You start up the app, take (or load) a picture/video, and upload it.
In 2002, with the release of Mac OS X 10.2, the historical "Happy Mac" start-up picture was replaced with a grey apple logo.
Oh, and you can have it meow like a cat when it starts up and takes pictures.
In Quip, a new word-processing start-up, pictures and tables are referenced by touching the "@" key on a pop-up screen keyboard, a nod to Twitter's way of linking people together.
It's focused on action photography, so starting up quick and taking lots of pictures at once are its priorities.
You can always start up again after the baby is born by posting some newborn pictures.
"I started loading up pictures of the kids and I saw flames come up the hill," said Ms. Reeves, watching the fire from a drug store parking lot near her home.
Televisions went black, then martial music started up against a background of patriotic pictures of strutting soldiers and, a few hours later, a cross-looking man in a uniform appeared on the screen and said that he had done it for the good of his country.
(More information about setting up start-up screen pictures and passwords for the accounts is at www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/howto/gettingstarted/sharing/default.asp).asp
