Today’s Desktop
Mike,
I just got a new monitor, and with the increased acreage staring me in the face, I was moved to replace my desktop with a spectacular photo I took last November of the Beartooth Boys in the Indian Peaks Wilderness.
–rakkity
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
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I see some similarities between yours and mine:
Btw, that is a fine photograph.
Comment by michael — February 5, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
The acreage looks similar, but I don’t shiver when I look at your desktop. My shot was taken in a big hurry to get down to warmer climes. I had made a big mistake and worn only sneakers on this hike.
Comment by rakkity — February 6, 2008 @ 2:07 am
Interesting order of icons. Do you use Apple’s Address Book? And what are the two apps below Quicktime, the one under Dashboard and the box above your external hard drive?
Comment by michael — February 6, 2008 @ 8:45 am
No I don’t use Apple’s Address Book. Below Quicktime is NeoOffice (word processing/spreadsheet/…), the one under that is TextWrangler (a pretty good text editor that can read/upload arbitrary files). Under Dashboard is X-Windows, which allows me complete complete Unix-style commands, logons and guis). I noticed you didn’t ask about the one below Firefox, which is Pic2Icon, for converting blah icons into any desired picture. And below that is The Gimp, a poor-man’s (Unix) Photoshop. The one above the USB drive is a folder full of icon pictures ready to replace dull grey icons.
Comment by rakkity — February 6, 2008 @ 2:05 pm
The Gimp. Interesting. The man who named the program must be a Pulp Fiction fan.
Comment by Jen — February 6, 2008 @ 2:35 pm
I’ve never used NeoOffice as I find it hard to distance myself from Microsoft Office (which everyone else int he world uses), is it more or less stable than Microsoft oppening Microsoft documents?
TextWrangler is amazing, and it recognizes emacs commands.
The big question is why use Gimp instead of photoshop? I love my mac because it’s real BSD and that comes with a whole lot of power. It’s also really a Macintosh that will run Photoshop (well at that).
Comment by APPL fan — February 6, 2008 @ 4:37 pm
NeoOffice opens and writes Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, as well as its own equivalents. It works just fine for all my purposes, although I was told it chokes on Word hypertext links (at least an early version used to).
My budget won’t stand both the cost of Photoshop and 2 backpack vacations per year, so I use the Gimp. I have Photoshop Elements on my PC laptop and wanted to use it on my Mac but had problems. Elements was supposed to be upgradable to the Mac, but when I installed it last year it refused to let me run it. Just for fun, I clicked on the app icon last week, and Glory Be, it worked! I have no idea why it works now. (This is just the opposite of my experience with Windoze software, which can suddenly stop working for no good reason.)
Thanks for telling me about TextWrangler accepting Emacs commands. I’ll have to try some of my favorites.
Comment by rakkity — February 6, 2008 @ 7:41 pm