Tag: BACKGROUND

The official Windows 7 personalization gallery already has some pretty nice themes available. Whether you're into hot cars, animals, or abstractness, there's something for (almost) everyone. Just added is a gorgeous new seasonal theme called Czech Spring which includes eight high-res springtime wallpapers. Flowers, a babbling brook, a pastoral landscape -- you can almost smell the nature-y ...

Have a bad habit of overwhelming Firefox with a few dozen too many tabs? You might want to check out the clever-yet-simple BarTap add-on. Here's what it does. When you click on a link you've chosen to open in a new tab, Firefox normally loads the page content immediately. BarTap keeps an eye on these actions, and intervenes when it sees a new tab appear. It prevents Firefox from loading any ...

One Bing feature some users enjoy are the ever-changing, interactive background images it displays on the main search page. If you count yourself among them, check out Bing4Free, a desktop application which pulls those images down to your Windows PC and uses them for a wallpaper slideshow. On the downside, the images which Bing4Free downloads are fairly low-resolution (958x512). On a ...

Changing a desktop image on a Mac is no big thing. You can open System Preferences from the Apple menu or the Applications directory, or you can go straight to the desktop prefpane by right-clicking on your desktop. Changing the picture you see when you log in should be just as easy, but it's not. If you want to learn the Terminal commands to do it, then more power to you. For the average user, ...

If you've been on Twitter for a while, you've probably seen someone with an elaborate background that's designed to work around the text elements of the Twitter layout. Maybe it's got a photo and some contact information on the side, or maybe it just frames the main text field in some creative way. When you want to make your own, though, how do you work around the layout and get the spacing ...

If you ever wanted to make a tiled background pattern for your desktop or website but lacked the design expertise to create one, bgpatterns has you covered. The site is very straight forward and easy to use. Start off by selecting the foreground and background color for your design, followed by the texture of your canvas. Once you have that dialed in you're ready for the next step which is ...

HDRwalls offers a welcome change from hum-drum single color desktop backgrounds or the limited selection of built-in OS wallpapers. They currently have about 500 High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos in resolutions ranging from 800x600 to 1920x1200. They also provide sizes for iPod Touch, PSP, Blackberry, and iPhone. HDR photography is the result of increasing the dynamic range of a photo through tone ...

A blogger called Brajeshwar has posted what looks like a complete set of wallpapers from Windows Vista. Whether they're all really from Vista or not, they're all gorgeous and, if you like greens and nature themes, are well worth the download. You can browse the set on Flickr or download zipped packs on Brajeshwar's blog. You can go forth and decorate, or you can check out a small sampling after ...