wallpapers
Design
Zune HD, The Wallpapers
8:00AM Jason Chen | Deviant artist imrik made a pack of wallpapers for the Zune HD, but he also included a few wallpapers of the Zune HD for your desktop. If you like-a quality wallpaper, you’ll like-a this. [Deviant Art]
Design
Apple Mini Keyboard Wallpaper
10:20AM Jason Chen | This Apple Mini Keyboard by philipskillern isn’t just a logical progression of the hardware line, it’s fancy looking too. Download the wallpaper yourself in various sizes. [Deviantart]
Design
Your Desktop
10:30AM Jason Chen | PhD Comics has a great desktop for your machine to sort your icons into. Head over there for full sized versions. [PhD Comics] More »
Entertainment
Star Trek Betty Page for Your iPhone and Computer Desktop
1:00AM Jesus Diaz | By popular demand, I’ve made the Vulcan Betty Page into a cool and sexy iPhone wallpaper, but also into a high resolution computer background series. You can get them all at io9 More »
Screens
Where to Get This Excellent Wallpaper
10:20AM Matt Buchanan | Every time we run a post with this background, I get a ton of people asking where I got it. So here it is—it’s called Night Blur, from Mandolux. Click the picture to ginormify it. More »
Screens
Where to Get Awesome Multi-Monitor Wallpaper
5:50AM Matt Buchanan | If you’re reading Giz, you’re likely running two displays, if not more. You could sprinkle each one with a disparate bit of geekery, or go all out with a massive multi-monitor spread. More »
Entertainment
Mad Men Vector Illustrations For Your iPhone/Computer Desktop
10:00AM John Mahoney | Tonight is the season 2 finale of Mad Men. Will Don continue to revel in the shirtless, poolside-martini-sipping, Lolita-tinged free love of euro-riche California? Return to Betty’s arms back home in the ‘burbs? Or will everyone be stricken simultaneously with lung cancer and cirrhosis of the liver? While you wait to find out, dress your iPhone/iTouch or desktop in one of these beautiful vector illustrations by designer Dyna Moe–there’s a new wallpaper for each episode of this season. Ah, when men wore hats. [Dyna Moe on Flickr] galleryPost('madmeniphone', 3, ''); More »
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Light-Emitting Wallpaper Does Just What it Says
8:12PM Addy Dugdale | I can’t tell you much about this wallpaper, except for that I think it rules the school. It’s basically a two-dimensional light source that switches on and off. Please, someone put Jonas Samson’s idea into practice, because I’d have no hesitation in putting this up in my bedroom. Just one question, though: does it come in a roll? [Design Scoops] More »
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Newton Users, the Wait is Over for You Too
7:17PM Seamus Byrne | We published our 20 exclusive iPhone wallpapers collection yesterday, but this one just beats them all for pure comedy effect. Reader Taz Goldstein, one of the first Newton adopters back in 1993, has sent this great background for all other Newton users who have been waiting for an Apple-designed replacement since forever. The question: is iPhone really a Newton replacement? While Taz is getting an iPhone, for some Newton diehards the Apple JesusPhone won’t be a replacement. Some will say that even if it has color and has a great design, it just doesn’t have the many things that made the Newton an amazing product. It lacks the concept of “data soup” and it doesn’t have a public SDK, so no third-parties can extend it. Thanks to this, the lively Newton community has developed hacks that have pushed it into the Internet era (no Flash-video support yet, though), showing that the grandaddy of PDAs still can beat them all. However, the fact is that the iPhone, while simpler than Newton, it’s an extremely powerful device. Much more than the Newton ever was. Its software is more accessible to normal users than the Newton’s; it runs an extremely fast operating system and, most importantly, it has a phone and built-in Wi-Fi, which is reason enough to make it a better communicator than the Newton. A product for the masses, rather than a niche wonder. And looking at the waiting lines and the media frenzy, I’m going to get my hazy crystal ball out and say that there’s another thing in which the iPhone is better than the Newton: this one won’t flop. More »
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