenly it was up close and sinking its teeth into his leg. :p

[Giant Tope]

What, is the desktop a picture frame?

For me, yeah actually. Don't know why, but I just like it like that.

[GuruGuru214]

There seem to be a lot of desktop strategies. A lot of people go for efficiency, putting something plain up and filling it with everything they need. Sometimes this had a lot of stuff, widgets, docks, and a wide set of icons, and some are so simple as to have only a few icons in one corner.

I see a lot of really plain desktops, and then I see the ones with pictures that the icons are actually arranged around. I couldn't do that. I always need to set up my desktop, and then the image had better fit into that.

I also don't get why someone would go so minimal, hiding all the icons away. What, is the desktop a picture frame? I like to have access to as much stuff as possible from my desktop, but it seems that a lot of people shun its very existence.

Mine's actually a step worse than arranging the icons around the image. I have them arranged into different groups. Audio files in the bottom right corner, for example. I do like to have access to a ton of things from the desktop, but at some point it becomes clutter, and my grouping method is an unfinished attempt to try and fix that a bit.

[The Highway]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Chess_Single_Image_Stereogram_by_3Dimka.jpg

Look at it cross eyed. im slightly considering replacing Ginny's work with this... I must be crazy :p

[tredlow]

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7060/29870851.jpg

Nice one.

[taumel]

I generally can't see my desktop because I have so many windows open. I don't even know why I even bother changing it.
Depends, when you're using something like Spaces then you can.

[Fealiks]

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7060/29870851.jpg

The guy who painted that, Frank Frezetta, died about a week ago :(

[Avistew]

The only thing that would stop me going to the beach is jellyfish (and maybe nuclear armageddon). They frighten the bejeebers out of me (jellyfish, that is, although I guess nuclear armageddon would be pretty scary too).

I don't really like going to the beach because of the sand (it sticks to you and gets everywhere), the salt (it sticks to you and gets everywhere), the sun (I don't tan, I only burn, and I need to put cream on every hour or something) and the water (I used to get ear infections all the time).
But I liked kayaking, sailing and scuba-diving. I guess I like the sea part much more than the beach part.
Actually, I like pebble beaches a lot better. Although there have been time when I went to the sea and only made sand stuff. If was okay because since I wasn't going in the water, I didn't need to take of my T-shirt or my cap so the sun wasn't too bad.

Is the jellyfish thing a phobia, or due to them being poisonous, or both? When I was a kid (spoilers added because if you have a phobia that might be scary for you) I had jellyfish fights in Denmark. The water was just swarming with them, you were swimming in them more than in the water, and we had a snowball-like fight with them. The were probably unharmed because we had no strength at all but I still feel bad about that. Anyways, just like sharks don't usually attack you so people who are used to sharks aren't really scared of them attacking, I've had much more experience with harmless jellyfish so the poisonous ones are really an exception for me.
Same with snakes, incidentally.

But I'm terrified of spiders, and it doesn't matter if they can't possibly bite me (because they're too far, because they're the wrong species, because they're a drawing and don't actually exist), and any experience with them just makes it worse, not better. I guess some things just don't make much sense.

Mine's actually a step worse than arranging the icons around the image. I have them arranged into different groups. Audio files in the bottom right corner, for example. I do like to have access to a ton of things from the desktop, but at some point it becomes clutter, and my grouping method is an unfinished attempt to try and fix that a bit.

You can't really see it in my screenshots, mostly because it's Ubuntu, but I have a sorting method too for windows:
- Garbage bin in the bottom right corner
- links to places (various drives, my documents, specific folders I want to access fast) on the top, from the left corner
- links to games and/or applications on the left, from the top corner.

And I never have two rows of something. If it takes the whole left or the whole top, I delete some, or I guess I could have some stuff at the right or bottom although that's never been an issue.
Then the middle is a workbench. Stuff I'm working on but should be deleted soon, stuff people have just set me, stuff I haven't decided where to put yet... things like that.

[GinnyN]

Look at it cross eyed. im slightly considering replacing Ginny's work with this... I must be crazy :p

I wouldn't mind

[The Highway]

Yes, but Max would. I can't do anything with this face staring at me!

http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1490&stc=1&d=1274019701

[Neelo]

1491

I hid the icons because the desktop was cluttered, I will have to clean it again soon...

[The Highway]

oh! I forgot to ask for a poster sized version of that! oh well, my current amounts will probaly run me dry anywho.

[GinnyN]

I don't know if I start squealing or faint in this moment.

How can I add the tag "Ginny squeals" to this thread please?

Edit: Oh, already find how.

@Highway: By the way, this image exactly is in 75dpi only because I forgot to put the SAI in 300dpi for some reason in that moment. So, there's no high res version of that one T_T

[The Highway]

I don't know if I start squealing or faint in this moment.

How can I add the tag "Ginny squaling" to this thread please?

Is this seriously making you squeal? I would have thought you'd be used to people complimenting your fantastic art by now :p

@Highway: By the way, this image exactly is in 75dpi only because I forgot to put the SAI in 300dpi for some reason in that moment. So, there's no high res version of that one T_T

Awwww, darn! Actually, i think i remember you telling me that and that's why i didnt ask...

[GinnyN]

Is this seriously making you squeal? I would have thought you'd be used to people complimenting your fantastic art by now :p

Not really.

Awwww, darn! Actually, i think i remember you telling me that and that's why i didnt ask...

I will not trust my memory again. I was pretty sure it was 75 dpi the last I time I checked, but I now I checked again and it's 300dpi for whathever reason.

No really, I swear.

So, whathever, do you want?

[The Highway]

yes. please. 8D

[jannar85]

Well, here goes:
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/6362/desktopmay.th.jpg (http://img101.imageshack.us/i/desktopmay.jpg/)

I took the picture yesterday, and in my defense, I only have games on my desktop that I haven't finished yet. So, that means I've finished all episodes from Telltale :P

[GinnyN]

yes. please. 8D

Now it's called Samurai Sam (http://www.brokenbutterfly.imaginefanzone.net/01/Sam%20and%20Max/PNG%20300dpi/Samurai%20Sam.png), because Lena's name is awesome ^^!

[The Highway]

:D i heart this art :D

[splash1]

Now it's called Samurai Sam (http://www.brokenbutterfly.imaginefanzone.net/01/Sam%20and%20Max/PNG%20300dpi/Samurai%20Sam.png), because Lena's name is awesome ^^!

Neat!

[GinnyN]

Anything else?

O.O

[splash1]

Yes, what do you use to paint your pictures anyway? They're always so shiny.

[GinnyN]

Photoshop or SAI. At the end, it's just because I always do the shadows very dark and use those white points in the lights. So, ching! Shiny!

[splash1]

Photoshop eh? I just got that, and everytime "I" try to color a picture with more less shadows and stuff; they look it was colored by a 2-year old.

[Avistew]

You have such a unique style.
Every time I see talented people it makes me want to draw. Then I try, and I remember I'm terrible at it xD
Although to be fair, I'd draw more if I had a scanner or something.

[GinnyN]

Thanks a lot... really...

Anyway, Do anybody knows any program to record the screen which is not the camstasia studio?

[splash1]

I used some program called Wink, I don't think that was the name but it was a free software that let you take a bunch of pictures like it was a digital camera.

It also had video-recording, but it was to much for my old computer so I got rid of it.

[Hassat Hunter]

Print screen and Paint?

Or do I get the question wrong?

[GuruGuru214]

Unless it's not Windows, yeah.

[GinnyN]

Print screen and Paint?

Or do I get the question wrong?

Secret*: I want to do a tutorial of how I do the drawings is anyone is curious, but first I need a program to do a movie from my screen.

* Yeah, in a public forum _ _!

[GuruGuru214]

I've only recorded off my screen once, and I cheated to do it. I broadcasted what I wanted to record on Livestream using Procaster, with it set to save a recording of what I broadcast. Other than that, I don't know any free way to do it.

Except...I just remembered one time that I did record a video of my desktop, back when I was trying to install Google Chrome but it kept disappearing on me before I could read the message. But I can't remember what program I used or if it was freeware or shareware.

So...yeah, this post was pretty much useless.

[Avistew]

I think by "record my screen" Ginny didn't mean pictures but videos.
And I don't know of any program that does that, sorry.

[GinnyN]

I think I'm going to do a livestream better... but not today. Maybe this friday or something...

[Avistew]

I think I'm going to do a livestream better... but not today. Maybe this friday or something...

You might want to wait until most people are done with 302, or less people will show up!

[Jenny]

I think I heard somewhere that SnagIt can capture videos. At least I think it can capture youtube videos. But that probably wouldn't help with what you're trying to do.

[splash1]

I think Photoshop has a good video catcher, but I have yet to look into it.

[GinnyN]

You might want to wait until most people are done with 302, or less people will show up!

Yeah, I was thinking about that. That's why I said Friday: I can do it (I'm about to enter, again! to exams) and, if I wait to my exams to be over, "They stole Max's Brain!" will show up. This thing is going to be beta anyway, soooooo, if three people show up, I don't mind

I think I heard somewhere that SnagIt can capture videos. At least I think it can capture youtube videos. But that probably wouldn't help with what you're trying to do.

I tried once. Always frustrate me the thing can only export to .swf, and if I want to upload that to YouTube it's not that convenient.

I think Photoshop has a good video catcher, but I have yet to look into it.

Really? I'll see it... as soon I finish with "The Tomb of Sammun Mak"!

[Chyron8472]

Here's my laptop. I regularly clean the desktop of stuff since, when I download files, I usually save them to my desktop for easy access at first.

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/3384/31378642.png

For anyone who cares [...] this is XP, not Vista or 7. I used a skin that merely replaced the system files that xp uses to display menus and icons and uses zero memory in doing so. I hate memory hogs like WindowBlinds.



Here is my desktop PC, which is Windows 7 (64bit). I have the wallpaper cycle between various images. Here are a few of them.

http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/4931/18327316.png

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/2354/46595624.png

Quite a number of screenshots I post show the "Tales of" banner through a title bar, which means the wallpaper was currently this one:
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/7195/80996594.png



My laptop is native 1280x800. My desktop is native 1440x900

[The Highway]

Yeah, I was thinking about that. That's why I said Friday: I can do it (I'm about to enter, again! to exams) and, if I wait to my exams to be over, "They stole Max's Brain!" will show up. This thing is going to be beta anyway, soooooo, if three people show up, I don't mind



I tried once. Always frustrate me the thing can only export to .swf, and if I want to upload that to YouTube it's not that convenient.



Really? I'll see it... as soon I finish with "The Tomb of Sammun Mak"!

I want to tune in to that live stream! But I would need to be told the time in GMT +8, or I have no clue.

[VeronicanPlay]

Here is my desktop PC, which is Windows 7 (64bit). I have the wallpaper cycle between various images. Here are a few of them.

I have the same one as your second, so no need for me to post mine as you have done it for me :p

[Leak]

Anyway, Do anybody knows any program to record the screen which is not the camstasia studio?
VirtualDub (http://www.virtualdub.org/) can record the screen, among other things, although I can't really vouch for it since I use VirtualDub mainly for testing/encoding AviSynth scripts...

[The Highway]

http://www.screentoaster.com/

[GinnyN]

http://www.screentoaster.com/

First Try! (http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stUEtcQUBMRFtYRFxcXl1dU15S/painting_tutorial_beta)

You will discover that:

1- I'm not that good at explaining stuff
and 2- There's a good part of the things I do I have no idea why!

[The Highway]

I hope this becomes a regular thing, its amazing to watch you draw, add layer, erase layer and suddenly BAM theres sam & Max!

Whats in the folder called sam & max the big sleep? did you just save the webcomic?

[GinnyN]

Whats in the folder called sam & max the big sleep? did you just save the webcomic?

I did a translation and edit of the comic to Spanish, but not say that too loud!

[The Highway]

why? if it suits you, do it! as long as you dont use it for profit...

[taumel]

What surprises me is that some people are really using those widgets.

[splash1]

Wow, I really like the way you're drawing that. Are you drawing it using a mouse or a computer pen?

[GinnyN]

Wow, I really like the way you're drawing that. Are you drawing it using a mouse or a computer pen?

Wacom Bamboo. This one:

http://www.brokenbutterfly.imaginefanzone.net/01/Cribs/desktop.jpg

[taumel]

You seem to be living in a small world. ;O)

The picture makes you kind of wanting to click on things.

[The Highway]

lol, where goes the mug normally that made me laugh

[GinnyN]

This is from the Telltale Cribs Thread (http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=306246&postcount=17). The part of the Mug was because the mug originally was in the Kitchen when I took the photo =P

[Chyron8472]

Okay, I'll bite.

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/2765/desktopxu.png

I used to use the concept art of the graveyard, but a while after chapter 5 came out, I decided to switch for the warmer colors in this one. If I had a second monitor, I would have the graveyard on it.


How can you possibly keep track of what is on your desktop in all that mess?

[GuruGuru214]

Eh, it's not so bad. The stuff on the left (mostly) actually belongs on the desktop, and the stuff on the right is grouped (sort of) according to where I'm supposed to move it to, except that I haven't yet. And if I can't find something by visual scanning, I just hit the first letter of what I'm looking for until it gets highlighted.

Anyway, I finally got my laptop out and took a screenshot. Then I decided to change my wallpaper and took another.

Before:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/GuruGuru214/laptop1.png

After:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/GuruGuru214/laptop2.png

On the one hand, the concept art makes an amazing background, but on the other, I feel bad for covering up Ryan's art with so many icons.

Also, now my desktop and my laptop look awesome next to each other.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/GuruGuru214/desktop.png

[GinnyN]

How can you possibly keep track of what is on your desktop in all that mess?

Looks pretty organizated to me

[ShaggE]

http://i49.tinypic.com/rrjx5j.jpg
Background is Avatar-related. (as I mentioned in another thread, I'm on a huge Avatar kick... as in, the way a Trekkie is on a Star Trek kick... "obsessed", one could say)

[The Highway]

http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1509&stc=1&d=1274411963

[GuruGuru214]

I like what you've done with your Telltale icons.

[The Highway]

my mum won't let me download tomb of sammun mak yet so i have to wait before i can add it to my collection D:

[The Highway]

I keep changing it! But I found this while scouring the Sam & Max forum's really old threads!

http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1511&stc=1&d=1274417402

[Chyron8472]

Background is Avatar-related. (as I mentioned in another thread, I'm on a huge Avatar kick... as in, the way a Trekkie is on a Star Trek kick... "obsessed", one could say)


Define "Trekkie."

I'm a big Trek fan (mostly everything that's not the TOS TV series,) but I wouldn't say that I'm obsessed.

I mean, I've seen every episode from TOS at least once, every movie and TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT episode possibly several times, and will watch it if it's on TV (except TOS) but I've never been to a convention, dressed up in any Trek costume, nor joined any local Trek fan club.

hmm... I only have 2 Trek related wallpapers in my stuff though. odd.

[splash1]

http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1509&stc=1&d=1274411963

I love your icons, how'd you change them like that and is The Devil's Playhouse one a folder with a changed icon? And if so, can you teach me how to do that?

[The Highway]

basically, i made a devil's playhouse bade and a penal zone and sammun mak badge icon and changed the icons. all the ones on the left side that are telltale titles are just empty folders; because I forgot where the icons are stored and I don't want to lose them, except for the bone games, and the devil's playhouse folder contains tomb of sammun mak, which im hiding in there because I'm not supposed to have it until after exams (ssh!) or my laptop gets taken off of me.

[GuruGuru214]

I cleaned!

Before:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/GuruGuru214/desktop.png

After:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/GuruGuru214/desktop2.png

[Avistew]

I cleaned!

Hahaha! Don't you know that...er... Pebbles sucks?
Wait, was it "Peddle"? What the hell is it anyways?

(Looks nice. I like how you put the Telltale icons on the right. Kinda like Highway did, actually, were you inspired or is it a coincidence?)

[The Highway]

it's "Peggle" and its pretty fun. its by, i think, popcap, and you basically shoot 9 balls at pegs and try to remove all the red ones. it's actually 90% skill and 10% luck, not the other way round, random-guy-who-said-this-on-guru's-deviantart!

And, guru's desktop looks so much better now!

[GuruGuru214]

(Looks nice. I like how you put the Telltale icons on the right. Kinda like Highway did, actually, were you inspired or is it a coincidence?)

Oh, I was inspired all right. I owe it all to Highway. The only problem is I need to get shortcuts for Season 1 on my desktop and individual ones for Season 2, plus I haven't installed SBCG4AP yet, so it's a little sparse right now.

Also, I love how the concept art conveniently had a dark corner that was perfect for me to use, until Telltale's games outgrow it.

[Chyron8472]

Peggle.

http://www.popcap.com/games/peggle/

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/9759/88688357.png


Yeah, it's pretty fun.

[The Highway]

:D now i *inspire* you to download all the demos of every game to fill up the space!

[GuruGuru214]

Nice try, but I already own everything but Wallace and Gromit 1, 2, and 4, Bone, and Texas Hold 'Em, and I'm just fine holding off on those for now. I just need to install and create shortcuts for what I have.

Plus, I never installed the downloaded episodes from Season 2, since I got my DVDs before I finished Season 1.

Oh, and I haven't bought Puzzle Agent yet, and I didn't count the CSI games.

[Avistew]

It does look fun. (And I was trying to be funny, not insulting. Just in case it wasn't obvious).

[The Highway]

Nice try, but I already own everything but Wallace and Gromit 1, 2, and 4, Bone, and Texas Hold 'Em, and I'm just fine holding off on those for now. I just need to install and create shortcuts for what I have.

Plus, I never installed the downloaded episodes from Season 2, since I got my DVDs before I finished Season 1.

Then I inspire you to install and create shortcuts for all games you own! why not display them if you won them?

[GuruGuru214]

Eh, lazy.

[Alcoremortis]

This is sorta random, but one weird thing that I just noticed is that PC users tend to keep most of their icons on the left side of the screen and Mac users keep most icons on the right. I have no idea why this is, especially because I am both a Mac and a PC user and I keep the icons on the right on my Mac and on the left on my PC. I guess it might just be due to factory settings or general accessibility or something, but I just find it a bit weird.

Maybe I'll switch all my icons around and see what happens.:D

[The Highway]

maybe its because that's where icons defaultly go?

[Alcoremortis]

maybe its because that's where icons defaultly go?

Yeah, I just tried switching all my icons to the other side of my monitor on my Mac and they wouldn't go to the edge, which was sort of annoying (I attached a screenshot). I'm going to move them back now.

I guess that answered my question. But now I'm curious as to why Apple decided to make the factory settings different from every other computer out there.

[The Highway]

whoa! what's with that tomb of sammun-mak icon?

[Alcoremortis]

I don't know. What's with it?

I think that's just the way it came...unless the icon pixies are at it again...

[The Highway]

maybe you just need to increase the icon size? (i dont know if you can do that on a mac...)

[GuruGuru214]

Oh, fine.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/GuruGuru214/desktop3.png

[Avistew]

Peer pressure works!
Or you were that bored, I guess?

[The Highway]

Good job! Now you're iconimizing like the pros (me and me)

btw, what resolution is your desktop?

[Alcoremortis]

maybe you just need to increase the icon size? (i dont know if you can do that on a mac...)

I played around with the icon size and it just stays the same way. Maybe this is some sort of weird Mac icon? Ehh, who knows.