A meme

[girlyswot]

I wasn't tagged but I saw this one and thought it was fun.

Minimise (or close) all the windows on your computer and take a screen capture of your desktop.





The taller building in the back of the photo is my parents' home.  The buildings in front are now also a house, but they were originally stables, sheds and workshop space.  My brother took this as part of a portfolio documenting the farm every two weeks last year.

I don't like a cluttered desktop (in real life or on screen) so I try to keep no more than 1 column of icons.  I need to trash the one at the top of the second column.  My laptop stopped recognising CD-Roms or DVD's on Monday and that's the download that fixed the problem.  The two programs I use most (other than Firefox for the internet) are the two you probably don't recognise.  Bibleworks is an amazing piece of software that has hundreds of bible versions in many different languages, fully searchable by complex boolean formulae and, most wonderfully of all, will parse every Greek and Hebrew word and give you a full lexicon entry.  I couldn't live without it.  Nota Bene is my academic writing software.  Utterly brilliant.  You can enter bibliographic information, linked to a note taking file, fully searchable, then with the click of a button insert quotes into your essay, with footnote automatically included, set to whichever academic style you're using.  It cuts down paper writing time by at least a third, I'd say.  It's also brilliantly easy for inserting Greek, Hebrew or other odd languages that don't use a Latin alphabet.

So, now I'm curious.  Want to show me what's on your desktop?  I'll tag you all!

Comments

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

I won't show (because I wouldn't know where to start) but I can tell you. The picture was chose by my husband when he set the system up for me. Obviously, he knew I'd want my desktop to show a picture of him so that's what I've got. He's on our deck (the one the photos of me in vearious outfits were taken) with our Jack Russell, brilliantly named Jacky by Little Tyke (she was only 6 when she came up with that one), when the dog was still a puppy. I have never bothered to change it bu occasionally Little Tyke will give me a new one until I scream at her to change it back because she always puts something really awful up for me.

[kinderjedi.livejournal.com]

That's a lovely picture. It looks like a beautiful area.

Nota Bene sounds like a great tool - especially the style settings. I'm trying to switch from a lifetime of using MLA format to Chicago and keep making errors, so I've been researching software options. I hadn't heard of this one, though.

I don't think I've done this meme before, so I'll play. :)

[nundu-art.livejournal.com]

How does one take a screen capture? I tried taking a picture of it with my camera, but the flash whites out the monitor screen. (Sorry, I'm totally technically challenged)

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

You should have a button labelled 'Print Screen' or 'Prt Sc' or something similar. Press that and then use Ctrl+V to paste into whatever picture organising programme you use.

[nundu-art.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, absolutely nothing happened when I did this. I tried several times. *smacks computer*

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Um, if smacking doesn't work, then I don't know what else to suggest, sorry!