Desktop Thread II

[MattHiggs]

I gave the wrong link before. The place to get all the Style XP themes from is http://www.themexp.org/

[Chowlett]

Originally posted by MattHiggs
I gave the wrong link before. The place to get all the Style XP themes from is http://www.themexp.org/

Yep, I picked up on that. But what actually is your Visual Style - the taskbar would suit my new wallpaper I think.

[Zopperoni]

Re: Re: Fear my new homemade Winamp-skin!

Originally posted by Grrr
Say Zop, it doesn't seem like you use the equaliser, and I think it looks better without the sliders, to get rid, just crop them off the bmp image. For the record, heres my skin and AVS.

I mostly make the skins for general purpose, so if someone wants the Eq, they can use it.

But you mean something like this?

[Paul Hanson]

A rather poor pic of my desktop:

[Immortal Wombat]

How have you all managed to keep to < 20 shortcuts?

I have 55

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
How have you all managed to keep to < 20 shortcuts?

I have 55

Maybe he's hidden the other 38 behind the Winamp-window

[Immortal Wombat]

Where are yours oh Zopper?

Every desktop in this thread has less than 30.

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
Where are yours oh Zopper?

Every desktop in this thread has less than 30.

I don't use shortcuts, I find them bloody ugly, I use the Quicklaunch-buttons; 24 of them

[Immortal Wombat]

I only have 4

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
I only have 4

You can move your shortcuts into the taskbar, they automatically become Quicklaunch-buttons then.

[Immortal Wombat]

Um... how? They don't drag-and-drop. I can set up a "Desktop" toolbar...

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
Um... how? They don't drag-and-drop. I can set up a "Desktop" toolbar...

1) Right-click on the shortcut(/icon);
2) When still "right-clicked", drag icon towards the taskbar;
3) When having dragged the icon into the taskbar, let go, and you'll get a menu, just select "move here"

[Paul Hanson]

Question: How do you shrink a picture to the maximum size allowed by the "attach file" function of vBB, without the quality dropping?

Also, if you were to shrink the horizontal dimension to 600, what size would the vertical dimension need to avoid distorting the image?

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Paul Hanson
Question: How do you shrink a picture to the maximum size allowed by the "attach file" function of vBB, without the quality dropping?

Also, if you were to shrink the horizontal dimension to 600, what size would the vertical dimension need to avoid distorting the image?

I use Adobe ImageReady (it comes with PhotoShop). It's ideal for resizing images.

Because the proportion is 4:3, for a width of 600, you get a height of 450

[Paul Hanson]

I see. I'm using some crappy software that came free with my scanner, so that may well explain it.