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Reply 1000

estel

I want another monitor now :frown:

Reply 1001

Tom

So go get one. You can pick up an old CRT for free, or a cheap LCD for £100

Reply 1002

dhutch

Yeah, eaxctly.

I got my first second screen for free off school, little 15" crt to go with the 19 crt.

Then i went single for a bit with the new 19"tft
- Then i got another one simular to match for christmas of my rents.

So ive now got a SM940t and an SM940n pair.

Daniel

Reply 1003

unknownFluency

Ive got a 22" Samsung SyncMaster BW226 (1680x1050) , and some 19" (1280x1024) on the side. It's a nice pair.

Reply 1004

miktumiktu

Alan Partridge has some nice desktop....

Reply 1005

Angel Interceptor

Here's my current background - just a simple shot that my brother took on his last trip to Laos - it's actually a quite nice picture, but I thought I may as well play about with this new-fangled Flip3D thing on the new PC we recently got.

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Reply 1006

Tagit

what do you guys actually use your second monitor for?

Reply 1007

Tom

Um, mainly just to put spare stuff or junk on actually.

For instance on the desktop, I keep my main monitor completely clear, nice backround, etc etc with maybe one or two icons for stuff I really need to remember to do or am working on right now, on it. Then put all the other crap (ie millions of shortcuts, folders, widgets, etc etc) on the second monitor

Or when writing an essay - I would have the essay on the main screen and references or even just the title written in big bold letters in notepad (I tend to ramble, otherwise ^^) on the other. Or iTunes maybe.

Or when playing a game, I'd have vent on the other screen.

Tbh tho I just have 2 because I can. As I had effectively a spare when I bought a new monitor. They're not a matched pair or anything.

Mine...

Angel Interceptor

Looks like one of the backgrounds that comes with Vista to me :confused:

Reply 1010

Angel Interceptor

You're right! I just checked and it IS one of the Vista ones; my brother's shots from Laos are in a different folder. I must have clicked on the wrong one when putting this up. Whoops.

Here's mine:

Most Windows screenshots look bland and similar to most others.

Generic toolbar (okay, some have a WMP plugin), a wallpaper of a car/a woman/landscape, a huge amount of icons on the desktop and the bland default theme. *yawn*.

Reply 1013

o-e-s-j

TomX

qft

Reply 1014

prXXX344d

TomX

I find Mac desktops more interesting. I don't know why, I just do. :smile:

Reply 1015

.Andrew.

TomX

I agree with you, if i had the sense to get a Mac instead of this stupid Windows Vista a few weeks ago, i would have. It's boring. Now im stuck with this :frown:

Reply 1016

Angel Interceptor

TomX

While everyone who uses a Mac has such radical desktops; most of the people I know with Macs haven't even changed their fricking desktop background - still, perhaps such a task is beyond identokit Mac users... :wink:

Reply 1017

wicker_man

The standard OS X wallpaper is quite nice and simple though.

Reply 1018

TomX

Angel Interceptor

I don't disagree that of the Mac screenshots I've seen, they too look similar and bland. I prefer them to Windows (they look suaver) but still... it's boring.

I find Arch Linux's Screenshot Thread to be much more varied (among other thing).

Reply 1019

visesh

I took both of these photos at uni last term :smile:

This is on my windows boot, with a mac-look-shell-replacement-thing. I forget what I used- I've had it for ages now! I also used to use YzDock, but it seemed to delete all of my icons when I rebooted after a dodgy shutdown...

And this is a picture of Clare Bridge from the back lawn of King's college, taken on Halloween. The streaks are from a passing punt which was taking a bunch of tourists down the Cam with candlelit jack-o-lanterns :biggrin: