Wallpapers

Brilliant and Blinding Blow Outs: The Wallpapers

The entrants to this week’s Shooting Challenge: Blow Out are now available in wallpaper form. They’re spectacular, but you might want to set your icon text to black before proceeding. [Giz Flickr] https://gizmodo.com/122-brilliant-and-blinding-blow-outs-5477376

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 23

These 15 Super Close Video Game Faces Would Make Great Cellphone Wallpapers

Artist Ashley Browning’s minimalist representation of classic video game characters make for some great shirts, but they can also add an awesome face to your phone. [Infinitecontinues via Etsi via Kotaku] https://kotaku.com/the-many-ultra-close-faces-of-video-games-5426507/

Tech News Sean Fallon Dec 15

56 Christmas-Worthy Wallpapers

Some participants of this week’s Shooting Challenge were kind enough to include their Christmas lights shots in wallpaper sizes. Get your new festive wallpaper at Flickr. On a completely related note, Gizmodo readers take the best photos. [Flickr] https://gizmodo.com/107-dazzling-christmas-lights-5426154

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 15

Download ALL of National Geographic’s Wallpapers at Once

National Geographic offers a lot of gorgeous wallpapers for those of us craving desktop eyecandy. Unfortunately there’s no easy way to download the photos in batches. Until now, that is, because Lifehacker’s found a way to make things easier. https://lifehacker.com/download-all-of-national-geographics-wallpapers-at-once-5416007 Swing over to Lifehacker to check out the simple command line scripts to download all…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Dec 2

New Apple iMac Bares All For Wallpaper Photo Shoot

While tearing down the new Apple iMac, the folks at iFixIt got requests for wallpaper quality images. They most certainly came through with this stunning shot of full-frontal openness. I’m almost blushing. https://gizmodo.com/imac-teardown-reveals-what-apple-hides-behind-its-logo-5387502 If you want the above picture as a wallpaper, you can get it right here and but if you want just the…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Oct 24

The Classic iPhone Face Wallpaper Collection

This classic 19 wallpaper collection is probably unknown to the majority of iPhone owners because it was released with the 1st generation. It contains the original iPhone smiley face—so cute—as well as famous characters, from Mario to Vader. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-non-news-100-refreshing-chilled-alcohol-and-li-255460 From time to time, people send me emails asking about the smiley face that appears in…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 25

Zune HD, the Wallpapers

Deviantartist 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]

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 14

Apple Mini Keyboard Wallpaper

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]

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 9

Your Desktop

PhD Comics has a great desktop for your machine to sort your icons into. Head over there for full sized versions. [PhD Comics]

Tech News Jason Chen May 5

Astro Boy Wants To Come Live On Your Desktop

The new Astro Boy movie pays tribute to his anime roots, with this new desktop wallpaper, which we got the exclusive heads up on. Click through to see the whole thing. Here’s the full version of the wallpaper, and you can also download it in a variety of sizes over at the movie’s official site.

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Apr 1

Where to Get This Excellent Wallpaper

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. https://gizmodo.com/windows-7-release-candidate-changes-increase-productivi-5169801 Mandolux, which we’ve highlighted before, has a ton of amazing wallpapers, many of them designed for multiple monitors. It’s…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 26

Retro Video Game Remake Wallpapers Look Gorgeous, Nostalgic

Lifehacker’s outdone their find of retro gaming wallpapers and found some re-made and re-rendered retro gaming wallpapers on Deviant Art. Super sweet doesn’t begin to describe these. https://gizmodo.com/our-favorite-lifehacker-posts-of-the-week-5152485 Hop on over to get full versions of Link to the Past, Sonic, Metroid, Gunstar Heroes, Mario, Street Fighter 2, Castlevania, Megaman and that one Disney game…

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 13

Mad Men Vector Illustrations For Your iPhone/Computer Desktop

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…

Tech News John Mahoney Oct 26

Brilliant and Blinding Blow Outs: The Wallpapers

These 15 Super Close Video Game Faces Would Make Great Cellphone Wallpapers

56 Christmas-Worthy Wallpapers

Download ALL of National Geographic’s Wallpapers at Once

New Apple iMac Bares All For Wallpaper Photo Shoot

The Classic iPhone Face Wallpaper Collection

Zune HD, the Wallpapers

Apple Mini Keyboard Wallpaper

Your Desktop

Astro Boy Wants To Come Live On Your Desktop

Where to Get This Excellent Wallpaper

Retro Video Game Remake Wallpapers Look Gorgeous, Nostalgic

Mad Men Vector Illustrations For Your iPhone/Computer Desktop

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