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For a beautiful selection of free photo backgrounds and wallpapers in different sizes, visit iskin.co.uk‘s website. The site offers backgrounds and wallpapers for different cell phones, mobile devices and desktop monitor resolutions.

Any images that are presented in a square format have been created for screens that can be viewed horizontally or vertically so there are no gaps, like the iPad for example. Some of the wallpaper and background sizes available on their website:

Cell phones and mobile:
iPhone portrait (320×480) iPhone landscape (320×480) Palm/Treo (320×320)
iPad wallpaper (1024×1024) iPhone 4 high resolution portrait (640×960) iPhone 4 landscape (960×640)

iMac and other 1440×900

4:3 Standard Aspect Wallpaper
1024×768 (XGA)
1600×1200 (UXGA)
1280×1024 (SXGA)

16:10 Wide Screen Desktop
1280×800 (WXGA 1024k)
1680×1050 (WSXGA+)

16:9 Wide Screen Laptop or Palmtop
1280×720 (WXGA 922k)

Full HD
1920×1080

Not sure about how that saying went, or what pronoun to use with a specific expression? If you’re a native English speaker, or you’ve learned English as a foreign language, Netspeak is a great tool for improving your writing.

Enter the beginning of a phrase into the search box and the different and most frequent ways that phrase or expression are used is shown. You can sort the results by the most frequent order of the words, and the most common option. It doesn’t mean that the results you’ll get are the correct way an expression is used, but they are the most frequent and common ways an expression is used.

Surf the web anonymously without leaving a browsing history with PageWash. Use it to visit websites you don’t quite trust, like brand new websites, or use it to get around your firewall when testing or visiting sites.

Start surfing by entering any URL into their web address box and click the ‘begin browsing’ button. You have the choice to remove all cookies, scripts, ads and referrer information. The site you visit will not know who you are and won’t be able to place cookies recording your visit. Visiting a site through a proxy service like this one will protect your privacy and prevent the site from collecting information about your visit. You are only sharing your information with proxy service.

You may have seen these icons before on mobile apps you’re already using. Glyfish offers a set of well designed icons for mobile applications that can be used for just about any feature within your app. If you’re using the free set you’re asked to give attribution. The pro version will give you more icons and also a higher resolution set.

Whether you’re analyzing for keyword density or trying to improve your writing by identifying words you seem to overuse, Textalyser.net can help. You either copy and paste your text to be analyzed or enter an URL and then set analyzing options like minimum characters per word, special word or expression to analyze, log the query (only for websites), apply stoplist and more. This is a simple, but very useful tool for analyzing any text on or off the web.

Try it out here:

This word cloud generator isn’t some plugin used for your blog, but a tool to create a beautiful looking word cloud you can save and print. Visit Wordle and either paste some text, enter a feed URL or a del.icio.us username. Wordle will then create your custom word cloud. We’ve clicked the randomize button a dozen times and got a dozen different designs. Clicking on the advanced tab you can enter your own words and the sizes and colors you’d like them to be displayed at. This is a great way to make posters and even use the word cloud images to create t-shirts.

Is it e-book or eBook? With all these internet terms, who can keep up with what’s considered the correct spelling? Well, why not find out from an authority on writing, namely the Associated Press which publishes the AP Stylebook, also known as” the journalist’s bible.” They have a few resources accessible for free, including a very useful Ask the Editor FAQ Guide. So which one is it? OK, we’ll tell you here: it’s supposed to be e-book and not eBook, meaning it needs a hyphen, as all other e- expressions do. But, it’s email and not e-mail, which is the only exception. Why the difference?

From their website: “AP’s acceptance of email reflects the reality of usage. Other e- terms, which aren’t as widely used in daily discourse, are clearer with the hyphenated spellings. Thus AP is sticking with e-business, e-commerce and others that abbreviate electronic.”
Including e-book.

A quick way to find out what’s trending on Twitter and why can be found at WhatTheTrend. Get last week’s Twitter trends, the Year in Review and also topics trending around the world. Definitions of hashtags and explanations of why something is trending are provided by users. A tool for comparing global and local Twitter trends against previous time periods is available in the paid version. Currently AdAge and Mashable use WhatTheTrend to compile their weekly trending columns.

Looking for a set of gradients in a variety of colors and styles? Check out DezinerFolio’s set of 130 free gradients. These aren’t images, but fully scalable gradients in .grd format, ready to use for any of your Photoshop projects. Use these gradients for backgrounds, buttons, tabs and more.

Get a selection of simple but very useful ready made colorful rollover CSS3 buttons at tympanus.com. You get a selection of 20 buttons in various shades and different font styles and effects. Be sure to check the demo.