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Desktop – July 2013

July 24, 2013 by chikorita157

Opps, I haven’t updated my personal side blog for a while now, but here is something that should hold some for a while. With that, my Windows 8 experiment is over and while the performance was nice, Microsoft forcing people to use the Metro UI and the pointless Start Screen and somewhat buggy (I couldn’t get the internal keyboard detect it as a Japanese keyboard layout since I have one). It’s unusable without installing Start8 to bring back the Windows 7 start menu. With that, I downloaded a copy of Windows 7 Professional from Dreamspark Premium (as I’m still a student) and decided on installing the Japanese version. Compared with Windows 8, I missed the ability to change the system font. But yes, it took hours to reinstall all the games I had, site survey tools and Object Desktop.

Windows 7 Bootcamp

Also spent the time last week downloading and cropping new wallpapers to use in OS X Mountain Lion…

November 13, 2011 – Puella Magi Madoka Magica

November 13, 2011 by chikorita157

Needed a desktop change after using the background with Minase Iori for nearly two months. This particular one is on Madoka Magica. I choose to pick this one since it looked pretty.

Also, the input menu is added to the menubar. This is because I’m self-studying Japanese and need access to the Japanese input methods. Therefore, I no longer use the US keyboard since its pain the butt to change to Hiragana/Katakana modes when I need to use it.

Bowtie Theme: Clear 2.0 with a few customizations

Icons: Maji by Jonas Rask along with a few custom icons for iTunes, Photoshop, System Preferences

Wallpaper: Original, Cropped (1440×900)

September 15, 2011 Desktop Screenshot – Minase Iori

September 15, 2011 by chikorita157

Yeah, my desktop needed a change since I have been using the previous wallpaper since July… It’s not a bad thing since I like Fate, but I needed a change. When I was browsing Konachan, I found this image of Iori Minase, which is pretty. I’m not too big a fan of her since Azusa and Chihaya are my favorites, but still not bad.

Also, Geektool finally returns since they have released a version compatible with Lion. I removed the date and time since they were redundant and kept the weather. Also, added uptime counter to the desktop.

Bowtie Theme: Clear 2.0 with a few customizations

Icons: Maji by Jonas Rask along with a few custom icons for iTunes, Photoshop, System Preferences

Wallpaper: 1440×900 (Resized), Original

August 7th, 2011 Desktop Screenshot – Fate Testarossa

August 7, 2011 by chikorita157

This is the first desktop uploaded since I upgraded to Lion back in Early July (I also uploaded a screenshot of my desktop during that time, but that doesn’t count). I decided to use this desktop since it looked pretty. Also, I have changed the desktop icon and the song title typeface from Myriad Pro to Chinacat. Myriad Pro remains the system font.

Also, the Geektool stuff is missing since the program is not fully compatible with Mac OS X Lion yet.

Bowtie Theme: Clear 2.0 with a few customizations

Icons: Maji by Jonas Rask along with a few custom icons for iTunes, Photoshop, System Preferences

Wallpaper: Here