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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.


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.


The Quiet City Desktop

We’ve featured Dan Carr’s desktops before. They’re always beautiful and functional, and this one is no different. The photo of a quiet, cloudy winter morning in Paris makes for a great backdrop for his widgets, all arranged so they don’t detract from the image, but don’t distract when it’s time to work.


Weekly Wallpaper: Make Your Desktop Steam-Powered With These Steampunk Images

We know electricity powers our computers, but that doesn’t mean we can’t pretend their insides are a whole lot cooler. Check out these awesome steampunk wallpapers and add the illusion of steam power to your desktop.


Supercharge Your iPhone Home Screen With Velox And These Add-Ons

iOS (Jailbroken): Velox is a new tweak for jailbroken iPhone’s that completely changes how you view notifications and apps. It’s one of those rare apps that overhauls iOS in a way that truly changes the way you use your iPhone. The app itself is great, but you can also enhance it with a handful of useful add-ons.


The Symmetry Home Screen

Aiming for something bright, consolidated and robust, BadBrad created this beautiful Android theme that give you a lot of controls on just one home screen.


Cydia Substrate Brings Winterboard, Other Tweaks To Android

Android (rooted): Today, the developers behind Cydia and Mobile Substrate announced that Cydia Substrate will be coming to Android. You read that right: Cydia on Android. In fact, Winterboard is already available.


Google Apps Console Can Now Be Customised

Running Google Apps across the enterprise? A recent update lets you drag and drop controls so you can eliminate the ones you don’t use regularly.


Apex Launcher Updates With A New UI, Badges And DashClock Support

Android: Apex Launcher, one of our favourite Android launchers, unveiled a major update today. It now features a new UI, faster animations and transitions, better overall performance, and support for DashClock Widget, the lockscreen utility we also love.


The Muse Windows Desktop

Lifehacker reader Pluginbby is a huge Muse fan and modelled this week’s featured desktop off the art for one of his favourite albums, The Origin of Symmetry. Now, every time he sits down to work, he has useful data on the left, a reminder of his favourite tunes on the right and plenty of room to work.


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