Wallpapers for widescreen monitors
Widescreen monitors become more and more common these days. These monitors use native resolutions such as 1400 x 1050, 1680 x 1050 or 1920 x 1200.
Many applications, especially games do not support the native resolutions of widescreen monitors and it is also extremely difficulty to find wallpapers for these screen resolutions as most are designed for regular resolutions instead. While you can stretch those background images it does not look as good as using wallpapers that fit the screen without stretching.
I did discover a resource recently that is offering a nice compilation of wallpapers for widescreen monitors for download.
The site features 11 galleries each with 16 wallpapers that fit widescreen resolutions. My notebook is running on a native resolution of 1280 x 800 and I was very happy to find this resource.
Sure I had to convert them from the resolutions offered on the website to 1280 x 800 but the ratio remained the same. So, if you have a widescreen monitor head out to High Resolution Wide Screen Wallpapers to download some or even all of them.
Update: The wallpaper repository is unfortunately no longer available on the Internet. We have removed the link from the article as it makes no sense to keep it up as it is not leading to anything useful anymore.
We suggest you check out other wallpaper sites, like InterfaceLift for instance which offers high quality wallpaper images that you can download for free from the site. All it takes is browse the available image gallery, select the desired resolution from the menu below each image thumbnail, and a click on the download button to download it to the system.
The site loads the image on the screen and you can either right-click and save it this way, or use the set as background from the same menu right away to save it as your new desktop wallpaper.
You can browse the site by resolution, artist, tags and a variety of other filters. While it may not have the immense database of other wallpaper sites, all images found here are high quality.
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.