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A few years ago, there was this cool demo of a new desktop metaphor where your files were actual objects you could shove around, stack, fan out, pin to the sides and stuff. Me, I am hardly ever looking at my desktop. Usually there’s a game going on, or I’m working in Photoshop, or just browsing the web – but I’m hardly ever just arranging icons on my desktop, and that seems to be all this program really did. To be honest, all I really need in a desktop is… hmm… launching programs that aren’t used enough to make it into my Start menu, I guess. ...

April 9, 2009 · 2 min · 265 words · Tipa