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January 21st, 2006, 02:01 AM
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Tips on creating Active Desktop page?
I'm thinking about creating an HTML page for Active Desktop. THis is partly to tech myself a little more HTML and also to try something different on teh desktop, as I primarily use teh quicklaunch only, at the moment.
Any ideas, suggestions for creating and implementing such a thing? I'm thinking of having a set of dropdowns with bookmarks and links, and possibly some hot zones.
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January 23rd, 2006, 09:20 AM
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Dynamic photos... web services (and RSS feeds?)
I'm not sure if things like this are possible, but it'd be so sweet. I stopped using Active Desktop because everytime IE crashed my background image would disappear.
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January 23rd, 2006, 12:37 PM
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You still use IE? Not much of an RSS feed type of person, but the dynamic photo thing sounds intriguing... say download the latest pics of my area from GoogleEarth... 
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January 23rd, 2006, 12:42 PM
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I was thinking back to my Win98 days...
Good catch though... =P I was under the impression that Google Earth's photos are 5 years old
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January 23rd, 2006, 05:17 PM
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Yeah, a lot of them are pretty old... okay, maybe not GoogleEarth... webcam snapshots! Talk about a huge waste of bandwidth. 
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January 24th, 2006, 01:51 AM
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Always detested active desktop, since it really sucks up system resources.
So I can't help you there. If you need HTML help though, just holler.
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January 24th, 2006, 01:27 PM
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Will do. It seems to be a fairly intuitive language, though. As long as one stays far, far away from FrontPage, that is.
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January 14th, 2008, 09:07 PM
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Active Desktop
I'm also attempting to create an active desktop for my work pc with imageready... anyone have any experience with this. Particularly attempting to tie existing icons into a new set as part of my desktop.
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January 15th, 2008, 08:23 AM
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What I never got to work with my active desktop is to have the "page" refresh every-so-often.
Don't know if this works in Vista or can be made to work in XP or not and now come to think of it I never tried the iGoogle page.... EDIT: You can set it to automatically update at a schedule. When you add an item you click the Customize button. Offline Favorite Wizard allows you to choose the syncronization schedule. Unfortunately it looks like it updates Every # days at HH:MM AM/PM You also use this to include a password if necessary. Hot snot! It works! (so far)... will have to see if the iGoogle applets still refresh.
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January 16th, 2008, 03:44 PM
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Firefox
Anyone heard of an add on to make like firefox your background?
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January 17th, 2008, 10:43 AM
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Do you mean to use the Gecko engine for rendering instead of IE? Somehow I don't see Microsoft providing such an option easily.
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