50 Really Fantastic Desktop Wallpapers For Designers

 

 

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50 Really Fantastic Desktop Wallpapers For Designers

via Dzine Blog by Deep on 1/5/10

Wallpapers can serve as a nice source of inspiration, The more beautiful and elegant they are, the better they can provide some fresh perspective and creativity in a rather tedious work flow, I bet most of the designers are a wallpaper changing addicts. Designers can never have enough wallpapers in their collection, However changing wallpapers frequently will give you a fresh feeling and thought, here i have collected 50 Really Fantastic Desktop Wallpapers, hope you like this collection

Now give your desktop a fresh and appealing look with this huge collection of fantastic Wallpapers.

1. )Saizen

2. )Disparity

3. )Bokeh

4. )Colorama

5. )Craig Shields

6. )Winners

7. )Winners

8. )Xpsam

9. )Lionel

10. )Beautiful Design

11. )Miracle in the space

12. )Horse on fire

13. )Fire flower

14. )Universe

15. )Aurora1

16. )Desk

17. )Colony

18. )Andy Gilmore

19. )HenkeART

20. )Feeling Blue

21. )My desktop has style

22. )David Mascha

23. )Anglerfish

24. )Jared K. Nickerson

25. )Jared K. Nickerson

26. )Jared K. Nickerson

27. )Jared K. Nickerson

28. )

29. )Save The Planet

30. )They Stole The Moon

31. )Toucan

32. )Zixpk

33. )Umbrellaguins

34. )Hunter

35. )Good Vibrations

36. )Maquita

37. )Kawaii Monkey

38. )Recycle

39. )Bull

40. )Chu Kiss Beso

41. )Gaia 09

42. )Rodrigo Zenteno

43. )Ecstasy

44. )Orple

45. )Redroom

46. )World brown

47. )Black Wallpaper

48. )Super Tight Stuff

49. )Chocolate dreams

50. )Jag

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David Ope

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I am pretty sure I have posted animated gifs from David Ope before but there are some new and even crazier ones up now that are definitely worth checking out.

Cadillac 2011 CTS-V Coupe

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Cadillac 2011 CTS-V Coupe

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We told you it was coming, and now, finally, here it is. The Cadillac 2011 CTS-V Coupe ($TBA; Summer 2010) boast an impressive 556hp, 6.2L V-8, a six-speed manual or...

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A sneak peek at the new technology in Adobe Photoshop CS5

via Download Squad by Sebastian Anthony on 1/5/10

Filed under: Photo, Productivity, Adobe

There's a chance you might already have seen this 'sneak peek' video, in which case forgive me. For those of you that haven't seen it, read on and take the jump to view it.

This is actually old news, but I only just stumbled across it a couple of days ago. You see, news of Adobe's next Creative Suite is so hard to come by that this is still the latest Photoshop development! In fact, since October, the only news they've released was to announce the cancellation of their Flash CS5 public beta. But can I say, having just watched the the 'sneak peek', I am now very, very excited about the possible applications for Adobe's CS5. Give us more news, Adobe!

Do you see the 3D elements that have been thrown in? The wire frame, the joints (the kinematics!), the simulation of a paint brush's tip... it's really quite crazy. I know Adobe gets a lot of flak for the continuous milking of their cash cow, but after that video I could almost forgive them.

With no news since October, and their usual 18- to 24-month development cycle, we might actually see Photoshop CS5 and Flash within a couple of months. I'm positively eager to review both of them.

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First Skype HD webcams from In Store Solutions detailed

 

 

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First Skype HD webcams from In Store Solutions detailed

via Engadget by Tim Stevens on 1/5/10

Remember those 720p-capable webcams we mentioned yesterday, specifically positioned to work with Skype HD? We've got the details courtesy of In Store Solutions, which is launching a trio of models, two of which are HD and feature integrated video compression chips, so less than cutting-edge machines should be able to get their high-def on (though a 1.8GHz, dual-core processor is still recommended). They are the Freetalk Talk-7170 HD Pro and the Talk-7181 HD Pro Plus, both offering 720p sensors and H.264 video compression, the latter also packing quad cardioid microphones with a four meter range. The former gets by with just stereo. An 800Kbps connection (both upload and download) is needed for HD streaming, so if you're stuck on low-tier DSL you may be more interested in the Freetalk HQ Talk-7140. No specific details were given for this one, but most "high quality" Skype cameras are 2 megapixels, and at a price of just $40 this looks to be the cheapest. No MSRP mentioned for the two HD models, but you can read all about them after the break.

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e-Readers: Kindle goes global, iRiver plays catchup, and Hearst is just damned crazy

via Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza on 1/5/10

The Kindle is finally to get global wireless internet, spots Engadget. But a new challenger appears: iRiver, with a surprisingly unappetizing clone that'll have a hard time against Sony's Digital Edition and B&N's Nook. Myself, I'll take the Skiff, an 11.5" monstrosity with a 1600x1200 resolution display, just announced by Heart Publishing. It'll have 3G internet via Sprint, but no pricing details are out just yet. This Burj Dubai of e-readers also doubles as a baking tray and will be featured in a new remake of The Omen, sliding off a truck and decapitating David Warner.

 

 

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Tchaikovsky "The Nutcracker: Complete Ballet" MP3 downloads for $2

 

 

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Tchaikovsky "The Nutcracker: Complete Ballet" MP3 downloads for $2

via 9to5Mac Toys by 9to5toys on 12/14/09

Today only, Amazon MP3 Store offers downloads of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker: Complete Ballet, for $1.99. That's the lowest total price we could find for this 24-track, DRM-free album, released in July. (iTunes charges $12.99 for a similar bonus edition.) Amazon MP3 downloader is required.

 

 

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PHOTO: Camouflage Art by Liu Bolin: "Inspired by By Matt Camouflage Art by Liu Bolin: "Inspired by how some animals can blend into their environment, Liu Bolin from China uses camouflage principles to create amazing contemporary art." Ya gotta see the rest of these too.

Santa Claus banned from visiting locked-up children in UK asylum

Santa Claus banned from visiting locked-up children in UK asylum detention centre

via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on 12/13/09

Santa Claus was prevented from giving presents to the imprisoned children of asylum seekers at the notorious Yarl's Wood detention centre by private security guards. Yarl's Wood is a privately run prison whose inmates are UK immigrants who arrived seeking asylum, but whose claims have been denied. They are dragged out of bed in the dead of night and stuck in mesh-windowed vans without their belongings and without the chance to say goodbye to their loved ones, and then detained in terrible conditions that have been decried by human rights advocates, doctors, psychiatrists and other experts. Their "crime" is trying to escape torture, privation, and disaster.
The rent-a-cops at Yarl's Wood told the Anglican church's leading expert on Father Christmas (dressed in a Santa costume) that he couldn't enter the centre to give the children presents. They also blocked the canon theologian at Westminster Abbey. Then they cancelled a later scheduled visit with detained families at the centre.
And the whole mess is on video.

But when the Anglican church's leading expert on Father Christmas, dressed as St Nicholas himself, arrived with one of Britain's most distinguished clerics to distribute presents to children held at the Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire, things took a turn straight out of Dickens.
An unedifying standoff developed that saw the security personnel who guard the perimeter fence prevent St Nicholas, the patron saint of children and the imprisoned, from delivering £300 worth of presents donated by congregations of several London churches.
In a red robe and long white beard, clutching a bishop's mitre and crook, St Nick - in real life, the Rev Canon James Rosenthal, a world authority on St Nicholas of Myra, the inspiration for Father Christmas - gently protested that he was not a security threat, but to no avail.
Then as St Nicholas, accompanied by the Rev Professor Nicholas Sagovsky, canon theologian at Westminster Abbey, attempted to bless the gifts, the increasingly angry security guards called the police. The resulting ill-tempered and surreal impasse between church and state was videotaped by asylum seeker support groups and could become an internet viral hit.

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A spectacular view of the entire Milky Way... using open source!

via Download Squad by Sebastian Anthony on 12/13/09

Filed under: Fun, Photo, Linux, Open Source

Do not adjust your computer screen: what you see here is a piece of genius. A labor of love spanning two years, two hemispheres, two countries and over 3000 images... I give to you, the All-Sky Milky Way Panorama -- version 2! And, you'll be glad to hear, it was stitched together with open-source software.

Well, not just open-source software: he needed a lot of processing power too, though nothing beyond a beefed-up home computer (it ran Linux, of course). And then there was the problem of actually stitching it together, and making sure every star and and entity in the visible cosmos looks correct, relative to everything else in the sky -- for that, he used catalogs of star data and sky background data from Pioneer 10 and 11. For the entire creative process, and a list of the programs he used, check out the creator's site.

The final image, which you can probably obtain if you're a student, and if ask the creator Axel Mellinger nicely, clocks in at an impressive 650 megapixels and 7.7 gigabytes.

But the best bit, which I dutifully saved until last, is that you can surf around the maximum-resolution image using another open-source application called IIPImage. Enjoy!