Receive a new photo from Bing every week for three months, with this Windows 7 theme that updates automatically through an RSS feed.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/bing-dynamic
Once you download Download and run it , you’ll get this , subscribe to the RSS feed.
For the first time, it may take a little bit of time for images to appear depending on your Internet connection speed.
Check out this non-Microsoft site, filled with beautiful Community Created Visual Studio 2010 Wallpapers -
And many many more…………
You can submit yours also
Link - http://vs2010wallpapers.com/
(Thanks to @shanselman for the link)
Get the Visual Studio Theme Packs for Windows 7 from Microsoft Japan.
At present it has 3 theme packs-
Download it from - http://closeup.jp.msn.com/visualstudio2010/
(thanks to @shanselman)
Bing’s first Theme Pack was so popular that Bing decided to release Bing’s Best 2 Theme Pack – a new collection of desktop backgrounds for Windows 7.
“From the jagged peaks of the Andes in South America to Arizona's Vermilion Cliffs, this sequel to the popular Bing's Best theme takes your Windows 7 desktop on a trip around the world.”
Or you can get it from Personalize from your PC > Get more themes online
In this collection there are 21 images which were featured on Bing.com Homepage. (Size 19.5MB).
To get this and the earlier released “Bing’s Best” theme pack and other, go here
I Love Windows Phone (ILWP)
This iconic message is already very famous. And this was also seen in the form of tattoo on some speakers at MIX10.
Here Joe Belfiore is seen with the tattoo while demoing Windows Phone -
and Charlie Kindel was seen with the tattoo at back of his head !! He has now made it as his twitter avatar/DP
If you also want to display them on your PC as wallpaper, download them from here -
‘I Love Windows Phone’ Wallpapers
Do you know any more speakers at MIX10 wearing these ILWP tattoo ?
Download wallpaper with the message ‘I Love Windows Phone’ and ‘We Love Windows Phone’ via nice icons of Windows Phone 7 series -
Download it from -
This contains a zip file ILWP7.zip having Windows Phone Wallpapers in different sizes- 1024 X 768, 1280 X 1024, 1920 X 1200 , 1920 X 1080
Will be adding sizes on request. Now added 1920 X 1080 .
(The IHWP logo courtesy - MIX10 session by Chad Roberts, Michael Smuga, Albert Shum)
As you know MIX2010 is to take place from Mar15-17 and everyone is enthusiastic about it and so is Microsoft Translator, one of the Sponsors.
The MIX attendees will get some awesome swag courtesy Microsoft Translator, with one of the highlights being a lovely decal for the notebook/pad/device. Everyone liked the design so much that the Translator team came up with a wallpaper out of it :
Yes, I too liked the design. You can download the wallpaper from here -
May be more such wallpapers might be released in various shades as the present one says ‘Dark’
(Source: Microsoft Translator (and Bing Translator) Official Team Blog)
There are number of methods to use beautiful images from Bing as desktop backgrounds. Some of them I had mentioned earlier in this post - Bing Homepage image Tips .
Bing4Free is another bing.com Image Downloader which makes it very easy to get the Bing images and set them as Wallpaper. But it does more than that with its various options. You can schedule it to download wallpaper from Bing.com daily or even hourly. The application also act as wallpaper changer
Its available at http://bing4free.codeplex.com/
Here are some of the features of Bing4Free Version 1.0 (Beta) -
>> You can download wallpaper from United States, China, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand (you can extend it by manually adding new country locale in config file)
>> Supports automatic change of wallpaper (you can schedule or disable it)
>> You can manually change selected wallpaper by right-click on the wallpaper thumbnail
For more details, source code and the app please check http://bing4free.codeplex.com/
Btw Bing is working on an option to set automatically, Bing images as desktop backgrounds.
You all must have seen amazing images provided daily by bing homepage and wanted to set them as Desktop background.
Few days back, Bing Team had tweeted that its working on the option of displaying the Bing homepage images as wallpaper automatically, when asked by a Bing user.
This is what Bing tweeted – “…but we r working on it. until then, if u r on Win7, u can set bing images as ur desktop background via control panel. ^mp “
And this is what was asked by a bing user on twitter -
Yes, if Bing bring this feature it’ll be nice as many will use this option.
Many people have already created their own methods to do so. check this for it : Bing Homepage image Tips
Microsoft has released Valentine Lacy Hearts themepack for Windows 7. It has 4 desktop backgrounds.
Download it from here . Or can go to the Personalization Gallery where you can get many more goodies.
size 1.30 MB
Now that the ‘Avatar’ movie has been released and everyone has been talking about it on the net, be it twitter, chat, mail, why not get the official Avatar theme for Windows 7. This theme has been available since some time in the Windows 7 Personalization Gallery site - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/personalize If you have missed it, get it now and display it .
You can download from this direct link also- Avatar theme for Windows 7 (size: 10.6 MB)
Enjoy !!
Microsoft launched http://windows.microsoft.com/ today in several locations, including the UK at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/Windows7/Home where you can find everything about Windows 7 and also can get lots of Fun stuff for Windows 7.
You can get these Fun Extras which includes:
These are all Free. There are beta themes for the UK, US, Japan, and Germany, and also some “region neutral” themes and images.
You can also access the themes from within Windows 7, click on the “Get more themes online” link in your Windows 7 Personalization control panel
Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization> Personalisation
This is just the start and is focusing on Windows 7 Beta, more content will be added in the days to come. So enjoy with these freebies and personalise your Windows.
Try these Freebies now : http://windows.microsoft.com/
(source:The blog of Rob Margel)
Show your support to Live Mesh by displaying the Mesh logo on your computer’s desktop, Check some of them from the pack below,
Apart from those shown above, the huge pack of Live Mesh themed wallpapers offers several other different variations on the Mesh Logo and colorful background. You can get it from here.
(Source:Channel10)
Check out the best Wallpapers on Web that too Free from MSN, Wallpapers from MSN beta. You can choose from amazing collection of wallpapers. You can crop, rotate or resize your images, also you can add text, speech to create your own wallpapers. Set your wallpaper by time or create a slide show of images.
You can get it at : http://wallpapers.msn.com/
(Thanks Sunshine)
Few days back I had posted about IE Fan Art Gallery , where one will find various interesting photographs by IE Team.But, now I want to post about one photograph specially because I liked it very much and now I am using it as my wallpaper. Its the logo of IE with interesting codes in it, may be for the AcidTest2? Its called ‘IE-on-acid Logo’ - designed by Harel Williams of IE Team.
Though I had also posted that photo in my earlier post but now when posted as a wallpaper, people may find it more interesting. It looks nice, check it out and put it as wallpaper now !
Get it from here: IE-on-acid Logo
Check out Windows Server 2008 Unleashed's IT 24-7 Robot Wallpapers in 4 Action Poses in 8 different screen resolutions.
Download from here, For each screen resolution there are 4 different poses wallpaper :
1920 x 1200 = IT 24-7 Robot Pose A, B, C, D
1600 x 1200 = IT 24-7 Robot Pose A, B, C, D
1600 x 1050 = IT 24-7 Robot Pose A, B, C, D
1440 x 900 = IT 24-7 Robot Pose A, B, C, D
1280 x 1024 = IT 24-7 Robot Pose A, B, C, D
1280 x 960 = IT 24-7 Robot Pose A, B, C, D
1280 x 800 = IT 24-7 Robot Pose A, B, C, D
1024 x 768 = IT 24-7 Robot Pose A, B, C, D
Also check out the IT 24-7 Screensavers :
And the Buddy Icons:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/serverunleashed/default.html
Here is IT 24-7 in one of the poses as shown in wallpaper
Thanks Blake
Microsoft while announcing Xbox Fun Downloads which has Wallpapers, emoticons and other goodies and it's the downloads for people who register for Xbox LIVE also provided Xbox JumpIn Wallpaper available for all.
More details at:
Here is the Xbox JumpIn wallpaper for all.
Download them from here:
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