wallpapers

With Halo:Reach’s launch only weeks away (it arrives Sept. 14th), when I came across the How-To Geek’s latest regarding a complete desktop customization guide for Halo fans, I thought it was worth sharing. Here, one of my favorite “how-to” bloggers offers up custom wallpapers, icon packs…

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…

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…

Now that the Windows 7 public release is just around the corner, people are getting into the spirit of celebrating the new OS by releasing their own unofficial but very cool Windows 7 logoed wallpapers and theme packs. Using the Windows 7 box art for inspiration, Zawir Rahim over on DeviantArt…

Would you like to have a calendar on your desktop, embedded right into your wallpaper? If so, you’ll want to check out the online utility from Big Huge Labs simply called  “Wallpaper.” After visiting their site, you can create your own specialized wallpaper by browsing for a image file on your…

Amit Agarwal recently posted a handy tip to his blog about one of Bing’s perhaps lesser-known features: wallpaper search. When you search for a keyword or phrase using Bing’s image search portal, the options on the left side of the page let you further narrow down your choices by image size: small,…

Happy Birthday Bing! The web search service is one year old as of June 2nd and instead of getting presents, they’re giving us one: a brand-new theme pack filled with the best photos from the homepage. Like the two prior “Bing’s Best” themes (available here), this updated wallpaper pack is designed…

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,…

One of the great features of Microsoft’s new search engine Bing.com are the gorgeous background images that rotate out on a daily basis. Already we’ve come across a number of ways to turn these photos into desktop wallpaper, and now there’s a way to port these images to your iPhone, too.  Although…

If you’re digging the design of the new Windows Phone 7 Series devices, there are a couple of new desktop wallpapers I just came across which you’ll probably want to grab for yourself, too. These (unofficial) gems features WP7S-like icons including a small blue Windows logo, red heart and green…