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Using the Desktop as the default saving location of your files, projects or downloads proves to be, in most cases, very time efficient. This way, you don’t have to think twice about where are your recent files are and you can continue your work after a short break almost instantly. Things get complicated when y... |
16 November 2009
12:31 GMT |
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Concomitantly with the worldwide general availability of Windows 7, on October 22nd, 2009, Microsoft also released a collection of new content designed to enable users of certain editions of the operating system to personalize their desktops. The Personalization Gallery on Windows.com is an online nook dedicated to o... |
4 November 2009
12:21 GMT |
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The addition of background images is a feature that contributes to the differentiation of user experiences in Microsoft’s decision/search engine versus Google. All the images that are featured as daily Bing wallpapers are downloadable via a simple right click and the Save Background As option, provided that you... |
8 September 2009
10:40 GMT |
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Even though Snow Leopard isn’t going to be available until September, the original Mac OS X 10.6 wallpaper is now available for free download. Admittedly, the wallpaper is not much, but it does make a good first step towards the transition to the new OS. Mac fans can grab the wallpaper immediately and use the S... |
18 June 2009
08:29 GMT |
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After the new login screen, new themes and the new boot splash theme introduced the other day, Canonical finally updated the old Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) wallpaper with a brand new one. As you can see in the image below, there's no more logo as everyone expected... instead, the wallpaper is slick, simple and ... |
19 March 2009
05:14 GMT |
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You all know that the desktop wallpaper can influence your mood throughout the day. So, it surely isn't a good idea to see the same image continuously, especially if it represents an abstract or impersonal scenery. You will be surprised to realize that a vacation photo or the portrait of the loved one can bring ... |
16 February 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Spaces is one of the hundreds of new features Apple has introduced with the original version of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Spaces lets users configure their work spaces by visiting the Exposé & Spaces pane in System Preferences. According to Apple, in the System Prefs pane dedicated to the two functions of Leopa... |
13 January 2009
06:26 GMT |
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The desktop background of the computer may seem of little importance to some but other users pay very much attention to the image set as background of the screen. It either says something about their personality or it is simply an image conveying their state of mind. Although the process of changing a desktop backgr... |
12 January 2009
10:10 GMT |
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Developer Polo Planet Software recently released a stripped down version of its Phone Wallpaper X application, calling it ImagePhone. An update to the app has added the ability to send wallpapers by e-mail, some backup functionality, and a 14.95 USD price tag. A demo is still available. The program lets you make and... |
4 December 2008
09:19 GMT |
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Even if we might not always be aware of this fact, most of us like to have our things organized in a predefined manner, this being the way we feel most comfortable. Moreover, this is true both for our material possessions, like furniture or our wardrobe, and our virtual data. Just in case this introduction confused a... |
22 November 2008
09:01 GMT |
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I have always believed that there is too much desktop space that remains unused, unless you like crammed places, which I don't. And since I am that kind of person who tries to find a solution to every problem, I started looking for functionality for my desktop background, one that wouldn't eat up my barely ... |
6 November 2008
04:01 GMT |
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The Desktop Slideshow is one of the features that Microsoft has tucked away in Windows 7, hidden even from testers (at this point in time) including the participants at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles at the end of the past month. But especially from the users that have grabbed a copy of Windows... |
5 November 2008
12:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is experimenting with the Live Search home page in order to produce the perfect wallpaper recipe. At the end of July, the Redmond company introduced a face lift to Live Search as part of the service's march toward Windows Live Wave 3. The home page redesign was accompanied by inter-changing background ... |
1 September 2008
04:33 GMT |
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While Windows 7 is still a taboo subject as far as Microsoft is concerned, with the company offering just crumbs from the feast that is Windows Vista's successor, details do manage to slip through, and the Redmond company has nobody to blame for it but itself. In this context, the software giant has revealed via... |
6 August 2008
11:38 GMT |
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Hands-On Mobile, the famous American wireless entertainment company, has prepared a new and cool service for all the mobile users who like art: mixtART - coming this fall to a handset near you(r pocket). What's mixtART all about? As Hands-On puts it, with mixtART consumers will be able to buy "original works of ... |
25 July 2008
06:25 GMT |
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If you're thinking of doing a little decorating around the house and need a few good starting tips, you've come to the right place. And know that you are not the only one suddenly falling victim to the "freshen up for the summer" routine. Summer, in fact, is when most of us socialize more - it's when w... |
5 June 2008
08:57 GMT |
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Growing up, time-zones have always been both fascinating and somehow ambiguous to me, as I could never fully understand why people said that in Japan, for instance, New Year's Eve was always earlier than ours - after all, we were all beginning a new year. Also, I couldn't quite figure out why when we went t... |
31 May 2008
14:31 GMT |
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With the Windows Vista wallpapers old news over a year since the operating system hit the shelves, and with Vista SP1 bringing nothing new, Microsoft has turned to the latest Windows platform for the delivery of new content. Via the IT24-7 robot and the Server Unleashed website, the company's Toy Box comes compl... |
17 April 2008
04:16 GMT |
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You have a relatively simple task. Pulling off a piece of wallpaper glued onto a wall with the help of adhesive. Instinct tells us that it should pull off easily, in a single piece, however reality is very different. You should consider yourself lucky if you achieve this task without tearing off the wallpaper in sev... |
31 March 2008
08:41 GMT |
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How many times didn't you wish you had a huge board at the office where you could attach all the sticky notes and reminders related to your work? Or maybe you happened to get late to a meeting because you accidentally overlapped it with another one… In a nutshell, your organizational skills sometimes are simply ... |
29 February 2008
13:38 GMT |
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In order to take your mind off Windows 7, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1, you could always distract yourself with some superb desktop eye candy. And refreshing the background of your operating system is bound to give it new life, concomitantly with the satisfaction feeling that comes with ... |
1 February 2008
12:52 GMT |
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Zedge is one of the best resources of mobile content on the web, as it offers free wallpapers, screensavers, themes, ringtones and games for most of the mobile phones ever released. But today, even more mobile content joined the Zedge offering, being provided by artists, labels and managers. For example, Cypress Hill... |
14 December 2007
09:55 GMT |
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Virgin Mobile USA announced the launch of Studio V, a mobile content community that enables users to create mobile wallpapers and ringtones and earn money for this. The content created by users is made available to other Virgin Mobile customers for purchase, the content maker receiving money each time his creations a... |
25 October 2007
09:49 GMT |
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New imagery is available for download straight from Microsoft, designed to integrate seamlessly with the desktop real estate space on your copy of Windows Vista. The new content offered by the Redmond company is centered around the visual style associated with Silverlight, Microsoft's "cross-browser, cross-platf... |
18 October 2007
11:32 GMT |
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Earlier this day, I wrote an article about Google's new image search function which gives you the possibility to search for extra large pictures straight from Google's technology. Until now, Google Image Search allowed you to search only for small images, medium or large which according to the Mountain View... |
9 October 2007
05:10 GMT |
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Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista, brings to the table a superb collection of imagery designed to act as desktop wallpapers. Vista delivers by default a set of 36 background images set up to enrich the desktop real estate space. And while the saying every image is worth a thousand words may very... |
5 September 2007
09:06 GMT |
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Windows Vista ships by default with some exquisite examples of digital photography. Microsoft's latest operating system offers a collection of no less than 36 Windows wallpapers. Among them, you can also access the picture included on the left. Maybe you even have it as your desktop background. The photo depicts... |
28 August 2007
09:54 GMT |
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Nothing spells advanced user like a dope desktop. Some people choose to pimp their rides, and then some geeks choose to pimp their desktop... Need I say more? You know I'm right! You know that you want your friends to look on your desktop and go "I have Windows Vista too, but not like this..." Right, let's ... |
16 May 2007
10:56 GMT |
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I am sure that you are already familiar with the wonderful imagery that ships by default with Windows Vista. Familiar and maybe bored already? I'm going out on a limb here, but if you are like me you also tire easily and are in constant need of variations. The 36 static backgrounds built into the operating syste... |
1 May 2007
11:54 GMT |
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As I have promised a while back, here is the interview with Hamad Darwish, one of the photographers commissioned by Microsoft for a Windows Vista wallpaper photoshoot. I would like to thank Hamad for the time he has taken to share his Vista experience with us. You will be able to download a set of Vista wallpapers Ha... |
8 March 2007
11:54 GMT |
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