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Scarlett Johansson Lost in Translation Wallpaper

Paul — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:42:00 +0000

For my new dark XP theme I wanted a sultry sexy night time ambience, this high resolution screen cap from Lost in Translation was the perfect choice. It came in a 1280x960 resolution so I have tweaked it a little to fit my 1280x1024 screen, you shouldn’t notice a thing.

Desktop April 2006

Paul — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:42:00 +0000

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MP3 Player: Foobar v0.9 with Columns_UI, album art panel, album list panel
For more great setups go here: Hydrogen Audio
Desktop image: Deviant Art

Sunset on the Desktop

Paul — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:28:00 +0000

Well, at least my computer has some form of style. I opted for a radical makeover and went for BLUE. I think it came out pretty good. Shame about the weather outside, the rain came when Samantha left for Edinburgh and she’s gone for the month.

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Click for fullsize, shows themed folder, firefox and last.fm standalone player

Konfabulator is great!

Paul — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:59:00 +0000

I have spent the evening looking for a method of skinning iTunes for windows XP, I’m fed up of the grey scheme and would like the library to take more advantage of the cover art each of my music files has. I really wanted to browse by artist and beneath the artist there would be the album title and cover and to the right a tracklisting / track details. This is what I want for iTunes and I haven’t yet found it. However, on my trek across the internet I stumbled upon Konfabulator 2, the stylish, simple and effective widget machine:

What Is Konfabulator?

Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather.

What sets Konfabulator apart from other scripting applications is that it takes full advantage of today’s advanced graphics. This allows Widgets to blend fluidly into your desktop without the constraints of traditional window borders. Toss in some sliding and fading, and these little guys are right at home in Windows XP and Mac OS X.

I decided to install and experiment. Previously I have used rainmeter and samurize clients to display information on my desktop. Such clients have been slightly annoying to position, congifure and match with my current theme. Konfab’ comes with several preconfigured widgets for you to use; an analogue clock, CPU monitor, Wifi signal monitor, weather forecasts and various others. I used to have a weather add-on for Rainmeter yet the advanced configuration and work to find the local forecast code number was not worth the hassle of the forecast only showing every 3 reboots. So I tried this aspect first, I entered my home town and country and there it was, the forecast in all it’s simple and brilliant glory, directly to my desktop. It also shows the current stage of the moon’s cycle and puts temperatures in a METRIC format. Next up, time to browse the third-party widgets (http://www.widgetgallery.com/).

Here I found an iTunes remote that looks like an empty cd jewel case. Upon playing it shows the album cover in the ID3 tag, if not tag exists the widget searches Amazon for an appropriate cover. Upon rolling over the top half a set of controls to change track, etc… appear, rolling over the bottom half brings up the progress bar, track name and artist name. Simple and eloquent. It also has some advanced features such as hiding itself when iTunes is closed, bringing itself to the front upon track change and hotkeys for control. It also has three spearate sizes for album covers, in the screenshot below it’s on the middle setting. So here’s an image of my current desktop, click for larger.

Kate Beckinsale Desktop

Paul — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:06:00 +0000

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Here is the adorable and beautiful Kate Beckinsale (Van Helsing, Underworld, The Aviator) in an excellent high resolution image. Please note, due to a flurry of attention I have changed the location of this image, you can still access it by clicking on the thumbnail above

Screenshot with Menu

And here is my setup while not at uni:

I am sorry I cannot remember what theme I used, I think it was “Hawk Eye” or something similar, but I made this a long time ago so please stop asking. Thank you.

Desktop November ’04

Paul — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 02:30:00 +0000

I am using Google’s “Picasa” and Picasa’s “Hello” to publish via google’s “Blogger” my new desktop setup. It automatically takes a desktop screenshot, sends it to the blog, uploads it, resizes and makes thumbnails and add this caption. Now I just click publish. Simple and easy. This is why I changed from cutenews, which, although I enjoyed using, was just very fussy.

Sony Cybershot D93 5M

Paul — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:15:00 +0000

I purchased one of these beauties from Amazon recently,
here’s a picture:

New Desktop

Paul — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:04:00 +0000

Samurize, my own template for basic stats
— Tsdesk for PNG icons, 128x128 made 100x100.
— Javascript script added to tsdesk to remove PNG transparency bugs
— Desktop from da
— Studio28 Visual Style

Desktop for 2004, a snow capped peak

Paul — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:53:00 +0000

Find the new desktop here:
DESKTOP

Note:
iPod update complete.
Mozilla Firefox (beasted up with plugins)
Transparent PNG in top right

New Desktop

Paul — Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:18:00 +0000

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