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Desktop Lusciousness-ness
May 16th, 2007
"A true geeks potential can only be realised through the power of the pretty desktop."
Jamie van Dyke, 16th May, 2007
This is how a typical day starts off before the storm, we have Mail, iTerm, Colloquy, and iTunes windows...however, some of you are probably wondering where the windows are, and if you've seen them, why are they so small!
So here's a listing of the applications which I find most important that I have running now:
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Responsible for icon-izing the windows at the top left of Desktop 2 (Mail, iTunes, iTerm). Note: these are just miniaturised windows, they still show the correct content, so if you're a mail hog, or waiting for something to happen in a window, it's rude to stare!
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This makes all the toolbars and windows throughout Mac OS X have a unified look, and doesn't show up anywhere on my screenshots because it gets run once and then goes away.
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At the bottom of Desktop 2 I have Stattoo, which very kindly gives me an overview of my mail, todos, etc.
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At the bottom right of Desktop 2 I have iPulse, which is an extremely handy application for monitoring all my system stats. I know when I have a busy or runaway process (and not just from my busy MacBook fan) by the colour of certain sections on iPulse.
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These desktop images are great. They're surreal, colourful, artistic and most of all peaceful. I highly suggest yo grab a print or two from his works.
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If you listen to quite a bit of music like me, then CoverSutra is the candy to top off the tunes. The album (Hard-Fi) showing at the top left of Desktop 1 is placed there by CoverSutra, and my Last.fm scrobblings are handled automatically too.
So, that's the quick run through, there's plenty more productivity tools I have running that you can't see, I'll have to sit down and do a full run through some time.
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Jamie van Dyke
Jamie van Dyke has been a Rails developer since the beginning of 2005, working with some of the major players in the web market. He also played a large part in the documenting of Rails for the Caboose Documentation Project and teaches others on his blog and in training sessions around the world. Jamie is a core Rails contributor, and the publisher of multiple gems and plugins.
I'm a father of 2, living in a little village called Skipton which is in North Yorkshire, England. Anything else you'd like to know you can ask. Check out my photo and info at the caboose facebook or my flickr page.
Jamie is also unsure why he must write a Bio in third person, and doesn't really have a fear of fish, he just dislikes the taste and smell of them.
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Nice choices. Where did you get the nice icons you are using for your folders (ie. Misc) ?
Hi Bruno, I got them from thr same place as my desktop pictures. (http://www.dlanham.com/art/agua/) I think I might just start paying him a weekly direct debit for his work. :D