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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.
We decided to move all of our little peripherals off the little rickety bookshelf that used to be in that corner and put them up on the wall. Got the idea from a lifehacker article.
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3/4 inch (2cm) granite with closed cell foam, silicone, and structural felt feet. Speakers rest on top with standard peaker spikes.
My first complete Active Desktop! It's been years since Microsoft published the feature (1997) but I think it's still got it's uses. The small "desktop" tag in the upper left is there to minimize all open applications. I also had to match the color of the real desktop to the color underneath the icon in the lower right because I don't have a fancy widget thingy running which will turn those transparent. This wallpaper was taken from Yokohama Fuka.
So I decided to add some better hardware. new motherboard plus SSD. I like the concept of being behing the most modern (and expensive) technical standard a few years. it just saves you sooo much money to live "like a rich kid 10 years ago". I play with my PS-2, have an older NOKIA communicator model, my last car was a 1987 mercedes S-Class.....
but there comes a time when you want to get something new. in my case, i wanted to shift to SATA with my drives and be ready for USB-3, SSD´s and stuff.
Sky Garden, 20 Fenchurch Street, London - featured on lifehacker.com/the-best-london-tips-from-our-readers-1821... and blog.londonjewelleryschool.co.uk/2015/07/01/combine-your-...
After I saw all the other holiday wallpapers Lifehacker was featuring, I realized I had to step up my game by incorporating my Samurize info with a Christmas countdown, inspired (or stolen) from this desktop: www.flickr.com/photos/15437102@N07/3099581727/in/pool-lif...
just to see if everything works. the board with the mainboard on it will be screwed to the left side IKEA board, possibly a littler further in the back.
DVD will be replaced with a SATA one and put in the hole on the right.
SATA drives will be stacked somewhere
Modified slightly for winter!
Icons- WRMZ.
iTunes controller/ Progress bar- Bowtie with Subtitle theme.
DesktopLyrics
Wallpaper- Shine Through
This piece needed the most attention, being my first welds, sitting the longest exposed to elements, and having the most corners made me hate it. This part of the build was the worst. I don't do body work, it sucks.
Due to the weight and ability to create vibrations the computer and speakers get a better treatment. A felt backer gives distance to the floor, a layer of silicone dampens sound and closed cell foam reduces vibration and makes the granite stable.
My current desktop;
Taskbar - browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=invisible+t...
Rainmeter clock - browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&global=1&...
Invisible start orb - browse.deviantart.com/customization/?q=hotspot#/d2iby52
Icons - browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=token#/d24gow2
Picture - Sorry, I don't remember
Lifehacker user name - Sam
This is a stand I was inspired to make following articles from Lifehacker and Makezine.
The wood was free as a favour from some friends at a local hardware store, the legs cost £1.49 each and I used a pack of screws lying around. I love it!
A detail of how many miles I've walked per day ever since the first day I moved into DC. The large spike just right of center is when I went on vacation in Scandinavia.
My record miles/day is just under 70, set back in 2005 on my very first day in Rome. I woke up at about 7am and didn't get back to my hostel until around 3am -- exploring the city that entire time (including getting arrested for about 15 minutes and, within an hour later, meeting then-Prime Minister Berlusconi). Second place consists of several days in Switzerland (2007) where I was up with the sun and back well into the night, hiking through mountains that entire time... carved up my feet quite nicely those days thanks to wearing brand-new hiking boots. Definitely should've broken those in first!
Enigma Rainmeter Skin from
lifehacker.com/5124643/enigma-desktop-customization-updat...
Updated with Standalone Stack from
www.chrisnsoft.com/standalonestack/
Wallpaper courtesy of www.interfacelift.com
The room this computer currently sits in has no windows so I've found myself drawn to desktop wallpapers with windows lately. When I found this wallpaper (called Earth 2250) on Deviant Art, I thought it would look good with a dashboard type layout.
One thing I like about the TransRounded drives is they link to the actual drives. I also like that the Enigma mail icon links to Gmail. I have always gone for hidden taskbars over desktop icons so at the bottom is my hidden quick launch bar and at the top is my hidden start menu. I am a mac user 80% of the time and I'm used to having a hidden "dock" of sorts at the bottom so putting a quick launch bar here works well for me.
This Desktop Uses:
Wallpaper: Earth 2250 (http://taenaron.deviantart.com/art/Earth-2250-90964041)
Rainmeter Skins:
Modified Enigma Skins for weather, clock, date, twitter feed, and "Audio Track" - mostly size changes on all of these but I completely reorganized the "Now Playing" layout.
Unmodified Enigma Skins for Wireless and Gmail.
(http://lifehacker.com/5158878/enigma-desktop-20-released-adds-installer-widget-manager-and-templates)
Slightly Modified TransRounded Drives - I dropped the [Free] labels and percentages and added drive labels.
(http://customize.org/rainmeter/skins/41847)
Unmodified HUD.Vision for Network and Calendar (http://customize.org/rainmeter/skins/58074)
[updated]
I am reuploading this desktop because I fixed a few things that were bugging me in the initial layout I uploaded earlier this morning, mainly the text sizes on the weather description and date as well as the lack of a now playing display. Everything should also be centered better now as well.
Johniac's desktop for the LifeHacker desktop contest. Active Desktop w weather Channel, traffic cam, weatherpulse, space stion locator and Internet performance.
Thses guys are going on the audio stand for isolation. They consist of a steel spike sitting a pocketed copper plate. This all covered nicely chrome and matte black steel and a felt pad on the bottom.
Wallpaper:
www.seriouswheels.com/2004/2004-Pontiac-GTO-Ram-Air-6-Emb...
(Image has been photoshop'd)
Enigma on Rainmeter. No custom add-ons. Custom Quick launches, and RSS Feeds
Using Taskbar Eliminator also
Gina Trapani (@GinaTrapani), best known for her work on Lifehacker, talks with Dan Patterson (@DanPatterson) of ABC News Radio about life hacking, Open Source, and Google Wave.
Watch this video on Vimeo. Video created by ABC News Radio.
500px.com/photo/119956953/observatory-hill-sydney
Fantastic daytime views at the astronomical observatory in the heart of old town Sydney, Australia. Here overlooking Millers Point towards the Goat Island and the harbor, northwest. Lovely evocative park seats amongst the giant trees. A wedding was just being set up behind me this Saturday afternoon.
This is one of the significant stands of trees in Sydney. It's a Moreton Bay Fig, planted around 1870. trees.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/location/observatory-park/
Single shot processed with a moderate HDR effect using Nik Silver Efex 2 and a bit of additional On1 plugin work, via Lightroom CC.
Not perfect, but lifehacker.com/5870379/done-is-better-than-perfect.
Another clean desktop.
Wall: Modified Grilled Hardcore by CharsiBevda
Link: charsibevda.deviantart.com/art/Grilled-Hardcore-38396662
Rainmeter:
Elemental (Bar, Time/Date, and Notes).
Modified 10 Foot-HUD (Weather)
*Note: The Font is changed to "Print Clearly"
Link: www.dafont.com/print-bv.font
Other: JUST Rocket Dock, with Basic5 Icons, Some Custom.
Also using Launchy with Dank Skin, and Start Killer.
Another note. I really hope that someday. EVERYBODY would post links to the wallpapers....its just a bit frustrating sometimes....
special thanks to nadeem for the clamp. tei.media.mit.edu/~nadeem/pmwiki.php
recently blogged
blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/07/super-simple_camera_cla...
lifehacker.com/5316127/dead+simple-diy-camera-clamp-mount
see also(via lh comments):
www.instructables.com/id/Quick-And-Easy-Dashcam/
www.adjustableclamp.com/replacementparts/products3.asp?su...
Still applying the same concept as in the previous one, only the taskbar has grown since the screen resulution now allows for this waste of screen real estate.
Here's the excellent desktop wallpaper btw.