Tag: BACKGROUNDS

As is usually the case with new Android SDK releases, various bits and pieces have been ripped out and shared with the world thanks to an enthusiastic and ambitious dev community. Over at the Android Central forums, Alex Dobie has shared nine new wallpaper images which are bundled in the tablet-friendly Android 3.0 Honeycomb SDK. The images are fairly high-res, too, at 1980x1408 pixels -- so ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/06/02/google-lets-us-wallpaper-the-search-page-i-set-mine-to-a-bing/'; Last month, we had some fun with Google's explanation of their recent redesign of search results, but it looks like Google isn't quite done yet with not copying Bing. In their quest to make their search engine sexier and more appealing to the fickle masses, Google's now ...

A while back, there was quite a bit of talk about the progression from initial conceptualization of Windows 7's signature wallpaper to its final form. Now, thanks to Manan Kakkar you can utilize some of the background images that were part of that evolution on your Windows desktop. There are 8 images in total which Manan has packaged as a WIndows 7 theme (using the Garden sound scheme). As ...

There are plenty of wallpaper-changing applications out there, and plenty of them can tap into photo sharing sites like Flickr and Photobucket for access to a plethora of images. Still, not many of them are quite as well-connected as Wally. Even fewer are cross-platform. Wally, though, is happy to share its background-rotating skills with Windows, Mac, and Linux users alike. It's built using ...

Live Messenger has now been around for ten years and is being used by more than 330 million people worldwide. Well done, Live Messenger team! To celebrate, Microsoft has put together a free download containing emoticons, winks, backgrounds, and other Messenger extras. To see whether or not this was postable, I downloaded both Live Messenger and the pack and installed them. When you click the ...

Looking for an attractive new theme for your Windows 7 install? Apart from the official Microsoft options available on the Personalization page, WinVistaClub and IntoWindows have put together the OneWorld theme. OneWorld features five wallpaper images (compiled from other sources) and makes use of Windows 7's desktop background slideshow feature. It's designed to present an ever-expanding view ...

Okay, I admit it: I'm a design snob. Sure, I'm no world-class designer myself, you don't have to be a chef to tell when something tastes nasty, you don't need to be a design whiz to know that most of the desktop backgrounds at almost every big free-wallpapers site out there suck. Don't lose hope just yet, though: Design blog Joey Interactive has a great round-up of web sites that have a slightly ...