Tag: wallpaper
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50 year old infographic shows NASA’s first manned forray into space
NASA’s Image of the Day Gallery provided this cool infographic showing Alan Shepard’s brief flight into space — America’s first. It appeared magically on my desktop courtesy of John’s Background Switcher — a cool windows desktop wallpaper application that manages and displays many image sources.
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Cool Desktop: Spectrum of a Tree
My wife has been using this image as a desktop background for about a year now, but recently I took a good look at it. Initially I thought this was simply a photo of a tree in silhouette, sliced, colourized and laid out as you see it. But on closer inspection, it seems that these are shots…
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A collection of my desktop images
Recently I’ve been reorganizing my image libraries, and came across a few that I’ve used as desktop images. I don’t claim to have shot all these, just modified them from their original size to fit my desktop. Rather than having them all over the blog, I’ve built a page to host them So if you’re interested…
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3 windows applications improve your desktop’s appearance
Lately I’ve been trying to keep my windows desktop icon and clutter free. In my case, this has meant that I’ve been saving less to my desktop (my default save-to location) and more to working directories. And, since a cluttered desktop reflects a cluttered mind, I like to think of this as a bit of…
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Atlantis on the Sun — Desktop Image
I felt the need for a new desktop image for my computers, now that the Apollo 11 excitement has died down, and I was tiring of my Apollo 8 Earthrise image. I found this neat shot of Atlantis transiting the Sun, by Thierry Legault. The following sizes at the NASA site: Full Size 1024×768 800×600 And…