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For a moment I will leave the main theme of the blog, talking about radically changing screens smaller to larger ones, to lend a hand to those who have gone through the experience of becoming a brand-new widescreen and meet the improvisto that his collection of wallpaper suddenly is completely useless. Monitors 22 "with native resolution of 1680x1050 pixels make use of wallpaper a picture of 1280x1024 pixels, until recently enormous, is undesirable (mainly produced by the deformation to stretch horizontally).

A widescreen display with which we are

A panoramic picture is a picture of film, television or computer with an aspect ratio greater than the standard that the Academy developed during the era of classic Hollywood cinema: the silent film was projected with a ratio of four units to the width of three to the top, which is expressed with the terminology 4:3 or 1.33:1.

And it happens that have recently been introduced into the market a lot of monitors with widescreen (widescreen). Many manufacturers have virtually abandoned the traditional 4:3 format, opting for the 16:10. The main reason is the proliferation of multimedia PCs in widescreen (movies and TV) as well as the ability of many modern games take advantage of this new format, more natural because of the willingness of our eyes horizontally.

A film seen at 4:3 and widescreen format

• Advantages: a multi-environment, with multiple applications running at once, it's easier to put a number of windows side by side. In addition, as we have seen, most of the DVD and digital television are (or are) in landscape format.
• Disadvantages: a monitor with 16:10 aspect ratio is 6.8% less visible area that one of the same diagonal (eg both 19 ") that a 4:3 relationship. In the case of monitors 16:9 relation to the loss reaches 12.3%. What does this mean? That can not compare apples with pears, ie monitors with the same diagonal but different aspect ratio. In addition, applications such as word processors not going to exploit the extra space on the sides, although you can always opt for placing the monitor in portrait orientation, something that certainly know the work in the world of desktop publishing (DTP monitors).

But enough of explanations. If your monitor is panoramic, let's see some solutions to the problems you've found:

Compatibility Games

The original Quake in widescreen mode thanks to Darkplace

The modern computer games often bear the new resolutions and widescreen formats. However, there are many games, but do not have this option, you can easily hack to make it the bear. The bible of the game in widescreen is undoubtedly page Widescreen Gamer and forums Widescreen Gaming Forums, with an impressive database hacks for games, as well as a catalogue of monitors and, ultimately, all information that a player on the screen Panorama may need. Thanks to these pages could solve the problem with the Need for Speed Underground 2 and NFS: Most Wanted, Quake 3 Arena (and all games which are based on its graphics engine, as the Medal of Honor: Allied Assault), or Max Payne, to give some examples.

Wallpapers

Some wallpapers majos to encourage the desktop

Because of the proliferation of these monitors, and there are many pages devoted to the scenic wallpaper:

• InterfaceLift with large sections of funds to 2560x1600, 1920x200, 1680x1050, 1440x900 and 1280x800.
• Blatter's backgrounds, an impressive collection of fractals, with versions to 1280x800 pixels, pixels 1280x854, 1440x900 pixels, 1600x1024 pixels, 1680x1050 pixels, 1920x1200 and 2560x1600 pixels pixels.
• Graffiti Wallpaper, with galleries at 1440x900 and 1920x1200 pixels.
• BlurBurger produces wallpapers with comic appearance, very colourful. Also multiresolución: 1680x1050 and 1920x1200 pixels.
• Digital Blasphemy, one of my favorites, also has a version to 1920x1200 pixel resolution of all its funds.
• Deviantart, home to thousands of digital artists, has an entire section devoted to wallpapers widescreen. To lose the taste.
• Caedes, another community of artists, with funds to 1920x1200 pixels.
• Flickr is an inexhaustible source of images. For example, we have the mural (group) 1920x1200 Desktop Wallpapers, or Widescreen Wallpapers. Another option is to do a search for images directly to a specific resolution.
• For cinemagoers, MovieWallpapers also includes widescreen versions of some of the hundreds of film posters that meet.
• WallPaper Stock Gallery is another scenic funds.
• The macro photos (of small objects such as insects or flowers) are always spectacular, but the colourful Gallery Mike Swanson deserves spend a good time.
• David Lanham is an artist who draws funds among other things widescreen with a style of comic.
• Desktopography is a spectacular gallery of wallpaper-related nature, with panoramic versions of some of them.
• Art of Greg Martin is another gallery of wallpaper very spectacular, with colourful and detailed landscapes space. His funds have also widescreen versions.
• Jurko.net also has wallpapers scenic variety of topics. Curiously also have a gallery of wallpaper for PDAs.
• For the more fortunate (and a desk very large), with two monitors connected to the PC, Mandolux has wallpapers and multi panoramic, so that the image is divided between the two monitors.
• For lovers of cars, Widescreeners is a photo gallery of cars in widescreen format and high quality.
• For Jugon, Cabrobueno has a collection of funds panoramic inspired by PC and console games.
• Finally, for those who want to encourage your desktop with some beautiful girls in widescreen, we Skins.be, Widescreen Babes and Girls Widescreen. I have no responsibility for what they tell their partners to see them on the monitor 24 ".

And I think that for here, although there are many more pages of wallpaper widescreen, which testifies to the growing popularity of this format monitor. I hope I have helped those who have been suddenly in the same situation as me. In the next post back to the usual topics in The Tungsten PDA.

Published: Carlos I recalled another category of wallpaper very defendant: anime and manga. It is harder to find pages devoted to anime panoramic funds, but for example we Wallpaper Shrine. In addition, conducting the search properly, you can find good material at sites such as Flickr and Deviantart.

By: Mark Gonzalez Troyas General
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