See my desktop, show off yours.

[Pierre.Suave]

Mine is cool.

[Pierre.Suave]

1. Usually these thread take off

Why isn't this one?

[Maraya1969]

2. Well for one I have no idea to do what you just did.

Did you use a digital camera and just take a picture?

[Pierre.Suave]

3. no, not at all

I took a screen capture of my desktop.

Are you on windows or mac?

[Maraya1969]

8. Windows and I would love to learn how to do that if my machine can handle it..

[Pierre.Suave]

13. It is pretty easy to do

put on your desktop what you want to see, or take off what you dont want to be seen, lol.

Then hit the Print screen button. Then, open Paint and paste the picture into it, and save it as a jpeg.

Then upload it to imageshack http://www.imageshack.us/

and then come to DU and copy and paste the Direct Link Imageshack gives you into your reply on DU and it will show up.

[dysfunctional press]

47. this is mine...

it's a painting i saw on ebay...asking price- $88,000.

[Omphaloskepsis]

4. Mine..

[Pierre.Suave]

14. The new Leopard background

NICE.

Are you running a beta of Leopard, or just the background?

[Omphaloskepsis]

16. Just the background.

[Pierre.Suave]

18. where did you find it?

I was looking the other day and could not find it.

[Omphaloskepsis]

19. I zipped a copy for you. I don't remember where I found it.. Maybe Flickr?

.zip

[Pierre.Suave]

21. thanks

I appreciate it.

[triguy46]

5. Gimme dem 'structions so I can play!

[Pierre.Suave]

15. for mac or pc?

it makes a difference.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

20. I'm on a mac...

and while I know how to post the pic that's on my desktop, I'd like to know how to do a screen capture (or whatever) on my mac. Please 'spain. Thanks!

[Pierre.Suave]

24. well, there are two ways

One involves downloading nothing, the other does.

First, you can open system prefs>keyboard&mouse>keyboard shortcuts to see what the keyboard shortcut is to take a screen capture.

Second, you can go here http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/business/screenshotplus.html and download the widget that will take one for you, if you have OSX 10.4+

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

58. Thanks, here are mine. (I'm running two monitors, so two pics)

I took both pics in Thailand. The first one is the beach in small fishing village outside of Phuket, the second is the view from the shore of James Bond Island, so named because some scenes from Goldfinger were shot there.

[Pierre.Suave]

59. Very Cool photos

thanks for sharing.

[Omphaloskepsis]

31. Two ways..

#1 -- In your Applications folder you will find a Utilities folder. Inside of that you will find a App called "Grab"..

#2 -- Hold down "Shift Command 3" at the same time. That will place a png of your screen on your desktop. Command is the Apple key to the left or right of the space bar.



Also: Shift Command 4 will give you cross hairs so you can pick what you want. "Shift Command space bar 4" allows you to take a picture of just a window.

[Pierre.Suave]

32. yeah, you typed it all out

I told him where to get the info...

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Unless I stumble across a killer photo or starscape, I use one of my own

subjectless, generated abstracts.

[qnr]

61. That's interesting. Is it totally random, or do you have patterns

that are worked fleshed out?

[pinniped]

7. I'm still using this one.

[Blue-Jay]

17. I've stayed there!

[Pierre.Suave]

27. Is that

vegas?

[Blue-Jay]

33. The Bellagio, to be precise.

[stuntcat]

9. my NEW wallpaper

on my NEW computer :headbang:

[qnr]

62. That's a nice shot. I'd imagine that the angles might interfere with

desktop icons a bit though - but what would I know, I don't use any icons at all. Congratulations on the new computer.

[Tripper11]

10. I just changed mine.....

We live in Renton, WA and last night I went up to my roof took this sunset picture.

The body of water you see is Lake Washington.

[Pierre.Suave]

30. The pics we take

make the best desktop pics.

Yours is nice.

[GenDem]

11. My kitty lurking in the flower garden

[Pierre.Suave]

29. What a nice kitty

is it friendly?

[GenDem]

60. Very friendly toward us,

but a ravenous hunter. She was born feral, so she has a taste for the hunt. Today I toke a Hummingbird away from her. I just hope it's OK -- it flew off, but was a little off kilter.

[Call Me Wesley]

12. Changed today:

[Pierre.Suave]

26. That is cool

even though it is a PC and Vista...

lol

[Okiojira]

22. A current favorite of mine:

[Pierre.Suave]

28. LOL

is there a meaning to that?

[CatholicEdHead]

23. Love the MPR iTunes stream

:D

[Pierre.Suave]

25. me too

I listen to it all the time.

[ghostsofgiants]

34. I might make a new one soon, but this one is serving me well for the time being...

[qnr]

35. Mine is boring. This is my actual laptop desktop, not just the wallpaper, reduced.

[Ptah]

36. Mars

[Whoa_Nelly]

50. Hey Ptah!

Sent you an email ;)

[Pierre.Suave]

54. your sig cartoon is awesome

I LOL'ed.

[BlooInBloo]

37. Mine changes daily... here's today's....

[Blue-Jay]

38. Is that Timothy Leary's toilet bowl?

[BlooInBloo]

39. Now that you mention it, maybe there IS a pattern - here's yesterday's....

[Pierre.Suave]

40. hey thats neat

is there a story behind it at all?

[BlooInBloo]

41. Depends on whether or not "I found it on the internet' is a story. :)

[Pierre.Suave]

53. LOL

not one I was hoping for.

[Whoa_Nelly]

49. Here's mine

A batik called Blue Moon




PS to Ptah..sent you an email ;)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

42. Mine:

This is a cool photo of all of the Boeing airplanes starting with the 707, lined up on a taxiway at Boeing field in Seattle.

[BlooInBloo]

43. Sweet - is that a 787 at the back?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

44. No, that's a 777.

These are all airplanes that are actually in service, and that flew in for the 787 rollout.

[BlooInBloo]

45. ah - I gotcha.

[Pierre.Suave]

55. Thats awesome

The 787 will be awesome too!

[Omphaloskepsis]

46. Strange, I don't think I have ever seen such a Mac centric Desktop pic thread here before.

[Pierre.Suave]

56. It's awesome

isn't it!

[Drum]

48. Here's what's on now:

[BlooInBloo]

51. Aahr! The sea, she is a fickle mistress! lol!

[Drum]

52. lol...

'tis true, so true!
:hi:

[seemunkee]

57. Le Tour

A friend took this and emailed it to me.