Post a picture of your desktop!

[flai]

To everyone, no, it is not OS X, it's Windows, and for all wanting the wallpaper, go here -

http://xiaobeike-alexshell.deviantart.com/...undown-60993218

 

[rhyguy]

what theme are you using flai?

and what res is your monitor, it looks pretty big

 

[flai]

what theme are you using flai?

and what res is your monitor, it looks pretty big

Its 1440x900 but I am getting a 1680x1050 22" in a while. The theme is Royale Vista II - http://dobee.deviantart.com/art/Royale-Vis...-Final-55318441

 

[Urza]

Its 1440x900 but I am getting a 1680x1050 22" in a while.

22" LCDs are all TN-film displays, which have the lowest quality picture out of the three display types.

I'd recommend the 20" Acer AL2051W (AMVA display), or step it up and get the 24" Dell 2407WFP-HC (PVA display).

 

[kellyan95]

22" LCDs are fine, the Samsung 226CW in particular. The 24" inchers cost twice as much, and I doubt he is a videophile having a 1140x900 for this long

 

[flai]

Its 1440x900 but I am getting a 1680x1050 22" in a while.

22" LCDs are all TN-film displays, which have the lowest quality picture out of the three display types.

I'd recommend the 20" Acer AL2051W (AMVA display), or step it up and get the 24" Dell 2407WFP-HC (PVA display).

I was planning on getting a Samsung Syncmaster 226BW, as I have a Syncmaster 940BW at the moment.

http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/pl/25-867205/...-Compare-Prices

But I suppose it wouldn't hurt spending the extra little bit of money on a massive monitor, suppose that Mac Mini will just have to wait a while...

EDIT - The Acer's not an option, I hate glossy screens.

 

[kellyan95]

Happen to miss my post thar?

Anyway, the best 24" monitors are:
Dell 2470WFP-HC ~$660
BenQ FP241W ~ $750
Samsung 244T ~ ???

 

[Wii_DS.]

Posted in this topic twice w/o even showing off my Desktop...how lame.

Anywho!

(FF FTW)

 

[flai]

http://puner.deviantart.com/art/My-Set-Up-60957138

Any idea what stuff is in this setup?

 

[kellyan95]

Here is my current super-high-performance Vista desktop.

 

[Scorpei]

@flai:

I've had 3 226BW's at home and all three were dodgy. The first two were fine colour wise (really quite okay panels which were quite nice but they had dead pixels) however the third was simply hell in backlight bleed. Samsung was screwing around with the panels in the 226BW which was causing major problems. Instead of using only one panel (manufacturer) namely Samsung they replaced the panels by those made by CMO/CPT or AU optronics (though the latter was nearly never in there with more recently made units).

Thinking about getting a 226CW now as they seem to be SamSung only panels right now and look quite good.

More info on different panels btw;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFT_LCD

 

[flai]

Ok, so I might go for that Acer, I don't have anywhere near enough money for a 24" Dell.

Which Acer is this?

http://puner.deviantart.com/art/My-Set-Up-60957138

 

[Scorpei]

Not sure. But as for the Samsung 22BW it's not that I didn't like the panels (well, the first two I liked aside from the dead pixels) but just that samsung did the whole panel manufacturer mess. I mean putting 4 different panels in the same product without telling users over a period of less then half a year each panel of crapier quality then the one before it :s. Even worse when people started returning their units because of the whole panel thing Samsung removed the option to see panel info

to shut people up. I mean really

.

 

[Wii_DS.]

 

[Scorpei]

Haha Wii_DS

. As for something on topic, the TS wanted the pic of my background right? Well as I was recently working with the 226BW (sigh) I made two in 1680x1050 size

(based on screenshots of X3):

http://meuk.scorpei.com/background_x3_scorpei_2.jpg
http://meuk.scorpei.com/background_x3_scorpei.jpg

 

[flai]

 

[dg10050]

flai: What do you use as the media player on your desktop?

 

[AshuraZro]

Haven't changed much. Just on a 22'' LCD monitor now and the two icons have some more transparency so they blend into the wallpaper a bit more. Now for a "thumbnail". Overkill-style.



The wallpaper is just something I whipped up in photoshop quickly as I'd rather not waste time looking for something "just right". I'm not one to normally promote windows on a desktop but I felt the wallpaper needed at least something on it that stood out. I came across that vlc skin there only a few days after setting this theme up and I was pretty surprised just how well it fit in with the theme. So much that I'm curious if the current theme I'm using either inspired that vlc skin, or was inspired by the vlc skin. To finish things up, a dash of LClock to have a refreshingly different clock. Now enough chit-chat about this screenshot, let's move into off-topic territory.

I will be taking a look at Launchy right now, or at least I would if sourceforge wasn't doing maintenance. I've known about programs like this but limited ram has made me a little reluctant to bother with them. Although after a little upgrade to make The Orange Box play a little more "prettiful", it's very appealing to me now as I constantly find myself hitting alt+f2 to try to launch apps once I get back to Windows after a bit of time messing around with linux (which I'm still fairly green with).

 

[Urza]

flai: What do you use as the media player on your desktop?

http://www.closetosoftware.com/?s=cdartdisplay

 

[Azimuth]

flai: What do you use as the media player on your desktop?

http://www.closetosoftware.com/?s=cdartdisplay

*nix users

gnome: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/45+...s?content=67772
kde: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/45+Am...s?content=56962