Wednesday, June 1, 2005

Wallpaper of the month - June 2005

Desktop Wallpaper - "The Heights of Heritage".

An F-15 Eagle, F/A-22 Raptor and P-51 Mustang train for heritage
flight formation flying off the coast of Langley Air Force Base, Va.

Description: F-15 EAGLE

The F-15 Eagle is an all-weather, extremely maneuverable, tactical
fighter designed to permit the Air Force to gain and maintain air
supremacy over the battlefield.

Description: F/A-22 Raptor

The F-22 is an air dominance fighter with much-improved capability
over current Air Force aircraft. It is widely regarded as the most
advanced fighter in the world, combining a revolutionary leap in
technology and capability with reduced support requirements and
maintenance costs. It will replace the F-15 as America's front-line,
air superiority fighter, with deliveries to operational units
beginning in 2002.

From the inception of the battle, the F-22's primary objective will be
to establish absolute control of the skies through the conduct of
counterair operations. The fighter also has an inherent precision
ground attack capability. The F-22 is capable of carrying existing and
planned medium and short range air-to-air missiles in internal bays.
The F-22 will also have an internal 20-mm cannon and provisions for
carrying precision ground attack weapons.

Description: P-51 "Mustang"

The P-51 was designed as the NA-73 in 1940 at Britain's request. The
design showed promise and AAF purchases of Allison-powered Mustangs
began in 1941 primarily for photo recon and ground support use due to
its limited high-altitude performance. But in 1942, tests of P-51s
using the British Rolls-Royce "Merlin" engine revealed much improved
speed and service ceiling, and in Dec. 1943, Merlin-powered P-51Bs
first entered combat over Europe. Providing high-altitude escort to
B-17s and B-24s, they scored heavily over German interceptors and by
war's end, P-51s had destroyed 4,950 enemy aircraft in the air, more
than any other fighter in Europe.

Mustangs served in nearly every combat zone, including the Pacific
where they escorted B-29s to Japan from Iwo Jima. Between 1941-5, the
AAF ordered 14,855 Mustangs (including A-36A dive bomber and F-6 photo
recon versions), of which 7,956 were P-51Ds. During the Korean War,
P-51Ds were used primarily for close support of ground forces until
withdrawn from combat in 1953.

Note: This marks a (momentary) departure from our long-established
tradition of US Navy & Marine Corps wallpaper. The photograph is just
too good to pass up, and considering the time of year (Air Show
Season) we thought you might appreciate it as well..

Complete installation instructions are provided.

Please Note:
This wallpaper is available in the following screen resolution:

*Available upon request

0640 X 480
1152 X 870
1280 X 960
1600 X 1200

x Download Now!

[x] 800 X 600
[x] 1024 X 768

http://www.scenery.org

Semper Fi

Tom Gregor, Sr.
Webmaster

Tom
I have been many times to your website and have NEVER yet been able to find
the section with Wallpapers. This is frustrating because they are promising.
Howver I haave yet to see one. Could you make them more obvious somehow?
TIA

Quilljar
see http://client.webshots.com/album/194691959rhDQFi
Do not reply personally, all such emails go into my spam filter

I would also like to see some wallpapers for three screen setups like mine,
at least 3072 X 768 in size. althought 3840 X 1024 would be nice!

I don't mean screensavers - they are just memory wasters IMHO

Yrs
Quilly

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 14:45:34 +0000 (UTC), "Quilljar"
> wrote:

>I have been many times to your website and have NEVER yet been able to find
>the section with Wallpapers. This is frustrating because they are promising.
>Howver I haave yet to see one. Could you make them more obvious somehow?

Quilly

Try <URL:http://www.scenery.org/screen.htm#Wallpaper> there are one
or two things there near the bottom of the page.

James

Good Afternoon Quilljar:

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 14:45:34 +0000 (UTC), "Quilljar"
> wrote:

>Tom
>I have been many times to your website and have NEVER yet been able to find
>the section with Wallpapers. This is frustrating because they are promising.
>Howver I haave yet to see one. Could you make them more obvious somehow?
>TIA

There's a couple of avenues to the Desktop Wallpaper (of the month).

1. From our main index page http://www.scenery.org once there you can
either click on the primary menu on the LHS of the page, see: Screen
Savers (we also squirrel away our wallpapers there).

2. From the RHS column see "Wallpaper of the Month" block with
thumbnail of current wallpaper, which doubles as a link.

I appreciate your interest… we hope that folks enjoy them.

All The Best

Tom G, Sr.


> Quilljar
> see http://client.webshots.com/album/194691959rhDQFi
>Do not reply personally, all such emails go into my spam filter
>
>

Dear Tom,
Nice to hear from you again. You know, I never thought that you would hide
wallpapers so low down on a page of screensavers! I am sorry, I never
searched that far. Maybe I am the only idiot around here :-(
Thanks

Cheers
Quilljar


Try 'Living With Technology' magazine
http://www.livtech.co.uk

You running a mac? I didn't think you could that with XP?

Hi 4-Example:

I'm not sure if your comment is directed to me or not?

If so... nope, it's on a Win platform.

Tom G, Sr.

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:19:45 GMT, "4-Example" >
wrote:

>You running a mac? I didn't think you could that with XP?
>
>

OK, I don't think you can get wallpaper that spans screens like that.
My experience has been it'll just draw it separately on each screen.


"T. & D. Gregor, Sr." > wrote in message
...
>
> Hi 4-Example:
>
> I'm not sure if your comment is directed to me or not?
>
> If so... nope, it's on a Win platform.
>
> Tom G, Sr.
>
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:19:45 GMT, "4-Example" >
> wrote:
>
>>You running a mac? I didn't think you could that with XP?
>>
>>
>

You can make wallpaper to span any size providing you have the right
graphics card. I use three screens at 3840X1024 and have scores of
wallpapers which are extremely crisp. I usually take four or five digital
photos of a scene and piece them together using Adobe Photoshop.

Cheers
Quilljar


Try 'Living With Technology' magazine it's digitally sound
http://www.livtech.co.uk

"Quilljar" > wrote in message
...
>
>
> You can make wallpaper to span any size providing you have the right
> graphics card.

I guess the card is the key. The dual display ATI's I've used won't do
this.

I presume you have right clicked on your desktop and gone into
Properties/Settings and changed the screen size to double?



Yrs
Quilly

"Siks munfs ugo i cundn evn spel enjunear, now i ar wun."

"Quilljar" > wrote in message
...
>I presume you have right clicked on your desktop and gone into
>Properties/Settings and changed the screen size to double?

No way to do that, that I can see.
You can only activate the second monitor and extend your desktop into it.

4-Example wrote:
> "Quilljar" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I presume you have right clicked on your desktop and gone into
>> Properties/Settings and changed the screen size to double?
>
> No way to do that, that I can see.
> You can only activate the second monitor and extend your desktop into
> it.

Well I don't want to be too argumentative, but I do it all the time with
three screens and I used to do it with two. Windows allows you to choose all
kinds of screen sizes. Then FS9 picks up the video card details and adds the
screen size possibilities within the settings section Hardware. If you then
match the FS with the desktop you have a nice fast fullscreen across say,
2048 X 768 for example.


--
Quilljar
see http://client.webshots.com/album/194691959rhDQFi
Do not reply personally, all such emails go into my spam filter

"Quilljar" > wrote in message
...
> 4-Example wrote:
>> "Quilljar" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> I presume you have right clicked on your desktop and gone into
>>> Properties/Settings and changed the screen size to double?
>>
>> No way to do that, that I can see.
>> You can only activate the second monitor and extend your desktop into
>> it.
>
> Well I don't want to be too argumentative, but I do it all the time with
> three screens and I used to do it with two. Windows allows you to choose
> all kinds of screen sizes. Then FS9 picks up the video card details and
> adds the screen size possibilities within the settings section Hardware.
> If you then match the FS with the desktop you have a nice fast fullscreen
> across say, 2048 X 768 for example.
>

No argument here, I just don't think we're on the same wave length, though,
so let's keep discussing this.
I'm not arguing, just curious, because I'd love to do what your suggesting
with Wallpaper.
Let's stick to a Desktop wallpaper discussion, not FS9. That's what
triggered my initial response.
No doubt FS9 will detect the two or three displays and span them. Wallpaper
my be a different story.


I can right click on my desktop, go into advanced properties.
I have two displays attached to my PC.
The single video card I have controls them.

I can easily adjust the resolution on each display, that's not an issue,
easy to do.
I can enable or disable the secondary monitor and "extend" my desktop to it,
also easy.

Now with Wallpaper, if you have two active displays and you set a wallpaper
to your desktop.
Each display, from what I've observed, will display a single "copy" of the
wallpaper within it's own display.
The wallpaper won't "span" both displays, automagically. Let's say both
displays are side by side, each set
to 1024x768.Effective resolution, say 2048 x 768, if I find a wallpaper that
size and add it to my background, I won't see it span the displays.

Do you agree? If you have a trick to span both displays with say a
2048x768 wallpaper, I'd love to see it.

> Now with Wallpaper, if you have two active displays and you set a
> wallpaper to your desktop.
> Each display, from what I've observed, will display a single "copy"
> of the wallpaper within it's own display.
> The wallpaper won't "span" both displays, automagically. Let's say
> both displays are side by side, each set
> to 1024x768.Effective resolution, say 2048 x 768, if I find a
> wallpaper that size and add it to my background, I won't see it span
> the displays.
> Do you agree? If you have a trick to span both displays with say a
> 2048x768 wallpaper, I'd love to see it.

I have my wallpapers which are mostly 3840X1024 as I have them across three
screens. I use a single video card the Matrox Parhelia 128. With that I have
the choice to spread the wallpaper across all three, or have three
wallpapers. Using the MaxiVista software I can also extend to a fourth
screen, my laptop but that exhibits the same wallpaper but as a second
picture. I will put up (a photo, not a screenshot) for you to see. I thought
that any card that would support two monitors would give you those options.
Try the manufacturer's website.

http://client.webshots.com/photo/194691959/372707247urXkNi

http://client.webshots.com/photo/194691959/226444109uoDjNL



Cheers
Quilljar

Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Photos 1952-60

http://client.webshots.com/album/204003612QQUuDJ
Quilljar
see http://client.webshots.com/album/194691959rhDQFi
Do not reply personally, all such emails go into my spam filter

"Quilljar" > wrote in message
...
>> Now with Wallpaper, if you have two active displays and you set a
>> wallpaper to your desktop.
>> Each display, from what I've observed, will display a single "copy"
>> of the wallpaper within it's own display.
>> The wallpaper won't "span" both displays, automagically. Let's say
>> both displays are side by side, each set
>> to 1024x768.Effective resolution, say 2048 x 768, if I find a
>> wallpaper that size and add it to my background, I won't see it span
>> the displays.
>> Do you agree? If you have a trick to span both displays with say a
>> 2048x768 wallpaper, I'd love to see it.
>
> I have my wallpapers which are mostly 3840X1024 as I have them across
> three screens. I use a single video card the Matrox Parhelia 128. With
> that I have the choice to spread the wallpaper across all three, or have
> three wallpapers. Using the MaxiVista software I can also extend to a
> fourth screen, my laptop but that exhibits the same wallpaper but as a
> second picture. I will put up (a photo, not a screenshot) for you to see.
> I thought that any card that would support two monitors would give you
> those options. Try the manufacturer's website.
>
> http://client.webshots.com/photo/194691959/372707247urXkNi
>
> http://client.webshots.com/photo/194691959/226444109uoDjNL
>
>
>
> Cheers
> Quilljar
>
> Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Photos 1952-60
>
> http://client.webshots.com/album/204003612QQUuDJ
> Quilljar
> see http://client.webshots.com/album/194691959rhDQFi
> Do not reply personally, all such emails go into my spam filter
>
>

OK, that probably explains it, your card supports that feature. The ATI
have doesn't.