Post how you work on your Mac

[DeSnousa]

I thought it would be cool to post how you have your screen real-estate organised when working/study. Do you switch style around a lot or do you have the same layout all the time? Is your style clean or is it messy?

I'll start, I'm a boring guy who has the same clean (well I think) layout all the time. Never change, if I do its only minor. iTunes keeps me sane while studying

Yes I know this is a random thread idea, but I was studying and realised I always have this boring but productive layout (Productive apart from iTunes )

 

[XIII]

Mine is pretty messy really.

I have Word open on the top, when I'm working, then Safari underneath. iTunes under that, keeping me sane as you put it (), and iChat (and sometimes MSN) open, so I am always only an IM away (although my status is usually away).

Nice thread, I like it.

 

[DeSnousa]

Yeah I revert from MSN

I usually use Safari a lot in the process of studying, but it's closed when not in use or either it's hidden.

I really want a bigger screen, my only computer is my iBook 12" which is great but sometimes to small to work on.

 

[XIII]

Yeah. You can see from my screenshot I have the page at 112% big in Word, and I could easily fit another at that size (width wise) next to it. I moved from 1024*768 to 1680*1050, and its been great.

 

[iAlan]

Work?

My Mac is for fun, no work goin' on here....



and another....

 

[Shotglass]

Actually, I took a screen very recently. I titled the file "Dual DVI wanted.jpg". Here we go:

EDIT: Well, it's not really working, but it's what I do on monday mornings.
Description:
Browser - Spiegel online, German news magazine.
iTunes window - Tagesschau podcast, another news magazine, this time TV.
Skype - conversation with a friend of mine plus contact list
Adium - just my little contact list
Dock - nah, I've said enough

 

[realityisterror]

How I "work" or "study"?
I'm not sure what you mean

Here's my summertime screenshot:


Check the tab titles

 

[iSaint]

From the thread title, I was think more along the lines of the fact that I sit on my buttocks on the couch with my iBook in my lap. That's how I work on my Mac.

Screenwise, the 14" screen with 1024 resolution limits what is viewable on the screen. I use alt-tab and alt-~ a lot to go between working screens. I'll have Entourage, Firefox, Adium, Word open at any given time.

 

[BlizzardBomb]

I use Desktop Manager (http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/) so I have 3 desktops; one for web-browsing, one for iTunes and one for Work (e.g. never used ).

 

[mark!]

Mostly ImageReady & Photoshop.

Click for bigger.
The cartoon thingy that .. is over the starbucks isn't something I made, I was just making a *.gif of it.

 

[Felldownthewell]

I used to keep everything very orderly on my XP machine. Then came OSX and expose. And so we have this:

 

[steelphantom]

I used to keep everything very orderly on my XP machine. Then came OSX and expose. And so we have this:

"Riot Porn"?

 

[Felldownthewell]

"Riot Porn"?

ahahahahahaha


Its a blog with pictures from riots- among activists pictures of riots are known as riot porn- heres the link (work safe. Unless your boss does not like riots)
Here yah go

It may be a bit weired but it passes the time.

 

[calebjohnston]

My boss likes when I openly discuss riots and mutiny within a workplace.

 

[Felldownthewell]

My boss likes when I openly discuss riots and mutiny within a workplace.

Mine too.

Oh wait.

I dont have a job.

And since I go to an art school anything political is seen as good

So maybe its not work safe...i don't know.

 

[Josias]

Here t'is. I have MSN, iTunes, GarageBand and Safari. Pretty simple. We have exams now, so not much work to do

 

[iGary]

Writing and research mode today...

 

[mad jew]

Wow. Word (or Pages) documents look pathetic on a 30" screen.

 

[buffalo]

Check the tab titles

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but how do I get/use tabs?

 

[iGary]

Wow. Word (or Pages) documents look pathetic on a 30" screen.

Pages.

Yeah, prolly the best computer-related purchase I have ever made.

 

[D34th]

If you're using Safari, just hit File>New Tab...Pretty much the same in any web browser that supports tabs...

 

[mad jew]

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but how do I get/use tabs?

Enable them in the Tabs pane of Safari's Preferences.

 

[iGary]

If you're using Safari, just hit File>New Tab...Pretty much the same in any web browser that supports tabs...

You have to enable tabbed browsing first.

Safari->Perferences->Tabbed Browsing->Enable Tabbed Browsing.

 

[D34th]

You have to enable tabbed browsing first.

Safari->Perferences->Tabbed Browsing->Enable Tabbed Browsing.

Blah blah blah, give me my fifteen minutes of fame, and then you can continue yours iGary. Lol, just kidding. Yeah I forgot about that, mine came enabled though...

 

[buffalo]

Geez, I'm gone for 15 minutes and I come back to read five responces on how to do it. Thanks!


Anyways since school's out, I don't have much "work" anymore, but I was pulling up a re-enactment of my screen on June 1st.