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Microsoft previews Windows 8

Indeed, I go without wallpaper because it chews up precious memory. Pure black, baby.

I'm too much of an arts/photography/design junkie to go without a wallpaper. Even though "no wallpaper" surely has some minimalistic design appeal, too. I hate busy stuff.

Also Robert Maxwell needs a new PC. Do you accept paypal donations?
 
Indeed, I go without wallpaper because it chews up precious memory. Pure black, baby.

I'm too much of an arts/photography/design junkie to go without a wallpaper. Even though "no wallpaper" surely has some minimalistic design appeal, too. I hate busy stuff.

Also Robert Maxwell needs a new PC. Do you accept paypal donations?

:lol: Sure, I'll go set up the "Robert Maxwell PC Fund" right now.
 
If only I could keep my hard drive as uncluttered as my desktop... I have a bad habit of saving graphics and sound files in the wrong place with nondescript or vague filenames and forgetting about them.

Anyhoo - Windows 8! Yup. Still on XP, here...
 
Indeed, I go without wallpaper because it chews up precious memory. Pure black, baby.

I'm too much of an arts/photography/design junkie to go without a wallpaper. Even though "no wallpaper" surely has some minimalistic design appeal, too. I hate busy stuff.

My wallpaper for a long time has utilised the somewhat serendipitous Wallpaper Pixel Stretch technique that has been a feature since Windows 98:

http://www.veign.com/blog/2007/03/21/create-the-strangest-windows-wallpaper-ever-seen/

Simple, effective, and only a handful of bytes in size. :bolian:
 
If only I could keep my hard drive as uncluttered as my desktop... I have a bad habit of saving graphics and sound files in the wrong place with nondescript or vague filenames and forgetting about them.

Oh, I feel your pain. I was just the same until I started with modeling and photography. When you have a couple of thousands photos in different formats and sizes you either need to find a way to properly archive them or your head is going to explode.

Was a close call but I avoided the latter. :p

I'm too much of an arts/photography/design junkie to go without a wallpaper. Even though "no wallpaper" surely has some minimalistic design appeal, too. I hate busy stuff.

My wallpaper for a long time has utilised the somewhat serendipitous Wallpaper Pixel Stretch technique that has been a feature since Windows 98:

http://www.veign.com/blog/2007/03/21/create-the-strangest-windows-wallpaper-ever-seen/

Simple, effective, and only a handful of bytes in size. :bolian:

Sounds psychedelic and a bit too brain-melting for my liking. I usually go for simple designs and clear forms. But since I really like when typography is used in design I was kinda ecstatic when I found this:

Can't swim, wallpaper pack.
The guy did some other cool stuff, too so check out his gallery.
 
Indeed, I go without wallpaper because it chews up precious memory. Pure black, baby.

I'm too much of an arts/photography/design junkie to go without a wallpaper. Even though "no wallpaper" surely has some minimalistic design appeal, too. I hate busy stuff.

My wallpaper for a long time has utilised the somewhat serendipitous Wallpaper Pixel Stretch technique that has been a feature since Windows 98:

http://www.veign.com/blog/2007/03/21/create-the-strangest-windows-wallpaper-ever-seen/

Simple, effective, and only a handful of bytes in size. :bolian:

Except Windows is caching the stretched image so it's at least taking up an amount of memory equal to the dimensions of your screen times bit depth. ;)
 
I'm too much of an arts/photography/design junkie to go without a wallpaper. Even though "no wallpaper" surely has some minimalistic design appeal, too. I hate busy stuff.

My wallpaper for a long time has utilised the somewhat serendipitous Wallpaper Pixel Stretch technique that has been a feature since Windows 98:

http://www.veign.com/blog/2007/03/21/create-the-strangest-windows-wallpaper-ever-seen/

Simple, effective, and only a handful of bytes in size. :bolian:

Except Windows is caching the stretched image so it's at least taking up an amount of memory equal to the dimensions of your screen times bit depth. ;)

But it doesn't take up as much space on your hard disk as your complex 5760x1920 number. :bolian:
 
My wallpaper for a long time has utilised the somewhat serendipitous Wallpaper Pixel Stretch technique that has been a feature since Windows 98:

http://www.veign.com/blog/2007/03/21/create-the-strangest-windows-wallpaper-ever-seen/

Simple, effective, and only a handful of bytes in size. :bolian:

Except Windows is caching the stretched image so it's at least taking up an amount of memory equal to the dimensions of your screen times bit depth. ;)

But it doesn't take up as much space on your hard disk as your complex 5760x1920 number. :bolian:
I just tried it with a simple gradient - works a treat!
 
My wallpaper for a long time has utilised the somewhat serendipitous Wallpaper Pixel Stretch technique that has been a feature since Windows 98:

http://www.veign.com/blog/2007/03/21/create-the-strangest-windows-wallpaper-ever-seen/

Simple, effective, and only a handful of bytes in size. :bolian:

Except Windows is caching the stretched image so it's at least taking up an amount of memory equal to the dimensions of your screen times bit depth. ;)

But it doesn't take up as much space on your hard disk as your complex 5760x1920 number. :bolian:

Now I want a wallpaper that uses up an amount of storage representable by a complex number. :p
 
Heh. I'm still using Windows ME on a old (but still running like new) computer I use solely as a word processor.

I only recently started using Windows 7 when I purchased a new computer earlier this year. It's pretty and all, but for the little stuff I do, it's not a vast improvement over Windows XP for me. In fact, dropping and dragging files can be quite tricky because it can easily snatch up files I don't want too.

Probably won't upgrade to Windows 8 unless my new computer dies or Windows 7 goes the way of no longer supported versions of Windows...
 
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