What do you use for your computer background?
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It is from a Swedish island in the Baltic sea. What made you think that it was Baltic? Edit: I mean, that is quite a hard thing to guess imo. Beaches like that are rare here since most of the mountain sides are really old and eroded, this is quite a special case.jtbell said:Is that the Baltic coastline?
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=57.59...18.192249&spn=0.002234,0.004823&z=18&iwloc=A"
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Alienjoey
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I usually have Snoopy wallpapers because I'm still six years old at heart. :P
Filip Larsen
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For a decade one of my favorites has been
from the freebie library at http://digitalblasphemy.com" .
For scientific attractiveness quite a few of the HST pictures (http://www.google.dk/images?q=hubble+space+telescope+background+image") are absolutely stunning, but I usually end up taking them down again when I find myself just sitting and stare at the background for too long.
Back when my primary OS was Linux, I used the dynamical rendered Xearth a lot:
Notice, that the above picture is generated on the fly showing where the sun is at the moment. See more at http://xearth.org/live.
Lately though, I have simply used black background, which I find is more relaxing to my eyes in a dual screens setup where one of screens most of the time shows nothing anyway.
from the freebie library at http://digitalblasphemy.com" .
For scientific attractiveness quite a few of the HST pictures (http://www.google.dk/images?q=hubble+space+telescope+background+image") are absolutely stunning, but I usually end up taking them down again when I find myself just sitting and stare at the background for too long.
Back when my primary OS was Linux, I used the dynamical rendered Xearth a lot:
Notice, that the above picture is generated on the fly showing where the sun is at the moment. See more at http://xearth.org/live.
Lately though, I have simply used black background, which I find is more relaxing to my eyes in a dual screens setup where one of screens most of the time shows nothing anyway.
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OmCheeto
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Typical guy stuff: Cars
home
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The following was one of my old favorites.
home
work
The following was one of my old favorites.
loseyourname
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I'm currently using the Gadsden flag:
http://fascistsoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/500px-gadsden_flag.gif
http://fascistsoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/500px-gadsden_flag.gif
ApexOfDE
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my current bg:
[PLAIN]http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/8058/vistawallpaperaerowoods.jpg
[PLAIN]http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/8058/vistawallpaperaerowoods.jpg
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ApexOfDE said:my current bg:
[PLAIN]http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/8058/vistawallpaperaerowoods.jpg[/QUOTE]
This is awesome.
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Jamma
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Leptos said:Here's what I currently use:
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I also like some of the images found on hubblesite.org or clever/funny images that aren't blurry when I set them as desktop backgrounds.
Hehe, mine is a fractal too, but yours seems nicer, so I may also steal it.
PirateCrisp
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This is my current background. Plenty of h2o :)
[URL]http://70.181.179.184:81/images/waterfall_desktop_background-1600x1200.jpg[/URL]
[URL]http://70.181.179.184:81/images/waterfall_desktop_background-1600x1200.jpg[/URL]
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Saladsamurai
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Same as my Avatar: Death of Marat by David
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Ivan Seeking said:The Hubble Deep Field image - a constant reminder of my place in the universe.
[PLAIN]http://harleyk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/HubbleDeepFieldL.jpg[/QUOTE]
Same here, but just for the unending capacity for it to be gazed at without boredom. That, and the predominantly black background makes for good contrast.
Sometimes I switch it out for The Winged Victory of Samothrace, both in sculpture and painting.
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nucleargirl said:wow, these photos are amazing! This is mine - I took it on a flight from Germany :)
That's really nice. And perfect for a background. I love blue skies!
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I put together an album of some of the neat images I use as backgrounds. I left out the NSFW ones. Unfortunately my favourite one is borderline and I decided to leave it out.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v470/thestatutoryape/backgrounds/
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v470/thestatutoryape/backgrounds/
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The pictures I take with my camera aren't usually of a high enough resolution to set as good wallpapers, but I do occasionally take one that isn't too bad. This is the one I've had up as of late, a picture I took in upstate NY:
http://quantummodulus.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2stv4z
I also make my own in Photoshop when I find a few hours of free time. (attached)
http://quantummodulus.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2stv4z
I also make my own in Photoshop when I find a few hours of free time. (attached)
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