Minimalist Wallpapers
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http://mashable.com/2012/04/23/minimalist-desktop-wallpaper
I like a good, creative wallpaper but it can't be too busy. Stumbled on these yesterday and thought that they had some good ideas.
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I'm currently using the cherry blossoms theme from the windows online theme pack site. I am tired of the cold and really want spring.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/cherry-blossoms-of-japan-download-theme -
Those are very cool. I love the Charlie Brown one. However, I'd never see my wallpaper. I always have programs open full screen on both monitors and never reboot my PC - so I never see my desktop.
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Same here. I have pics of my kids but rarely actually see it.
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I see the edges as I hate full screen..
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I normally use fairly stark images. I found a drawing of General Grievous for one, and normally have a Bald Eagle head shot with the American flag photoshoped into the feathers.
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My latest on is my favorite, http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/classic-sports-cars-download-theme. It looks great on dual monitors.
I see your ScreenConnect @jaredbusch
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@technobabble said:
My latest on is my favorite, http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/classic-sports-cars-download-theme. It looks great on dual monitors.
I see your ScreenConnect @jaredbusch
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I went to a 3D Design conference at Warwick University this week and the keynote speaker was Daniel Simon. This guy is the guy the 12 year-old me wanted to be when he grew up. He says about himself "Daniel Simon designs sophisticated vehicle-centered dreams for imagined futures, pasts, and sci-fi worlds". Pretentious, I know, but basically he designs cars for science fiction. This is what I used to do at the back of the class in school, doodling in my notebooks, before the teacher yelled at me for not concentrating. I love this guy.
Anyway, the reason I'm posting this is he has a number of his pictures on his website available to download as wallpapers. See here:
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Is that near the village of Warwick? @Dominica and I have been there. We visit the village in 2007. Grey has a friend who made the armor used in the castle there.
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More of a town than a village, but yes, that's the place. The University is a few miles outside.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
More of a town than a village, but yes, that's the place. The University is a few miles outside.
I'm not always good with English designations of village, town, etc. Here in New York they are very strict.... a town is a geographic subdivision of a county which, in turn is a geographic subdivision of the state. They are purely land areas and have nothing to do with people or houses or buildings within them. So you can easily have towns with zero people living in them and nothing but trees or fields. A typical town is about sixteen square miles in NY, but they vary a lot. The town I grew up in had about 450 people in roughly fourteen square miles.
But a crossroads, hamlet, village and city are strict population centers. The first two are recognized, non-incorporated ones that are purely "people gathered in a small area." They might be enough to be marked on maps, maybe even have road signs. Inverness, NY is a good example of a cross road. Or Peoria, NY where I grew up. No mailing addresses at those places and only five or six houses together to make the "crossroads." But it shows up on maps and roads leading to there are often named for the place where they end up.
A village is an incorporated population center with more than, I think, 1,800 people in it and a city is the same but with more than, I think, 16,000 people living in it. Leicester is the smallest village in the state and I grew up right next to it. It is smaller than whatever the limit is because it incorporated when that big and then shrank. So it is smaller than the legal village limit but remains a village. Similar for Batavia which, I believe, is the smallest city in the state having done the same thing.
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Wow. I think in Europe we pretty much just make it up as we go along.
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Problem here is that every state is completely different.
