wallpapers

The other day, I shared a somewhat convoluted way to grab the Bing background images and set them as your desktop wallpaper. It involved going into the “view source” code and finding a particular URL. It was possible, just not super easy. Well, thanks to a comment from Anheledir, I learned of his…

The wallpapers from the Russian localized version of Windows 7 have been discovered and posted online for download. And they're gorgeous! These, like the other localized themes we’ve mentioned before, include images from the country which the version is from...and in Russia's case, they are truly…

Recently, I’ve been checking out the different ways to customize my Windows 7 logon screen. There’s this manual registry hack as well as this newer downloadable software program that does the hacking for you. But the only thing that was still making customization a bit of a pain was having to resize…

On the creative community site DeviantArt, you can find some great wallpaper packs for Windows Mobile devices. There are two different packs available (Pack 1 and 2) which contain collections of wallpapers in both the 480×640 and 240×320 format and that are designed specifically for Windows Mobile…

If you have a large collection of photos and yet never seem to do anything much with them beyond uploading them to an online photo archive like Windows Live Photos or Flickr, you’re definitely going to want to check out PhotoJoy. With this service, you can turn your photos into 3D screensavers,…

Are you Mesh-obsessed? Well now you can show off your devotion to the new service by displaying the Mesh logo on your computer’s desktop. Thanks to the Live Dev team (and James, for posting the link), you can download a huge pack of Live Mesh themed wallpapers which offer several different…

Here at Channel 10, we’re big fans of John’s Background Switcher for rotating our desktop wallpaper. The software is highly customizable and pulls in images from photo-sharing sites like flickr, Phanfare, smugmug, picasa, and Yahoo image search. But for those that are looking for a lighter and…

Are you planning on attending this year’s PDC Conference? PDC2008, the Professional Developers Conference, promises to be an interesting event this year, with over 160 technical sessions, hands-on labs, training & seminars, as well as planned keynotes from Ray Ozzie, Rick Rasid, VP of Microsoft…

You may have noticed (ahem...DellSuperbowl commercial) a new (RED) campaign going on. Microsoft is offering Windows Vista Ultimate (PRODUCT) RED edition. The (RED) edition is enhanced with (PRODUCT) RED wallpapers, gadgets, and a unique screen saver and DreamScene™. When you buy (RED) a portion of…