I back up a lot. I have scripts that do automated backups and I often backup to CD. But there are times when I want to be able to do a quick and dirty backup of a single directory, in order to email a directory, or so that directory can be added to a later [...]
Unclutter Your Desktop With Fences
Fences is a free for personal use application by Stardock that helps unclutter the desktop with minimal user interaction and some clever ideas. The basic idea behind Fences is to provide areas on the desktop that can be filled with all the program shortcuts and files on the computer desktop.
While that alone would not be [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Jan 6th, 2009
- Comments: 4
Work in style with the Enigma desktop package
While I’m a huge fan of desktop customization I always actually work with a solution which is the simplest possible. I love elaborite desktop configs, but I find most of the stuff gets in my way. I have found a setup which looks extremely good and easy on the eyes and while still a bit [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jan 4th, 2009
- Comments: 1
Get Vertical Titlebars in E16 Themes
I bet you didn’t know that you could change the placement of your Enlightenment titlebars. Although not necessarily pracitical, it does make for some impressive desktops, and it allows you to quickly differentiate between windows. Say, for example you have aterm and rxvt both open and are using one for admin work and one for [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jan 1st, 2009
- Comments: None
Enable Composite for Window Transparency in Enlightenment
If you have played around with the Enlightenment window manager you know it is, for such a lightweight window manager, pretty impressive. But if you’ve not enabled compositing, you have yet to see how much you can do with transparency. Although compositing in Enlightenment will require the necessary hardware (a video card capable of using [...]
Desktop Effects
Desktop effects like snow, water or stars are not for anybody. There seems to be a connection between users who like those effects and other things that annoy most users like animated gifs or a house decorated with blinking Christmas lights. If you belong to the group who likes those effects – or want to [...]
360 Desktop Manager
There is no build in way for Windows users to expand the desktop. The only option is to install third party software programs to expand the desktop virtually. One of those solutions is a virtual desktop manager called 360 Desktop which was previously mentioned by Joshua. The 360 desktop manager uses a different concept than [...]
