August 2008 Wallpaper

Brighten up your desktop!

Download wallpaper/desktop-picture from Ordnance Survey

This month we offer a view of Crianlarich, Stirling.

Available in both JPG and BMP file formats, it includes a month-at-a-glance calendar for August 2008.

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Instructions for Windows users

If you don't mind that the picture is downloaded to your browser's cache of web pages, making it less easy to find again, this is the quick way:

1. Click on the hyperlink that corresponds to your preferred screen resolution*  to download the picture in your browser.
2. Right-click on the picture and choose Set as Background.

*If you aren't sure what this is, click on Start, Settings, Control Panel and Display, then click on the Settings tab; it's the value displayed in the Screen area box.

If you prefer to save the picture to a folder such as My Pictures before setting it as your wallpaper:

1. Right-click on the appropriate hyperlink below.
2. Choose Save target as... (Internet Explorer) or Save link as... (Netscape) and save the file to a folder you will remember.
3. Click on Start, Settings, Control Panel, and Display (or minimise all of your windows, right-click on an empty piece of desktop and select Properties), then click on the Background tab;
4. Click on the Browse button in the Wallpaper box, locate the file you downloaded, select it and click on OK.

Your desktop will refresh within a few seconds to display the new wallpaper.

BMP files - for Windows users, available in the four following sizes*:

1280 x 1024 BMP (3.8 Mb)

1024 x 768 BMP (2.3 Mb)

800 x 600 BMP (1.4 Mb)

640 x 480 BMP (900 Kb)

Instructions for Mac users

Ctrl-click on the correct sized desktop-picture link below.

Choose the option 'download link to disk' and save it to a place you will remember.

Open the Appearance control panel and select the Desktop tab

Drag the image on top of the control panel and click the Set Desktop button.

JPG files for Mac users and Window users who prefer to use their 'active desktop' settings, available in the four following sizes:

1280 x 1024 JPG (750 Kb)

1024 x 768 JPG (448 Kb)

800 x 600 JPG (282 Kb)

640 x 480 JPG (193 Kb)

Missed one?

Previous wallpapers are archived according to the year in which they were published:

2008 |2007 | 2006 |2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 (inc. December 1999)