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For your early-afternoon entertainment, I have the story of Mike Giepert, who happened one day to spell something clever with the icons in his dock.
His website, in fact, has a whole raft of these sets, including those submitted by his readers, to spell everything from "vamp" to "agoraphobic."
What can you come up with? Feel free to take your own screenshots, add them to our TUAW Flickr Pool and leave a comment!
F11 moves all your windows off the screen so you can quickly glance at your desktop. F10 shows you every open window in an application. F9 shows every open window for every application that isn't hidden or in the dock.
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| 1 | Steven Sande | 51 | 4 |
| 2 | Mike Schramm | 33 | 0 |
| 3 | Dave Caolo | 32 | 1 |
| 4 | Mel Martin | 29 | 0 |
| 5 | TJ Luoma | 22 | 26 |
| 6 | Joachim Bean | 18 | 2 |
| 7 | Erica Sadun | 17 | 2 |
| 8 | Victor Agreda, Jr. | 16 | 7 |
| 9 | Michael Rose | 15 | 14 |
| 10 | Sang Tang | 14 | 1 |
| 11 | Josh Carr | 13 | 22 |
| 12 | Ken Ray | 12 | 2 |
| 13 | David Winograd | 11 | 18 |
| 14 | Brett Terpstra | 10 | 8 |
| 15 | John Burke | 4 | 3 |
| 16 | Kent Pribbernow | 4 | 0 |
| 17 | Tim Wasson | 4 | 1 |
| 18 | Chris Ullrich | 4 | 1 |
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| 20 | Aron Trimble | 3 | 2 |
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Anthony said 12:21PM on 6-24-2009
I thought this blog post was very original. Very cool :)
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glenn said 12:43PM on 6-24-2009
Do I have to install Real to get an R? What other options are there? Please, let there be something else. ;)
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GLaDOS said 12:47PM on 6-24-2009
wow i have tons of applications and no R also :(
gib said 6:06PM on 6-24-2009
You *might* be able to convince yourself the Evernote logo's elephant looks like an R, at least one that is missing the bottom of the | section.
RadicalxEdward said 12:49PM on 6-24-2009
it's actually just agoraphobe on the site
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victorluft said 1:34PM on 6-24-2009
TUAW ROXKS?
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deluded spider said 1:51PM on 6-24-2009
The "x" is a "c," actually. It took me a minute, too. Right in the middle there.
Cronick said 4:17PM on 6-24-2009
I usually organize my dock to make it easier to conduct my workflow. Can you spell WETBLANKET?
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robogobo said 5:07PM on 6-24-2009
now THAT is a slow news day. but cute.
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Aerospeed said 9:40PM on 6-24-2009
Ha, I thought I was the only one who did this!
You can also do this with iPhone icons, provided that you're okay with four letters to a line.
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Kirk said 3:09AM on 6-25-2009
jailbreak and you can make it five on your dock
Galley said 8:40AM on 6-25-2009
Dang, all I've got is B, H, P, T, AS and 2.
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chance said 2:01PM on 6-25-2009
Sweet jebus did you really install KDE on Mac OS X? For the love of God WHY!?!?!?
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Robert Palmer said 2:02PM on 6-25-2009
I had to find an icon with a K in it. THESE ARE THE THINGS I DO FOR YOU PEOPLE.
chance said 2:09PM on 6-25-2009
LOL! Hey its only hard disk space, I guess its forgiveable. :)