{"id":2795,"date":"2010-03-12T21:15:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T01:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2010-03-12T21:15:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T01:15:11","slug":"best-sources-for-desktop-wallpapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2010\/03\/12\/best-sources-for-desktop-wallpapers\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Sources for Desktop Wallpapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m perhaps not typical, but I&#8217;m picky about my desktop wallpaper. It has to look clean and professional; photos of friends or family are horrible backgrounds. It has to be a native size, not stretched. It has to be non-distracting, because I don&#8217;t keep windows maximized. But after a couple weeks of sitting behind all my apps and never really being appreciated, I lose interest and want something nice.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a handful of great wallpaper sites. Note that, although I&#8217;m not linking to anything racy, wallpaper sites tend to have NSFW images added a lot. Most of the links are good at keeping them walled off, but you perhaps shouldn&#8217;t browse these if you&#8217;re at a place where you could get in trouble for an image that slipped by a filter somewhere.<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/browse.deviantart.com\/customization\/wallpaper\/\">DeviantArt&#8217;s Wallpaper section<\/a>. They vary greatly in quality.<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallcoo.net\/\">WallCoo<\/a>. This is the English version of a Chinese site. If you&#8217;re okay with not understanding anything &#8212; of if you&#8217;re fluent in Chinese &#8212; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallcoo.com\/\">Chinese version<\/a> seems to have different content.<\/li>\n    <li>Stock photography site Crestock sometimes posts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crestock.com\/blog\/photography\/another-17-fantastic-free-wallpaper-images-96.aspx\">free wallpapers<\/a> that are high in quality.<\/li>\n    <li>There&#8217;s a Flickr group called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/wallpaperandbackgrounds\/\">Wallpaper and Backgrounds<\/a>. (Protip: search for something like &#8220;hdr,&#8221; &#8220;macro,&#8221; or &#8220;bokeh&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m perhaps not typical, but I&#8217;m picky about my desktop wallpaper. It has to look clean and professional; photos of friends or family are horrible backgrounds. It has to be a native size, not stretched. It has to be non-distracting, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2010\/03\/12\/best-sources-for-desktop-wallpapers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}