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Lush green hills under a cobalt blue sky with precisely the right amount of fluffy clouds floating about. Who hasn’t been lost in reverie staring at the default Windows XP wallpaper, dreaming of Middle Earth or maybe a weekend in Cork County? Yet that shot of a bucolic paradise has turned into a very personal nightmare for Charles O’Lear, the man who captured the iconic photo and sold it to Microsoft. O’Lear took a one-time payment for the photo rather than trying to negotiate a license fee. Even a tiny fee per Windows XP license would have yielded him a...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A British firm's quantum dot technology will be used for flat screen TVs and flexible screens, according to the company’s chief executive.The quantum dots will be in use for ultra thin, light flat screen TVs by the end of next year, and, in another three years, will be used in flexible screens rolled up like paper or used as wall coverings. The company, Nanoco Group, is reportedly working with Asian electronics companies to bring this technology to market. “The first products we are expecting to come to market using quantum dots will be the next generation of flat-screen...

Lavender Fields Photograph by Gerd Ludwig Purple tints land and sky as night falls over lavender fields at Tasmania's famed Bridestowe Estate. The plantation is one of the largest lavender farms in the world. Serra da Leba, Angola

To put the X-Flex bombproof wallpaper to the test, we substituted a wrecking ball for an explosion. With no wallpaper, test walls crumbled on the first hit. With X-Flex on the backside, we literally could not bring the walls down. The material stretched to contain brick fragments trying to blast into the room and bounced right back. —Theodore Gray

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The world of Windows Customization is a large one, with content scattered all over the Internet. In general, most people only frequent a few sites here or there and might be missing out on a lot of great content around the community. This list is my view of the top six sites in the skinning community. Link

Hey, my wife put me up to this. :) Can use some help. Every year we put the White House Christmas Card on our computers as the seasonal wallpaper. I cannot find it this year except in a small picture. Can someone direct me to where this might be available in higher resolution? Just enjoyed watching the Home and Garden yearly White House decorating special and really would like to get the wallpaper. Googled around but really couldn't find anything. Thanks and forgive the vanity!

Click the wood panels above, scroll to the bottom of the RegisteredMedia.com gallery and find the wallpaper you want!

  Lighten Up the Workplace with Ronald Reagan Wallpaper Art.                                    God Bless Ronald Reagan!                                 ONE  FOR THE GIPPER!   Click on any image below to see full size.Position the pointer on top of the image and click the right mouse button to bring up the image menu. Scroll down to either Copy or Save Picture as... and click the left mouse button.Then Save the new image as a file on your hard disk or diskette.                                    Ronald Reagan Wallpaper Art   800x600                              Ronald Reagan Wallpaper Art   1024x768                         Ronald Reagan...