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Casa Grande, AZ Library using twitter to post updates twitter.com/cglibrary
International K12 student project using twitter for group status on projects horizonproject.wikispaces.com/Virtual+Worlds+Communicatio...
US President Candidate has more than “2000 friends” twitter.com/johnedwards
Lifehacker on Twitter and Productivity www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/twitter-use-it-product...
webworkerdaily.com/2007/03/15/eight-ways-twitter-is-usefu...
Twitter and notofication of earthquake in Mexico gracedavis.typepad.com/i_am_dr_lauras_worst_nigh/2007/04/...
Andy Carvin on use of twitter www.andycarvin.com/archives/2007/03/can_twitter_save_live...
A chruch using twitter swerve.lifechurch.tv/2007/04/13/tech-you-might-want-to-us...
Notification of server status nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2007/04/14/using-twitter-for-serv...
Serialized novel via twitter twitter.com/zombieattack
Daily quotes from books- entices readers? twitter.com/TwitterLit
News organizations:
-Nuevo desk!
-Nada nuevo, personalmente creo que solo es una buena combinacion y nada mas!
-Saludos!
A bit of a cop out on my photo today, it seems everyone does something with music but I've been busy applying for jobs. Music is one of my favorite things in the world though, it's got incredible power.
Song of the Day: "Benson Hedges" by Fun.
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Featured on the front page of Lifehacker.com on April 5th, 2010!
lifehacker.com/5509863/from-the-tips-box-voicemail-remind...
Featured on Mashable.com on August 24th, 2010!
My first "real" SXSW party, complete with fire-code defying population density, open bar (if you could maneuver your way there) and tons of Kevin Rose lookalikes. Needless to say, I only stayed long enough to say hello to Gina Trapani and crew -- I wanted to meet Adam Pash who wrote about Renkoo a couple months back -- and then split for the peaceful hotel bar beloved by middle-aged suburbanites like myself.
My desktop, with its wallpaper combining two of my favourite things: Half Life and Iced Earth \m/.
The overal layout and configuration is aimed at absolute productivity. This is done by moving all the key areas to around the center of the desktop, which hosts content such as web pages, documents etc and still has access to information and desktop links.
The wallpaper is from wallpaper abyss (wall.alphacoders.com).
I use Launchy for most of my application lauching, and display RSS feeds, the weather, ToDo list and calendar using Rainlendar Lite.
No icons whatsoever on the desktop, rocketdock handles that.
The visual style is Smooth Glass by ~dimage, a nice an simple darkish style.
The awesome icons on rocketdock are of course part of the Buuf icon packs by =mattahan, I used various packs to get the icons I liked the most.
Will probably post a Greek guide on all this on my site, www.cyprusmania.net
References:
Wallpaper: wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?p=Video-Game-Half-Life-6277....
Visual Style:http://dimage.deviantart.com/art/Smooth-Glass-65856226
Rocketdock:http://rocketdock.com/
StackDocklet:http://rocketdock.com/addon/docklets/15724
Rainlendar: www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php?option=com_frontpage&...
DisplayFusion:http://www.binaryfortress.com/displayfusion/
MultiMon:http://www.mediachance.com/free/multimon.htm
Digsby: www.digsby.com/
DeskAngel: www.wxftools.com/deskangel/deskangel.html
Foobar 2k: www.foobar2000.org
Buuf Icon packs:http://mattahan.deviantart.com/art/Buuf-37966044
Qttab: qttabbar.wikidot.com/
Filetools: qttabbar.wikidot.com/local--files/plugins/QTFileTools.zip
Launchy: www.launchy.net
I hope I didnt forget anything... if anyone has any questions please comment!!
many thanks to Lifehacker for giving me the insight to create this desktop :P
geeks on speed, la dose quotidiana di web2.0, apps & tips per sentirsi i più fighi dell'extended network.
Following the latest fad of using this wallpaper. Rainmeter skin is a mod of the time included in: customize.org/rainmeter/skins/62898/
Minimalistic as possible, while maintaining functionality. Shortcut keys associated to the most used apps in the quicklaunch folder.
One for the lifehacker desktop show and tell.
Desktop is usually blank and also have my dock hidden until mouseover
Simply made a screenshot capture from a Batman e-book, which did have fewer speech bubbles than the original. I added a few more using a simple MS paint like program.
I added yahoo weather widget to get the sun (which looks out of place, but usually fog and cloudiness blends in perfectly) in the top left.
Used comic font international superhero for the text in the speech bubbles.
Have basic info on it such as time, date, weather, and itunes song info (incl. rating, album, artist etc) Hope you like it!
I love my desk. On wheels for good mobility and free access, floor panel (foot rest anyone?), and a really interesting shape. The metal bars allow for great places to attach stuff! My peg board assembly is zip tied to the side, can you see my router poking out? Still some loose cables in the back. I've left them somewhat loose to make it easy to move my desk around.
I'm not going to lie to you: moving is always stressful. But you can minimise the stress with organisation and planning. Here are 10 tried and true tips for making the process easier.
Like many people, my major experience of moving house happened in my early 20s. However, over the weekend I helped my best friends shift house in Melbourne. The disadvantage of moving later in life is that you have far more possessions to move, and (in many cases) the added complication of children. The advantage is that you've done it all before, so you've got a better idea of what's involved.
1. Start chucking out unwanted stuff early
If you don't start packing until the day before you move, you'll end up panicking and just throwing everything into boxes without consideration. As soon as you know a move is on the cards, start the spring cleaning process. It's much easier to throw stuff away than shift it, but if you're trying to get rid of a lot of stuff, you'll want time — whether that's to sell it, freecycle it, give it away, or (in the worst case scenario) dump it.
2. Get measurements for the new place
Few things are more stressful than realising your cherished family heirloom won't fit in your new living room. Try and schedule a pre-move visit to get accurate measurements of the main rooms. Also measure the width of the entrance doors, so you know what will (and won't) fit through them.
3. Weigh up using a removalist
If you've got lots of massive furniture, a bad back or an interstate move planned, then using a professional makes sense. If you have a lot fewer possessions or are only moving a short distance, then hiring a truck and doing it yourself can make sense. There's no absolute rule; just consider your circumstances. Make sure you get quotes from multiple removalists if you do go down that path. If you hire a truck to drive yourself, take photos with your camera before you use it to avoid insurance arguments over any pre-existing dings.
4. Tell your neighbours your moving date
As well as providing them with advance warning that there'll be large trucks about, there can be other benefits: they might volunteer to help, or offer to let you make coffee at their place while the moving is happening.
5. Box everything you can up
Using boxes along with shipping supplies makes life much simpler and means you can carry more on each trip. You can buy packs of 10 archive boxes for about $20 at chain stores, or hit up bookstores for particularly tough boxes. When in doubt, use extra packing tape on the base of boxes to avoid unwanted splitting incidents. For really heavy items (like old-school vinyl LPs), plastic crates can be a better bet.
Okay, so...as anyone who knows me knows--my house has a lot of stuff in it. That includes coins. What to do, what to do? I was stumped until lifehacker passed along a neat little tip. You can use those big green Coinstar machines at the Giant Eagle without incurring the 8.9% (bastards!) coin counting fee if you get your money back in a gift card to Starbucks, Amazon, or a host of other cool places.
With visions of free coffee until I was thirty dancing in my head, I set out to turn some coin into some coffee. The first picture is the coins before I organized them. Dante is there to be cute and add scale. As you can see, some are wrapped. A misguided attempt to be organized two or three years ago resulted in a big pink tub of wrapped coins with my account number on them sitting around my house. So, I unwrapped them (my shredder's gonna be busy tonight), and put them in those plastic storage boxes you can buy at Kmart, as you can see in the middle photo. Dante just had to get in the shot again, didn't she?
So this morning, I wake up bright and early, try not to give myself a hernia taking those containers out to my car--lift with your legs, remember!--and head off to the Center Avenue Giant Eagle. I loaded the containers into a shopping cart, and wheeled it to the big green machine.
Where I would spent the next hour.
I hit "Starbucks Gift Card" (it said something about a $400 limit, but pshaw, I thought--I'd never get it to that) and started dumping coins. The Coinstar machine was suprisingly strong--I was convinced that I would break it, but I would imagine that it's probably seen a lot in its time. If you listen very closely while you dump your coins, it makes tiny little "kaCHING" sounds--very attractive. It was like Vegas in reverse!
At one point it stopped, and I thought for sure I had broken it and would spend the rest of my days wandering from Giant Eagle to Giant Eagle, with my blue and pink plastic containers, like a coin-carrying gypsy. Nope--"My you have a lot of coins!" said the screen--"Please wait while I catch up!" This was accompanied by a cute little graphic of the Coinstar machine sweating. SWEATING. I am not making this up. The coins it didn't take (some Australian and Mexican coins that got gathered up by accident) came out in a nice little slot at the bottom, and I stuck them in the blue container.
It was a very satisfying experience--some ladies walked by and said "She's been saving up for awhile!" Yeah, try 23 years, ladies. Another woman came up to me and inquired whether I "owned that machine." I can't imagine why I would be feeding money into a machine that I owned--like my name is Laine Coinstar or something. Maybe she thought I was a plant; like, a model designed to go into stores and get you to use the Coinstar by making it look really fun. Well, it WAS really fun. And I was really happy. I may have even danced a little at the end.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. The pennies hit the 4,000 mark, and things started adding up. At 402 dollars, I thought I should stop, since I was over my Starbucks card limit. I figured I'd just give the rest to charity or something. Besides, I still had half of the pink container left. So I hit "done," waiting for my free coffee to be presented to me. Oh, but it was not to be. "You do not qualify for the Starbucks Gift Card because you are over the $400 limit," snarled the Coinstar machine. Crap. CRAP.
Luckily enough, I qualified for an Amazon gift card. The limit there was $1000. Two hours before this, I couldn't imagine someone having $1000 worth of coins in their house. Now, I could definitely see it. I probably would have gone over the Amazon limit if I'd waited a few years.
So, I got my Amazon money, and then focused on the Starbucks card again, vowing that I wouldn't make the same mistake. It turned out okay--I got my Starbucks card as well. The photo is blurry, but the total was: Amazon--$405.49, and Starbucks--$230.30.
Just a bit more: here
Better view, here you can see the handle looped in the mesh. Its amazing how all that is held by one binder clip.
I've got a two screen setup that runs off of my laptop. The key to our setup is that I need to be able to travel anywhere and have everything with me. I've resisted the urge to have a desktop that is my "main computer".
My submission to Lifehacker's Go Bag. basically, what's in my bag at any given time.
1. One water bottle. (Freebie snagged from LexisNexus at the last conference I attended. This is not always inside the bag as it depends on the weather and how much I need to drink on my commute.)
2. Fingerless arm warmers. (I have awful circulation in my arms so carry these all year round)
3. Glasses and their case
4. A small selection of my personal Moo cards. (Inner zipped pocket)
5. Oyster card (Season ticket zone 1-3. I just tap in and out. Bliss! Cover was merchandise from the last Bloc Party gig I attended and has the track listing for their second album on the back. This lives in the very front pocket for ease of reach.)
6. Zipped plastic pencil case containing various meds (hay fever, painkillers, Strepsils), make up (eyeshadow, perfume, mascara, chap stick), Bach rescue remedy, mints, Lush temple balm.
7. Swiss army knife. (Inner zipped pocket)
8. 4gb iPod Mini and noise canceling headphones. (iPod contains: music + contacts + Podtender. I might have been a student fairly recently... iPod generally lives in one of the side pockets.)
9. Wallet (coins, notes, cards, rail card - for the trips I take out of London - misc business cards, plasters, migraine pills, stamps)
10. Hand cream and powder compact. Current book (not always in there)
11. Pens, mobile phone (old and annoying), clip on light (also conference freebie, probably soon to be replaced by a penlight), 1gb USB stick (inner zipped pocket), tissues (see: hay fever)
12. City Moleskine (London, of course), just finished planner (soon to be replaced by an 18 month Moleskine), Train timetable.
13. Canvas bag for any purchases made during the day. (also snagged at last conference. Lives in second front pocket.)
Not pictured: Small pocket umbrella, set of keys, at least one pencil. Camera (Olympus C-450, slowly dying) + spare rechargeable batteries.
-Mi nuevo escritorio!
-En cuanto tumblr vuelva a la normalidad subire las especificaciones...
-Por lo mientras el wallpaper principal (hecho por mi en Photoshop CS4) lo encuentran en mi galeria de Deviantart
-Saludos!
dffrnt desktop wallpaper - 1280 x 800 resolution. This is the wallpaper I had used for desktop 2 on the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell pic.
Visit us and drop a comment at our site: www.dffrnt.com
See www.flickr.com/photos/rbstijl/3761415977/in/pool-lifehack...
I lookedup some old photo's to give you an idea how much has changed.... The old situation was after we moved, so we did the best we could.
I like the new situation alot, the cables are also more hidden, a project for the future...
This is my second attempt at using Geektool and the Sands of Time Tutorial to make an active desktop.
From top to bottom, Time, Day of the week, Month and Date, Year.
I've also got Dateline running down at the bottom.
Wallpaper is from Interfacelift.
Desaturated this wallpaper. Created a new Screenshots folder and deleted my LittleSnaper library. Also applied the Aqua Inspiriat theme again (I love this theme).
My latest Rainmeter configuration, simple, minimal, with a hint of grunge!
Configs:
- GeoSans Rainmeter Skins ( customize.org/rainmeter/skins/61120 ) Used for CPU, RAM, Net, HDDs. Large reflected text was custom made by me based on originals.
- Redux: For the 10 Foot HUD
This desktop is completely custom-made. The wallpaper was made to inspire creativity and reflect drive. the icons were also custom-made (195 app. icons total), and the dock was made to match the background as well The Docs and Dowld stacks are by henftling at henftling.deviantart.com/art/Blob-inspired-stacks-123090388 and are available to download.
Aaaand here's the trough itself- it's not pretty in there, but it's very functional! The beige ellipse is the dioder control switch.
So after the lifehacker feature , and after reading all the comments, I decided that I would do a huge update, and add the options to add widgets as well as adding black and white versions of BOTH the widgets and the actual bar. So thats it. Get the latest version here
Want the whole setup in 1 package? Check out my XP Transformation Pack v5.5 to get everything previewed in the desktop above (except for Visual Style)
The desk is made from red oak, which is good for its sturdiness and strength. I used two 4 ft by 8 ft sheets of ply and a bunch of board. Since red oak is pricey, my all of my measurements were based on what sizes were available at Lowes. This ensured I had very little scrap left over and of course keep costs at a minimum. Total cost of the wood materials were $226.02. My desk is about 5 ft across and 5.25 ft high.
Wallpaper from: www.wallpapers-place.com/animals/cat-waiting-mice-hd-wall...
Geektool for time, date and weather. Used the scripts from lifehacker
Bowtie theme GSL by dr.vox on deviantart
Candy for Gill sans text icons from deviantart, easy to search for
Minimum2 icons for hard drive and other folders for deviant art as well.
So I decided to release LineEnigma as a standalone and in my Transformation Pack. I thought that it would get alot of good ratings because its a clean nice, organized version of Enigma.
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-Rainmeter-
1. LineEnigma
-Launchy-
1. MinimaLaunchy.
-Visual Styles-
-Software-
1. Rainmeter.
2. AeroShake AHK.
3. Autohotkey.
-wallpaper-
Simple, and Clean Desktop.
Not too many configs.
Wall: Industrial by ccreativo
Link: ccreativo.deviantart.com/art/Industrial-132598883
Rainmeter:
- Elemental Bar, Clock, And Notes.
- Custom 10 Foot HUD Weather.
PS: The font is changed to "Print Clearly"
Other: ObjectDock, and Rocket Dock, with AMANA, and BASIC5 Icons.
Launchy with Dank Skin, etc etc.
I think this is a more useful desktop, because it only shows what i NEED.
No CPU, or RAM, or....other stuff.
Hope you like it!
Using Samurize with page scrapper to get the Gmail, Twitter, weather, and Facebook updates.
To do list is automatically updated from the text document in the stack.
Using Object Dock with stacks plugin for the dock with Buuf Icons. [link]
Wallpaper is PHOTONS [link]
Also an ever so slight gradient on the ends for better readability.
Made with labs.wanokoto.jp/olds , heard about it from lifehacker.com/386822/wanokoto-webapp-turns-photos-old+timey
Original: www.flickr.com/photos/torley/2446573613/
Finals are over, so I thought I would make a few edits to my last desktop, "Better Than New Moon".
This one's pretty much the same, except I changed the wallpaper and the dock has been modified.
So, here are the components:
Wallpaper: "Sunday Afternoon", By BenBackman
Link: benbackman.deviantart.com/art/Sunday-Afternoon-149905081
Rainmeter: My own, "Re- Synergized"
Link: sharmander3.deviantart.com/art/Re-Synergized-144440797
Comes with Weather, Power, and Time and Date, as well as Notes.
Other:
StartKiller
Vista VS: Gaia 09
Launchy: Enigma Skin
RocketDock: Custom Skin (Basically the Icons from the Rainmeter Config, stretched to fit the proportions of the Dock). Using Stacks Docklet.
The Icons are "Mnml", By Brsev.
Thats basically it.
This is Version III of my "VistaSkullz" This time I used the Final Version of SlanXP and changed the wallpaper. Besides that nothing has changed. I found out that the icon Toolbar also works for Vista. The instructions are the same. Here they are :)
right Click > New > Folder. After you do that, Drag that new folder to an edge of the screen as far as you can, and a toolbar appears, in that toolbar you can have Quicklaunch or any toolbar that you can have on the taskbar. This is a system wide operation, and doesnt require any downloading of software, its simply one of the best kept secrets of Windows (You can also set it to Autohide, like I did). Thanks to that, My whole desktop can be used for Rainmeter and RainLender modules Check out my Photostream to see more of my iconless Desktops.
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Theme
Rainmeter Skins
Wallpaper
The setup needed for working from abroad will always include some form of voice over IP telephone system. I've been with Vonage for a year, and despite being a long time skype user, talking to my web-cam never felt very professional. Having a phone line direct to the US where clients can call and I can pick up has been a game changer.