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A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the Palace of Versailles. A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device.
Wallpaper Engine is an application for Windows with a companion app on Android [3] which allows users to use and create animated and interactive wallpapers, similar to the defunct Windows DreamScene. Wallpapers are shared through the Steam Workshop functionality as user-created downloadable content .
[10]: 4:40 After the rights to the photograph were bought by Microsoft, it was renamed Bliss and was chosen as the default wallpaper of the Luna visual style, [2] [26] the default graphical user interface of Windows XP. [27] The image was used extensively by Microsoft for promoting Windows XP and their $200 million advertising campaign. [2] [28]
Modern wallpaper is made in long rolls which are hung vertically on a wall. Patterned wallpapers are designed so that the pattern "repeats", and thus pieces cut from the same roll can be hung next to each other so as to continue the pattern without it being easy to see where the join between two pieces occurs.
Natural light sources in a night sky include moonlight, starlight, and airglow, depending on location and timing. The fact that the sky is not completely dark at night can be easily observed. Were the sky (in the absence of moon and city lights) absolutely dark, one would not be able to see the silhouette of an object against the sky.
A Sky Go app for Android devices was released on 20 February 2012. [7] Sky Go for Android does not work on rooted phones and was initially only available on a selection of Android phones from HTC and Samsung. [8] On 11 December 2012, Sky Go added support for Jelly Bean and additional devices, including those from Google, LG and Sony. [9]
If this isn't satisfactory, for bright stars z should be 5; for an average deep sky object, 9-10; for SN 1987A's remnant, 14 is more suitable. name: Name to display in the link; if unspecified, defaults to the name of the page.
A public domain stock photo titled "frog on palm frond". Stock photography is the supply of photographs that are often licensed for specific uses. [1] The stock photo industry, which began to gain hold in the 1920s, [1] has established models including traditional macrostock photography, [2] midstock photography, [3] and microstock photography. [4]