I always say that desktop images are more significant than people think, because most so-called ‘knowledge workers’ who typically stare at a computer screen all day, are looking at these images, consciously or subconsciously, all day long. So, therefore, this week we present you with three →
Play full length videos in your desktop background, with DesktopMovie
This is not a ‘video wallpaper’ type software, like Windows Dreamscenes or Okozo; rather, DesktopMovie is a free program designed to play full-length videos with sound inside your desktop background and under your icons. The reason you would do that is up to you! →
Get wonderful, user-curated wallpaper images with Desktoppr
Have you ever wondered why YouTube contains every video in the world that you could think of? The reason, of course, is the fact that users do the all the work of curating and uploading. Desktoppr is a website that, similarly, lets users upload and freely →
Pointless Eye Candy – Customize your desktop with Skinpacks.com
Skinpacks.com is one of those gems of a website that offers a centralized place for multiple sources of great content. It offers tons of customization options for the windows interface and lists tons of different ‘packs’, each of which contains multiple programs from different authors and →
Manage your favorite wallpaper images with Wallmagician
If you care about and enjoy the wallpaper images that you use on your computer, you might find this program quite useful. Wallmagician is a simple program that keeps track of all of your favorite wallpaper images in a single place, irrespective of where they may →
Rhine II, record setting image sold at $4.3 Mil, makes an OK desktop wallpaper
You may have heard of this photograph taken in 1999 by Andreas Gursky, which sold at Christie’s in New York at auction for a record setting $4.3 Million on Nov 8 2011. The buyer was not disclosed, and there is lots of speculation in the media as to why →
Automatically download and shuffle Flickr wallpaper images with Flickr Wallpaper Rotator
What if I told you that you could install an app that gave you unlimited, beautiful, images downloaded and shuffled on your desktop automatically, and that all you had to do was enjoy and, on occasion, skip an image that perhaps didn’t quite strike your fancy? →
NatGeo Wallpaper Downloader: download over 5000 National Geographic wallpapers with a single click
You may have seen my November 2009 post citing the National Geographic site as one of the best places to download wallpaper images on the internet. This post is a bit of a follow up to that one, in that the free tool discussed here is designed →
10 wallpaper selections, part 2
This is the second installment of my “10 wallpaper selections” series. (See the first installment of wallpaper selections here). I have a few rules that I use when making these selections: the images are not just pretty but will have to “work” as background images on the →
10 wallpaper selections, part 1
This is the first of a new series of posts entitled “10 wallpaper selections”, which will consist entirely of (you guessed it) wallpaper images that I like and use. I decided to do this after the thought occurred to me that the desktop wallpaper for many people →
National Geographic Photography Site: a fantastic source of desktop wallpaper images
If you’ve ever been on the National Geographic Photography site then you already know that they feature some of the best, high quality photographs to be found on the internet. What you may not know, however, is that the site has a special wallpapers section, and →
How to find high quality wallpaper images on any topic
Want to find cool wallpaper? I was recently admiring the wallpaper my friend Jeff (who, incidentally, works for Microsoft) had on his computer. When I asked him about the source he showed me the new cool wallpaper image search provided in Bing. This posting will show →
