Desktop
noun
The working area of a computer screen where you can see and open your files.
I have placed the report on my desktop for easy access.
Often appears as...
- clear your desktop
- desktop icon
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A type of computer that is meant to be used on a desk, usually larger and more powerful than a laptop.
My desktop computer has a large monitor.
Often appears as...
- desktop computer
- desktop model
noun
The top part of a desk where you do your work.
The books are on the desktop.
Often appears as...
- clear the desktop
- desktop clutter
noun
The working area of a computer screen where you can see and open your files.
I have placed the report on my desktop for easy access.
Often appears as...
- clear your desktop
- desktop icon
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A type of computer that is meant to be used on a desk, usually larger and more powerful than a laptop.
My desktop computer has a large monitor.
Often appears as...
- desktop computer
- desktop model
noun
The top part of a desk where you do your work.
The books are on the desktop.
Often appears as...
- clear the desktop
- desktop clutter
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Virtual Space
The desktop is a digital space organizing files, not a physical one.
I organized my project files into folders on my desktop.
Pro Tip 2/3Customizable Area
Users can personalize the desktop with their choice of wallpaper or icons.
She customized her desktop with a photo of her dog.
Pro Tip 3/3Starting Point
After booting, it's usually the first screen presented to the user.
Once the computer turned on, the desktop appeared with all my apps.
Pro Tip 1/3Virtual Space
The desktop is a digital space organizing files, not a physical one.
I organized my project files into folders on my desktop.
Pro Tip 2/3Customizable Area
Users can personalize the desktop with their choice of wallpaper or icons.
She customized her desktop with a photo of her dog.
Pro Tip 3/3Starting Point
After booting, it's usually the first screen presented to the user.
Once the computer turned on, the desktop appeared with all my apps.
Pro Tip 1/3Virtual Space
The desktop is a digital space organizing files, not a physical one.
I organized my project files into folders on my desktop.
Pro Tip 2/3Customizable Area
Users can personalize the desktop with their choice of wallpaper or icons.
She customized her desktop with a photo of her dog.
Pro Tip 3/3Starting Point
After booting, it's usually the first screen presented to the user.
Once the computer turned on, the desktop appeared with all my apps.
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Video examples
Robots with "soul" PIPE Guy...
and used that to design my robotic desk lamp. So I went and designed frame by frame to try to make this robot as graceful and engaging as possible. And here when you see the robot interacting with me on a desktop -- and I'm actually redesigning the robot, so, unbeknownst to itself, it's kind of digging its own grave by helping me.
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Inside your computer -...
instructions to move your mouse around on the screen, to run that clock widget on your desktop, play your internet radio, manage the files you're editing on the hard drive, and much, much more. Your computer's CPU is one heck of a multitasker! "But oh my gosh there's a very important mouse click
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Adam Spencer: Why I fell...
We live in an age where some of the great breakthroughs are not going to happen in the labs or the halls of academia but on laptops, desktops, in the palms of people's hands who are simply helping out for the search. But for me it's amazing because it's a metaphor for the time in which we live,
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Anand Agarawala: BumpTop...
Let's just break this shelf. Okay, that shelf broke. I think beyond the icons, I think another really cool domain for this software -- I think it applies to more than just icons and your desktop -- but browsing photographs. I think you can really enrich the way we browse our photographs
Video examples
Computing with fluids PIPE...
any shape you want I just drew a tee you put that in a magnetic field and it will actually magnetize but then when the field changes the magnetization orientation would change and you end up with something like rolling hills all remember the Microsoft desktop with
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The design of the...
in order to make just this simple visible one. So I'm going to show you one that can be run on a desktop in two days in the next picture. So you start out with teeny fluctuations when the universe was at this point, now four times smaller, and so forth.
Video examples
Printing a human kidney...
that was actually created with this desktop printer and implanted as you see here. That was all new bone that was implanted using these techniques. Another more advanced technology we're looking at right now, our next generation of technologies,
Video examples
Do we see reality as it...
We're shaped with tricks and hacks that keep us alive. Still, we need some help with our intuitions. How can not perceiving reality as it is be useful? Well, fortunately, we have a very helpful the desktop interface on your computer.
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The thrilling potential...
back to my desktop so I can use my full-size computer. And why only computers? We can just play with papers. Paper world is interesting to play with. Here, I'm taking a part of a document,
Video examples
Walking with Giants: How...
William Malloy used a desktop model to postulate the use of an inverted wooden
Video examples
Robots with "soul" PIPE Guy...
and used that to design my robotic desk lamp. So I went and designed frame by frame to try to make this robot as graceful and engaging as possible. And here when you see the robot interacting with me on a desktop -- and I'm actually redesigning the robot, so, unbeknownst to itself, it's kind of digging its own grave by helping me.
Video examples
Inside your computer -...
instructions to move your mouse around on the screen, to run that clock widget on your desktop, play your internet radio, manage the files you're editing on the hard drive, and much, much more. Your computer's CPU is one heck of a multitasker! "But oh my gosh there's a very important mouse click
Video examples
Adam Spencer: Why I fell...
We live in an age where some of the great breakthroughs are not going to happen in the labs or the halls of academia but on laptops, desktops, in the palms of people's hands who are simply helping out for the search. But for me it's amazing because it's a metaphor for the time in which we live,
Video examples
Anand Agarawala: BumpTop...
Let's just break this shelf. Okay, that shelf broke. I think beyond the icons, I think another really cool domain for this software -- I think it applies to more than just icons and your desktop -- but browsing photographs. I think you can really enrich the way we browse our photographs
Video examples
Computing with fluids PIPE...
any shape you want I just drew a tee you put that in a magnetic field and it will actually magnetize but then when the field changes the magnetization orientation would change and you end up with something like rolling hills all remember the Microsoft desktop with
Video examples
The design of the...
in order to make just this simple visible one. So I'm going to show you one that can be run on a desktop in two days in the next picture. So you start out with teeny fluctuations when the universe was at this point, now four times smaller, and so forth.
Video examples
Printing a human kidney...
that was actually created with this desktop printer and implanted as you see here. That was all new bone that was implanted using these techniques. Another more advanced technology we're looking at right now, our next generation of technologies,
Video examples
Do we see reality as it...
We're shaped with tricks and hacks that keep us alive. Still, we need some help with our intuitions. How can not perceiving reality as it is be useful? Well, fortunately, we have a very helpful the desktop interface on your computer.
Video examples
The thrilling potential...
back to my desktop so I can use my full-size computer. And why only computers? We can just play with papers. Paper world is interesting to play with. Here, I'm taking a part of a document,
Video examples
Walking with Giants: How...
William Malloy used a desktop model to postulate the use of an inverted wooden
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
John Katzman
American Businessman
I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.
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Steve Jobs
American Businessman
The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.
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Michael Dell
American Businessman
There are many different kinds of PCs. You have fixed, virtual, tablets, notebooks, ultrabooks, desktops, workstations. What you find in commercial PCs, business PCs, is that there's a really long tail of usage on client devices.
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Bill Gates
American Businessman
On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.
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Fred Ehrsam
American Businessman
If you are going to store your e-wallet on your own server, don't keep your e-wallet on your desktop, and make sure you use encryption. If you lose your computer, your bitcoins are lost forever.
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Bre Pettis
American Businessman
If you want to be a person who buys stuff at the dollar store, you can be that person. If you want to make really cool stuff on your desktop and be the manufacturer, that is a lifestyle.
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Tae Yoo
American Businesswoman
When something effective takes hold, it can change the world. Whether through a mobile device or a desktop computer, connectivity and creativity make it all possible.
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David Baszucki
American Inventor
One great feature of Roblox is all mobile players join the same game servers as desktop players, connecting users across devices in a shared virtual world.
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David Hewlett
English Actor
You can make amazing sci-fi films if you want to with very, very little money and very advanced technology that can run on your desktop.
Quote examples
Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.
Quote examples
John Katzman
American Businessman
I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.
Quote examples
Steve Jobs
American Businessman
The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.
Quote examples
Michael Dell
American Businessman
There are many different kinds of PCs. You have fixed, virtual, tablets, notebooks, ultrabooks, desktops, workstations. What you find in commercial PCs, business PCs, is that there's a really long tail of usage on client devices.
Quote examples
Bill Gates
American Businessman
On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.
Quote examples
Fred Ehrsam
American Businessman
If you are going to store your e-wallet on your own server, don't keep your e-wallet on your desktop, and make sure you use encryption. If you lose your computer, your bitcoins are lost forever.
Quote examples
Bre Pettis
American Businessman
If you want to be a person who buys stuff at the dollar store, you can be that person. If you want to make really cool stuff on your desktop and be the manufacturer, that is a lifestyle.
Quote examples
Tae Yoo
American Businesswoman
When something effective takes hold, it can change the world. Whether through a mobile device or a desktop computer, connectivity and creativity make it all possible.
Quote examples
David Baszucki
American Inventor
One great feature of Roblox is all mobile players join the same game servers as desktop players, connecting users across devices in a shared virtual world.
Quote examples
David Hewlett
English Actor
You can make amazing sci-fi films if you want to with very, very little money and very advanced technology that can run on your desktop.
Quote examples
Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.
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