Geek Style: Pimp Your Desktop

A picture paints a thousand words and a truly magnificent picture paints a thousand magnificent emotions.

What you see on your home screen or your desktop really matters. Today, the possibility of creating the most stunning graphics molded from pure imagination and creativity with the aid of the most sophisticated graphics tools is within a graphic artist's easy reach.

Besides, with the advent of high-definition graphics that create the illusion of images literally popping out of your screen, there is no limit to the extent of how stunning imagery is produced to satisfy a very discriminating user’s visual appetite. So why settle for the obsolete and the mediocre?

There is an enormous amount of free resources that are available online that are solely at the computer user’s disposal. It's all up to you to avail and make use of these resources to benefit and enhance your computing experience.

To me, what meets the eye influences the thoughts. Thus, an amazing scene that portrays a calm atmosphere can somehow put me in a spot that is peaceful and quiet even when I am physically surrounded by chaos.

It's all in your head, but a good optical illusion created by magical works of art is always indispensable.

This is what sits on my desktop. The stunning scenery takes me to my virtual Zen place. I haven't changed the look of my desktop even after I got a new laptop with a different OS. Good things are always a keeper.

This wallpaper is one among the collection entitled Dreamy World. I love the sense of serenity and the haunting sadness depicted in this artwork.

Check this artist's gallery to see more of his stunning work of art. This artist's work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. If you want to download a free copy of this wallpaper you can visit this site or you can download the collection at blueportal.org if you are a member.

Should you settle for anything less?

Just a word of caution, there is always the risk of sharing malignant files over the internet. Make sure that your computer is well-equipped with a powerful anti-virus software and maybe, a good backup. Free download and share sites are almost always a malicious user's playground. Take extra precaution.

No free lunch, eh. Not that you weren't forewarned.