It’s time to replace that blurry photo of your last vacation. Get rid of those out-of-proportion screenshots of cartoon characters and modeling shots of your favorite actors and actresses.

Your computer’s wallpaper is boring, and it’s time to give it a facelift.

Interfacelift.com has a huge variety of wallpaper, icons and themes to make your daily tasks more exciting and to make your computer unique.

The nearly 2,000 wallpapers available on the site vary from garden and beach photography, to computer-made images of lightning and fire. You can find pretty drawings of cartoon goldfish and dark, gloomy images of foreboding castles. Whatever your taste is, it’s here, and it’s available in any resolution you need.

Picking the aspect ratio that matches your screen makes the site use an already chosen crop of the image, so it won’t look stretched or skewed, and getting the resolution right will give you a crisp image that uses every pixel of your screen perfectly. Resolutions are available up to ridiculous sizes of 2560×1600. Smaller sizes, intended for an iPod or a mobile device are also available.

Interfacelift.com doesn’t only offer wallpapers. It also offers 16,000 Mac icons and 4,500 PC icons. Imagine being the only kid in your hall with a black or red iChat icon. Tired of the GarageBand logo? Change it to an acoustic guitar or a classic Fender. ‘LOST’ fans can use the Dharma initiatives logos for those folders containing mysterious documents.

The site is planning its own facelift, a complete redesign with more features and more possibilities, to be released sometime in May.

With all of those possibilities, no one should have to see the Mac OSX’s default blue swish or Windows XP’s happy green field ever again.

Published on April 2, 2007 at 12:00 pm