Wednesday, 7 February 2007

A ouncing the new TUAW Deskto Flickr group and series



Fire up your screen capture software and keyboard shortcuts TUAW readers, as we are a ouncing a new Flickr group and post series titled simply: TUAW Deskto . That's right ladies and gentlemen, in addition to immortalizing you in our archives with the Rig of the Day series, we want to dive a little deeper into just what makes your Mac, your Mac. Are you a wallpaper co oi eur, or perha you have the busiest Dock this side of Cupertino? Is your work ace decked out with utilities like iPulse, Konfabulator widgets and ShapeShifter themes, or do you want to share you mastery of clutter-free desktop feng shui? Join our new TUAW Deskto group on Flickr and upload your scree hots. On Saturdays, we'll pick out and round up the best of the deskto to share here on TUAW, complete with credit attribution and a link to your site, if you have one.

eaking of credit, we should probably lay down some rules here:
  1. First rule about TUAW Deskto : you do not talk... If you can (or would like), please attribute any work like wallpapers or ico to their original authors, and we'll do our best to include those attributio in our posts. It's fine if you don't know who that is when you post your shots - trust us, we have hundreds of wallpapers and we don't remember where we found every single one - but at the very least, don't take credit for someone else's work. This is the internets, and the readers *will* call out stunts like that. On the other hand - if something *is* your original work, by all mea - let us know, and we'll be sure your creativity gets a mention in the otlight.
  2. Try not to overload the pool with submi io that are too similar to your previous submi ion(s). We're looking for fresh desktop shot that little 'extra something' that really makes them leap off the di lay. Deskto that have that element which is difficult to describe, yet impo ible to mi .
  3. Keep it clean. This is a family blog, and we like to keep our Flickr grou and other community endeavors family-friendly as well.
  4. Last rule (for now): Unle you went all-out using products like Stardock's to make your Windows desktop look and act like Mac OS X (it's do-able - I used to, before I actually got my first Mac), we'd like to stick with Mac deskto only. After all, you are reading The Unofficial A le Weblog.
With that said, get on to showing off your deskto and let the submi io begin!

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