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A view of the back of my monitor. You can see the dioder LEDs (attached with duct tape, of course). Also, in the lower left, is the small USB hub taped to the back of the computer—it's slightly easier to access than the real ports on the back. The switch for the lamp and the dioder LEDs is hidden behind the desk; all I have to do is reach back and feel for a switch (not as hard as it sounds).
Tidied up the cable with some tips via Lifehacker. Added rope lights for better ambient light. Used some can lights I wasn't using with low power bulb behind the monitor. These are controlled by a wireless switch that I used in a previous project.
Pulled some wall art from storage and threw it on the walls.
-Nuevo mes, Nuevo Escritorio!
-Aqui les dejo este escritorio, espero y sea de su agrado!
-Descripcion aqui
-Saludos!
I bought this at Edward's Luggage: a pocket leather notepad and business card holder, with pen. It is more efficient and portable than any PDA. It costs less than $20 and Edward's Luggage even sells replacement notepads.
Based off a screen by Kaelri.
Wallpaper: Background by gabryae1
The Insignia is my own.
CD Art Display (CAD): Self modified version of the Pure Adium skin.
Rocketdock: Icons "ecqlipse 2" by "chrfb".
This is my desk in college that I have assembled to my liking. It has taken me a little over a month to get everything I wanted but in the end I think it came out very nice. I got the idea of the shelf from reading lifehacker and recently I saw a post that was very similar to my setup so I thought I would share.
Shot of basic desktop.
Nothing fancy here like a lot of tinkerers that like to use Geek Tools and the like to add clocks, calendars, etc. to their desktop.
My desktop is covered most of the time with either a browser or photoshop. Plus, I don't see the need when I have istat and everything else in the menu bar.
Wallpaper is "Lit Blue" by Alan C. Davis from Deviant Art
I located my taskbar on the left hand bottom and don't keep any programs in it. (The following image shows application view) I made the dock clear just by going to the actual folder for the dock and deleting the graphics associated with it, including indicators (since if an icon is there, then the program is open) The reason I keep them here are b/c it lets me make the browser window taller (definitely don't need it wider) and gives me more room in photoshop without a dock popping up because I go too low with the mouse when working.
The icons themselves are "Transparent Buttons" download (from Interfacelift.com) that I started with, but I created 99% of them myself combining other icons with a clear transparent button I made as a master.
I use Adium as my main chat program (names are blurred to protect the innocent) and it pops up right above my task icons. I keep the contact window totally transparent so only the names show.
This is my Windows desktop at work. Pretty simple actually.
System Tray: Winamp, GAIM, MSN Messenger, Rainlender, AIM Triton, Gizmoproject, iTunes, iZotope Ozone Media Player Edition, OOo quickstart, Treo 650 Wireless Sync, One Note, Google Desktop, Other Crap.
Quickstart: AIM Triton, MSN Messenger 7.5, Outlook, Firefox, Opera, QNext, VLC, Winamp, iTunes, WMP, VNCviewer, UltraVNC viewer, Putty, Tn3270 terminal.
Here's my two screen desktop. The left is a 19" Gateway LCD and the right is an HP Pavilion zd8000 which has a 17" widescreen.
this is my desktop! ;)
RockectDock, RainMeter are used.
WallPaper was taken from DeviantArt best wallpaper section. (great vector stuff).
the main idea is simplicity.
Second monitor mounted - after reading a lifehacker post, I thought I'd try out the "standing at your desk" idea, plus it makes use of the spare monitor.
-Aqui otro escritorio...Solo puedo decir que es una gran Pelicula!
-La escena de la pelea antigravedad es de lo mejor que he visto ultimamente!
-Tema Shine: fav.me/d2usxxy
-Iconos Aqua Leopard: iconfactory.com/freeware/preview/aglf
-Rainmeter con skin Gnome.
-CAD con skin ABP: fav.me/d2te1sc
-Saludos!
Picture Description
The Windows Vista theme At the bottom is Called Soulglass i will included download links at the bottem. The left bar is part of a rainmeter skin called enigma and it has 3 rss readers and 1 note application. The black transparent behind it is part of an edit from a rainmeter skin called Black Glass as is the entire right bar. And than the dock at the top is rocket dock with a custom theme called black mac i will include a download link in the description. Than lastly the cd art display under soulglass is called ISOME COMPACT there will be a download link below as well as a download link for cd art display which is the program it uses.And the wallpaper is called In flight and it is from Interfacelift.com i will also include a download link below. Than last but certainly not least is RAINMETER what basically made this all possible there will be a link below not that google doesn't work lol.
Reasons Why i Chose This
Well basically i thought i needed something that i can actually use. Im sure all of you have seen all these crazy enigma desktops and the like but honestly how user friendly are those .... not really but i didnt want to focus on just work. I game on my computer as well as other things so i had to do quite a bit of tweakin to get this config working. Such as every object in rainmeter i set to click through and i also removed the check on keep on screen. When you use fullscreen apps that are a smaller resolution than your screen they will move your rainmeter so be carefull with that. Anyway i just think this is one of the most useful desktops ive ever used. Thanks for the comments btw.
Download Links
1. SoulGlass VIsta - > bubito.deviantart.com/art/SoulGlass-94861506
2. Enigma -> kaelri.deviantart.com/art/Enigma-103823591
3. Black Glass -> lavalon.deviantart.com/art/Black-Glass-50527937 *used for the entire right bar and the background to the left one with some tweaks.*
4.RocketDock-> rocketdock.com/download
5.Black Mac-> www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.id.10448-black-mac-cerium-sk...
6.Cd Art Display -> www.cdartdisplay.com/index.php?categoryid=14&p2000_se...
7. Isome Compact-> www.cdartdisplay.com/index.php?categoryid=2&p13_secti...
8.In Flight Wallpaper-> interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/1747/in_flight.html
9. Rainmeter-> www.ipi.fi/~rainy/legacy.html
And People to get the right taskbar looking like it does edit the empty black box in the left taskbar's theme to set the size or duplicate it by copy pasting and renaming pm me at i.armour@hotmail.com if you need help. thanks for the comments
Clean Version
This is the link at deviant art
vitasimplex.deviantart.com/art/Fade-to-Black-Wallpaper-11...
Chess pieces I made from nuts and bolts. Still a work in progress. Waiting for the weather to get warm enough to paint the black pieces outside. I may re-do the pawns with caps like the bishop currently has. I am open to suggestion for alternative head pieces for the Queen, and Bishop.. and I am looking for an alternative configuration for the Knight which I generally find dis-satisfying.
My basic concept borrows heavily from a set made by Julia Suits that can be seen at www.flickr.com/photos/jsuits/3340377026/
which I found out about via lifehacker.com
rainmeter+soft7 theme+cornerclock+implosion2 cpu monitor+custom facebook feed holder+lifehacker feed holder.
fairly customized.. might get around to throwing together a .zip of everything i used soon. well see.
apx 70'' projected screen
Westinghouse 32'' LCD @ 720P
The desk in the rear of the room can send audio/video to the front of the room LCD (in this case Front Row), while the front game systems can send audio/video to the rear room projector(in this case XBox 360).
Room w/ light.
Bedding + Pillows (Nautica, Bed Bath and Beyond)
Before I moved into my room, I knew I could paint it. That in mind, I wanted to find a color scheme that A.) made me feel comfortable, and B.) Looked good. Naturally I referenced design magazines and various other resources, but it turned out incredibly easy to simply find sheets that I liked, and take the colors to my local paint shop to match. The paint was cheap (only living here for ~2 years, so I didn't need the lifetime stuff). By using a laser level, I was able to have the same clean lines all around the room by 'lasering' the line out, then laying painters tape over it. Pretty easy! The furniture from the entire room was picked up over time through Craigslist, which happened to turn out to be a treasure chest of IKEA furniture!! Awesome for a broke college kid like myself...my apologies for the odd lighting and image quality, unfortunately I don't quite have the funding for a nicer camera!
**If you're on LifeHacker, friend me at StarvingStudent** - somebody already took that name on Flickr...grr...
My father-in-law rigged up a refrigerator-style pantry light with Christmas lights and a Timex watch holder.
When you close the pantry door, the light goes off. When you open it, the light automatically comes on.
See the Lifehacker post on this.
1... 2... 3...
TRP - Hammer Time.
@Referers from lifehacker.com - Turns out that I'm doing it wrong. Yes, I know the nails are in backward. Do I care, not really since the nail I'm holding in my hand is not even remotely near any wood. I wasn't thinking about being correct, I was thinking how to pull off the theme for that day.
If you want to really know, I was nailing air, not concentrating on not splitting a board, thanks.
I doubt I would have caused any damage anyway.
This is the desktop of the profile I use for freelance transcription and transcript editing. The wallpaper is a modified version of Nick Pan's grid wallpaper. The events and to-do list are from Google Calendar and Remember the Milk, routed through Rainlendar, and the clock is from Bootmaker's Analog Clock skin. The files in the upper grid are current working files, such as audio that needs to be transcribed and scripts that need to be edited. The files in the lower grid are commonly used programs (though I have to say I use Launchy for them more frequently than I use the icons; still, it's nice to have them there when I don't feel like switching from mouse to keyboard). I get into this profile by holding down the shift key while booting up; otherwise, my computer will automatically boot into my default CART desktop.
This is my minimalist desktop. The aikido wallpaper is to motivate me to check out an aikido school I've been meaning to attend. I usually have a cool WindowBlinds skin going, but I use XP's remote desktop to connect to my pc from work, and graphical themes slow down the connection. I have a tip on there about using the 'Links' folder under Favorites. If you open the Links toolbar on the taskbar, you can use folders to organize files and shortcuts. That's how I keep my desktop clean. I've been meaning to submit that tip to LH, but I keep forgetting.
From: www.connectedaction.net
Connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word HealthTap when queried on September 28, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another.
See: healthtap.com/
Layout using the "Group Layout" composed of tiled bounded regions. Clusters calculated by the Clauset-Newman-Moore algorithm are also encoded by color.
A larger version of the image is here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/6198785341/sizes/l/in/ph...
Betweenness Centrality is defined here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality#Betweenness_centrality
Clauset-Newman-Moore algorithm is defined here: pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v70/i6/e066111
Top most between users:
@lifehacker
@healthtap
@drpam4women
@androidandme
@drpam
@amazonwireless
@jonmrich
@etseng
@mobilehealth
@doctor_v
Graph Metric: Value
Graph Type: Directed
Vertices: 638
Unique Edges: 3630
Edges With Duplicates: 1337
Total Edges: 4967
Self-Loops: 865
Connected Components: 183
Single-Vertex Connected Components: 167
Maximum Vertices in a Connected Component: 426
Maximum Edges in a Connected Component: 4677
Maximum Geodesic Distance (Diameter): 11
Average Geodesic Distance: 3.098025
Graph Density: 0.008715423
NodeXL Version: 1.0.1.177
More NodeXL network visualizations are here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/sets/72157622437066929/
NodeXL is free and open and available from www.codeplex.com/nodexl
NodeXL is developed by the Social Media Research Foundation (www.smrfoundation.org) - which is dedicated to open tools, open data, and open scholarship.
The book, Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world, is available from Morgan Kaufmann and from Amazon.
Marc Smith on Twitter.
I built this standing desk in response to reading an article on the NY times that was posted by lifehacker. I did up some video and some step-by-stop instructions on my blog:
Learn about this project at www.simplifiedbuilding.com/standing-desk
Use cutting pliers to gently remove the metal covering from the lamp, in order to free the panel and battery assembly.
(Tutorial from Lifehacker. See their "Create Your Own Sun Jar" tutorial.)
Gently pry off the solar panel with a flat headed screw driver. Then scrape the painted covering off the three skrews so they become visible, and unscrew them.
(Tutorial from Lifehacker. See their "Create Your Own Sun Jar" tutorial.)
I created this music album cover collage in 2007, following some steps on Lifehacker.com (I think).
It's not every album I have but is a wide mix of artists I like, from Aphex Tiwn to Underworld.
Geek tool Date and Time
To Learn How, use this guide:
lifehacker.com/#!244026/geek-to-live--monitor-your-mac-an...
To Learn How, use this guide:
You can find the wallpaper here:
My current desktop. I try to keep things in their own little spaces on the desktop, but sometimes I get a little lazy with it. I still know instantly where everything is, just like my apartment.
I got the picture by looking around Flickr for Christmas light pics. Such a better place to look for great desktop wallpapers than Google.
Again, using Rainmeter and Rocketdock to customize my home Win 7 Pro Desktop...
I run one monitor in portrait and the other in landscape - I find it gives me a lot of flexibility in regards to my workspace
Un vieux tiroir de typographe, que j'ai eu en cadeau il y a des lustres, avec des objets glanés depuis mon enfance. C'est inspirant.
Lifehacker featured Rainmeter software and Enigma configs with 10 foot HUD config.
Decided to start playing with some configs to see how rainmeter works... one of the things I did was build that huge clock.
Background courtesy of Bluv
Here is my current set up on my desktop.
Digital Clock = Chip Clock
CD Art Display = A Huge Mod of Enigma
RainMeter = Mod of Enigma to different text & color.
Calander = HUD Vision Mod.
Wallpapers = A Mod of desk08.customize.org/wallpaper/6 & desk08.customize.org/thumbnail/thumb/44.jpg
Inspiration - Enigma Desktop of course. Then I kinda wanted to show a snowy wallpaper on top because it's snowy now but a Summer in the background like a shift. That once the mountains dry and the snow melt you're back to a jungle with the Lion ruling it.