The PDA of tungsten

For a moment I am going away to leave the main subject of blog, radically changing to speak of the smallest screens to greatest, to make use to which has happened through the experience to take control of a flaming panoramic display and to be with improvisto of which its collection of screen bottoms is suddenly completely useless. 22 monitors of ″ with native resolution of 1680×1050 pixels do that to use basic of screen an image of 1280×1024 pixels, until recently enormous time, are little recommendable (mainly by the deformation produced when stretching horizontally).

A panoramic monitor of which we are speaking

A panoramic image is an image of film, computer or television with an aspect ratio greater than the standard than the Academy developed during the era of the classic cinema of Hollywood: the dumb cinema projected with a relation of four units to wide it by three to the stop, which expresses with the terminology 4:3 or 1.33:1.

And it happens that recently a great amount of monitors with panoramic format has been introduced in the market (they widescreen). Many manufacturers have left practically the traditional format 4:3, deciding on the 16:10. The main reason is the proliferation of material panoramic multimedia in the PCs (films and TV), as well as the capacity of many modern games to take advantage of this new format, more natural due to the disposition in horizontal of our eyes.

A film seen in panoramic format 4:3 and

• Advantages: in surroundings multiprocess, with several applications executing itself simultaneously, it is easier to place several windows one next to the other. In addition, since we have seen, the majority of the DVD and programs of digital television are (or they will be) in oblong format.
• Disadvantages: a monitor with aspect ratio 16:10 has a 6.8% less than visible area than one of the same diagonal (for example both of 19 ″) that one of relation 4:3. In the case of the relation monitors 16:9 the loss arrives at 12.3%. What means this? That pears with apples, that is to say, monitors with the same diagonal but different aspect ratio cannot be compared. In addition, applications as the text processors are not going to take advantage of the extra space to the sides, although always can be chosen to place the monitor in vertical direction, something that without a doubt will know those that works in the world of the auto-edit (monitors DTP).

But coarse of explanations. If your monitor is panoramic, we see some solutions the problems that you have been:

Compatibility of games

The original Quake in way widescreen thanks to DarkPlaces

The modern games of computer usually support to the new resolutions and panoramic formats. Nevertheless, there are many games that, although do not tell on this option, can be hackear easily to cause that they support yes them. The bible of the game in widescreen is without a doubt the page Widescreen Gamer and the forums Widescreen Gaming Forums, with an impressive data base of hacks for games, as well as a catalogue of monitors and, really, all the information that a player in panoramic display can need. Thanks to these pages I could solve the problem with for Need Speed 2 Underground and NFS: Most Wanted, Quake 3 Sand (and all the games that are based on their graphical motor, like the Medal of Honor: Allied Assault), or Max Payne, to put some examples.

Bottoms of screen

Some smart bottoms of screen to animate the writing-desk

Due to the proliferation of these monitors, already they exist multitude of pages dedicated to the panoramic bottoms:

• InterfaceLift with extensive sections of bottoms to 2560×1600, 1920×200, 1680×1050, 1440×900 and 1280×800.
• Blatte's backgrounds, an impressive collection of fractals, with versions to 1280×800 pixels, 1280×854 pixels, 1440×900 pixels, 1600×1024 pixels, 1680×1050 pixels, 1920×1200 pixels and 2560×1600 pixels.
• Wallpaper graffitti, with galleries to 1440×900 and 1920×1200 pixels.
• BlurBurger produces bottoms of screen with appearance of cómic, very colouristic. Also multiresolution: 1680×1050 and 1920×1200 pixels.
• Blasphemy digitalis, one of my favorites, also tells on a version 1920×1200 pixels of resolution of all bottoms.
• Deviantart, home of thousands of digital artists, counts on a complete section dedicated to screen bottoms widescreen. In order to lose the pleasure.
• Caedes, another community of artists, with bottoms to 1920×1200 pixels.
• Flickr is an inexhaustible source of images. For example, we counted on the mural (group) 1920×1200 Desktop Wallpapers, or the Widescreen Wallpapers. Another option is to directly make a search of images to a certain resolution.
• For the cinéfilos, MovieWallpapers also counts on versions widescreen of some of the hundreds of posters of cinema films that reunite.
• WallPaper Stock is another gallery of panoramic bottoms.
• The photos macro (of objects small as insects or flowers) are always spectacular, but the colouristic gallery of Mike Swanson deserves to dedicate a good short while to him.
• David Lanham is an artist who among others things draws panoramic bottoms with a style of comic.
• Desktopography is a spectacular gallery of bottoms of screen related to the nature, with panoramic versions of some of the same.
• Art of Greg Martin is another gallery of bottoms of very spectacular screen, with colouristic and detailed space landscapes. Their bottoms also have versions widescreen.
• Jurko.net also has variable bottoms of panoramic display of thematic. Peculiarly also they have a gallery of bottoms of screen for PDA.
• For most lucky (and with a table very great), with two monitors connected to the PC, Mandolux it has bottoms of panoramic display and multimonitor, so that it is the distributed image enters monitors both.
• For the lovers of the cars, Widescreeners is a gallery of photos of automobiles in panoramic format and great quality.
• For jugones, Cabrobueno has a collection of panoramic bottoms inspired by games of PC and console.
• Finally, for that they want to animate its writing-desk with some pretty girls in panoramic display, we have Skins.be, Widescreen Babes and Widescreen Girls. I do not become person in charge than they say its pairs to them when seeing them in the monitor of 24 ″.

And I believe that I will stop here, although exist many more pages of bottoms of panoramic display, which testifies the increasing popularity of this format of monitor. I hope to have helped that they have been seen suddenly in the same situation that I. In next post we will return to the habitual subjects in the PDA from tungsten.

Published: Carlos me has remembered another category of bottoms of screen very demanded: it animates and sleeve. It is more difficult to find pages dedicated to panoramic bottoms animates, but for example we have Wallpaper Shrine. In addition, realising the suitable search, good material in sites like Flickr, and Deviantart can be found.

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