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Default Your 1024x600 desktop! - 11-03-2008, 01:45 PM

I can't believe this thread isn't here already, getting weird sized desktops is difficult. Over at eeeuser.com the desktop thread was huge!

So, post your mini's desktop, or the one you plan to use on it if you don't have it yet.

I plan to use this one myself:
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Default Re: Your 1024x600 desktop! - 11-03-2008, 04:26 PM

This is what i plan to use

It's the Amundsen-Scott Station in Antartica with a long exposure at night time with a full moon, featuring the Aurora Australis Above.
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Default Re: Your 1024x600 desktop! - 11-03-2008, 04:44 PM

I use EvJO Wallpaper Changer and it changes my wallpaper every hour and when I start it up. I then keep a growing folder of cool wallpapers to use. You can even have EvJO grab new wallpapers from Flickr based on tags you set. (Make up a unique tag and use that on your own photos if you want to grab your own photos from Flickr.)

You don't have to have it running all the time either. You can set it to run at startup and have it quit itself after it changes your wallpaper. That way you get a new wallpaper each time you boot, but don't have the program sitting there running. Personally, I don't mind it running all the time (it only takes 4mb of memory), and I like that my wallpaper changes every hour.

I get most of my wallpapers from SocWall.com. They have hundreds of really nice ones, easily sorted and filtered. I just resize and crop them in either Paint.Net (free and really quite good) or Photoshop.

So, I could post my wallpaper, but it changes hourly and my wallpaper folder is huge, so this thread would get overrun.
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Default Re: Your 1024x600 desktop! - 11-03-2008, 04:53 PM

hehe, I'd rather have a screen capture of an action shot of my desktop..


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Default Re: Your 1024x600 desktop! - 11-03-2008, 05:09 PM

Here's a sample of some of the wallpapers from my wallpaper folder that EvJO chooses from hourly:
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Default Re: Your 1024x600 desktop! - 11-03-2008, 05:10 PM

Here's one I made in Blender, rendered with Indigo.
Scaled down from 1800x1000

Blender http://www.blender.org/
Indigo http://www.indigorenderer.com

Enjoy!
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Default Re: Your 1024x600 desktop! - 11-03-2008, 05:56 PM

Did you render it on the Mini9?


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Default Re: Your 1024x600 desktop! - 11-03-2008, 05:57 PM

Ha, no, rendered for about 72 hours on my 2.4ghz.
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Default Re: Your 1024x600 desktop! - 11-03-2008, 06:09 PM

hehe, that's too bad, it'd make for some cool bragging rights.. heh.. Might need a beowolf cluster of Mini9's tho.. hehehe.. Cool to see those two apps are open source.. Only one of them has an OS X port though.


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Default Re: Your 1024x600 desktop! - 11-03-2008, 06:21 PM

Some good stuff guys. Currently I'm using smaller images that have black or white backgrounds. I then set them to center and set up the background color to match and you wouldn't know they didn't fit in. That is the way I prefer it though.
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