gHacks technology news » dual monitor wallpapers http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:38:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Social Wallpapering http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/21/social-wallpapering/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/21/social-wallpapering/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:45:30 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/21/social-wallpapering/ Wallpapers. Can’t get enough of them. I have a folder with dozens of wallpapers on my hard drive and am always happy to find another excellent wallpaper website that I have not known before. This time it’s a website called Social Wallpapering which hosts a lot of wallpapers and does offer several unique features not known to any other wallpaper website out there.

The basics first. The user has the choice to browse the wallpapers by several filters. Those are standard sized, widescreen wallpapers, dual monitor ones, all or random. Thumbnail sized wallpapers are then displayed and the user can browse through them. A click on a image loads that image in full size. I had troubles downloading the images in Firefox because it always offered me the php file and not the actual wallpaper.

Downloads in Opera worked fine though. The minimum width of all wallpapers on Social Wallpaper is 1280 pixels which ensures a certain quality. Users with lower resolutions can use an image editor to resize the wallpapers easily.

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I randomly picked four wallpapers from the standard collection on the website. Think they look really nice.

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Social Wallpapering is offering several unique features that make it stick out of the crowd of wallpaper websites. The first that I noticed was that they offer so called Wallpaper packs as torrents. I suppose that this is actually a collection of even all of their wallpapers as torrents to reduce site load and offer the visitor a way to download all the images fast and uncomplicated.

The second is a RSS feed that always displays the latest ten additions to the database. Just subscribe to the feed in your feed reader and get new impressions.

Several features have not been implemented yet. The site will recommend wallpapers to you taking your ratings into consideration. It will offer additional RSS feed options, multiple resolutions for wallpapers, artist information, fix the save as dialog (yihaw) and add a comment function.

SocWall is a side to look out for, it has lots of potential.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/21/social-wallpapering/feed/ 1 Manage Dual Monitor Wallpapers http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/11/manage-dual-monitor-wallpapers/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/11/manage-dual-monitor-wallpapers/#comments Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:46:14 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/11/manage-dual-monitor-wallpapers/ Windows does not handle Wallpapers for Dual Monitors very well. If you ever tried to use different wallpapers on each monitor or stretch a wallpaper across both you know what I mean. We – again – have to rely on third party softwares to add functionality to Windows.

Display Fusion can be used to manage dual monitors, or even triple or more, on Windows XP and Windows Vista. The basic option is to choose either a wallpaper for each monitor separately or choose an image or color that spans across all monitors. This is a function that should have been implemented in Windows Vista but I guess Microsoft had enough work to implement drm to Vista.

Another option of Display Fusion is the ability to choose that the wallpaper should fit the width or height but remain aspect ratio which is great if you want to use non-widescreen wallpapers on widescreen monitors for instance.

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A bonus is the integration of Flickr which lets you search for and download wallpapers from the popular image portal.

Display Fusion integrates shortcuts nicely which add several functions that make it easier to work with dual monitors. Some hotkeys include the ability to move windows to the next monitor in line, stretch windows across all monitors and moving windows to the center of the current screen.

Read More:

Display Fusion Homepage
via How to Geek

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