Mangix Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 new desktop here. i got rid of the HmmXP theme and i disabled the themes service. trying to be as lightweight as i can. Dirty: Clean: compressed again with the highest compressed PNG that anyone can make :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 Return of a classic for me: I just found this picture again, one I used to have before WinXP went kerflooey on us back in '04. It's Sarah Michelle Gellar in a weird costume, I have no idea what it's from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphirer Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 Clean. Super-dirty ObjectDocks on the top and right are on autohide, and I Show Desktop Icons is off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_Age Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted October 7, 2006 Administrator Share Posted October 7, 2006 These always look so cool. Mine is just cluttered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 Here's my latest: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parvez Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 My October dexstop Details @ dA Enjoy :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangix Posted October 14, 2006 Author Share Posted October 14, 2006 new desktop. i couldn't find a good DragonForce wallpaper so i decided to go with Rhapsody of Fire. here it is. Clean: Dirty: and once again, it's very highly compressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haze Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 =] october Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangix Posted October 16, 2006 Author Share Posted October 16, 2006 new one this time. i decided to go with a more simple wallpaper. and also, i have to admit that i am a DragonForce addict Dirty: Clean: if anyone wants to know about the wallpaper, it was made by KoL. Enjoy! i also found a better way of compressing the PNGs which right now is really working out for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted October 16, 2006 Administrator Share Posted October 16, 2006 What are you using to compress your pngs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphirer Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 No compression with this one, just Photoshop-saved PNG, non-interlaced... 144kb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangix Posted October 17, 2006 Author Share Posted October 17, 2006 (edited) What are you using to compress your pngs? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> i used to use OptiPNG + PNGOUT originally. i saw a post made by someone on the Paint.NET forums who compressed a PNG with level 9(got a better ratio than OptiPNG). he also compressed it using PNGOUT and i had the same results when i tried it. i've also done tests to find out which program(pngcrush, optipng, pngout) compresses the best and pngcrush loses. optipng can sometimes create PNG files smaller than ones compressed with PNGOUT but not most of the time. i also recently made a new explorer Context Menu Entry which lets me compress PNGs made by WinSnap(program i use to take screenshots) so that nobody has to download extra bytes when viewing the image edit: spelling Edited October 17, 2006 by Mangix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted October 17, 2006 Administrator Share Posted October 17, 2006 Try PNGGauntlet. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangix Posted October 17, 2006 Author Share Posted October 17, 2006 but /me doesn't like .net . and also, using irfanview is already a solution that works for me. on top of that, i've noticed that EVERY .net application that i've used starts up slowly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 I just use The Gimp to grab screenshots, save them as .png, and compress them, seamlessly. I don't know how the degree of compression compares to those other programs, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphirer Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 but /me doesn't like .net . and also, using irfanview is already a solution that works for me. on top of that, i've noticed that EVERY .net application that i've used starts up slowly. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> .NET apps tend to use more resources then native apps. But they're easy to make! C# Express edition is a lot of fun ;P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangix Posted October 18, 2006 Author Share Posted October 18, 2006 try managed C++. that's even more fun and yes, .NET sucks just for its impressive resource usage. actually, i'm actually thinking of getting rid of IrfanView because i just found out it can't save transparency when it re-compresses the file. well, it can but it seems like the transparency is a beta feature or something and it has to ask me to save transparency EVERY time. time to look for alternatives :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphirer Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Wow. I am totally, completely obsessed with this theme. I want to marry it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_Age Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Wow. I am totally, completely obsessed with this theme. I want to marry it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Ehh... that Theme is alittle out of my taste. I like the whole Mac looks but I'm just using plain old Windows Xp Visuals (For now) :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphirer Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 It looks like a Mac? Huh. I never noticed I just thought it looked clean, simple, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Mine for this month. I like things dark... :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphirer Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Mine for this month. I like things dark... :ninja: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You must have one massive laptop. What kind of themes/icons are you using? The icons are cool... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capman Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Mine for now, obtained from deviantART. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangix Posted October 22, 2006 Author Share Posted October 22, 2006 new desktop. i stopped using IrfanView and XnView beacuse they have some weird writing support that causes me to have bigger filesizes(even when compressed with PNGOUT). back to OptiPNG and PNGOUT. Clean: Dirty: i swear to god, DragonForce is the best band. they've also been nominated 4 times in Guitar World . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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