hmmm I have that desktop wallpaper too, there is no horizontal size for it. Next time I go to centre island, Toronto (where the photo was taken) maybe I can find that spot and do a horizontal version for you heh. You are pretty big on tablet/umpcs!
-does your x200 fan turn on often when doing simple web browsing?
Definitely shows why desktops are *totally* personal preference. I don’t run any widgets or extraneous items on my netbooks or laptops, for example — for me, they’re wasting CPU cycles and battery, however minimal. I’d rather have shortcuts to the weather and use a native clock and wireless meter for example to see the data when I need to. Still, they’re pretty eye candy and make for a nice looking desktop. :)
You guys would freak out if you saw my desktop on my old XP machine. Picture a 17″ 1680×1050 display. I had the nighttime Hong Kong skyline as my desktop background, with the bottom half of the screen showing the beautiful city/waterline, while the top half was literally covered with over 120 frequently-used desktop shortcut icons. That’s what happens when you spend 5 long years tinkering with one great notebook. Never once needed to reinstall the OS or consolidate anything.
My new machine – streamlined. Nice Vista Ultimate dreamscene looping in the background, sidebar showing the bare essentials, and all of 8 icons covering the view. Don’t ask me how it will look 5 years form now though.
Where did you get the HTC Desktop widget?
That is a Yahoo widget.
What tablet are you using now?
This is the ThinkPad x200.
Which weather widget is that and I recognize battery bar, but what is the wireless meter?
This is the air-based Accuweather Stratus widget. Free.
What are those wireless and battery things on the taskbar?
Those are Lenovo utilities that ship on ThinkPads.
hmmm I have that desktop wallpaper too, there is no horizontal size for it. Next time I go to centre island, Toronto (where the photo was taken) maybe I can find that spot and do a horizontal version for you heh. You are pretty big on tablet/umpcs!
-does your x200 fan turn on often when doing simple web browsing?
I never hear the fan turn on.
I don’t really know where you got all those cool apps but they look really nice.
Cool Clock widget. Understood it is Yahoo widget, but which one? There are 30 pages of them listed there? How about a link? TIA…
I searched for HTC clock in Yahoo Widgets. Don’t have the link at hand.
Here’s the link:
http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/flip-clock-by-htc-diamond-2
Definitely shows why desktops are *totally* personal preference. I don’t run any widgets or extraneous items on my netbooks or laptops, for example — for me, they’re wasting CPU cycles and battery, however minimal. I’d rather have shortcuts to the weather and use a native clock and wireless meter for example to see the data when I need to. Still, they’re pretty eye candy and make for a nice looking desktop. :)
I liked the clock widget but Yahoo insisted on installing a bunch of crap I didn’t want. I uninstalled the whole mess.
I remember there were checkboxes to deselect the junk you’re talking about in the install process. I deselected them and no junk was installed.
I will give it another try.
When I installed the “required” supporting software gobs of crap was installed and I was not given the option to not install it.
I removed the Yahoo Widgets again.
You guys would freak out if you saw my desktop on my old XP machine. Picture a 17″ 1680×1050 display. I had the nighttime Hong Kong skyline as my desktop background, with the bottom half of the screen showing the beautiful city/waterline, while the top half was literally covered with over 120 frequently-used desktop shortcut icons. That’s what happens when you spend 5 long years tinkering with one great notebook. Never once needed to reinstall the OS or consolidate anything.
My new machine – streamlined. Nice Vista Ultimate dreamscene looping in the background, sidebar showing the bare essentials, and all of 8 icons covering the view. Don’t ask me how it will look 5 years form now though.