the P.Pole

So I’ve been playing with my Windows UI for a long time now, and I’ve accumulated/gone through a good number of applications/tweaks to make my Windows look pretty (in this case, somewhat like a Mac). I’ve been running WindowBlinds for a long time, along with Winamp. “OS X Tiger” was my skin back when I made another post like this, but I switched to “OS X Panther” because, well, because it came out, alright?! I was running a classic skin for Winamp awhile back, but I switched over to iChange recently because of the simplicity and fun extra functions of a modern skin–my favourite has got to be the option for background for the song info and whatnot to stay in it (I can change it to any image I want, either pre-made or custom made). I switched from RK Launcher to ObjectDock because, well ObjectDock is a lot better. It’s clean and without the annoying glitch of RK where it would reset my settings to a default everytime it was restarted. What else is there not shown in the screenshot… Oh yes, I learned about Launchy from Herm’s blog (check “The.Buds” section) and I’m using that to run stuff. I also switched from MS Office to OpenOffice because I needed OO’s equation editor (simply named “OpenOffice Math”) for Physics and decided, what the hell, I might as well just use all of OO for consistency. If you’ll look in the screenshot, you’ll see that I’m still running FireFox. I’m a huge FF fanboy (FFF!) and I really think everyone needs to get it and use it. It just rocks. And beside it in the taskbar is Adobe CS2, a recent acquisition, and a definite upgrade from (the slightly n00bish in retrospect) Adobe Elements 3.0 that I was using for image editing. All in all, I like the way my desktop looks right now, and probably won’t be changing too much for another little while.