Fire up your screen capture software and keyboard shortcuts TUAW readers, as we are announcing a new Flickr group and post series titled simply: TUAW Desktops. That's right ladies and gentlemen, in addition to immortalizing you in our archives with the Rig of the Day series, we want to dive a little deeper into just what makes your Mac, your Mac. Are you a wallpaper connoisseur, or perhaps you have the busiest Dock this side of Cupertino? Is your workspace decked out with utilities like iPulse, Konfabulator widgets and ShapeShifter themes, or do you want to share you mastery of clutter-free desktop feng shui? Join our new TUAW Desktops group on Flickr and upload your screenshots. On Saturdays, we'll pick out and round up the best of the desktops to share here on TUAW, complete with credit attribution and a link to your site, if you have one.
Speaking of credit, we should probably lay down some rules here:
- First rule about TUAW Desktops:
you do not talk...If you can (or would like), please attribute any work like wallpapers or icons to their original authors, and we'll do our best to include those attributions in our posts. It's fine if you don't know who that is when you post your shots - trust us, we have hundreds of wallpapers and we don't remember where we found every single one - but at the very least, don't take credit for someone else's work. This is the internets, and the readers *will* call out stunts like that. On the other hand - if something *is* your original work, by all means - let us know, and we'll be sure your creativity gets a mention in the spotlight. - Try not to overload the pool with submissions that are too similar to your previous submission(s). We're looking for fresh desktop shots; that little 'extra something' that really makes them leap off the display. Desktops that have that element which is difficult to describe, yet impossible to miss.
- Keep it clean. This is a family blog, and we like to keep our Flickr groups and other community endeavors family-friendly as well.
- Last rule (for now): Unless you went all-out using products like Stardock's to make your Windows desktop look and act like Mac OS X (it's do-able - I used to, before I actually got my first Mac), we'd like to stick with Mac desktops only. After all, you are reading The Unofficial Apple Weblog.
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9-07-2006 @ 1:35PM
Rae said...
Hope Flickr doesn't start NIPSA-ing some folks over this.
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9-07-2006 @ 2:26PM
Guillermo said...
I'd like to suggest one more thing:
5. Use notes to explain anything special/unusual in your desktops (like software, menubar & dock icons, desktop images, skins, etc.) so people know what's what in your image.
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9-07-2006 @ 3:36PM
Andre said...
My desktop's been submitted. :)
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9-07-2006 @ 3:44PM
Eli Hodapp said...
Yeah, Flickr kind of frowns on screen shots as it's a photo community. If you post too many they'll make it so your account's photos doesn't show up in public pools. :(
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9-07-2006 @ 4:04PM
Scott said...
This is a cool idea but I hope Flickr doesn't spoil it... mine has been added!
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9-07-2006 @ 4:14PM
Niklas said...
First rule of flickr: Only post photos. Not screenshots or drawings.
Good luck not getting NIPS:ed.
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9-07-2006 @ 6:38PM
Chris Barrus said...
The Command Shift 3 group already exists, so why create an all new group for screenshots?
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9-07-2006 @ 6:39PM
Chris Barrus said...
http://www.flickr.com/groups/cs3/ is the URL for the group
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9-07-2006 @ 11:19PM
Davey Shafik said...
non-photographs are actually against Flickrs ToS (or AUP or whatever it is they call it).
You may find that your group doesn't last all that long.
- Davey
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