Main Engine Cut Off:
Watch sunlight and weather patterns move across Earth throughout the day, and bask in the glory of our blue marble in real time.
Every 20 minutes (or every hour, you pick), Downlink updates your desktop background with the newest images of Earth.
Choose from 8 different views of Earth, including stunning full disk images from 3 different geostationary satellites.
Dave posted about dynamic wallpapers on Monday and I thought this would be a nice addition to that story.
I don’t understand the whole concept of desktop wallpapers. It has been years since I’ve seen my desktop, it’s always covered with open windows. I can see a thin little vertical strip on the right side of the screen, and that’s it.
Command-F3.
OK, there’s the desktop. What good did that do? I can’t actually DO anything there until I put the windows back.
I have at least 75 windows open in Safari, most of them have dozens of tabs. How do I hit one of those targets again?
You’re missing the point. The Desktop is dead. The Dock is dead (right now my dock has at least 150 icons that are microscopic and almost impossible to hit). Skeuomorphism is dead. Screensavers are dead. All the desktop metaphors of the past are dead. They are a Platonic Ideal that exists only in the perfect isolation of a brand new OS install on a computer that never does any work.
Command-space. Spotlight locates open Safari tabs too. If you don’t have lots of windows open, you aren’t working very hard. It is like having a magnificent library full of empty bookshelves.
Ooh, gatekeeping with “no true Scotsman”! “My habits are the standard!” “Why can’t this OS keep up with me??” Dysfunction trifecta.
No, it’s like having a floor full of reams of loose paper while ignoring a nearby filing cabinet meant to organize it all in. Charlie Don’t Put His Toys Away.
By all means, enjoy your clutter. But don’t blame it on a failing of a computer you’re treating like a senior citizen’s attic on “Hoarders.”
“It has been years since I’ve seen my desktop…”
And now you’ve seen it. That was all I was addressing.
It’s a handy shortcut to temporarily get to something that might need to be moved to one of those open windows. Select the item, hit the combination again, drop the item.
Don’t blame the “death” of your Dock on a failed ideal; you committed that murder all by yourself, year over year.
Your Dock might benefit from folder groups for related app aliases; otherwise I’d say you’re overdue for some less-active-app housekeeping.
That, and given how many browser tabs you have open, I’d say your bookmarks and workflow efficiency aren’t doing so well, either. 😉
You sound as though you’re buried under a woodpile of your own making, complaining that there’s never enough light in the room.
You are failing at your argument by creating straw men and claiming it is logic. I would cut your losses if I were you.
From the guy who made the “real work” claim. Bless your solipsistic heart.
OK, you two have sniped at each other long enough. Let it go and move on, both of you.
You two have sniped at each other long enough. Let it go and move on, both of you.