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Desktop wallpaper calender – March 2011 by Smashing Magazine
Mar 29th
Smashing magazine this month’s wallpaper calender update. You’ll find wallpapers for everyone and every mood. Catch the 35 beautiful wallpapers for the month of March on Smashing magazine website here. Each wallpaper has separate links for most of the popular resolutions. They also come without the calender, just in case you think your task bar calender is enough for you.
via [Smashing Magazine]
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5 places for fantastic desktop wallpapers
Jan 4th
1. Veer
Collection of beautiful and unique wallpapers. A place which you can’t skip looking with google images as an excuse. No you can never find these through google image search.
Veer needs a free 2 minute registration process before you can download the full resolution wallpapers.
2. Vlad Studio
My personal favorite website to find great wallpapers. The drawing style wallpapers, you rarely find anywhere else. Vlad studio isn’t the place if you are searching for photo realistic wallpapers. The wallpapers they feature are more of a modern art type. It is a one man support website. All those come from the graphic skills of a single person.
Then there is Interfacelift selected as the best by people. In a recent poll by lifehacker, interfacelift won. Interfacelift was voted the best by 36% of the lifehacker readers. Presently 2041 wallpapers, each handpicked.
4. Deviantart
Deviantart is a online art community. People share their piece of art or photography on the website. Search for wallpapers in the search box of Deviantart. The pictures that get a tag “wallpaper” among number of other tags, land on your search page. Deviantart scored 2nd highest number of votes on the Lifehacker poll.
5. PixelGirl
Not mentioned at many places, Pixelgirl hosts beautiful wallpapers. coolest Mac OS X Windows icons and desktop images for your computer and mobile gear as well as offering tutorials, articles and links.
Gaming geeky wallpapers: Desktopgaming
Windows 7 theme wallpapers: Howtogeek
Guitar wallpers: Howtogeek
Other great websites via Lifehacker I haven’t used till date: 4Chanwallpapers
and Mandolux
Google Wave Notifier
Dec 15th
Image via Wikipedia
If you are missing out people on your contact list waves like “No one using wave these days, I think”. Then this is what you need. It is a notifier. It rests in the system tray silently. Notifies you when you have something new.
Features:
1. Automatically check for new Waves every two minutes
2. See the last reply to an unread Wave
3. Quick access to your last five unread Waves
4. You are informed when a new version is available
5. Easilly browse to an unread Wave or your inbox.
via [Blogs DNA]
If you are using Google Chrome beta (version that supports extensions). Then you may use this plugin for Google wave notifications
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Search for great wallpapers with Google
Aug 23rd
Finding great wallpapers couldn’t have been easier. Google image search is one great tool to find some awesome wallpapers for your desktop. It can be done simply by pre/post-fixing the following string after the search term. (replace the width and height with your desktop size.)
imagesize:widthxheight
>> Example
Vector imagesize:1440x900
Or if you want to do it in a graphical interface go to: advanced image search. Now click on the use my
desktop size link and enter a search term in the blue-find box. Click on the Google Search button
Desktop Customization Tutorial
May 28th
Following are the ingredients used in the making of the Kill Lois desktop. For ease I’ve put them in the order of installation. A brief description is also given if required. For rainmeter skin editing or any other queries please contact me through email: indigoanalysis@gmail.com
My present desktop look
1. Rainmeter – skins: Identity (edited the size of fonts and deleted unnecessary graphics, the skin is an interactive winamp control), Yboris (first install the font in the pack, the theme displays time and date etc), Enigma (I used only the system stats meter, many other great skins in enigma), Supercolossal (needs a litte editing to change the font, displays the time and winamp stats when running winamp).
Rainmeter is the software used and it needs to be installed with various skins to utilize its full potential. The skins are easily customizable in the edit skin menu through notepad.
note: After installing themes please restart rainmeter and after editing a theme use refresh all.
2. Rocket dock – docklet: stacks docklet, skin: pre-installed blank theme
docklets and skins can easily be installed in the rocket dock respective directories. After installing a docklet do not forget to restart rocket dock. To use docklet, right click the rocket dock and select add item>”stacks docklet”. Then go to the icon properties of the docklet for settings.
3. The Kill Lois wallpaper
4. Uxpatcher (To patch windows dll to allow other themes). Easy installation
5. MakkiX and MaggraX theme. Only works when you have the uxpatcher installed.
6. Fences (optional) – Helps to sort desktop icons and make hem visible/invisible at a doubleclick/esc on the desktop.
7. Boot skin(optional) – Depends if you want to customise your boot skin.
