Dress Up Your Desktop at Social Wallpapering
Posted by Gina Trapani at 7:00 AM on February 12, 2008
There are a few great desktop wallpaper sites out there, and many crappy ones—but a new one (to us) called Social Wallpapering goes into the good pile. Browse through thousands of eye-catching images for standard monitors, widescreens, and dual monitors. The minimum resolution at SocWall is 1280x960, and all images are categorized and rated by users, so the "Most Popular" list is a good bet. (Get to it under the Browse menu, Everything.) For more desktop eye candy, see our top 10 sources for free wallpaper, fonts and icons.

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Dr.Jeckyl
Posted 7:34 AM 12/2/08
Very nice papers there.
Bookmarked...
Dr.Jeckyl
Silentheero
Posted 7:34 AM 12/2/08
I use this site when I need a new paper. They are the best choice for high quality and decent wallpapers.
Silentheero
mistercow.pnoy
Posted 8:48 AM 12/2/08
I love this site. He's a little slow on updating (we've been waiting for registered users for quite some time now) but everything on there is beautiful work. although, i had a piece of work taken off. . .
mistercow.pnoy
superbryant88
Posted 9:49 AM 12/2/08
I've used this site a lot its great
superbryant88
guyfromtrinidad
Posted 9:49 AM 12/2/08
Some of the stuff on this site I have seen over at my favorite wallpaper site
Interface Lift a former lifehacker favourite, but I was able to get some nice images from here.
guyfromtrinidad
misterlee
Posted 9:49 AM 12/2/08
Man, my puny Dell work lappy is stuck on 1024x768. Oh well, these will go great on my home machines. Thanks for the link!
misterlee
kseve
Posted 10:54 AM 12/2/08
great site
kseve
SteveyDevey
Posted 10:54 AM 12/2/08
1280x960 isn't the smallest they've got. There are some 1280x800's in the widescreen section.
Very nice site though.
SteveyDevey
cerksees
Posted 12:09 PM 12/2/08
Nice site....nice images....but too many restrictions on useage.
"Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only and may not be used, copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any other purposes whatsoever without the prior written consent of the respective owners. Social Wallpapering reserves all rights not expressly granted in and to the Website and the Content. You agree to not engage in the use, copying, or distribution of any of the Content other than expressly permitted herein, including any use, copying, or distribution of User Submissions of third parties obtained through the Website for any commercial purposes. If you download or print a copy of the Content for personal use, you must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained therein."
What we REALLY need is a GPL'd wallpaper site that allows any use for the images that you see fit.
Hmmmmmm.....looks like a good weekend project.....
cerksees
Duane
Posted 12:09 PM 12/2/08
I've been using KDE Look [kde-look.org] for years, tons of free wallpapers, many of them high quality, they can sort by highest rated, most downloaded, etc. It is a Linux site, but has wallpapers for anyone, all sizes.
Duane
Xanderificus
Posted 3:14 PM 12/2/08
I looked through their dual monitor graphics... no love shown for those having vertical dual monitors (much less a foot apart and a little askew).
Xanderificus
TunaFish
Posted 11:13 PM 12/2/08
A beautiful site, thanks for the link LH.
TunaFish
waffles
Posted 12:14 AM 13/2/08
@cerksees: Too many restrictions? I read that as 'Don't steal the stuff on our site.'
waffles
cerksees
Posted 3:29 AM 13/2/08
The restrictions I am referring to are "may not be used, copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any other purposes whatsoever without the prior written consent of the respective owners." - which basically says you can't pass the wallpapers on to others. To me, that is not very "social".
And, "Social Wallpapering reserves all rights not expressly granted in and to the Website and the Content." is more of a commercialization of the wallpapers FREELY given by the users, while at the same time using "You agree to not engage in the use, copying, or distribution of any of the Content other than expressly permitted herein, including any use, copying, or distribution of User Submissions of third parties obtained through the Website for any commercial purposes." to prevent the same use by others.
Neat....you get some really AWESOME wallpapers for free, use them in a commercial environment and restrict others from doing the same or even redistributing them for free.
Neat...for the site owners that is.
cerksees
Drive Blind
Posted 4:27 PM 16/2/08
My favorite wallpaper site is earthwallpapers.org. They don't have a huge library, but there's a lot of great satellite images of both man-made and natural features.
Drive Blind
ephdel
Posted 4:27 PM 16/2/08
most of the stuff on SocWall actually comes from other sites, like deviantart and customize.org. i generally go to customize because they do a good job of rating art and maintaining a level of standards; not to mention its skinning and theming for most popular apps (free too!)
ephdel
c.r.brown
Posted 4:27 PM 16/2/08
On Firefox on Mac you cant SAVE AS to the desktop in order cut the dual monitor images in half (it saves it as a PHP file) for use on OSX. You could probably rename the file but thats a hassle for the enduser. Unless there's an app i dont know of to spread a single image across multiple monitors.
Also the dual monitors aren't sized for 24" or larger use.
Also also, I think the same 2 people keep asking for the vertical monitor wallpapers. Surely this can't be so common to expect dedicated wallpaper sites?
c.r.brown
pandrus
Posted 4:27 PM 16/2/08
I wish someone had a wallpaper that was functional - with areas for active project documents, etc... Are there any anywhere?
pandrus
SpriteMV
Posted 4:27 PM 16/2/08
I like to change wallpapers a lot, but I sometimes have trouble finding quality ones for dual monitors. This site should last me a while. Bookmarked!
SpriteMV
urban.decay
Posted 3:00 AM 27/2/08
Use "Save Page As" [Command-S].
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"On Firefox on Mac you cant SAVE AS to the desktop in order cut the dual monitor images in half (it saves it as a PHP file) for use on OSX".
urban.decay