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TUAW Desktop of the Week'ers, the series is back in action, and I couldn't think of a better way to re-kick it off than with
this desktop titled 'Screenshot Saturdays' from James Acklin. Created from his favorite Flickr picks, it's a collage of Mac OS X desktop proportions, and quite the eclectic collage it is. Photography of all sorts - what looks like scenery, portraits and the occasional experimental - adorns James's desktop, accompanied by a modest menubar and what looks like Adium on the left. If anyone knows how James did this (James included!), or of an easy way to put together a quilt desktop like this, please share in the comments!
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Jason Ross McMillan said 9:15PM on 2-18-2007
This is kinda off topis but there is a website last.fm that keeps track of what you lisen to and graphs your favorite artist and stuff like that, but anyways in this forum they tell you how to get a quilt of the album art from your top listened to artist. much like above.
http://www.last.fm/forum/21717/_/120959/1
you will have to have an account but it is free and if you listen to alot of music on your computer you should check it out.
http://www.last.fm/
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Matt Houston said 9:26PM on 2-18-2007
whats the name of the AIM program...ive been tryin to find it
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Bill said 10:07PM on 2-18-2007
Picasa on the PC offers a collage setting like that - takes your photos and puts them in a nice neat square. Not sure what a Mac user could use to get that though.
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derek said 10:27PM on 2-18-2007
Matt, its Adium.
It is Sunday, why would you put one that is Screenshots Saturday?
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Mike K. said 10:33PM on 2-18-2007
He could have used the mosaic maker at http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php
There's a lot of cool Flickr toys there.
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Alex said 2:25AM on 2-19-2007
This wasn't done with http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php
because the max they allow is 6x6 photos, and the desktop in this post is more than that.
I'm sure you can do this all by hand with Photoshop, but it would take some time. Not hard to do though.
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Bobby2Shoes said 3:46AM on 2-19-2007
Here you go. Try this: http://www.flickrleech.net/ I made a bunch of cool desktops just by maximising Safari, taking a screen grab and editing the file in Photoshop.
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Steve Martin said 3:46AM on 2-19-2007
Actually, it probably was http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php - if you look at the screenshot, there are only 6x6 shown (the pics start repeating in the horizontal direction). Either way - neat idea!
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marqueemarc said 5:41AM on 2-19-2007
It can be done with Posterino as well. http://zykloid.com/posterino/
easy to understand app, but unfortunately a bit pricey.
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Biffo said 6:46AM on 2-19-2007
Those voting for Mosaic Maker are write - James confirms it in the comments on flickr.
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canagica said 8:26AM on 2-19-2007
Does anyone know of a screensaver that takes your pictures from iPhoto and flips them similar to the iTunes artwork screensaver? It would be a great addition to see multiple pictures of my own flipping around on the screen...
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Dave Chartier said 8:31AM on 2-19-2007
#11: I would bet something like that is coming in Leopard. I've *heard* (cough cough!) that there are a *lot* of new CoreAmination-infused screensaver additions in 10.5.
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Ronald Mathews said 2:01PM on 2-19-2007
After seeing this on Sunday, I decided to make my own mosaic desktop by creating a new copy of iTunes using Libra (http://homepage.mac.com/sroy/libra) and then filling it with multiple copies of a very short song, assigning each copy a unique album title and then adding my own pictures for the album cover by using EasyCrop (yellowmug.com) and a custom ratio of 4x4 and making each picture about 400x400 pixels in size. Then it was simply a matter of drag and drop from iPhoto to EasyCrop to iTunes. Then set the Screen Saver in the System Preferences to iTunes Artwork. Last step was to download the free software from bgstech.com called bgscreensaver 1.1. Works beautifully as long as I leave iTunes set to the bogus library. If I switch back to my regular iTunes, then the album covers associated with that library become my desktop. Albums flipping on the desktop as well as the screensaver. Very cool but hard to work with if your desktop is cluttered with icons.
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Shaun McLane said 8:56PM on 2-19-2007
since we're on the topic.....My itunes screensaver doesn't work anymore. I've searched for tips, but the only problem reported is that it only shows the artwork that was downloaded by itunes (or something like that). That's not my problem. I switched the number of rows I wanted, and when I tried to switch back, it closed the screensaver window, and asked if I wanted to reopen it. When I did, it locked on the itunes screensaver, but used the last SS I had on. It hasn't worked for months. Can I just download a new copy of itunes to fix it?
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James said 12:58AM on 2-21-2007
Hi, James here. Thanks for the award and all the views!
I just updated the photo caption to (hopefully) answer everything that I left unsaid.
Spot on - the wallpaper was from Big Huge Lab's Mosaic Maker. I set the tiles to Medium, and a 6x6 grid, then simply tiled the background.
The icons are the Icon Factory's Agua and Agua Extras.
The Adium theme is a modified version of Decay 2.0.
Again, thanks everyone!
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