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Thread started 10/30/16 8:10am

donnyenglish

Prince's Computer Desktop

Has anyone analyzed Prince's desktop screen from his instagram posts? Lots of interesting looking icons, but I couldn't identify most of them.
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Reply #1 posted 10/30/16 9:13am

KaresB

donnyenglish said:

Has anyone analyzed Prince's desktop screen from his instagram posts? Lots of interesting looking icons, but I couldn't identify most of them.


Weren't they mostly files?


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Reply #2 posted 10/30/16 11:08am

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Yeah, those were files mostly. What's funny is that he has unneeded shortcuts in Chrome all over the place. Seems he also used IE, and Picasa, and (gag) Windows Media Player. He was on a Dell it looks like.

Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking.
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Reply #3 posted 10/30/16 2:20pm

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I've apparently missed something. pout

I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart.
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Reply #4 posted 10/30/16 2:31pm

BillieBalloon

Baby, you're a star.

Meet me in another world, space and joy
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Reply #5 posted 10/30/16 2:38pm

ufoclub

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Prince fans are like Kojak mixed up with Encyclopedia Brown with National Enquirer.

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Reply #6 posted 10/30/16 2:50pm

donnyenglish

I noticed that he had an old photo of him signing autographs from the For You days on the desktop.
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Reply #7 posted 10/30/16 2:53pm

morningsong

ufoclub said:

Prince fans are like Kojak mixed up with Encyclopedia Brown with National Enquirer.



lol

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Reply #8 posted 10/30/16 2:55pm

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BillieBalloon said:

http://pigeonsandplanes.c...r-desktop/

Thanks! kiss2

I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart.
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Reply #9 posted 10/30/16 3:20pm

Dibblekins

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http://pigeonsandplanes.c...r-desktop/

'What we have learned so far is that Prince is old'. Lmao!

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Reply #10 posted 10/30/16 3:25pm

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Now while I damn sure KNOW for fact that Prince LOVED himself...a whole lot. I am just going to have to call timeout on that actually being HIS personal desktop. That's a "fan/fam" desktop.

And for the record, so there is no misunderstanding...had I saw this when it was originally posted... I'd have damn sure said the exact same response and most certainly would have said so, with no fucks to give. batting eyes

I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart.
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Reply #11 posted 10/30/16 3:25pm

Misslink88

I'm just waiting for when someone breaks out the really important stuff....like what kind of toothpaste he used and whether or not laundry day was Tuesday or Saturday. It's impossible to truly appreciate the depth of his lyrical content and music if these critical details remain a mystery.

God is my Sugar Daddy.
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Reply #12 posted 10/30/16 3:32pm

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ufoclub said:

Prince fans are like Kojak mixed up with Encyclopedia Brown with National Enquirer.

falloff

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #13 posted 10/30/16 3:51pm

Strive

TrivialPursuit said:

Yeah, those were files mostly. What's funny is that he has unneeded shortcuts in Chrome all over the place. Seems he also used IE, and Picasa, and (gag) Windows Media Player. He was on a Dell it looks like.

Yeah. http://www.rollingstone.c...y-20160502

It is, in theory, a mundane sight, nothing 2 get excited about: just a 55-year-old man in his suburban Minneapolis workplace, scrolling through a Windows Media Player library on a clunky Dell computer. An equally ordinary multi-line phone sits beside it, near a lit candle, bottled water and some expensive-looking lotion. A huge old Xerox machine looms over the desk; a window at the far end of the room looks out onto barren trees and an empty, snow-lined highway. It's early evening on Saturday, January 25th, 2014, in Chanhassen, Minnesota.

The office is on the second floor of the 65,000-square-foot Paisley Park compound. The little guy sitting at the keyboard owns it all, had it all built back in the Eighties. And Prince being Prince, it's fascinating to watch him do just about anything. The more ordinary the activity – clicking a mouse, say – the weirder it feels.

(...)

Playing the album in his office, he charmingly takes pains to turn the player's visualizer function on, providing state-of-2002 fractal accompaniment to the music.

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Reply #14 posted 10/31/16 7:01am

KaresB

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

Now while I damn sure KNOW for fact that Prince LOVED himself...a whole lot. I am just going to have to call timeout on that actually being HIS personal desktop. That's a "fan/fam" desktop.


To me that looks exactly like an office computer at Paisley Park would – filled with promo pics that they would send out to the press and promoters. It could be one of Prince's OFFICE computers.

For music production I'm sure he still used Mac Pros (as he was known to do so in the past) as I've seen an Apogee Quartet interface on the SSL console, used by Josh, when they were broadcasting the 3EG-gig from his studio.


Perhaps he also used a MacBook for personal correspondence, though it's also possible he switched to Windows due to his grievances over Apple's iTunes business model.

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Reply #15 posted 10/31/16 7:51am

donnyenglish

Interesting that the current cover to the Prince 4Ever upcoming release was on his desktop. I guess that could corroborate the statement from the photographer that he approved the artwork for the set.

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Reply #16 posted 10/31/16 8:41am

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TrivialPursuit said:

Yeah, those were files mostly. What's funny is that he has unneeded shortcuts in Chrome all over the place. Seems he also used IE, and Picasa, and (gag) Windows Media Player. He was on a Dell it looks like.

Windows Media Player is a default shortcut on a Dell, so he may have just left it there. Also, the Chrome shortcuts are not necessarily unneeded. If I want to draw my attention to a web page that I'm going to reference or use soon for whatever reason, I'll drag it to my desktop temporarily instead of letting it get lost in the morass of my actual bookmark list.

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Reply #17 posted 10/31/16 9:11am

destinyc1

God bless him.Its almost like us telling our grandparents to get on and get a feeling of the www he prob had many computers.No phone though.

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Reply #18 posted 10/31/16 12:59pm

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Donny
I luv ya. U crack me up.
If you only knew how long I stared at that Instagram post one day, tilting my head this way and thataway trying to figure out that desktop 😃👍😘

In fact rite now I am going through all of P's Instagram posts.
I just need something new to discover about him all the time.
Anyone know why his Instagram only goes back to last May or so?
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Reply #19 posted 10/31/16 1:51pm

donnyenglish

anangellooksdown said:

Donny I luv ya. U crack me up. If you only knew how long I stared at that Instagram post one day, tilting my head this way and thataway trying to figure out that desktop 😃👍😘 In fact rite now I am going through all of P's Instagram posts. I just need something new to discover about him all the time. Anyone know why his Instagram only goes back to last May or so?

I was checking out his instagram too. He posted a symbol with the final piece of the symbol being posted on April 14th. Makes me sad. The videos of him in Studio A playing music from Black is the New Black posted before his passing and to think we were in Studio A taking photos a few weeks ago.

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Reply #20 posted 10/31/16 5:33pm

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donnyenglish said:



anangellooksdown said:


Donny I luv ya. U crack me up. If you only knew how long I stared at that Instagram post one day, tilting my head this way and thataway trying to figure out that desktop 😃👍😘 In fact rite now I am going through all of P's Instagram posts. I just need something new to discover about him all the time. Anyone know why his Instagram only goes back to last May or so?


I was checking out his instagram too. He posted a symbol with the final piece of the symbol being posted on April 14th. Makes me sad. The videos of him in Studio A playing music from Black is the New Black posted before his passing and to think we were in Studio A taking photos a few weeks ago.



Do you mean the shape of the all the last photos making the symbol? I think i just noticed that now. He was so creative with even Instagram.
I remember seeing a thread where people here were watching his twitter in April after the plane incident and he was reading what Orgers were writing here, then literally answering on his twitter. Just amazing. His fans meant a LOT to him, obviously.

Tough night here. Trying to remember that Prince wanted everyone happy.
Hope all is well there.

Edit to add: Oct 27th Instagram has a great clip of "Time" - live. His voice was amazing. Still.
[Edited 10/31/16 17:37pm]
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Reply #21 posted 10/31/16 6:44pm

donnyenglish

anangellooksdown said:

donnyenglish said:



anangellooksdown said:


Donny I luv ya. U crack me up. If you only knew how long I stared at that Instagram post one day, tilting my head this way and thataway trying to figure out that desktop 😃👍😘 In fact rite now I am going through all of P's Instagram posts. I just need something new to discover about him all the time. Anyone know why his Instagram only goes back to last May or so?


I was checking out his instagram too. He posted a symbol with the final piece of the symbol being posted on April 14th. Makes me sad. The videos of him in Studio A playing music from Black is the New Black posted before his passing and to think we were in Studio A taking photos a few weeks ago.



Do you mean the shape of the all the last photos making the symbol? I think i just noticed that now. He was so creative with even Instagram.
I remember seeing a thread where people here were watching his twitter in April after the plane incident and he was reading what Orgers were writing here, then literally answering on his twitter. Just amazing. His fans meant a LOT to him, obviously.

Tough night here. Trying to remember that Prince wanted everyone happy.
Hope all is well there.

Edit to add: Oct 27th Instagram has a great clip of "Time" - live. His voice was amazing. Still.
[Edited 10/31/16 17:37pm]


Yea. He started posting it in february and the last one to complete the symbol before his final show in Atlanta.
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Reply #22 posted 10/31/16 7:06pm

lunabelle

but also:

"Knowing how much Prince, who didn’t use a cellphone but was constantly surfing his silver MacBook, valued his privacy, friends said they did not press him. "

from NYT may 4

http://nyti.ms/1NWKtx2

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Reply #23 posted 10/31/16 7:17pm

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Donny, got it.
Luna belle, i came across an article from the past year or two which says Prince whipped out his phone at a show of some kind and started putting information about the song that was being played into it. I'm looking for the article now. So maybe he gave in and ultimately got one.
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Reply #24 posted 10/31/16 7:29pm

chaocracy

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but also:

"Knowing how much Prince, who didn’t use a cellphone but was constantly surfing his silver MacBook, valued his privacy, friends said they did not press him. "

from NYT may 4

http://nyti.ms/1NWKtx2

Prince did have a cell phone I've seen him with it several times at Paisley, pretty sure it was an iphone that was all decorated on the back with stickers, or maybe some sort of paint. (or just a case) Many of the shots you would see on twitter or instagram of him playing a snipet or two of music he would take by handing the phone to Treavor.

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Reply #25 posted 10/31/16 7:59pm

lunabelle

that's really funny. I wasn't really thinking about the question of the phone when I posted this- but good point! I was thinking of the silver macbook as I remember reading that the first time and being so relieved he didnt just use that old dell!

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Reply #26 posted 11/01/16 5:52am

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Yes I read he was a MBP (Mac Book Pro) user too - but it is also possible the Dell was used just in the office as some programs are not compatible with Apple - such as some editing programs etc - I know at work we have to keep using Windows PC as programs such as Microvellum etc wont work properly on Mac - and maybe some in the office were not used to Mac either, so they had a windows option? Just my 2 cents..........

Thank you Prince for every note you left behind 💜
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Reply #27 posted 11/01/16 6:00am

CAL3

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Yes I read he was a MBP (Mac Book Pro) user too - but it is also possible the Dell was used just in the office as some programs are not compatible with Apple - such as some editing programs etc - I know at work we have to keep using Windows PC as programs such as Microvellum etc wont work properly on Mac - and maybe some in the office were not used to Mac either, so they had a windows option? Just my 2 cents..........

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Who loves ya, baby?

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Reply #28 posted 11/01/16 6:17am

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I bet that unidentified log in link was the org wink

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Reply #29 posted 11/01/16 7:11pm

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CAL3 said:

gollygirl said:

Yes I read he was a MBP (Mac Book Pro) user too - but it is also possible the Dell was used just in the office as some programs are not compatible with Apple - such as some editing programs etc - I know at work we have to keep using Windows PC as programs such as Microvellum etc wont work properly on Mac - and maybe some in the office were not used to Mac either, so they had a windows option? Just my 2 cents..........

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Who loves ya, baby?

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spit Damn. falloff

I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart.
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