My first play around with Geektool projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/

Main font: Faith Collapsing by nihilschiz www.dafont.com/faith-collapsing.font

Geektool scripts found at www.macosxtips.co.uk/geeklets/

Image: Modified 1970 Pontiac Firebird from www.popularhotrodding.com

Long-time listener, first-time caller to the Lifehacker Workspace Show & Tell. This is my office space at home.

27" iMac

Tizio Lamp Micro

Ikea Gustav Desk

Bungie Cord Chair from CB2

Bed for Cat from Target

"they came to watch and wait.

soon it will be time to feast."

On Black

Music Selection (open in new firefox tab or browser window)

from Kinder Atom - SuperniceHippyPants (1996)

Simplicity of Two Keyboards

autoplay MP3 - Press CTRL (PC) or OPTION KEY (MAC) when clicking to open in new tab.

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NEW!

get the amazing mp3 inline player greasemonkey script from lifehackr.

it automatically adds a little music player to any webpage with an mp3 (such as above)

read here for more information. Brilliant!

Rainmeter with Onimo and a wallpaper :D

Checkout my full write-up at danielheth.com/office

Our tips at lifehacker.com address gets a steady stream of press releases, trolls, desperate cries for help, bug reports, and insane suggestions, even from 4AM to 8AM in the morning.

For Lifehacker . Related: Cordless workspace redux, the Gina edition

This was created following a tutorial that I read here to give pictures a cinematic effect.

Sox are up ten and a half games in the AL East. Unreal.

My desktop setup. I'm using Ubuntu, a breaking bad wallpaper, Numix and conky. Check out the details here: wp.me/p4scdt-1w

Alternate Setup

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I'm pleased with the concept here, although I'm not completely happy with how the shot actually came out. The alternate setup was too close to another shot to be worth posting. So I suppose the real mark probably lies somewhere between the two.

The most volatile addition here is RocketDock. I wanted to give it a second chance, and I do like the unique visual contribution and the amount of space it saves me. But the same problems have arisen: the lack of text labels makes it impossible to distinguish between similar windows at a glance, and it only shows minimized apps, not active ones, which makes it easy to "lose" windows when something's maximized over them. (I do still have my Windows taskbar available via an Autohotkey toggle - which is necessary if only for the system tray - but that's little remedy for forgetfulness.)

Nonetheless, my objective was to design a single taskbar which accomplishes 1) app launching, 2) window management and 3) system monitoring, without sacrificing customizability or compromising on my software of choice. Taken as a conceptual mockup, I think it works pretty well.

Before you ask, the blur is artificial. I copied the bottom 44 pixels of the wallpaper and ran it through some Photoshop filters.

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Desktop

Theme:

- Wallpaper: Summer Time by Frederic St-Arnaud.

Startups:

- Autohotkey.

- D-Color.

- Launchy. Skin: Enigma

Programs running:

- Rainmeter. Skins: Enigma 2.6, customized.

- RocketDock.

This is yet another picture of my Workspace, but I revamped it yesterday, cleaning drawers, shelfs and well, the, eh... WORKSPACE!

The actual desk is pretty minimalistic

- 2 pen pots, one pot for black pens, and pencils, second pot for colored pens.

- 20" Dell Screen

- Logitech Wireless Keyboard

- Razor Mamba wireless mouse with dock.

- Ipod Touch

This workspace works for me because I do a lot of work on the computer, so I do not want nor need clutter on my desk, It also works for me, because when something comes up and I need space, I know I have it and it's there ready to roll!

As a fellow Lifehacker User/Commenter I think it is my duty to have a minimalistic desktop, after all the advice they gave me, it was not that hard, I will probably take pictures of the 'under desk' to let you guys have a look at my wiring. And a picture of my entire workshelf: desk+ 2 side Storages.

Cheers,

Rolfmaomachizlin.

Simple 4-piece cardboard laptop stand. Raises it 7" total, 6" in the back and 1" in the front. Meant to be used in conjunction with full keyboard.

Here is a wallpaper, inspired by the AMC show Mad Men! After watching five episodes straight with my girlfriend, I was inspired to have my desktop reflect my favorite show. Mad Men always makes me feel creative and productive, and thats what I want in a desktop.

Im running Windows 7 (with the Glass Onion visual style) with Rainmeter

-- WP7 is the bar and the rss reader

-- A very heavily edited version of the SimpleMedia clock is my timekeeper and weather ticker

-- Enigma for uptime, battery, network

-- GoogleBar for the Googler

-- Custom Don Draper office wallpaper

Hope you guys like it!

Items starting top left and going clockwise.

Group #1 - all fits in the outside mesh pocket

*Kevlar Sleeves, PPE for sheet metal plants

*Hand Sanitizer

*Hotel Hand Lotion (I was my hands too much)

*Ricola or Vitamin C drops for plane travel

*Ear Plugs (Great for factory tours and loud planes)

Group #2

*Trans by Jansport Backpack in red so that I can see someone steeling it

*Empty Coleman Water Bottle - For travel you can't bring in liquids into the airport but can bring an empty bottle and fill it after security, handy. goes in the other mesh pocket.

Group #3 - Personal Pocket

*Kiplinger Magazine for investment suggestions

*online university enrollment packet

*not shown is whatever book I am currently reading would be here

Group #4 and 5 - work pocket items

*Lean Training Manuals (top right) - try to only bring these along when needed, very heavy.

*Folder with factory organization charts - helps to keep straight all the who people i deal with which ever factory I visit next.

*Engineering grid paper pad

*Two steno notepads - I use one for rough notes, quick thoughts, etc. and the other for cleaned up notes, thought process, deliberate planning. Handy method because one set of notes like my rough notes can be open while the other can be used to clean the wording or outline up.

Group #6 - Laptop

*Company Laptop - Dell Latitude 6430 with i7 Core chip

*SD Card with Portable Apps I need installed.

Group #7

*Pocket Kleenex, I'm allergic to it all, also helps keep USB sticks where I want them.

*USB sticks - lots of them, handy when they are needed

*Mini USB Cord to charge the MP3 Player and connect cameras

*Apple plug for company iPhone 5

*Duracell Car charge to USB Plug adapter

*Apple USB Cord

*Apple earplugs

*Sansa Clip+ with Phillips earplugs - manual backup to iPhone when on airplanes or in bad reception plants so I can listen to music

Group #8

*Dell Charger

*Jockey portable batter charger - great little battery thing, charges my iPhone 6 to 7 times before it needs to be recharged. Also doubles as a flashlight.

*Microsoft 1383 portable mouse

*Random pens

*Prescription Safety Glasses

So for every trip I have this bag and a single carry-on suitcase and never check bags yet have all the stuff I need for a work week. I hope this was useful to someone.

View from my workspace in Las Vegas. Below is the pool at Panorama Towers - in the background are the towers of the Palms Casino. The mornings are perfect for working in the shade.

After creating the original mind.Depositor with clips and used it for a while, I found a small problem but it bugs me on regular basis. To insert and pull out the cards, it requires force, no matter how small it is, it creates stress. That's why superior Japanese stationery designs often put into considerations how to reduce user efforts. They call the practice "Universal Design".

So I set out to do a simpler version by using two pieces of leather only. I also have a practice to carry a small notepad or Field Notes to capture to-do inputs temporarily before transferring them to GTD index cards. So I'm adding a slit for the notepad and a slit to store extra blank index cards.

On the left hand side of the cover, I can put a notepad by inserting it to a slit, put blank GTD index cards in the pocket and insert a Field Notes.

On the right hand side I can put two categories of index cards (Personal and Work) into different pockets.

There is also a flap used as a bookmark or enclosure.

The whole thing becomes more compact and functional. It requires less effort to use, it is a simpler design with pleasant leather as the only material, I'm so happy with it. I especially like the color contrast of the outer white and inner brown. So check out the sections below and learn how to create your own.

Original mind.Depositor

Download mind.Depositor Index Card Templates

How to create the original mind.Depositor

How to create mind.Depositor 2

Previous cover of mind.Depositor: Lifehacker.com (followup, and Japanese version of it), GTDTimes, Moleskinerie, Koloist, David Allen Co., Lifehacking.jp, Geeks Guide To Productivity

More on Scription blog: moleskine.vox.com/library/post/minddepositor-2---leather-...

Here is my new Minimalistic but colorful desktop. I used Rainmeter to do my customizations:

The tags in the middle is called "Hanging Tags" skin by rainmeter. You can find it here: browse.deviantart.com/?q=rainmeter&order=9&offset...

The Text items in the middle actually launch my most commonly used apps and folders. I used the WP7 skin for that: WP7-->TEXT ITEMS-->EXTRA-->MENU.INI. I just copied and renamed the MENU skins to create more than one list. I believe the WP7 skin was part of the whole Omnimo theme that can be found here: omnimo.info/

The recycle bin and the battery indicator is again WP7 for Rainmeter skin.

A Samsung printer sits on a stand to my right side.

To start off, I am a huge Mechwarrior fan. I started off with MW 2 on my old Windows 95 IBM, then later progressed to MW 4. Thanks to Aogu's TF2 HUD concept, it gave me an idea to do a HUD of one of my favorite games! This HUD is based off the HUD from MechWarrior 4, and the completely custom wallpaper was made in 3DS Max 2010 and AfterEffects CS4. Then I mixed some Rainmeter configs both from other people and made by me.

Here is the full size version: [Here]

Here is my original custom wallpaper: [Here]

Rainmeter Configs:

-10-Foot HUD

-Dark.Eve

[Here]

-Enigma

-Gnometer

-MechStats (My custom skins)

-Three

[Here]

I have this entire suite bundled in a Rainstaller file for easy installation! (and so you can easily get my custom skins)

[Here]

Have any comments, tips, or tweaks you think it could use? Let me know!

November 2016

I found the font for terminator and came up with this. I'm using the gradient element of a meter of Rainmeter to get the shading effect, the black shades on both ends are backgrounds using Rainmeter.

And the background is modded from an original poster that features colors.

sarahconnorsociety.net/2008/08/07/reminder-terminator-the...

Samsung GS4, HTC Sensation, iPad Mini, Apple Keyboard and Cinema screen (27")

Well, I wanted to crank out a new minimal desktop before I head back up to campus in a few days...so here is what happened!

I found this neat wallpaper and immediately knew I had to do something with it.

Although this desktop is nothing too exciting, I had some fun making it, and hope you enjoy it. Comments / tips are welcome!

Rainmeter configs:

-Three

and

-10-Foot HUD

This idea came directly from lifehacker.

lifehacker.com/5605300/turn-an-ikea-shelf-and-picture-led...

I used the same parts as described. Hell I ripped it off 100%

This made a great platform for my monitor, MacBook, and desk lamp, and for the LED strip to sit under.

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There's more than meets the eye here. Notice the sterility. Even the song info would be missing if I hadn't timed my screenshot properly. This desktop gives me a tabula rasa so that I can concentrate on whatever task brings me to the computer. Everything is pulled up via control space thanks to Quicksilver (which you'll notice is also removed from the menu bar). Serenity now!

current setup for the summer between semesters

ObjectDock Plus, Windows SideBar, and Circle Dock...

using Widows Vista configured to look like Windows 7...

thoughts?

Inspiration from a recent desktop feature on lifehacker.com

Latest Windows 7 Screenshot

This uses the Rainmeter 2 with the WP7 skin. The Wallpaper changes every 30 mins using the Desktop Background Slide Show feature built into Windows 7.

This is the bare-bones content of my go-bag. (Plus the camera, of course.)

From the top, there's a small medkit, writing material, binocs for shipspotting, A MetRx bar for sustenance (should I decide to go on a nature hike), tuning fork, Boss No 1, camera acessories, a 2GB USB drive for occasional file exchanges, a Gerber toolkit, a signaling whistle and light, a small Victorinox knife, an iPod Touch and headphones, Bicycle playing cards to practice dexterity, Oakley wraparound sunglasses, and a good book to read on dead time.

View from my workspace in Las Vegas. Below is the pool at Panorama Towers - in the background are the towers of the Palms Casino. The mornings are perfect for working in the shade.

I have always thought of the Biohazard symbol as a really neat symbol. I even have one on the side of my computer case! So I figured I'd make a nice Rainmeter setup to compliment that ghastly symbol. Enjoy!

Rainmeter Configs:

[Here]

Wallpaper:

[Here]

Icons (Includes both Light and Dark versions of icons):

[Here]

Playing around with geektool to give me a clock on the desktop, unearthed a great deal of possibility. So I added my todo list, and Events for the day, then since I like to trade on the Foreign Exchange while I am working on some artsy project, I stuck a chart that updates every minute on the desktop as well.

The wallpaper was created by grabbing various things from the web and assembling it into a collage. I am certain that this will change and grow and develop over time. This is across two monitors so there is a lot of room for additions and changes.

Painted the wall against the wall a nice rich brown. I love it. Since the last time I posted, the side wall (next to the window) has also been painted blue, but that was done some time ago. Also got a Macbook and significantly simplified the desk.

Busy busy busy! And on top of that, I've just had a head cold and surgery in the same week. (Protip: sneezing and stitches do not mix.) But I do miss my lifehacking, rainmetering comrades. I hope you'll indulge me in a small "I'm not dead" contribution to the pool.

As ever, please send questions and requests to kaelri+lcd@gmail.com. I honestly read everything I get, even though I don't have nearly enough time to reply to everything. Don't hesitate to be persistent.

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Rainmeter

My Rainmeter theme has barely changed since last year, so there's not much to tell. The skins are slightly-modified Enigma stock, and they get the job done while looking elegant, which is all I ask of them. (If anyone's interested, the system monitor skin is reading CPU, RAM, and wireless signal strength.)

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Trillian

Trillian is my communication and message center, and I'm really happy with the latest update. I was running googsystray as my omnibus Google notifier for a while, but it eventually became too buggy and unreliable for my taste. Now, I just have Wave and Voice send email alerts to my inbox, which lets me get rid of a redundant tray app and receive all of my messages in a consistent place and format. Trillian's popups are great - very Growl-like - and give me the option of deleting, archiving, or marking emails as read, without even switching windows.

Trillian has also grown into a truly excellent Twitter client. The last version was awkward, limited, and behaved in somewhat counterintuitive ways with regard to links and @replies. But all of that is fixed now. I still wish it had support for organizing tweets by conversation, and a less convoluted way to save a search. But on the whole, I'm very happy with it, and the fact that it's integrated in my IM+email client is a huge bonus.

The skin, Sidebar, was a lucky find; it just happened to fit in perfectly with my Windows and Rainmeter themes. But Trillian is still suffering from a severe lack of third-party skins. I encourage anyone with the time and inclination to go help.

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Firefox

As you can see, I've streamlined my Firefox setup a bit. First and foremost, I've jumped on the permanent-tab bandwagon, using FaviconizeTab to keep Gmail, Reader and News open and available without taking up space. This also means that I don't really need a start page anymore, so I've ditched Fast Dial at last.

I also got rid of All-in-One Sidebar, which I just wasn't using enough to justify the clutter. Now, I'm using Personal Menu to place a single Bookmarks button in the toolbar. Aside from the address bar, there is virtually nothing else visible. As before, I access my menu by right-clicking on the chrome, or by pressing Alt to temporarily reveal the menu toolbar.

Aside from those two, I'm still running All-In-One Gestures, Fission, Greasemonkey, and Lazarus - and that's it.

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Behind the scenes, my arsenal of always-running applications has changed a little bit. I'm still running Start Killer, Taskbar Shuffle, D-Color, Autohotkey, Launchy, and Lakrits VS, as described in this post from nearly a year ago. So I won't rehash those. Instead, the differences:

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Dropbox

I've had Dropbox for a long time, too, but only as a kind of incidental tool for specific needs. I tend to be very reluctant to place my trust in a cloud service that is in any way capable of affecting files on my hard drive. But I've finally taken the plunge, and now, I've got just about all of my documents and projects living in there. And it is nice to know that I'll be able to access my active work from any computer without having to think of it beforehand. This shift has also simplified my Documents folder considerably, which is always a pleasure.

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MusicBee

Yes, after years of searching, I've found my holy grail: a solid replacement for iTunes on Windows. Lifehacker gave it a writeup earlier this year, but I didn't get around to trying it until iTunes 10 came out and pushed me over the edge. While it's not quite as visually polished as an Apple product, I'm very impressed by the feature set: with the exception of sharing, it can do just about everything that iTunes can, including file conversions, iPod sync, a robust smart-playlist tool, and a clone of the album art view in the main library. In addition, it won me over with a few things that iTunes does not have:

- Built-in Last.fm.

- Built-in universal hotkeys.

- Third-party theme support.

- An independent "Now Playing" queue, which lets you create and edit an ad-hoc playlist on the fly, instead of being bound to a permanent list.

- Tabs. (I believe the UI framework is actually based on Firefox.)

- Automatic fetching of lyrics and track/artist data, which it can display in a collapsible pane.

- Can play and edit files without adding them to the library.

- The one that's most important to me: wherever possible, MusicBee stores metadata within your music files, rather than using a separate database like iTunes. This includes the saving of album art. iTunes' behavior in this regard has always annoyed me, so it's refreshing to have a media player that respects my ownership of my music.

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flux

I have no idea if it helps me or not, but I've been running it for a few weeks anyway.

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Lightscreen

Lightscreen is a very simple screenshot tool. Basically, it makes my PrntScrn key behave like a Mac's: it automatically saves the screen to an image on my desktop. I can also copy only the active window, or a manual selection, by holding Alt or Ctrl, respectively. Again, very simple, but it's a perfect fit in my system.

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DM2

I'm amazed that it took me so long to discover DM2. It's a simple Windows tray app that gives you a huge variety of ways to manipulate your windows. I use it for exactly three things: to minimize any window to the tray, roll up any window to the title bar, and set any window to stay on top.

Much like Start Killer and Taskbar Shuffle, I consider these to be features that should have been built into the OS. Nonetheless, I continue to appreciate Windows as an OS that gives third-party enhancements such a degree of control over its inner workings.

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Wallpaper: Sailing via Simple Desktops, modified with colorful grunge textures by Lost and Taken.

A simple Rainmeter-based desktop.

Sonic 2 HD Wallpaper - www.s2hd.sonicretro.org

APPOWS2010 - neiio.deviantart.com/art/APPOWS2010-Rainmeter-159386767

10-Foot HUD YBoris edit - yboris.deviantart.com/art/10-Foot-HUD-YBoris-edit-105201352

Taskbar Hider - prisoner7.deviantart.com/art/Taskbar-Hider-162620804

Start Killer - www.tordex.com/startkiller/index.html

Any Suggestions? :D

I've noticed a lot of sites using this image and not crediting me. This and all my other images (unless stated) are Creative Commons Attribute. All I require for you using my image for free is that you add my name on the page in which my image is displayed.

Seen on:

The Next Web

thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/09/27/twitter-to-unveil-p...

Lifehacker

lifehacker.com/5826508/how-should-i-file-a-complaint-agai...

After a month of taking a break and trying to develop my own skins, I decided to do something totally wild. I decided to mix all types of Rainmeter skins into 1 big jumble. And I bring you, DJ. This setup totally goes against everything I believe: using less screen space. I wanted to lug down my 32 inch monitor from my dads computer but its too much work. All these skins are included in my Transformation pack, which you will find the link at the bottom. I mentioned that I would start Project "Rockstar69" and I will be on that project shortly. I will be using my 32' display, since it is widescreen and any setup with 2 sidebars looks nice in a widescreen format. As soon as my first successful project will be finished I will be cranking out Transformation pack v3. Project Rockstar69 will be having a total remake over, including rainmeter skins (waiting for arcs to come out) launchy skins and Visual styles. Stay tuned for that

---------------------------------------------------------Setup-----------------------------------------------------

-Rainmeter-

1. HUD Vision.

2. 10 Foot HUD.

3. Generic's 2.

4. GP.

5. Xtremapplauncher.

6. Enigma.

7. Uber Simplicity.

-Launchy-

1.YFlex.

-Visual Styles-

1.NiteXP.

-Software-

1. Rainmeter.

2.AeroShake AHK.

3. Deskmans Powertoy.

4. Taskbar Shufle.

5.Launchy.

-wallpaper-

1. reMixed Clean Version.

My handy phone cradle.

notes taken on back of my business card (I'm leaving this job, and want to reuse these somehow). inspired by Hipster PDA Nano concept. will upload to Evernote to complete the "external memory" loop. clipped 1 doz of my business cards with small binder clip as my hPDA Nano - thought it might be too small a device, but appreciated the constraint once I was taking notes.

used my LAMY roller ball for these. photo taken with my Samsung a717 sent to flickr via AT&T SMS service, used Evernote's Webclip tool via Firefox to capture to my notebook in Evernote - slick concept, but 1st time was cumbersome, especially since I type ~90 wpm... might skip the photo-scan next time and just enter data.

My LA Sunset Desktop.

Made with GeekTool on my 27" iMac

Feel free to ask about anything in my setup! :)

I'll post the Samurize config if anyone wants it.

The "Arcs" Samurize section was inspired by the "Enigma" desktop, found here:

lifehacker.com/5087956/customize-your-own-killer-enigma-d...

The Windows theme and RocketDock theme "ProjectX 2" can be found here:

sweatyfish.deviantart.com/art/ProjectX-2-97131568

My second Eiffel Tower Desktop made on my 13" MacBook Pro using GeekTool

I finally decided to do a dual screen wallpaper with a simple Rainmeter config. The main information box was inspired by a desktop by Julianhorvat. You may ask why I don't have any Rainmeter configs on the right screen. The answer to that is because I have Firefox open A LOT and the right screen is where it resides.

See this desktop in full size.

What's in this Desktop:

Wallpaper

Omnimo 3.1 for the the back transparent box

Simple Clock for the time and date.

Simple Sentence for the iTunes media display and current weather conditions.

Qlock for the CPU and RAM meters.

The invisible taskbar can be found here.

If you're feeling ambitious and want this skin on your desktop, download this skin install file, and have fun modding it for yourself! (Need Rainmeter v 2.0)

Comments/tips are appreciated.