OK. I’m Addicted.

Posted on 13. Jun, 2008 by loswhit in Mid Afternoon Distraction

A few weeks ago I placed a time lapse movie of my day at work.
Then of me sleeping.
Gawker is the program I use to make all these.
A cool option it has is to time lapse your desktop.
Here was my Thursday.
Well. Here was me laptop’s Thursday.
From 9-5

Desktop Timelapse from Carlos Whittaker on Vimeo.

Any simularities to your desktops throughout your days?
Mail and Twitter seem to be my staples.
What are yours?
Los

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27 Responses to “OK. I’m Addicted.”

  1. Rita 13 June 2008 at 6:42 am #

    igoogle and … igoogle! :)

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  2. Loran 13 June 2008 at 6:51 am #

    tweetin old school.
    Love it!

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  3. caleb 13 June 2008 at 6:59 am #

    wow…you get paid to just surf around online! must be nice :-)

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  4. Rick 13 June 2008 at 7:00 am #

    Google calendar. Except I run mine through a program called Thunderbird, which is the Mozilla equivalent to Outlook. GMail + GCalendar + Thunderbird = Schedule bliss.

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  5. Anna 13 June 2008 at 7:06 am #

    Love the time lapse, but slightly worries me as I’ll be forced to own up to how frequently I check my YouTube, Etsy, Flickr and RSS feed (and therefor the blogs I read)

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  6. Joni 13 June 2008 at 7:14 am #

    I think time lapse throughout my day would include a lot of shots of “crazy mommy” facial expressions where my children pretend they don’t hear me so I yell because obviously that’s more productive than giving them an actual consequence to their behavior. I refuse to have any mom video. I can’t be trusted. My organizational tool is a note pad and pen. Can’t function without it.

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  7. Bubba 13 June 2008 at 7:18 am #

    Whoa. That’s pretty cool.
    I think I’m going to have to whip up a gawker timelapse on my MacBookPro just to come clean about how I spend a day online.

    Firfox, Outlook in Parallels (I’m corporate, I know), and OmniGraffle are big parts of my desktop lately.

    And I’m lovin’ tweeting old skool style myself…

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  8. loswhit 13 June 2008 at 7:26 am #

    Yup. I did not talk or have meetings or walk. I sat glued to my laptop all day. :)

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  9. Scott Williams 13 June 2008 at 8:13 am #

    Los,

    This post was sweet. Firts of all you broke out the old school Montel Jordan, went through a bunch of stuff, you had watched my Boss’ Sermon, BTW- The list of all of the OnePrayer churches from Craig’s sermon in fast speed was still memorable.

    I want your job! LOL

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  10. petey*crowder 13 June 2008 at 8:48 am #

    what a great accountability to the way you browse the web… haha…

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  11. Brad Ruggles 13 June 2008 at 8:56 am #

    Dude, you’re crazy. I’ve gotta try that with mine.

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  12. Anthony 13 June 2008 at 10:10 am #

    My time lapse would be of Outlook, my blog, and this blog. I’m always checking emails and responding to people.

    Calendar sometimes but not so much.

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  13. Ron Nelson 13 June 2008 at 10:32 am #

    That is awesome – I’d be terrified to do this, it’d show how much time I spend doing stuff other than work.

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  14. ryan b 13 June 2008 at 11:09 am #

    I use gaker too. Love it. Close to addiction.

    But, could someone tell me how you time-lapse your desktop using it???

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  15. Lauren A 13 June 2008 at 12:07 pm #

    I think I saw my blog on there! HA! Maybe, who really know.
    That’s very similar to what my Mac sees.

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  16. matt g 13 June 2008 at 12:28 pm #

    Final Cut – AfterFX – RENDER – Photoshop – Final Cut – AfterFX – RENDER – EXPORT (Once finished… Repeat Process)
    Half of my life is a GIANT Render Bar. But that’s why they make Nintendo Wii.

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  17. Amy Storms 13 June 2008 at 1:25 pm #

    Speaking of addicted…what happened with that guy’s backpack?? You can’t keep us in such suspense!

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  18. zak 13 June 2008 at 2:48 pm #

    Mine would be planning center online, final cut express, fireworks, dreamweaver, twitter, blog, blog, blog, blog, google calendar, gmail, writeroom if I am preaching that week, twhirl, firefox, flickr, and of course, ragamuffinsoul.com

    Suck Up, I know…

    :)

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  19. Marcus Hackler 13 June 2008 at 3:43 pm #

    I love Gawker, and I’m glad you are now using Vimeo! I think it’s a much better tool than Youtube, although it doesn’t have the reach, that’s for sure.

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  20. Lu 13 June 2008 at 4:14 pm #

    That was INsane!

    And No, I would never do that; no, mine doesn’t look that crazy, and no, mine doesn’t look that cool– there’d be more Photoshop, Flash, PowerPoint and Excel — and it would be a PC (blech!) as that’s what I’m stuck working on at work. Now, doin’ that at HOME is a different story… I could show off my new iMac 24″ goodness… THAT would be fun! :)

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  21. Heather 13 June 2008 at 5:44 pm #

    You crack me up!

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  22. Crystal Renaud 13 June 2008 at 5:44 pm #

    that’s a new form of internet accountability… for sure.

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  23. Adam 13 June 2008 at 6:18 pm #

    Ok.. the time lapse thing is pretty cool.. But how do you even think about doing that. I mean where did that thought even come from. very cool stuff.

    Very nice. Go Mac.. =)

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  24. Tyler 13 June 2008 at 8:00 pm #

    carlos read MY BLOG?????

    hope you liked the video los. obviously i can’t take credit, i was just there to witness it. thanks for watching and reading.

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  25. Amy (Dandelion Seeds) 14 June 2008 at 4:52 am #

    Hey… where’s the challenge post? :) I’ve got to do mine first thing in the morning.

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  26. mike brennan 14 June 2008 at 3:55 pm #

    i’d have to say mail, twitter & facebook. I see that you stopped by my blog in your video. Thanks for stopping by. I recognized that 2 seconds of my page :)

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  27. Matt 29 June 2008 at 5:42 pm #

    Not running Leopard? any reason in particular? just curious.

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