I have swine flu right now, hence the lack of updates for the past week or so, and I have noticed that my minimalist “flow” of things has slowed down. I had clothes scattered on my floor, which is just a sin in my opinion. I had tissues all over my floor, which is just frankly disgusting.
I just had that on my mind, I thought I would see what you guys thought.
Current desktop, much more minimalistic. Photo by @viciouspotato
Submitted by Duncan Heal
Take a look at the picture of my desktop above, a bit disturbing eh? This isn’t exactly minimal but it illustrates the power of old hardware. My first, and only, mac is a Titanium Onyx Powerbook G4, with a stunning 667mhz CPU speed and 512mb of RAM yet it still runs 10.4.11 quite nicely. I enlarged my dock so that you could see what all I am running. I will admit that I barely ever have to run both Adium and Skype. Except for Twitterrific all of the apps you see running are usually always running, with Photoshop in and out. Don’t you just love how I only have 15mb of free RAM?
P.S. Photoshop sucks, I hate Adobe. Pixelmator all the way.
This un-official suite of various web apps customizations turn a web app into a beautiful minimal application. It all started with Helvetireader by Jon Hicks, since then various web developers have made “extensions” of it using other web apps such as Twitter and Google Calendar. Here is a list:
Unfortunately, those are the only ones. I have heard rumors of Helvetoogle for the Google homepage and Helvetibook for Facebook, but nothing to show for it. I actually have been working on them.
My dock has no applications in it permanently. Instead, I use Google Quick Search Box to launch everything. My wallpaper is Michael Mistretta’s fabulous We Build Then We Break.
(Submitted by J-P Teti)
