Ever wonder what other people’s desktops look like?
No, me neither until I came across this desktop me-me over at ish’s.
Anyhow, here are mine . . .
Sexy Beast’s desktop
Jaguar’s desktop
Okay, now it’s your turn. 
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Monday, 8 October 2007 at 7:25 pm
I love the way you arrange your icons with respect to the wallpaper. I do that too!
Monday, 8 October 2007 at 8:09 pm
All the better to see them with, m’dear. I once had wallpaper that was full of oranges & orange blossoms and I could never find my icons. I tried placing them in the centres of the oranges but in the end decided to change it to something that had some blank space around the images.
SB has a rooftop shot of Casa Batlló in Barcelona, and the bottom pic was taken in Cádiz.
Tuesday, 9 October 2007 at 12:07 am
Yeah, but how do I post a picture of my desktop on my blog?
Tuesday, 9 October 2007 at 5:56 am
Me loves the first ones wallpaper!
Tuesday, 9 October 2007 at 7:21 am
Thanks, Ashish. That’s my favourite building in the whole world (well, that I’ve seen in person). I used to have that photo on both computers but I recently saw the sunflower one and decided to try something different on the Jaguar.
WC, hold down the Ctrl, Alt and Print Screen keys together, then go to something like Paint (if you’re using Windows), click on Edit and paste. Then save the image as a jpeg, re-size it (these ones are 480×300) and upload it here.
At least, that’s what I do.
Tuesday, 9 October 2007 at 9:29 am
Right, desktop posted
Oh, and the martini of course sits on my work PC
Tuesday, 9 October 2007 at 1:40 pm
Yours is very nice, Ole!
I’ve just changed the sunflower to the original one I had on the Jag … from a trip Nog & I took to Cádiz on his birthday a couple of years ago.
I’m told it looks a bit gray but it’s a nice personal memory and I love the sparkly water.
Tuesday, 9 October 2007 at 2:15 pm
[...] my desktop October 9th, 2007 — noggin Joining in the fun of az’s desktop me-me. [...]
Wednesday, 10 October 2007 at 5:48 am
Sorry, no joy. A) I have Vista and the only thing that’ll paste is a generic Windows background. B) I don’t have a paint program. I tried using Open Office Draw but it didn’t work.
Wednesday, 10 October 2007 at 6:45 am
Wandering Coyote, get one of the lastest versions of GIMP. That will work on Vista fine.
Then grab a PrintScreen as azahar says, start GIMP, New, leave it at the defaults, Then when the new blank image opens up, go to Edit -> Paste as New and a new window will pop up with your screen grab pasted. Click on the Image menu -> Scale and set the resolution [I use 500x500] and click ok. Save it where you want and you have it. Hopefully this will help.
Wednesday, 10 October 2007 at 6:46 am
Oh and Azahar, could you send me that wallpaper? I looooove it.
Wednesday, 10 October 2007 at 10:55 am
My desktop displays a constantly changing selection of photos, it changes automatically every minute with a random choice from my iPhoto library. Sometimes it surprises even me with something I’d forgotten I’d taken!
Wednesday, 10 October 2007 at 11:08 am
Archie told me he has the same desktop setup, truce. It sounds quite cool but isn’t it sometimes hard to find your icons?
Ashish, sending both pics now – glad you like them.
Wednesday, 10 October 2007 at 12:01 pm
azhar, thanks very much! The waves adorn my desktop now as well!
Oh and WC, I missed something, you can grab a printscreen using the Windows Key + PrintScreen.
Wednesday, 10 October 2007 at 3:16 pm
@Wandering Coyote – You can Google for a software called ‘IrfanView’. It is the most amazing light weight picture manager ever! You can resize/resample your images with it too.
Wednesday, 10 October 2007 at 3:50 pm
ah yeah ish, i reckon you told me about that too. It is pretty good and very easy to use
Thursday, 11 October 2007 at 2:19 am
I really like the “Sexy Beast” one. My desktop is so boring.
Thursday, 11 October 2007 at 1:46 pm
Thanks mystarbucks, and welcome!
The Nasa Photo of the Day website is another great place to find wallpaper pics. I have it on my sidebar but often forget to have a look (so many blogs, so little time). I found this spectacular northern lights photo today over on Archie’s blog.
I used to live in northern Manitoba and have had the extreme good fortune of having seen the northern lights many times. They truly are breathtaking.
Friday, 12 October 2007 at 5:47 am
Thanks for all the advice! Not sure I want to go through all that just to post a picture of my desktop on my blog, though. It’s not THAT exciting…
Saturday, 13 October 2007 at 9:19 am
Are you sure you don’t have Paint, WC? It should come with Vista. Did you check under ‘Accessories’ in your All Programmes list?
Vista Help: Using Paint