It’s something that we look at every day, but hardly ever notice - it’s the image that lives behind our folders and files, and lets us personalise what our computer looks like when no other program is running.
Busy or calming, colourful or plain, a good desktop picture can actually help you rather than hinder you, and give your eyes a place to rest when they’re tired.
So, what makes ‘the ultimate’ desktop picture? Read on, and I’ll give you my top tips, then my own ultimate desktop picture…
The rise in the finished quality of open source software and online applications has opened up the options for businesses on a budget, to give credible alternatives to an array of software that, in hindsight, you’ve unfortunately already paid for. Like to know what you could be using, for free?
We live in world of marketing buzz and hype, where we are bombarded daily with hundreds of messages all telling us what is or isn’t good for us. Every day, new ways of ‘cutting through’ the volume of advertisements and marketing hype have to be invented to get some sort of traction in the marketplace - even if only for a short time before the next ‘big thing’ arrives…
It’s been a wonderful month of, well, holidays here at the Ballard residence - starting with a pre-school-holidays band camp with No 1 son, then on into a camping and bicycling holiday with the whole family…
There’s a lot of half-finished (or half-started?) posts that I’ll pull out of my ‘In Progress’ folder, and get up online in the next few days, including finishing the popular logo design/redesign series.
