Comments on: Opinion: The Tao of the Desktop

By: KT

KT — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:07:54 +0000

“If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

-Albert Einstein (someone to emulate!)

By: Ally

Ally — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:51:19 +0000

I just have a wallpaper, the Machintosh HD, and 3 files.

By: albertkinng

albertkinng — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:31:29 +0000

I dont have anything…. just a wallpaper

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By: Steven Owens

Steven Owens — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:22:17 +0000

Another great site for (high quality) wallpapers is http://www.interfacelift.com

By: eniac

eniac — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:20:13 +0000

Thanks, Grant.

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:53:15 +0000

I just found a site with a bunch of nice Hubble wallpapers – might have been this one: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/wallpaper/

I downloaded the ones I wanted and put them in a folder in Pictures. Then I went to the Desktop settings in System Preferences and set it up to look in that folder for wallpapers and to rotate every hour. You can set up whatever time interval you want.

By: eniac

eniac — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:40:37 +0000

What software do you use to get the images from the hubble telescope?

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:29:32 +0000

I have nothing on my desktop, not even hard drives. I see no need to keep hard drives there when they’re in the Finder sidebar. Whenever something is on the desktop, it’s a download or something that gets quickly moved to the correct folder. Seeing an icon on my desktop is a red flag that tells me to organize something. Works great for me. I use a rotating set of pictures from the Hubble telescope as my wallpaper, which reinforces the “vacuum” of my desktop’s contents.

By: Khürt Williams

Khürt Williams — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:59:14 +0000

My current desktop has the HD icon, a DropBox folder, and an external drive icon. This is how I like it. It’s similar to how I keep my real world desktop (two photo frames, a phone, the computer, two small plants). A cluttered desktop is an indication of a cluttered mind. Too much going on for thought.