Desktop Freebies and Screensavers
Welcome to our desktop freebies section where you'll find free screensavers, skins, wallpaper, and other free desktop stuff. If you happen to stumble across an outdated link, we'd very much appreciate it if you could report it. Thanks for visiting and enjoy your time freebie hunting!
Free Space Imagery Wallpapers
Spruce up your computer desktop with these fascinating (and free) wallpaper images, all featuring various space-themed images, courtesy of Space.com. They provide wallpapers in a number of popular resolutions, including 1024x768, 1280x1024, and also 800x600 pixels.
3D Desktops UK
An interactive Web site featuring a wide range of free desktop wallpapers in various categories, including: abstract, oceans, sunsets, sunrises, 3D wallpaper, mobile phone wallpapers, etc. 3D Desktops UK allows users to rate each wallpaper, with the most popular being placed in a dedicated "Top Rated" category. To access the site areas, a free and simple membership registration is required.
Free Pleiades Star Cluster Wallpaper
At the National Geographic site you can grab a wallpaper image of the beautiful star cluster known as the Pleiades (or "Seven Sisters"). "The cluster, located some 400 light-years away, formed about 100 million years ago. It contains thousands of stars but gets its name from seven of its brightest members". To download this inspiring image, follow the "Wallpaper" link below the preview picture, then select your screen resolution size to download.
Free Hubble Space Telescope Desktop Wallpapers
At freebielist.com we're big fans of HubbleSite's collection of free space-themed desktop wallpaper. Some of the most breathtaking imagery ever witnessed is available on this site, including detailed shots of galaxies, nebulae, planets, star fields and more. Be sure to check out the Sombrero Galaxy image!
Free Space and Nebula Wallpapers
This round-up of freebie space and nebula wallpapers from Smashing Magazine is just the thing to jazz up your computer desktop. Alongside space-themed backgrounds, they also include a selection of "sky" imagery as well!
Free Premiership Football Computer Wallpapers
Football news site TEAMtalk has an interesting selection of free computer wallpaper images, featuring many of the Premiership's football teams (there are a few omissions, so apologies for that!). Two resolution sizes are available: 800x600 and 1024x768 pixels.
Free Lord’s Cricket Desktop Wallpaper
Cricket fans will love this site, which allows you to spruce up your computer desktop with a variety of Lord's cricket-themed imagery. Featured are images from Test Matches, along with popular players.
Free Virtual Hebrides Computer Wallpaper
A fine selection of desktop wallpaper, featuring images from the Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. They feature two popular resolution sizes: 1024 x 768 and 800 x 600 pixels.
Free Ordnance Survey Desktop Wallpaper
Every month, Ordnance Survey offers a free desktop wallpaper image, featuring somewhere beautiful and scenic in Great Britain. New wallpaper files are usually available a week before the end of each month. Various screen resolution sizes are catered for.
iDesign iPhone Wallpapers
A high quality and well-designed site offering a wide selection of wallpapers for the Apple iPhone (they can also potentially be used on other devices). The wallpapers are arranged into numerous categories, some of which include: Animals, Cartoons, Fashion, Funny, Games, Holidays, Patterns, Scenery, Space, Sports and more.
Free National Geographic Desktop Wallpapers
A fine collection of free wallpaper images that are sure to liven up your computer desktop. Some of the imagery used here is breathtaking and there's plenty to choose from! Various resolution sizes are available.
Free Kit Kat Desktop Stuff
Navigate your way to the laptop and you'll be able to download a selection of free desktop goodies, including wallpaper, screensavers and desktop icons. They are ideal if you're a Kit Kat fanatic! (Functions on both Windows and Mac).
Desktop Earth
If you are bored with your computer wallpaper, check out this free download. Desktop Earth reproduces an accurate representation of the Earth (as seen from space) and uses this image as your wallpaper. You can set the updates to run at various time intervals to ensure your image is bang up-to-date. You are also able to see populated areas at night!
Various Sun-related Desktop Freebies
Here you can get your hands on a variety of freebie desktop downloads, featuring imagery from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (a project by the ESA and NASA to study the sun). Downloads are available for Windows, Max and Linux, and include screen savers, an image viewer, desktop wallpaper, etc.
Forever Friends Free Screensavers
At the Forever Friends Web site you will find a high quality and collection of cute screensavers, suitable for both Windows and Mac operating systems. Aside from this, the site also includes some excellent wallpaper images, featuring scenes from birthdays, Magic Star, Halloween, and also desktop calendars (very useful). Also be sure to check out their range of ipod videos and mobile phone goodies.