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Tip: Turn Your Vacations into Wallpapers

Rico Mossesgeld — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:53:26 +0000

A great way to maximize your vacation expenses is to use your camera to save memorable moments for posterity. This could be photos of you and your loved ones, with a wonderful vista set as the backdrop.

But no one said you could snap these vistas without anyone posing in the foreground and use them as wallpapers. Better yet, if you have your own website(s), you can offer these home-made wallpapers as downloads to attract readers to your online properties.

Sometimes you come by these wallpaper opportunities thanks to pure luck. After a night of drinking at the beach, I ended up sleeping on a deck chair, with the crashing waves lulling me to sleep. A few hours later, the beautiful sunrise woke up. Luckily, my point-and-shoot was in my pocket, so I groggily pulled myself up, ambled closer to the water to compose a better picture. After snapping a photo for the ages (and my desktop), I dragged myself back to the deck chair and continued sleeping.

Of course, you have to size your landscape photos into sizes that work well with your display. Two great (and free) solutions are Picasa and resize2email.com. The former is a great photo manager, and allows you to somewhat control image resizing via its export function. If you’re looking for better control over the resizing process, you can give the latter—or any powerful photo editor like Photoshop—a try.

(image courtesy of Rey Agapito)

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Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 Wallpapers

Rico Mossesgeld — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:49:02 +0000

Not wallpapers for the gadget itself mind you, which is slated to come out as the year ends, but for your desktop or laptop. Check out dailymobile.se for more of them, and be prepared to do some image resizing; the wallpapers are only available at an unorthodox 1200 x 900.

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7 Ways to Find New Wallpapers Fast

Rico Mossesgeld — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:23:42 +0000

Tired of what’s on your screen? Do you need a new wallpaper in a jiffy?

Philippine affiliate Technograph recently featured some great sites offering quality wallpapers—and desktop themes, and icons as well. For the lazy ones, here they are listed below for your convenience:

Another quick way to get new wallpapers is to visit wordle.net, and provide some text or a website. Wordle takes your data and creates a “wall of words” that are interestingly laid out. With some screen-capturing and image-resizing, Wordle’s output can become a pretty interesting wallpaper.

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