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Submitting this to Lifehacker's show and tell here on flickr. :) My current Android desktop in celebration of the new HTC Incredible 2 phone that I got!
fuzzy by accident - but that's great - it is the general idea that matters!
My friends held hands like the monks do in Asia and laughing, said -" take a picture - Buddhists holding hands - it's ok to be gay - either way - doesn't matter!"
Since this is my work laptop I keep it simple. (Now that I think about it, I keep it simple all the time.)
Wallpaper is a modified version of an illustration in Thomas Edison's patent for the light bulb (public domain).
Original version can be found here:
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'm trying a new calendar setup until I nail down a good cloud based one. The sticky notes on the desk all mark a single day, tasks are added and the note goes in my pocket on the way to work.
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.
After talking close to a weeks break, on Kaelri's idea, I have come up with Thee organic desktop.
---------------------------------------------------------Setup-----------------------------------------------------
-Rainmeter-
2. Enigma
3. GeoSans
4. myHUD's( hacked version of 10 Foot HUD)
5. Arcs
6. Quick Look
-Launchy-
1. MinimaLaunchy.
-Visual Styles-
-Software-
1. Rainmeter.
2. AeroShake AHK.
3. Autohotkey.
4. Winamp
-wallpaper-
1. I can't remember where I found it.
My current desktop (Windows Vista).
Rocket Dock with HP Dock Icon Set by Media Design
Rainmeter with 10-Foot HUD config
Wallpaper is Edgewood Farm by 360icon.
Rainmeter skins -
:: Enigma
:: WMP 11-Like
Rainlendar skin -
:: Vertical Gab
Rocketdock icons -
:: Token Light
Miscellaneous other programs
:: AutoHotkey
:: Desktop Coral
:: TaskbarEx
:: Styler
Comments deeply appreciated!
Facebook in Firefox 3.5 with Boost for Facebook. Status contains the new '@' feature to supply a link to a user's profile or fan page, in this case...Lifehacker.
Enabled Extensions: [24] in Firefox
* Adblock Plus 1.1.1
* Auto Copy 1.0
* Automatic Save Folder 0.9.2
* Better Gmail 2 0.9.4
* Boost for Facebook 9.8.6
* CustomizeGoogle 0.76
* DownloadHelper 4.6.2
* Fast Dial 2.23b1
* FaviconizeTab 0.9.8.2
* Forecastfox 0.9.10.1
* FoxyTunes 3.5.9.1
* Gmail Manager 0.5.7.4
* Google Gears 0.5.32.0
* GooglePreview 3.22
* Java Console 6.0.05
* Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 1.1
* Move Media Player 1.0.0.071303000006
* MR Tech Toolkit 6.0.3.4
* Simple Dyyno Launcher 1.0.0.26
* Tab Mix Plus 0.3.8.1
* Tabloc 0.3.2
* Ubiquity 0.5.4
* UrlbarExt 1.6
* WikiLook 2.0.7
NASA Night Launch is the Firefox Theme.
All the little icons are my bookmarked links. Since I know the icons for most of the sites, I right click on the link after dragging it there, go into the Properties and delete the Name to make room for more icons. Links to : wikipedia, myspace, netvibes, facebook, twitter, Lehigh sites, break.com, Pharyngula, ESPN, youtube, imdb, demonoid, skreemr, btjunkie, concept2, google, googleMaps, Gizmodo, digg, mashable, lifehacker, kotaku, bungie, pandora, urbandictionary, todaysbigthing, xbox.
The bottom has FoxyTunes (which I use all the time), Gmail Manager, and ForecastFox.
Via Lifehacker I found a howto on Anna the Red's blog on how to transform ordinary radishes into Super Mario Power-up mushrooms.
Now I don't know if this will make kids enjoy radishes more to eat, but they sure like to look at them.
Here's Anna the Red's howto. Many warnings about do not cut yourself etc here. But this is actually easier than it looks and is explained. Go mad, make your own mushroom kingdom :-)
Also check out Anna's bento sets here on Flickr. Amazing work!
I'm a programmer, so for me screen space is king. I run KDE on gentoo linux with a dual screen and 6 virtual desktops. I tend to run windows maximised, and each desktop has a basic function. The important things for me are keeping up to date with information and communication.
Desktop 1: I use Kontact (KDE PIM) to keep track of email/mailing lists, aggregate my rss feeds, hold all my contacts, and maintain a todo list.
Desktop 2: Two Konsole terminals with numerous tabs live here for compiling and other maintenance. Sometimes I run a second instance of Kdevelop here if I'm working on two projects concurrently.
Desktop 3: I do most of my programming here, the main Kdevelop window occupies the left screen, and the Assistant lives on the right screen to display documentation and API's.
Desktop 4: Xchat lives here for all my ircing needs.
Desktop 5: All browser windows get sent here, I have a session saving instance of Firefox permanently open for pages that I need, quick browsing tends to get done in a number of Konqueror windows/tabs I open on demand.
Desktop 6: amaroK lives here for all my music needs. A more perfect tricked out music player can't be found. Global shortcuts rock.
Miscellaneous: Kopete is my instant messaging client, Kget my download manager. BasKet (http://basket.kde.org) is a handy little tool that I use as a second todo list, and to hold any snippets of information that I might need.
I can access any desktop directly via the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+F# where # is the desktop I want, or I can move left or right through desktops with Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right.
This is one of three bookshelves. It is also one of my most important areas of my apartment. All of my major reading and serious intellectual work happens here in a 100 year old chair I found dirt cheap and had recovered in black corduroy.
Download Link: www.sendspace.com/file/by0rk6
Uses this font:
www.fontspace.com/roger-white/swansea
(any Helvetica font will do, really)
Requirements:
1) Rainmeter
2) A 1920x1200 Monitor
Optional:
3) Twitter Account
4) Last.fm Account
5) You enjoy knowing the weather.
6) You drink.
7) You have a hard drive full of high-res pictures of beautiful women.
8) In that case, I recommend GIMP, or Photoshop--touch up the images and resize accordingly. I've provided 15 images to get you started.
Install:
1) Add the required lines to your Rainmeter.ini, unless you enjoy having the pretty pictures appearing above everything else.
2) Fill out the fields you want inside the INIs.
3) Boot 'er up, make sure you're in 1920x1200.
4) The Images folder contains M (model) and S (small). It's pretty easy to figure out, having the raw images is the hard part.
Thanks:
projectvirus--for awesome moral support + flipclock code
Lifehacker--for connecting me to such a talented community
Kaelri--for giving me all the basic code I needed--I just customized it.
Ranting:
I don't know how much more time I'm going to spend on this project. It's probably still buggy, but it works okay on my end.
This is my first Rainmeter skin (it's essentially my attempt to reverse-engineer Enigma), and I've relearned Regex, so I call it a victory.
Now where's my freaking cake?
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.
This desktop had a lot of potential but unfortunately I couldn't do much with it.
The programs I have running are Geektool and Bowtie.
Rainlendar skin
::MoreStyle
Wallpaper
::Desktopography
RocketDock Icons
::Token Light
Rainmeter skins
::Enigma
Other Programs
::ViGlance
::AutoHotkey
::Styler
well, shows how much my desktop has changed according to my new tastes.
(gosh my old desk's were ugly!)
my first attempt with Rainmeter and Enigma (hope I spelled that right) on the last screen.
to view this in all it's detailed glory of my clutter-to-clean transition, click here.
It sounds easy. "Let's offer blogs to our community." But there are hazards that lurk beneath the groovy social software veneer:
* Spammers never sleep
* Workload for training and support - many users will have only a vague idea how to use these tools. Imagine the risks with students required to maintain weblogs.
* Server and application maintenance - many IT units in academic institutions have little understanding or interest in sustaining tools such as these.
Key questions:
* What are the benefits of providing a blog service, when anyone can easily get their own blog elsewhere?
* Could a school offer a weblog service without hosting? What other services would be needed?
* What are the appropriate expectations of users of these services? What can reasonably be provided to them?
* Just how amenable is the culture of the academy to blogging and other social software practices?
* Are there special challenges in dealing with (ahem) 'academic temperaments' and technology? (Hint: you better believe it!)
Tools and Issues With Supporting
* Giving a Blog - a guide to providing blogs (James Farmer)
* University Weblogging: Where, With What System (and How Fast)? (Spike Hall's RU Weblog)- array of colleges providing hosting at the blogware platforms
* Checking Out Other University's Blog Hosting Services by Jerry Smith, Case University
* Public and Private Course Blogs (Digital Digs)
* Efforts to make blogs more versatile include Structured Blogging, somewhat related to the larger issue of microformats
* Look out for the Law! See the EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers
* Standards and Practices for Staff Blogs (News-Record.com)
Better Blogging..
* Lifehacker’s guide to weblog comments practicalt tips for using weblog comments
* Having a hard time writing? See Battling Bloggers Block (caveat emptor the web site is about "blogging for money") Or see 10 Killer Post Idea
Is Blogging A Great Idea or a Bad One?
* Can it ruin your chance of that plum teaching job? Pseudonymous Ivan Tribble wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education Bloggers Need Not Apply
* Why not more scholarly bloggers? by Alex Halavais
* The academic contributions of blogging? (Crooked Timber)
* Blogscholars? (History News Network)
* Blogging Prof Fails To Heed His Own Advice New York Sun
* So Friday was a pretty bad day...., Scholar/Blogger Daniel Drezner is denied tenure. Because of the blog? Could be...
Institutions Hosting Blogs
* Weblogs at University of Calgary
* Weblogs@UPEI (Price Eduward Island) and Weblogs@Holland College
* UThink: Blogs at University of Minnesota Libraries
* Weblogs at Harvard Law is one of the oldest university hosted blogs (Manila)
* Blog@Case Case University
* Reedie Jounrals- Blogs for every students at Reed College
* EduBlogs (free hosting for educators) and UniBlogs (free hosting for students)
See more examples and resources in the blog supporting tag stream.
Image Credits: Mock-up of SciFi book cover created by Alan Levine, derived from my own flickr image from Garden of the Gods (Colorado) and an old Strata3D rendered image
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Man's hands at laptop . Starbucks www.starbucks.com . Dupont Circle, North . Connecticut Avenue and 19th Street, NW . WDC . Sunday afternoon, 26 February 2006 . Elvert Barnes Photography
See photo at lifehacker.com/5798472/a-latte-could-cost-you-a-laptop-if...
All transparency is controlled with Powermenu. Wallpaper is "Retro World - Single" by -kol.
I haven't added anything to my desktop. I have only minimalized my previous. Check out my previous desktop for answers as to what is what. If you still have questions feel free to ask.
As usual, thanks to Kaelri for Enigma 2.0 and for inspiration on my Firefox browser.
I'm using Pinguy OS 11.04 which is based on Ubuntu 11.04
My GTK theme is Elementary
I am using a mixture of conkys bot the top right and bottom left are my creations, the conky on the right is Conky Colors from DeviantArt
AWN is my dock with the Glassybottom theme, with the Flurry icons.
The desktop wallpaper was created with an image from here: www.behance.net/gallery/Battlefield-3-Tribute/2528225?utm...
The album art display is covergloobus using the Lighting theme from DA.
Cheers \m/
Simple and clean just the way I like it. Custom wallpaper and some custom icons with inspiration from yaromanzarek. Gmail mailchecker, 10 foot hud for rainmeter, Pure Admium custom skin for Cd Art Display also used.
Full shot here: www.vagrantradio.com/images/desktop3.jpg
Wallpaper: otisbee.deviantart.com/art/pinpoint-125710215
It's currently not finished. One of the Rainmeter skins still has a few kinks to work out. Mainly a typo and resolution issues. As well as the day of the week problem, the author says he hadn't accounted for the longer names.
Rainmeter skins:
Simply Nova (the unfinished one): bit.ly/simply_nova
RmediaCover: bit.ly/r_music
Token Icon Set: bit.ly/token_icon
Can't remember where I found the wallpaper. But I'll upload it if requested.
Note that you don't frost the lids - they need to remain clear for the solar panel to be as efficient as possible. Next time, I'll be taking all the metal off the jars before I spray them. The frosting comes off the metal really easily.
(Tutorial from Lifehacker. See their "Create Your Own Sun Jar" tutorial.)
Spray the frosting on evenly on the outside of the jar (it's ok if it gets inside too). Let go of the nozzle between sprays, and let it dry a bit between applications. I found that several thin layers were better than a thick coating.
(Tutorial from Lifehacker. See their "Create Your Own Sun Jar" tutorial.)
I hadn't used my 50/1.7 in a while.
living.morethan.com/2009/02/19/no-regrets/
lifehacker.com/5807794/regrets-people-have-on-their-death...
Saturday, October 4th, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.
I was present at a seminar on 'lifehacking' by Martijn Aslander - razor sharp public speaker, resourcer, connector and...lifehacker. It was fun and it was free. The Dutch Jamie Oliver of Lifehacking with an inbuilt smart-bug.
-Que tal compañeros?
-Les comparto este escritorio, esta vez sin Rocketdock y solamente con un skin de Rainmeter.
-CAD.
-Iconos Token Light: fav.me/d24gow2
-El StarOrb es de el tema Glow Air: fav.me/d2hpq20
-Windows 7 Ultimate.
-Tema Pre Black: fav.me/d2qpqfa
-Saludos!
making use of geek tool,
3 .sh terminal scripts,
(top left in green is current username via whoami command from terminal)
(under that is news.sh for my lifehacker feed)
(all the stuff at the top is 2 scripts, google weather powers the bottom two, i handwrote them, and the top is just a date command via terminal)
and
base 02, Lucida Grande, LeviBrush for the fonts
i made this.
its pretty modest, yet looks great (if i do say so myself)
Wallpaper is from here: browse.deviantart.com/?q=tilt%20shift&order=9&off...
email me for the scripts, if u want 'em. (emailme@b3nhub.com)
no changes to the dock...at least....yet.