Ever get tired of looking at unorganized icons? Icons on the desktop are one of my biggest pet peeves. Yet, if you are like me you have a bunch there simply because its the easiest place to keep your current projects and most used files. This doesn’t mean your desktop has to look a mess or be totally boring.

While browsing the web I stumbled across a totally fun wallpaper idea, your desktop revisited. (see original find here) Who says your desktop has to be your standard background? Why can’t it help you organize your files too? When searching the web I found a couple variations on this idea but none f them were “me”. So I opened up Pixelmator and started grabbing furniture for my virtual office. What I came up with was a fun way to arrange my files and drives on my desktop.

Why stop there? Apple computers have a dashboard with some fun features, what if I could work those in too? So I found a bit of code that I could input into my iMac terminal to enable my dashboard widgets to stay live when my dashboard is closed. Now I have sticky notes, a calendar and weather always available! (source for detaching widgets) Sorry Windows users, you’ll have to figure that one out on your own. If you only have one monitor you may want to limit this though, the widgets do stay top layer and could get in your way. I have 2 monitors so I have all my folders, widgets and support applications on my second monitor and use my main one as my workspace.

Want to try it out for yourself? You can download my wallpaper here for free! 1440×900 Virtual Office Wallpaper Click the link, enlarge the image and save it to your computer to use.

Its winter break for kids all over, including my 3 children who range from 4 years to 8 years old. My 4 year old and 8 year old are both girls, they’ve decided to immerse themselves in “My Little Pony” world and bop out to a High School Musical 2 CD. My 6 year old is not having any of that. As many know, my son has Autism. He loves to play with legos and building toys, but he wants someone to model his play for him so he knows what to do and how to play. Unfortunately for him, mommy still has to work over winter break and with the girls in their own world he’s pretty bummed. So today he is helping me in the office as my new office assistant. While he’s too young to help me code, I have him out doing “target market analysis”. Yeah, he’s playing Noggin.

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