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Jester took over my laptop when I was reading the Lifehacker article titled "Top 10 Battery Hacks, Tips And Tricks." So here's a tip I can contribute: Keep cats away from your computer. (Whether it's humanly possible or not is another story.)
Inspired by a post in Lifehacker. I traced the shape of a frame on butcher paper, then taped onto a wall. Moved papers around to a pleasing arrangement.
Bonus- only one hole per nail.
Sitting in the booth as I mix the paint I have them balanced on chopped angle iron for minimal covered spray zone.
Using silicone again the top will be secured to the file drawer top and the support on the wall. Paint-able clear caulking was used around the edge of the stone to hide the warp in the wall.
wallpaper: modified from a certain lifehacker post containing photos taken with an ultra-wide fisheye lens i think. but i cant rmb where.
vs: areao4, modified. i forgot to feature the new close/minimize buttons in my last screenie but you should now be able to see it.
rainmeter: modified GAIA08 rainmeter, modified calender by chaebi, engima, qorb, 2ndgig. one really cool thing that i, again, have no time to explore is the tabs at the right. as you can see, i have set thme to be "topmost" so i can access it all the time; my current plan is to reduce the size of this tabbar and perhaps introduce a clock, a dock, or something along those lines to be placed at the top right hand corner. if it works, it would replace the tclock i am running at the top (:
dock: a single icon, at the top right hand corner. i see no good reason why i should keep seeing firefox in my dock when i am using it so i use standalone stack. pretty neat. if i fail to understand how to tweak the tab mentioned above.. i shall use the flipclock clock in the dock instead.
again, appealing for people who have made/modified VSes before to tell me how i can change that ugly pink that you see on the taskbar. i want to change it to red, and i would like to change the font as well (:
hope you can draw some inspiration from this!
(p.s. if you dont want to see the stack, and you dont want to see the window, you can look at this: www.flickr.com/photos/34129670@N04/3751889001/)
Pretty much a complete rip of : lifehacker.com/5302941/the-minimalist-windows-desktop
hahaha, but I liked it a lot so i made some changes with the layout ( first time using Rainmeter ) and changed the wallpaper to match closer to my website.
Baked egg in avocado. Pro tip: carve out as large a pit as you can before you crack the egg in so that the egg shall not runneth over. Tasty with some hot sauce. lifehacker.com/5881942/bake-an-egg-in-an-avocado-for-a-fa...
This is my latest setup. Not much has changed beside the Gmail Icon and the Compact system Icon, and the Picture slideshow module. I am also going to start a new project with rainmeter and my desktop so stay tuned. Thanks to chaebi69 and his amazing "Rockstar 2" desktop, I will start to make more organic and smooth desktops that seem to just.....fit. Stay tuned to my photostream and Lifehackers Desktop pool.
This is a modified Ikea closet organizer. I needed a desk with a very small footprint, a large enough workspace, and heigh adjustment, and I couldn't find anything that worked as well. The shelf was a bit of an afterthought but I like it so much I may add another level.
The chair is a fully customizable Sayl from Herman Miller. I spent the last 3 years with the Aeron, and I would recommend the Sayl for comfort and adjustability. But don't believe the hype on the affordability of the Sayl, after all the add-on's it was almost as pricey as the Aeron.
Purple Haze v1.0
created by r3ginald
Questions? Email me: r3ginald@gmail.com
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This theme has two sets:
- With borders
- without borders.
Each set contains the following in black and white (more colors will be released in future versions):
Sidebar
- Applications
- Calendar
- iTunes
- Notes
- Picture Frame
+ 16x9
+ 16x10
- Radio
- RSS Feeds
+ DevART
+ Digg
+ Engadget
+ ESPN
+ Lifehacker
+ Rainmeter Forum
- Time
- User Info
- uTorrent
- Weather (black/white)
- Wifi
+ w/ available networks
+ w/o available networks
Topbar
- Applications
- iTunes
- Notes
- Picture Frame
+ 16x9
+ 16x10
- Radio
- RSS Feeds
+ DevART
+ Digg
+ Engadget
+ ESPN
+ Lifehacker
+ Rainmeter Forum
- User Info
- uTorrent
- Weather (black/white)
- Wifi
+ w/ available networks
+ w/o available networks
My current desktop.
This is XP x64 with emergeDesktop as the shell.
The icons down the left hand side of the screen are, effectively, my task bar and correspond to open windows/programs. The smaller icons near the guy in the chair are the system tray icons. And the two at the top are just shortcuts.
My media player of choice is foobar2k, with Samurize reading and displaying all the song information on screen, as well as the spectrum analyser (which is dynamic and moves as I listen to music).
The clock at the top of the screen and the wi-fi meter below the system tray icons are also part of my Samurize config.
edit: all elements of the desktop are now also noted on the screenshot so mouse-over to see what's what.
Wallpaper is of my own making and can be found on deviantArt, as can a full-sized screen-dump (which flickr seems incapable of offering).
Another version of my desktop (one which shows what it looks like when I'm not playing music) can be found here.
This is another theme, using the black version of a vista theme! Thank you Lifehacker again! My "Alien" Desktops are now done for, as I have found NEW better themes)
Linux Mint on dual monitors. ring sensor screenlets in the bottom left corner, four gnome-panels, and wall-e wallpaper.
Violet Blue, Fleshbot's Jonno D., and Lux Nightmare at the Valleywag/io9/Lifehacker SXSW 2008 party.
My fondest memory was at a concert in Denver, Colorado in 1992 when my friend Alan and I made a sign and waited outside the concert hall and waited for Whitney Houston to drive by.
Images from Sayesbury [http://www.flickr.com/photos/vt/sets/72157622052509758/] at Flickr : Via Lifehacker
I used a polypropylene cutting board cut into strips to act as a low friction sliding surface for the granite to sit on. Two strips will line the steel bar on the desk and the other two will run parallel epoxied to the underside of the keyboard tray. Thanks to Ryan for the table saw and mitre saw.
This is a screen shot showing my Samurize Twitter feed on my desktop. I have no icons since I use Launchy, AutoHotKey and Texter. All Lifehackery goodness! I only have the recycle bin there since if I have no icons my wallpaper does not show up. Theme is the Zune theme on a patched XP system.
Powdercoated Steel cabinet.
Not much to say. Looks nice, nice quality.
Tech one side, clothes the other.
01 - CD Soft Bag Collection of Live CDs , Tools and Backups
02 - Smartphone (most times)
03 - CAT5 cable
04 - Pager
05 - Macbook
06 - Berlin Transit Network Map
07 - McGyver Multitool
08 - additional Storagecard for DigiCam
09 - USB Card Reader
10 - CAT5 Coupler
11 - Power Adapter
12 - VGA Adapter
13 - iPod Nano (Old Design)
14 - my Favorit ballpoint
15 - waterproof pen
16 - Bluetooth Mouse
17 - Power Adapter Adapter
18 - Remote
19 - ear-plug
20 - Fan
21 - earphone Adapter
22 - Antistatic tissue
23 - Modem
24 - Modem connecting cable
25 - Aspirin
26 - lens cleaning tissues
27 - nasal spray
28 - cold ointment
The use of storage units is increasing in popularity across the U.S. with many people finding it easier than ever to rent a space to suit their needs in a safe and secure #environment. There are many reasons why an individual or family would want to store their cheap moving boxes in a storage unit including the feeling there is not enough space in a home for their belongings or that items need to be stored in the short term as a move is made. Why should anybody choose a storage unit and make sure it is the correct one for their needs?
Starting with price, each individual deciding whether to rent a storage unit should always look at their budget and decide if they can afford the monthly cost of a storage unit which may be too much when a move is taking place. Moving is an expensive business for many to complete and the added costs of a monthly storage unit rental can add anywhere from $50 to almost $200 depending on where the unit is located and the facilities offered.
Once the budget has been adjusted to include the cost of a monthly #storageunit the next step is to choose where the chosen unit should be located which is a more intriguing mission to undertake than can be imagined. The questions which should be asked at this point include how often will the unit be visited and will it be emptied piece by piece or during one major removal day. Units in rural areas are often cheaper but if the unit is to be visited on a regular basis the cost of fuel and time spent traveling should be factored into the overall cost of the storage unit.
Another factor when choosing a storage unit is when will a visit take place and is access needed during all times of the day and night. Some people may only wish to visit their storage unit during regular business hours which could lower the cost of the chosen unit as the level of personnel required for these units is lower.
When choosing a storage unit it is always a good idea to make a personal visit to the facility and take a tour to make sure the location is up to the standard required and offers clean, affordable units of the correct size. The first aspects of any storage unit facility which should be inspected is the exterior where a secure fence should be in place covering the entire perimeter of the facility to protect all the units held within. Other areas to consider include the need for a security guard at the gate or a security keypad only allowing access to those with a security code. Video camera surveillance #equipment should always be present on the property to add a further level of security to the facility and create a better experience for renters. Finally, it is important to discuss insurance details with the staff at the storage facility to make sure the center of the unit is covered for the property they hold in the unit at all times.
Linux Ubuntu 8.10. Using the HP Netbook styled theme and also Some Emerald elements to change it up a little. Conky configured off a script I found on Lifehacker.com
I am always perplexed when people look at my house and say that it is very beautiful - but how can I live like that? To me the thinking is the wrong way round. The whole point is that this is how I live, so this is what my house needs to be like. The architecture is the physical expression of a way of being: the form does not follow a particular fashion, it follows a particular life.
The only universal measure is whether the space feels comfortable and right to the people who use it. Minimalism - or, as the sculptor Donald Judd preferred to put it, the simple expression of complex thought - is only one valid response of an aesthetically diverse society, answering the needs of particular individuals and provoking debate in society at large about how we choose to live and how we expect architecture to support these choices.
I believe we have to get away from the idea of minimalism as a style and instead understand it as a way of thinking about space: its proportions, its surfaces, and the fall of light. The vision is comprehensive and seamless, a quality of space rather than forms; places, not things. This is why, in its fullest and most satisfying expression, it is not something that you can readily acquire a piece of.
I think it is important, too, to understand that minimalism is not a manifesto for spartan living. This is a recurrent misunderstanding that springs in part from its association with movements where renunciation of one sort or another is a central theme - it is unusual for a discussion of architectural simplicity not to include some reference to Zen Buddhism, the Cistercian monks or the Shakers. One may respond to the aesthetic expressions and indeed share many of the needs that these movements have sought to address without adopting particular codes of behaviour: one can want a place where it is possible to be still without necessarily wanting to pray in it.
Minimalism is not an architecture of self-denial, deprivation or absence: it is defined not by what is not there, but by the rightness of what is there and by the richness with which this is experienced.
This is definitively not about creating the architectural equivalent of the hair shirt, but about making the best possible contexts for the things that matter in life, on paring back the accretions of surface and behaviour to what is essential: the glory lies not in the act of removal, but in the experience of what is left. Profound - and pleasurable - experience is located in ordinary experience: in the taking of a shower or the preparation of food.
People tend to home in on the idea of removal, believing that it is all somehow a case of throwing out the furniture and painting the walls white. The serious thought that underlies the endeavour is missed. Real comfort is not about a large sofa; in my view, many things that look as though they should be comfortable aren't at all.
For me, comfort is synonymous with a state of total clarity where the eye, the mind and the physical body are at ease, where nothing jars or distracts. This emphasis on a quality of experience is important. Some people seem to have an idea that the only role the individual has in such spaces is the capacity to contaminate. In the sort of work that interests me, the antithesis is true: the individual is always at its heart.
We are living through a period of rapid change, which we fuel with our hunger for the latest new thing. Novelty as an end in itself is overrated. Instead of pleasure in its more profound forms, we chase distraction. We are preoccupied by ideas of the future when what we are really trying to do is make the present feel new and engaging.
In architecture, this translates into rolling programmes of refurbishment. We change everything and nothing. If our interest in the future is really the desire for a present that satisfies us - physically, visually and psychologically - can we develop perpetually interesting forms that exist outside the forces of time and fashion? This, I believe, is what the aesthetic of simplicity, with its vast and paradoxical potential for richness and sensuality, offers.
Slideshow MIN2MAX
www.flickr.com/photos/55176801@N02/sets/72157631924323858...
I like fish and I went to school, so with that many thick hard cover books I made a better impromptu monitor stand setup after the cardboard number almost gave up.
Inspired by a post in Lifehacker. I traced the shape of a frame on butcher paper, then taped onto a wall. Moved papers around to a pleasing arrangement.
This set is on a painted wall, making the arrangement of the paper easier to view.
Note: while tracing the frame I used a pencil to poke a hole where the nail would be placed.
I got a $5 bouquet of carnations, which can tend to look pretty cheesy on their own, but if you take out the greenery and bunch them together tightly, they look pretty cute. I made some mini-bouquets to set around the house and help bring some color to our gray days.
lifehacker.com/5421639/get-fresh-flowers-throughout-your-...
Clearing out the old apartment, I discovered this bottle of brandy that had belonged to my departed roommate Benay. It was behind some other bottles, and only the top part was visible; since it was open, I had assumed it was empty.
During my recent eradication of a minor infestation of brown grain moths in the pantry, I had trapped the moths that were flying around using a tip I'd seen on Lifehacker: pouring a small amount of apple cider vinegar into a wide glass and adding a few drops of dish detergent. The vinegar attracted the bugs, and the dish soap added enough viscosity to drag the infernal insects to their richly-deserved deaths as the bottom of the glass.
As the picture shows, it turns out I could have saved all that cheap vinegar and dish soap by simply using expensive imported brandy.