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Build An Instagram-Powered Wallpaper Rotator With Dropbox And IFTTT

Changing up your wallpaper on a regular basis is a fun way to personalise your desktop, and there’s no way to make it more personal than to use your own photos. You could download your photos manually and set up a rotating wallpaper based on those photos, but why do it manually when you can automate it? Here’s how.

Design

The Farm Table Workspace

A long desk made with cedar planks and recycled wood, a sun-filled window and plenty of plants. Today’s featured workspace is warm, rustic and unique.

24 May 2013

Design

The Dandelion Linux Desktop

Some desktops are featured because of their widgets, while others because they’re full of useful data. This week’s featured desktop, from Lifehacker Chookstar, gets the nod because it’s simple, elegant, and uses smart GNOME tweaking to bring everything together neatly.

23 May 2013

Design

Weekly Wallpaper: Show You Know Your Memes

The internet is full of wonderful memes so why shouldn’t your desktop be too? We searched high and low for wallpapers centered around these internet pop culture phenomena. Join in by setting you desktop to one of these many options.

22 May 2013

Design

The Android Home Screen With Shelves

Shooting for a simple and elegant look, chrisbanks2 created this great-looking home screen that turns your apps into items on a shelf and widgets into posters on a wall. If you want to make your phone more homey, here’s how to put it together.

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Flickr For Android Gets An Overhaul To Match Its Web Redesign

Android: Yesterday, Flickr completely overhauled its web site and unveiled new free and paid plans. After that, it pushed a huge update to the Flickr Android app, one that brings the tiled gallery view and a few extra features for mobile users.

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Clipping Magic Removes Image Backgrounds In Seconds

Cropping an object out of an photo in an image editor can be a tricky task. Clipping Magic is a new webapp that does it for you in seconds. All you have to do is paint the foreground object one colour, the background object another, and the app does the work for you.

Design

The Windowside Workspace

You’ll rarely end up with a poor workspace if you include an organised desk, a good chair, only the tools you need for work and an abundance of natural light. Designers Ryan Meis and Sarah Labieniec created an excellent space on those simple principles.

21 May 2013

Design

Flickr Offers 1TB Of Free Space For Your Photos

Yahoo!, in an attempt to make its photo-hosting service Flickr relevant again, has decided to offer 1TB of free space to all users. The downside? Everyone who doesn’t pay $US50 per year gets ads.

20 May 2013

Design

Adobe Releases Free Photoshop App For Windows 8

Adobe has just released a Windows 8 version of Photoshop Express; a free photo editor optimised for touch PCs and tablets. The app comes with a range of basic editing tools with the option to buy additional filters and enhancements should you require them.

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