gHacks technology news » widescreen wallpaper http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:43:02 +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 High Dynamic Range Wallpapers http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/02/high-dynamic-range-wallpapers/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/02/high-dynamic-range-wallpapers/#comments Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:52:55 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/02/high-dynamic-range-wallpapers/ The website HDR walls is getting some huge news coverage since yesterday and is having troubles serving all visitors because of cpu and bandwidth limitations. I was pondering quite a bit but thought that I post the link to the website anyway because it will most like cool off pretty soon

If you are looking for a different kind of wallpapers you could take a look at High Dynamic Range Wallpapers that are offered at HDR Walls. All wallpapers are available in various sizes for many different screen resolutions. The lowest resolution for computers starts at 800×600 and ends at 2560×1600, additional downloads are available for mobile devices like the iPod, iPhone, PSP and several Blackberry devices.

The website currently hosts 478 wallpapers in standard and widescreen format. Maybe you are interested in knowing why HDR images are special ? Here is what the website states:

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HDR images are created by taking multiple shots exposed for the highlights, mid-tones and shadows separately and then merged into a single image

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The Windows 7 wallpaper is available in several resolutions both for widescreen and regular monitors. Sizes for regular monitors vary between 800×600 and 1600×1200 while the widescreen sizes are offered in 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.

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