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  • A request from Woodguy32 – Rusty pipe 2

    Posted By Mousewrites on March 7, 2010

    Title: Industrial – Rusty pipe 2
    Description: I got an email from an awesome builder of Steampunk computer systems, Woodguy32. He requested a few wallpapers to display on his amazing monitors, and I am delighted to do so! Also, check out his auction for his latest keyboard (ends Mar 07, 201018:56:28 PST, so hurry!)
    Type: Widescreen, 1600×900
    Credits: Textures from the following:

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    Industrial – Patina wall – Widescreen and Fullscreen

    Posted By Mousewrites on February 13, 2010

    Title: Industrial – Patina wall
    Description:
    Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
    Credits:  Base texture from a filter from Filterforge
    Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024

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    Steam Heat T-shirt… Well, I was weak and bought one…

    Posted By Mousewrites on February 11, 2010

    and I thought I’d let you guys know it was here. It’s a ShirtWoot, but it’s on Reckoning (IE, time sensitive, but not as bad as the daily woot shirt).

    Check it out (if you are t-shirt inclined): Steam Heart

    Note: this isn’t a wallpaper, and I don’t own that image. I just wanted you guys to see this cool shirt.

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    Guest Wallpaper – Snowmobile Trail by Kyle

    Posted By Mousewrites on February 6, 2010

    Title:Snowmobile Trail by Kyle
    Description: Kyle is back! YAY! Here’s a lovely subtly steampunky wallpaper you could get away with in a corporate invrio; Oh, look, a nice snow scene… wait, what crossing?
    Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
    Credits: Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial.  Based on this:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/ezioman/456991220/
    Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024

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    Penguin Books likes us enough to violate our Creative Commons License! Whee!!

    Posted By Mousewrites on January 27, 2010

    So, I understand that book publishers leave all the promotion up to the authors, and I understand that authors, even best-selling ones, aren’t generally rich.

    But as far as I can tell, almost every image in this promotional video for Katie Macalister’s Steampunk romance Steamed is used without credit:

    [video taken down, though I have a copy on my harddrive]

    My background is at :51, at least: Gears and wrought iron, and I’m fairly certain the blurry mechanical bits under the word “Victim” at :08 are mine too.

    Note to self: new theme is terrible for searching. Fix that.

    Anyway, both images are Creative Commons Licensed, which means Penguin is violating the license in three ways: they’re using it commercially, didn’t attribute me, AND didn’t release their work under CC.

    I’ve moved my Creative Commons License info up to be more noticeable, and I’ve written them a email as well. We’ll see what happens.

    … I’m flattered, though.

    Edit: this is a long and complicated blamechain. Still working it out.

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    New feature: Top 100 Wallpaper list and Top 10 Wallpaper sidebar

    Posted By Mousewrites on January 26, 2010

    Hey, all!

    I’ve been scrubbing at the site a bit, and one thing people have requested is a way to view more wallpapers. Enter the Top 100 Wallpapers section of the website, and the sidebar showing the Top 10. The wallpapers are displayed by number of views since 1/25/10, so they will have a period of “shuffling” before they settle into a true “best of” list.

    Please give it a look, and let me know what you think.

    Upcoming features:

      Fixing the broken Contact Us page (should be done very soon)
      Visual index of ALL wallpapers, with content filters so that you can narrow your search. (This one is hard. :D )

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    Industrial – metal wall with poster – Widescreen and fullscreen

    Posted By Mousewrites on January 24, 2010

    Title:Industrial – metal wall with poster
    Description: More industrial stuff. Found the poster on the web, and then again at the Arizona Gold Rush page. I am 99% sure it’s genuine… of course, the 1% is gonna bite my ass, you watch.
    Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
    Credits: Base texture from a filter from Filterforge, but I dinked with it a lot. :D
    Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024

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    Industrial – Metal Plate, widescreen and fullscreen

    Posted By Mousewrites on January 18, 2010

    Title:Industrial – Metal Plate
    Description: I’ve been asked for some more grunge/industrial wallpapers, so i’ll be going slightly off-topic for a few posts. This one is a rusted to hell diamond-plate, with some mood lighting.
    Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
    Credits: Base texture from a filter made by Crapadilla, with Filterforge.
    Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024

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    Admin note: playing with the theme.

    Posted By Mousewrites on January 9, 2010

    As I said, the “travel” theme was a placeholder. I’m going to be messing with the theme today, so you might see some weirdness. :D

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    Tan Remix – widescreen and fullscreen

    Posted By Mousewrites on January 5, 2010

    Title:Tan Remix
    Description: Some of our long-time viewers may remember this wallpaper. I decided to play with it a bit.
    Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
    Credits: PS work with a texture from Lost and Taken.
    Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024

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    Repeating Pipes

    Posted By Mousewrites on December 26, 2009

    Title: Repeating pipes.
    Description: Holidays are done, back to wallpapers!
    Type: Seamless, 256×256
    Credits: This awesome picture from Elsie Esq is Creative Commons. :D

    EDIT: uploaded the wrong one. Finished one is now showing. :)

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    Simple Walls, 1 – wide and full + note

    Posted By Mousewrites on December 12, 2009

    Hey, all.

    Thank you for your patience as we work through things. Theme is still odd; we’re working on it. At least it’s not erroring out now, yes?

    I give you a simple wallpaper in penance; my desktop is so full of icons from hunting down the bugs that I needed something non-distracting. Enjoy!

    wall-with-frame Title:Simple Walls, 1
    Description:Simple wallpaper in cool colors.
    Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
    Credits: mostly PS work with heavily modified textures from my files.
    wall-with-frame-full Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024

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    Massive problems – did we kill the hampsters?

    Posted By Mousewrites on December 10, 2009

    As you’ve probably noticed, the site has been… problematic. I’m still working on it. :D

    New theme is temporary.  The 500 errors need to stop. }:(

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    Guest Wallpaper: Steam Punk Wallpaper by Rob Kleeman

    Posted By Mousewrites on November 16, 2009

    Rob Title: Steam Punk Wallpaper by Rob Kleeman
    Description: Rob was kind enough to let us post this. Isn’t it awesome? I love the watercolor look, as if some inventor was scribling on his blotter and grabbed a brush to quickly rough in his designs. Nice job, Rob!
    Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
    Credits: Created by Rob Kleemen, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic

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