Sunday, March 20, 2011

Fire and water

Screenshot of the ROX Desktop.Image via WikipediaVisual cues are everywhere. The world we live in [read our computers] are inundated by myriad of icons  and either by a plain color scheme or desktop backgrounds that hail from all genres from picturesque to bland and typical. Most of us even put up pictures of ourselves or our drunken stupors and shennigans. Icons in numbers far outweighing their purpose, remnants of old programs or copies and links to ones that don't even exist - The typical computer desktop is similar to our physical living spaces, an unorganized disarray of unmentionables.

Very few desktops are a respite where function and form merge, creating a serene, yet flexible springboard that would catapault us to creativity or jumpstart our productivity. That unfortunately is very hard to create without knowing design, software packages and having an apptitude to creating something sublime yet stunning. This post is to jumpstart my quest to creating a desktop environment which will accomplish all that.
A desktop that will be simple and zen like yet leading to oft used tools and other periphenilia that would be just a few clicks away but without adding any clutter to the space most looked at by most people. On that quest I issue you links to screensavers that are beyond the trifle that exist. Something simple yet very familiar to momentarily disengage us from our cluttered ethereal table tops. With that I give you:
Fire & Water

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