Comments on: No More ‘Herd

By: Nej

Nej — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:48:25 +0000

(blushing) I also have a squeaky “clean” desktop.

By: Dobmeister

Dobmeister — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:27:12 +0000

The wonders of the compact omni-QuickLaunch-&-Taskbar of Windows 7 lets me get away with a row of 10 or so permanently sitting down there.
There are technically 4 columns of desktop shortcuts {post clearouts of non-essential extras like Windows Media Centre & iTunes to a little folder} and another column of the ‘sidebar’ gadgets, but Windows 7 has a similarly nifty trick allowing you to hide the whole lot of them and magic them back in when you choose.

By: Damian

Damian — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:33:12 +0000

Are you aware in the sentence,
‘If your child cleans his room by shoving everything she owns into his closet, did he just clean her room, or just move the mess so you can’t see it? Is that how you parent?’

Your child changed sex?
‘into his closet, did he just clean her room’ XD Other wise interesting post.
I just leave important icons on the desktop in neat places, the rest gets moved to a “sort” or “old desktop” folder.

By: Jabari

Jabari — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:00:55 +0000

No great loss – Cowherd sucks anyway. I’ve totally boycotted his show after he puled the DoS stunt on one of the sports blogs a while back…

By: RFairney

RFairney — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:42:40 +0000

Win+R Cygwin
A few programs I had to setup to run like that for me.
Everything else is all in my start menu, organised properly. No two folders start with the same letter.
If i use it reguarly, I can type in the string to open the software faster than most people can go to desktop, find icon, and double click :>

That said, I’ve not had a mouse plugged into my main system for roughly four years now, Still not missing it
There are a lot of fun shortcuts you only seem to learn when you have a reason to. And even when you have a mouse, it’s so much quicker to type than to find stuff and click

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:10:36 +0000

“If your child cleans HIS room by shoving everything SHE owns into HIS closet, did HE just clean HER room, or just move the mess so you can’t see it?”

…Who typed this, Brain or Dan?

By: Llama

Llama — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:44:59 +0000

meh, use quicksilver. it will rock your world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilver_(software)

By: Sanah

Sanah — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:57:15 +0000

3 columns of icons on desktop for me. Fast & easy.

By: kLog

kLog — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:46:49 +0000

Emerge Desktop + RocketDock.

I ran that way for about 9 months. Its effective, but doesn’t work well with dual screens . . . I think I had an app that would clear the screen momentarily the way Mac’s do (F9? forgot what its called) so I could see the status of my rotating backgrounds.

Then again, if you have tons of windows open, it can get messy too.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:51:55 +0000

Clean Desktop FTW! I agree with Orion re the things that belong on your Dock.

A clean desktop is a sure sign of a clean, er… simple, er.. organized mind! Yeah, that it! And ORGANIZED mind! =)

Steve