On Sep 23, 2010, at 5:01 PM, Walter Sheluk wrote: > Cool, would you please help me: how do use them as desktop pictures: most > site dedicated to desktop pictures have a download as desktop and also allow > you to select a screen size. Your help very much required and will be > appreciated.
Nope it's auld skool Mac user behavior: drag-n-drop, let the computer figure all of it out. I drag the pictures from the web site (Safari, NetNewsReader (all three sites have RSS feeds) and (iirc) Firefox all let you do this) into a desktop alias to my '/Users/johnson/Pictures' folder. This lets me drag a picture at any time, from anywhere...several of them are from my own iPhoto library, too. Wikimedia is another source of lots of really neat pictures. With the APOD and Earth Observatory pics, sometimes I use the picture on the main page, sometimes I use the larger ones linked...it depends; sometimes the pic on the main page is a cropped version of the larger one (especially Landsat pics on the Earth Observatory page) showing just the cool bits. I've got my desktop settings to 'Fill Screen' or 'Fit to Screen' (not 'stretch to fit' because that does all sorts of odd things), and set it to change every hour and choose randomly. I just ignore the details of the dimensions, size etc. The computer takes care of it. Oftimes the pictures are smaller than the screen resolution, but OS X scales them pretty well, actually, so they don't look too bad; if one looks really bad I just pull it out of the folder. It's too much work to worry about it manually, vastly easier to just let the computer do all the scutwork for me...this is why we invented the damn things. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
