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Desktop background that don't suck
Okay, I admit it:
I'm a design snob. Sure, I'm no world-class designer myself, you don't have to be a chef to tell when something tastes
nasty, you don't need to be a design whiz to know that most of the desktop backgrounds at almost every big
free-wallpapers site out there suck. Don't lose hope just yet, though: Design blog Joey Interactive has a great round-up of web sites that have a slightly higher ratio of
don't-suck to suck in the wallpaper department. Especially unique is the high proportion of wallpapers for higher
resolutions and widescreen and multi-monitor setups. My desktop background has been plain black for longer than I'd
like to admit, and it didn't take me more than five minutes to find a handful of backgrounds I wouldn't be ashamed to
use.
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Tom Biro said 11:01AM on 3-28-2006
And somehow, he missed Veer. Good post, gotta have a great background to make it all worthwhile.
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Denis said 12:12PM on 3-28-2006
There is another website that actually holds design competitions and things like that. It is in Russian but navigating is not hard at all.
http://www.wallpapers.ru
I usually go to "new" (second link from the top on the left panel) and search through there. Most (90%) of the works are done by professional designers.
Enjoy. :)
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oliverc said 2:07PM on 3-28-2006
His link to "panoramas" accidently takes you to guikit.com... Does anyone know which page he meant to link to?
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Troy Guenther said 2:19PM on 3-28-2006
I'm surprised he missed http://www.plasmadesign.co.uk/ as it's primarily a Mac site. They even have wallpapers which will span from a MacBook sitting on an iCurve to a second monitor.
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