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Fun With Transparent Screen Backgrounds
herberts writes "Looks like the amusement factor of 'transparent' screen background is getting bigger and bigger. The french Mac fan site Mac Bidouille opened up a dedicated part of their web site where fans can post shots of their transparent backgrounds." Other great transparent background shots can be found at Flickr.
This should take about ten seconds
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
I for one can see right through them.
"I think everyone is an agnostic but just doesn't know" - Frazz
Some people have entirely too much time on their hands.
Actually, this guy almost has his hands on the time.
AhahaHAHAHAHahahahaha I am so, so sorry.
This just in:
Microsoft has announced that they will be building technology for Transparent Desktops into their next-generation operating-system, Longhorn. Microsoft representatives report that this technology involves cutting the back out of the monitor to allow the image behind it to show through. When asked whether this would impede the monitor's ability to display images, Microsoft replied that this was an issue that will be addressed in SP1.
This one certainly does. Too much time with their new PSP.
I downloaded one of the pictures and put it on my desktop, and it totally didn't look transparent at all.
Lame. And it's probably smaller than a Nomad.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
So you have even more time on your hands to post a comment about it.
Guess I'm even worse.
You posted a friggin' IMAGE GALLERY on the FRONT PAGE of SLASHDOT??
Whaddaya wanna do, KILL 'EM??
Yeah, and they apparently post on Slashdot.
When you only have one mouse button you tend to find extra time for other things.
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Great - now I can stare some more at my cubical wall all day long.
Next, someone will figure out a way to tattoo that image onto the inside of my eyelids.
I totally agree... what a complete waste of time. And now I've gotta figure out a way to stuff all these pieces back into my monitor.
SO STUPID!
Following that idea, I want to be able to insert ghosts in relevant locations as I reposition a thusly equipped laptop.
:)
As in, you walk around the house, and if you hold the laptop screen two feet in front of your face at all times, it blends right in seamlessly. But if you point it at something like a sofa, it looks like someone is sitting on it, when in actuality there is nobody there. Smoothly pan the laptop so that the sofa is out of the shot, and the ghost moves with it. But if you shake the laptop, the "person" on the sofa would visibly respond to the shaking by trying to keep his balance. And then your hard drive would crash.
Doing this with cheap, amateur-grade equipment would be really cool. Get cracking on it, oh time wasters of the world! And then sell your work to some game/toy company!
"What's next, taking a screenshot of the desktop and putting that as the background as a prank?"
Been there, done that, made my co-worker cry in frustration because the computer was "locked" even after several reboots.
SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!
You smoke marijuana, don't you?
Cool! Amazing Toys.
Hey! it is importante.
I suck at perspective.
Just blame it on refraction.
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this article is 5 days too early
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haha, Slashdot readers think alike. However, I took a screenshot of the desktop with and error message, photoshopped the error message to something really scary, set that image as the desktop. Man was my coworker tripping. The dumb tech support, too =)
The site is slashdotted. Courtesy of yours truly, here's a photo of a transparent background, reposted here:
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"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Or how about rendering in little 3d gnomes that dance around behind your screen, on your desk. Would look pretty cool, for 2 seconds...
They'll probably implement the transparent background technology before PNG compatibility in IE.
Meanwhile, by the time they get it working, the OS community will have 16 different implementations of the TDT (Transparent DeskTop) standard, and SVG will have been extended to include it.
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.
or any other piece of software for that matter
/i keed
Here in Australia last night we had an extra 2am. It went from 2:59 back to 2:00 again.
Wow. Are the people modding up parent the same people who find "How-To" papers on making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to be useful information?
You did graphics like this on Linux? Get back to programming and stop getting big ideas.
I just opened my CRT, removed my monitor screen, tube and back panel. :O
;)
It looks dark through...
Now what?
j/k
"Some people have entirely too much time on their hands." ... said the guy posting on Slashdot.
"Derp de derp."
"haha, Slashdot readers think alike. However, I took a screenshot of the desktop with and error message, photoshopped the error message to something really scary, set that image as the desktop. Man was my coworker tripping. The dumb tech support, too =)"
Heh. You fools using desktop wallpaper to mess with other people, what a waste of time. I useta have a wallpaper image that was a screen-grab of my daily work apps. Boss comes by? *click* Desktop button! (Admittedly, though, I attempted to highlight my wallpaper a few times.)
Work avoidance > messin with people.
"Derp de derp."
When you only have one mouse button you tend to find extra time for other things.
Proof that Steve Jobs was right! A single mouse button improves productivity!!
Boss's PA had a monitor that attached with seperate R G and B BNC cables.
I swapped around the Red and Blue cables and carefully adjusted the colour settings in Windows 98 to swap all the R & B components around so all menus, etc looked normal.
Of course, the moment she started browsing websites all the images loaded wrong.
Took ages for them to figure out what was wrong - video driver reinstalls etc.
Got a written warning for that one, but was worth it!
Jolyon
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Right on dude! Glad someone is pointing out these blatant distortions of the English language.
Another one is 'remote control'. How can they call it a remote control when THE DEVICE IS RIGHT THERE IN YOUR HAND!! If it was truly a remote control it should be able to be on the other side of the room when you use it.
Fight the deception!
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
Not Safe Work For?
Do you intern for Yoda?
Whew. For a minute there I was getting a little disconcerted that no one would post something saying they were disconcerted that no one posted something about that kind of thing being done many years ago in their posting about that kind of thing being done many years ago.
And people stopped taking physics seriously after crap like Einstein, too...
Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.
Quoth: You smoke marijuana, don't you?
:)
Mod -1, redundant
Yes, an earlier thread already confirmed this is a Mac thing.
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People who are resistant to change cannot resist change for the worst.