Citations:desktop

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English citations of desktop

(computing) Wallpaper[edit]

  • 2003, Keith Lee Johnson, Sugar & Spice, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    I hit the power button on my computer and continued reading the report while the computer warmed up. My desktop was a picture of Wesley Snipes in his outfit as the vampire hunter: Blade.
  • 2008, Samuel A. Litt et al., Mac OS X Leopard Bible, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 32:
    This is a standardized preselected list of nature-themed pictures. New images include Aurora, Earth, Earth Horizon, Golden Palace, Rock Garden, Rocks, Zebra, and Zen Garden. Click any picture in the right frame to set it as the desktop.
  • 2009, Margaret Cowie, No Regrets, My Love, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 260:
    Each time I sign off the computer I see the photo set up as my desktop. It's a photo of Will and me when we were in Boston just before he was killed.
  • 2014, Bennyness, Draw Yourself A Happy Face, volume 3, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 92:
    My crush on her is so big that I've resorted back to being a pubescent teenager with a photo of her as my desktop. [] Every time I load my computer up and I'm greeted by the photo of her looking all pretty in a sixties style red dress as she rests against an old fashioned bike, a sigh of longing is let out, []