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Life of a Desktop

Life of a Desktop

by , 9:50 AM EST, December 27th, 2007

The Mac OS X Desktop is a very personal thing that can represent a snapshot of a user's digital life. One Mac user at the advertising agency TBWA\Chiat\Day took those snapshots and strung them together -- 365 of them -- to show a year's worth of Desktop life. You can see the life of a Desktop at Sean Ohlenkamp's Web site, and it takes far less time to watch than it took to create.


A year in the life of a Desktop.

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Close Name:xmattingly Posts: 266 Joined: 31 Jul 2007
Subject: Very cool

How freakin' cool is that? A year in the life of a Mac user's desktop.

1. I think it's cool that Sean used Stickies to keep track of an ongoing list of projects. I do the same thing.
2. He seems to have a really funky habit of arranging folders in long strings.
3. Look at all those freakin' folders & files. At a glance, he appears to be a very busy guy (though might have too much time on his hands if he can take snapshots of his desktop every day! ).

Close Name:Ahnyer Keester Posts: 663 Joined: 25 Jun 2001
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Reminds me of that old Life thing that had cells live and die. Pretty cool. I don't have enough patience to keep it up.

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