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[Lucid]

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a9/lucid80/workstation-1.jpg

[Bad_Squishee]

So you finally cleaned up! Looks good so far!

[Snader]

he likes coca cola I'm sure

[FooLBoY^]

My Master piece :D
http://www.loonyasylum.net/imagehosting2/hosted/410771228476092.jpg

[Green_Goblin]

Looks like my room that

[skunk]

Its not all unhealthy, I see a carton of Tropicana orange juice - his bodies a temple!

[revooo]

I see something shocking.. :eek: on the top right is a link to "Youtube Take That"

I bet you keep some spare tissues for when ever you click that link :p

[Bad_Squishee]

Take That, Foolboy? Interesting.... :D

Damn, Revoo spots zee gay faster than me....

[FooLBoY^]

I see something shocking.. :eek: on the top right is a link to "Youtube Take That"

I bet you keep some spare tissues for when ever you click that link :p

I cant dl straight from P2P here so i have to go for youtube to mp3 file, and wtf is wrong with take that? :P

[happynoodleboy]

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a9/lucid80/workstation-1.jpg

The bauhaus CD is totally out of place. That is one f***'d up dude...

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

i like the curtains


and the fact that you have to ask foolboy says it all ...... paramore i get but the old farts take that????

[FooLBoY^]

;220874']i like the curtains


and the fact that you have to ask foolboy says it all ...... paramore i get but the old farts take that????

who cares who writes/sings, good music all the same and that take that song is epic.... :P

[JackOfDiamonds]

Take that can suck on a peanut.

Suicide Silence - No pity for a Coward.

what a tune, the whole album is fucking awesome.

[revooo]

Take That, Foolboy? Interesting.... :D

Damn, Revoo spots zee gay faster than me....

you know me :rolleyes:

you'd beat me on Hoff-ness though :)

[Mordeth]

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a9/lucid80/workstation-1.jpg


Whoevers room that is, i bet he playes WoW.

[Ph3nom]

reminds me of my bro's house... nasty!

[Jonty^]

i like how the screens r clean haha

[Snader]

http://www.loonyasylum.net/imagehosting2/hosted/587411230981098.jpg

with all my new stuff :)

[MIsc^|^decoy]

all those cds stacked on top of the wireless router.. are u trying to create wireless grip??? :D

[Bad_Squishee]

I think his family pic is the scary part...

Why would anyone look at a family pic while they are watching educational films? (If they are not german that is)

[revooo]

you're right squishee and the black colors show certain white spots, hope they are not linked to the family pic and the educational films

[JonO]

Nice set up Snades.. Wish I'd got those speakers with hindsight.

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

this is my desktop after a week of having vista
and not being able to get windowblinds and icon packager to work
http://www.loonyasylum.net/imagehosting2/hosted/833751234735604.jpg

i like it but i'd love to change the icons to a nicer set and tweek rain meter a bit more

[zumi3z]

did u try installing thru stardock central?

before someone asks :) re: jo3's desktop

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/Rainmeter.shtml
http://customize.org/rainmeter/skins/58074

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

yea need to get a 'copy' of stardock with a key for it

[JanthraX]

http://www.loonyasylum.net/imagehosting2/hosted/083641234737002.jpg

[Jonty^]

sweet arse desktop jan

[zumi3z]

http://www.loonyasylum.net/imagehosting2/hosted/842141234740247.jpg

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

nice
you using hud vision too?

[zumi3z]

:) i'm not in fact

i wanted to change some things and add menu/buttons for launching apps, i found something with the hud.rss modules but i couldnt work out how to make use of it,
so i gave up and replicated it in Sysmetrix which i've been using for years

the first button on the right unhide desktop icons, and the top one opens a menu of more buttons to toggle the modules and launch apps, only thing is u can't move them

[JanthraX]

people with an lcd screen look at the desktop i posted looking down on the screen and standing close =]

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

yea i seen that

[happynoodleboy]

http://www.loonyasylum.net/imagehosting2/hosted/519091235374347.jpg

Samurize, Dreams (falling snowfalke dream), windowblinds (Zing), Iconpackager (ecqlipse white), Wallpaper from Devart.

[Muz]

nice Noods, i gave up running all the addons and progs to have an animated one.. never time to look at it :p

[Cloud]

hey guys these desktops look really good!! i want to make mine look like that.

I have windows vista 64bit. i have 6GB of RAM to so im not shy on these running these programs all day long :). I've always been cautious about what im putting on my computer tho.. so if i can trust these desktop themes etc. Where do i start the transformation?? can they easily be uninstalled without leaving any traces??

Cloud

[happynoodleboy]

Samurize is difficult to set up but once you get the hang of it it gets a lot easier- and boy is it worth it! My Desktop is actually useful now- it really does help and all of this does serve a purpose. I'm still working on it though as I want to add a weather montior and also make it a bit more interactive (so clicking on the disk stuff opens an explorer window). I also want more RSS feed stuff...

Plus the falling snow flakes look lovely and pile up on the bottom of the screen.

[happynoodleboy]

hey guys these desktops look really good!! i want to make mine look like that.

I have windows vista 64bit. i have 6GB of RAM to so im not shy on these running these programs all day long :). I've always been cautious about what im putting on my computer tho.. so if i can trust these desktop themes etc. Where do i start the transformation?? can they easily be uninstalled without leaving any traces??

Cloud

I'm on 64bit Vista with 4Gb Ram and it runs fine including running windowblinds and Dreams (the animated desktop package). If it does slow anything down I have not noticed- Vista is a temperamental sob anyway!
There are various ways you can create such desktops- one way is using DesktopX (google anything you dont know), but I find that a bit unstable and unwieldy. I am using Samurize for my one above and that puts all the RSS feed, google mail counter, system monitors etc on the desktop. It is very powerful but has a bit of a steep learning curve to begin with.

Anything you put on should be very easy to uninstall. The one exception are the custom themes you find littered here and there (transformation packs etc). A good place to start though is to download the demos for the various stardock apps (windowblinds, iconpackager, etc etc). They are safe and can be uninstalled guaranteed with no crapware or traces (unless you use a crack- v dodgy).

[Cloud]

do u have to buy all these programs i.e. stardock, Samurize etc.

[happynoodleboy]

Samurize is free. Stardock ones yes you can buy them- or you can use the freeware versions which are obviously cut down versions of the real thing. Some of the stardock stuff is free though I think.

I have the object Desktop package which includes everything. Its about $50 for 2 years or something (I've been a subscriber for years though so I think I get a special deal).

[Cloud]

can i just use samurize and get my desktop to look like urs ??? i can't afford these programs at the moment lol.

[happynoodleboy]

can i just use samurize and get my desktop to look like urs ??? i can't afford these programs at the moment lol.

Yeah samurize does all the 'on desktop' stuff and yeah its totally free. You can download some stuff from devart too which is pretty good.

[Cloud]

ok . .just looking at it now and it does look like hard work.. can i download an already made one with a prefered background, font etc. and just customize it ??

[happynoodleboy]

google the eclipse desktop- or look on lifehacker.

[Cloud]

fuck its really not that important to me but can you show me how it works at the LAN ??

Cloud0r

[JanthraX]

if you cant afford object dock then use rocket dock it has the same functionality, samuraize is very good, rainmeter is easy to use
To get themes to work i used a program vistaglazz

looking at eclipse and lifehacker thats going right down to the care and programming your own desktop.

Best thing is to take it in steps
1. choose a wallpaper
2. choose a theme
3. find a nice set of fonts and icons these may come packaged with a theme you like which would be a bonus,
4. use rocket dock or objectdock
5. then look at programs like samuraize and rainmeter

Read though the readmes that come with anything you download so you know how to use it and implement it.

Goto deviant art and visual styles then vista themes, this is a great resources,

send me a pm, if not im sure HNB would make your desktop awesome, i like minimal =D and plain

[zumi3z]

found this really nice rain meter skin

http://kaelri.deviantart.com/art/Enigma-103823591

http://www.loonyasylum.net/imagehosting2/hosted/993531235608088.jpg

[happynoodleboy]

Thats eclipse or a variant thereof isnt it?

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

link the wall paper please!!!!!

love gin wallpapers!!

[zumi3z]

https://suigintou.desudesudesu.org/4scrape/index

search champloo on here, there's some really good ones

[happynoodleboy]

sorry enigma not eclipse...

I'm refining mine...

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

https://suigintou.desudesudesu.org/4scrape/index

search champloo on here, there's some really good ones


had to place an exception for this web page! weird

[Jonty^]

nice website (Y)

[zumi3z]

yeah thats weird, i had to add one just now

never had that before with 4scrape

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

some one must have reported it as a phishing/blaa site

but great site very nice lay out and easy to use

[happynoodleboy]

http://www.loonyasylum.net/imagehosting2/hosted/281631235819858.jpg

More user-friendly this one! Samurize and the usual suspects. Wallpaper by me of Mrs HNB...

[happynoodleboy]

http://www.loonyasylum.net/imagehosting2/hosted/702751237414076.jpg

More samurize trickery. Now includes quad processor monitors, and more RSS feeds. Took me bloody ages but hey thats what insomnia is for!

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

that is nice clean noodles

[Mansie]

Looks good. Some day I might manage to do something different than the basic vista theme over my background.......

[happynoodleboy]

yay I made the front page of wincustomize: http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=343731

[Jonty^]

gz :)

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

congrats

[Snader]

can you make a config file and upload it noods ? Like it m8

[happynoodleboy]

http://www.kin242.net/wooden.ini

It is made for 1920x1200

I'll try and package it this weekend as there are a load of files which need to go with (icons- some of which I made myself, dlls for samurize etc etc)

[Yorky]

Its not fair Karls got wood.............. i want WOOD

please

[[x]wyre]

That's fuckin awesome Noodles!
Think I might have a tinker around with funky desktop shite when I get round to upgrading my PC. Are there ways of doing similar cool things in Linux? Thinking of switching over mostly to Ubuntu.

[zumi3z]

wyre;223957']Are there ways of doing similar cool things in Linux? Thinking of switching over mostly to Ubuntu.Yeah, you can do quite a lot with Conky. Have a look on google images for conky configs.

btw I'd recomend Fedora 10 personally, Ubuntu is great and friendlier, but they all do quite a lot for you these days anyway.

[Snader]

if you got time over I'm on 1680 x 1050

[happynoodleboy]

Yeah you can do a load of similar stuff on Linux- depends what variant you have but there are plenty of desktop apps.

Sandra get a bigger moonitor! Alternatively go here: http://kaelri.deviantart.com/art/Enigma-103823591

Enigma is very similar and comes with installer etc. Of course its not quite as good as mine but hey...

[Snader]

btw it's made with wincustomize ?, does this only work with the vista toolbars ?
maybe you make me change to Vista......

[running sushi]

btw it's made with wincustomize ?, does this only work with the vista toolbars ?
maybe you make me change to Vista......

mate dont change to vista,. i think on my pc configuration went something wrong,.. its freezing all the time , "keine rückmeldung" <--> "no responding" .. mediaplayer or firefox or steam , always is something , i wish i could go back to xp pro

[Cloud]

yo sushi wicked game session on L4D last nite :D... with regards to the freezing, get a program like acronis true image software and backup ur stuff onto an external HDD .. then just re-install windows .. i promise u that u won't lose anything that way m8. ive used it before and it really works!

never too late thats wat i always say :)

[<PrivatePile>]

Nowt wrong with Vista compared to every other version of windows. Not responding is usually down to you memory being hogged by something, try turning off all the non essential start up items to free up some of your memory. Task manager can also give you a good indication of what is happening with your system.

Since when was XP not as buggy as hell and require multiple restarts to fix things?

And sorry for being off topic.

Back on target - Karl congrats on the mention!

[Cloud]

yeah vista 64bit rox0r .. my system is perfect for it .. so if ur system is shit .. don't blame vista :P

[stiffeh]

got vista 64 bit too works great on my comp ^^ 30 sec and my comp is started

[happynoodleboy]

The desktop app is Samurize- no stardock or premium stuff- all free!

[Muz]

right, im fed up with boring wallpapers now :p

can someone post up a list of "free" software to use, not wanting to go toooo extreme. but got to show 4 core processors, memory hdd drives etc.. similar to current setup on windows sidebar.

sorry for size, cba to resize.

http://www.loonyasylum.net/imagehosting2/hosted/798411237574664.jpg

[Mordeth]

Nowt wrong with Vista compared to every other version of windows. Not responding is usually down to you memory being hogged by something, try turning off all the non essential start up items to free up some of your memory. Task manager can also give you a good indication of what is happening with your system.

Since when was XP not as buggy as hell and require multiple restarts to fix things?

And sorry for being off topic.

Back on target - Karl congrats on the mention!


Only problem is that vista requires more memory to run..vista.

But regardless, memory sticks arent that expensive, shouldnt be a problem to get enough, unless you got something hogging it as said. Usually spyware and similar steal abit of your memory doing whatever they are doing as far as i know.

[happynoodleboy]

can someone post up a list of "free" software to use, not wanting to go toooo extreme. but got to show 4 core processors, memory hdd drives etc.. similar to current setup on windows sidebar.


Samurize and rainmeter both provide exactly what you are looking for at the price you are asking! Google them!

[Muz]

ah ty Noods, once again u come to the rescue. u sir are a gentleman and a scholar.

(and i am pissed) :D

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

rainmeter with HUD vison is what your after
very easy to use and mess with

[Muz]

why is it soo awkward to setup? u have to choose everything and place it?

cant it be more simple..

if someone can package me something it will be much appreciated.

[zumi3z]

thats just how HUD.vision (and enigma) was put together so you can do what you want with it, there's tons of skins available that are packaged into a single bar though

[Muz]

will hunt around for one then..

bloody annoying to try and understand tho

[happynoodleboy]

With samurize you can download a pre-done config or you can just fiddle with it to make on yourself. It takes a bit to learn but once you grab the basics it is pretty simple. Helps if you have a good idea of what you want beforehand though.

[running sushi]

this is my current desktop, nothing special .. couldn´t find any nice icons and themes exept hud vis. and this nice wallpaper

http://www.loonyasylum.net/imagehosting2/hosted/862921238194418.jpg

oh yes,.. it´s a JPEG pic, cause that its very loow . looks much better in bmp :P