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Subject: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: thereshegoes on 08/27/07 at 4:57 pm

Mine...well ok my sisters.

Btw that is our pride and joy,Unidos de Vila Isabel,the best samba school in Rio :)

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/8217/desktopaw6.th.png

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: whistledog on 08/27/07 at 5:35 pm

My desktop is a picture of Katharine McPhee.  The pic was originally a HQ photo, and when I saw it, i thought it would make for a good desktop, so I resized it, and cropped it to fit as wallpaper and it looks real good! 8)

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/2779/mcpheewallpaperpw8.png

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: thereshegoes on 08/27/07 at 5:37 pm


My desktop is a picture of Katharine McPhee.  The pic was originally a HQ photo, and when I saw it, i thought it would make for a good desktop, so I resized it, and cropped it to fit as wallpaper and it looks real good! 8)

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/2779/mcpheewallpaperpw8.png


Damn Jason,she has great boobs!

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Brian06 on 08/27/07 at 5:41 pm

Sexy Alba.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j277/briand06/alba.jpg

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: whistledog on 08/27/07 at 5:42 pm


Damn Jason,she has great boobs!


Yes indeed! 8)

OF all the pics I found of her, this one really caught my eye the most ;D

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: whistledog on 08/27/07 at 5:43 pm


Sexy Alba.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j277/briand06/alba.jpg


Unbelievable Sexy Alba :o

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Badfinger-fan on 08/29/07 at 11:18 pm

how do I snap a pic of my desktop?

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: whistledog on 08/29/07 at 11:23 pm


how do I snap a pic of my desktop?


- Hit your print screen (prt scr) key to capture your screen (on most keyboards, it's above the 'insert' key
- Open up Windows Paint, and paste in your screen
- Save the pic
- Then either upload as an attatchment or link it from a photo sharing site

:)

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Badfinger-fan on 08/29/07 at 11:25 pm


- Hit your print screen (prt scr) key to capture your screen (on most keyboards, it's above the 'insert' key
- Open up Windows Paint, and paste in your screen
- Save the pic
- Then either upload as an attatchment or link it from a photo sharing site

:)
Jason, I knew you'd help me with this. I'll give it a go. thanks

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Badfinger-fan on 08/29/07 at 11:44 pm

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c235/badfingermike/desktop.jpg

thanks Jason.  that was good tech support. this looks like some kind of bird or something, I am not sure. Julie added it to our desktop

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 08/29/07 at 11:49 pm

here's mine...I've posted it before...but here it is again!

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Badfinger-fan on 08/29/07 at 11:53 pm


here's mine...I've posted it before...but here it is again!


I don't remember seeing your desktop, but that pic of "your boys" is most excellent Erin.

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Green Lantern on 08/29/07 at 11:58 pm

Yeah ... Jason. I've noticed that the pics above seem to be constrained in size .... and I've yet to find a way to overcome this problem. Don't know if it's possible. I mean ... 300px width, 225px height ... seems to be the max we can get here for the screen shots of those desktops.

Like ... well, I've been over to the 'big boards' site ... and it would be nice to be able to whack them in here at close to the size I see them there/ make them readable on THIS site .... but by the time I've uploaded them to image shack etc; and view it here, they're so compressed/tiny as to be requiring a microscope to read!  :( :\'( :(

Is there a way around this? ... preferably not the 'attachment' method ... since that is limited to 128k, and would require a fair bit of degrading of the image quality even if you could do it that way ...

???

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: whistledog on 08/30/07 at 12:20 am


http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c235/badfingermike/desktop.jpg

thanks Jason.  that was good tech support. this looks like some kind of bird or something, I am not sure. Julie added it to our desktop


Glad to help!  Your desktop looks awesome!


Yeah ... Jason. I've noticed that the pics above seem to be constrained in size .... and I've yet to find a way to overcome this problem. Don't know if it's possible. I mean ... 300px width, 225px height ... seems to be the max we can get here for the screen shots of those desktops.

Like ... well, I've been over to the 'big boards' site ... and it would be nice to be able to whack them in here at close to the size I see them there/ make them readable on THIS site .... but by the time I've uploaded them to image shack etc; and view it here, they're so compressed/tiny as to be requiring a microscope to read!  :( :\'( :(

Is there a way around this? ... preferably not the 'attachment' method ... since that is limited to 128k, and would require a fair bit of degrading of the image quality even if you could do it that way ...

???


This messageboard limits picture sizes, shrinking down large images to a smaller size.  The only way around this is to strategically chop your picture into 4 same size squares, and upload each portion of the picture, putting the IMG tags in the order of which the pictures will form the complete image.  It sounds confusing doesn't it?

I should try it with my desktop to see if it works ...

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: whistledog on 08/30/07 at 12:33 am

Testing ... here's a larger sized pic of my desktop ...

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/1081/mcphee1xg2.pnghttp://img184.imageshack.us/img184/8352/mcphee2sm0.png
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8384/mcphee3ng3.pnghttp://img517.imageshack.us/img517/497/mcphee4gi1.png

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Green Lantern on 08/30/07 at 12:44 am

Hey Jason, you just got some well deserved karma for that one. Haven't digested your method yet .. but I see it's possible now, and will have a go at some point!

:) 8) 8) :)

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Badfinger-fan on 08/30/07 at 12:45 am


Glad to help!  Your desktop looks awesome!

thanks Jason.


Testing ... here's a larger sized pic of my desktop ...

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/1081/mcphee1xg2.pnghttp://img184.imageshack.us/img184/8352/mcphee2sm0.png
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8384/mcphee3ng3.pnghttp://img517.imageshack.us/img517/497/mcphee4gi1.png
wow, it worked and I think I see a part of her nipple now  ;D

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: whistledog on 08/30/07 at 12:50 am


Hey Jason, you just got some well deserved karma for that one. Haven't digested your method yet .. but I see it's possible now, and will have a go at some point!

:) 8) 8) :)




It takes precise editing with Windows Paint, basically cutting the pic into 4 same sized boxes.  Unfortunately, I wasn't precise enough with my cutting, so I had to change the width of two of the 4 pictures within the IMG tags so it would look right


wow, it worked and I think I see a part of her nipple now  ;D


LOL no nipples there, though I wish there were ;D

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Green Lantern on 08/30/07 at 12:56 am

Hmm. I see after clicking on various parts of that pic the 4 different parts of the pic. I can understand the uploading/ image tags part of it ... but not really up to how I'm gonna divide the pic up ... into the 4 perfect parts ... where you can't even see the join lines  ... What tool do you use to achieve the 'cutting' into 4 parts?

Also, before uploading them, did you constrain the size to a certain number of pixels?

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 08/30/07 at 9:04 am


I don't remember seeing your desktop, but that pic of "your boys" is most excellent Erin.



hey, thanks Mike! :)

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: thereshegoes on 08/30/07 at 11:16 am


Sexy Alba.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j277/briand06/alba.jpg


Very nice,and quite tasteful,Bri :)


http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c235/badfingermike/desktop.jpg

thanks Jason.  that was good tech support. this looks like some kind of bird or something, I am not sure. Julie added it to our desktop


That looks so cool,wtf is that?


here's mine...I've posted it before...but here it is again!


Ramones's girl 8) Why am i not surprised? lol

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: CatwomanofV on 08/30/07 at 11:33 am

This is mine. I also have a slide show on the side with all sorts of family photos. Unfortunately all the windows I have open cover them all up. I only see them when I start up or close down.




Cat

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: whistledog on 08/30/07 at 12:51 pm


Hmm. I see after clicking on various parts of that pic the 4 different parts of the pic. I can understand the uploading/ image tags part of it ... but not really up to how I'm gonna divide the pic up ... into the 4 perfect parts ... where you can't even see the join lines  ... What tool do you use to achieve the 'cutting' into 4 parts?

Also, before uploading them, did you constrain the size to a certain number of pixels?


What I do is I use Windows Paint, and I measure by the blue sizing handles on the bottom and right side of the screen.  It is all very confusing and very tricky to do

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: thereshegoes on 08/30/07 at 6:12 pm


This is mine. I also have a slide show on the side with all sorts of family photos. Unfortunately all the windows I have open cover them all up. I only see them when I start up or close down.




Cat


Aww,look at that? So romantic :-*

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 08/30/07 at 10:28 pm


This is mine. I also have a slide show on the side with all sorts of family photos. Unfortunately all the windows I have open cover them all up. I only see them when I start up or close down.




Cat



great picture of you and Carlos! :)

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Green Lantern on 08/30/07 at 10:31 pm



thanks Jason.
wow, it worked and I think I see a part of her nipple now  ;D




LOL no nipples there, though I wish there were ;D


http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/1081/mcphee1xg2.pnghttp://img184.imageshack.us/img184/8352/mcphee2sm0.png
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8384/mcphee3ng3.pnghttp://img517.imageshack.us/img517/497/mcphee4gi1.png



http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9707/pacifieryh6.jpghttp://img98.imageshack.us/img98/2337/rightpacifierom1.jpg


That's better!  :D ;D :D

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Badfinger-fan on 08/31/07 at 1:22 am



http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/1081/mcphee1xg2.pnghttp://img184.imageshack.us/img184/8352/mcphee2sm0.png
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8384/mcphee3ng3.pnghttp://img517.imageshack.us/img517/497/mcphee4gi1.png



http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9707/pacifieryh6.jpghttp://img98.imageshack.us/img98/2337/rightpacifierom1.jpg


That's better!  :D ;D :D

so where does this go? ^ ^ http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0Je5mmJs9dGcjIBAAijzbkF/SIG=137l1aond/EXP=1188627721/**http%3A//www.mspiercing.com/ProductImages/m-nipple-ring-three-dangling-stars-1418.jpg

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/07/07 at 7:24 am

This is the picture on my desktop, it is the one I took of the London Eye last week.

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: thereshegoes on 10/07/07 at 8:08 am

Lisbon by night 8)

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/2696/deskli2.th.png

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: NbC on 10/07/07 at 11:22 am

Photo is crappy but here is my desktop

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/07/07 at 11:27 am


Photo is crappy but here is my desktop


What does it portray?

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Green Lantern on 10/07/07 at 7:30 pm


Photo is crappy but here is my desktop





What does it portray?



I did note the 'safari' icon was active. Was curious ... and just found this info ....



Blazing performance.
2x Faster

The fastest web browser on any platform, Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2.

And it executes JavaScript up to 2.8 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2.

What does all that mean for you? Less time loading pages and more time enjoying them.

Performance measured in seconds. Testing conducted by Apple in June 2007 on a 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo-based iMac system running Windows XP Professional SP2, configured with 1GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon X1600 with 128MB of VRAM. HTML and JavaScript benchmarks based on VeriTest’s iBench Version 5.0 using default settings. Testing conducted with a beta version of Safari; all other browsers were shipping versions. Performance will vary based on system configuration, network connection, and other factors.



Here's the link: http://www.apple.com/safari/


I'd never heard of 'Safari' till now. I might well check it out myself. They say it works on Windows PC's  too !  :)

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Reynolds1863 on 10/07/07 at 7:57 pm

Here's mine.

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: NbC on 10/07/07 at 11:10 pm


What does it portray?


I tend to stick to drab uninteresting desktops.  I usually have a plain old blue wallpaper but thought I would spice things up with a raindrop on a sliver of grass.  ;)  I keep it as simple as possible so I don't have as much of an urge to change desktop photos.  I do have a feature that would change my wallpaper as often as every minute but that drove me nuts. 



I did note the 'safari' icon was active. Was curious ... and just found this info ....

I'd never heard of 'Safari' till now. I might well check it out myself. They say it works on Windows PC's  too !  :)



I didn't notice that I had the pointer on Safari.  I mainly use Safari but I sometimes switch to firefox because this site sometimes loads slowly on safari.  Not sure why.

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/08/07 at 1:51 am


Here's mine.
Which castle is that?

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: GoodRedShirt on 10/08/07 at 2:37 am

My Desktop:  :D

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Badfinger-fan on 10/08/07 at 3:13 am


My Desktop:  :D
that's cool

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Green Lantern on 10/08/07 at 3:19 am


My Desktop:  :D




that's cool


Agreed ^.

Not only  8) ... but very uncluttered, unlike mine ...  :-[ :-[ :-[

Hey Luke ... where'd you get that pic from?  :)

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Henk on 10/08/07 at 3:22 am

I should really be cleaning out this mess... Too many icons that I never use.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/2/17/785141/desktopnew.bmp

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Green Lantern on 10/08/07 at 3:29 am


I should really be cleaning out this mess... Too many icons that I never use.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/2/17/785141/desktopnew.bmp


I think I counted 44 icons on your desktop. You think THAT's a mess? Eat your heart out ... think I've got 146 icons on mine !  :-[  :P

Nice serene pic though, Henk !  :) 8)

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/08/07 at 3:38 am


I think I counted 44 icons on your desktop. You think THAT's a mess? Eat your heart out ... think I've got 146 icons on mine !  :-[  :P

Nice serene pic though, Henk !  :) 8)
I was told by IT experts, the more icons on the Desktop the slower the machine will be.

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Green Lantern on 10/08/07 at 3:53 am


I was told by IT experts, the more icons on the Desktop the slower the machine will be.


Even more reason to clean up my mess then!

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Henk on 10/08/07 at 5:12 am


I think I counted 44 icons on your desktop. You think THAT's a mess? Eat your heart out ... think I've got 146 icons on mine !  :-[  :P

Nice serene pic though, Henk !  :) 8)


Thanks, Alan. :) I took it myself, just over 2 years ago, during a boat trip on the Wadden Sea.

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Tia on 10/08/07 at 7:22 am


Lisbon by night 8)

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/2696/deskli2.th.png
that's beautiful!

what's the frog? ???

Subject: Re: Show Us Your Desktop

Written By: Reynolds1863 on 10/08/07 at 8:09 am


Which castle is that?


My favorite one . . . Dunvegan. :)

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