Bing Background Images

re: Bing Background Images

Bill_McC — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:04:48 GMT

Hi Mike,

That first pic I would think is Australian, an Echidna.

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MikeOrmond — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:48:19 GMT

Hi Bill. I think you're right now I've done my hedgehog research :-). I'd assumed it was one of the many species of hedgehog but it looks like only one of those species is native to the UK and its snout isn't as pointed as the animal in the image. I stand corrected. Mike

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Pete P — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:30:24 GMT

The last image is of the Sanqingshan Mountains in east China's Jiangxi Province. The air there is so sweet and clear you lamost feel you can get drunk on it.

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Adam — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:54:13 GMT

Oddly enough, and not to purposely contradict you, I've not yet seen a UK image on Bing :)

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Samad Khan — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:12:41 GMT

Hi Mike,

If you hover over the copyright water mark in the bottom right hand corner of the image, the location is displayed as a tooltip.

Enjoy,

Samad

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MikeOrmond — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:07:34 GMT

Adam. Not contradicting at all - my post was a bit misleading. I'd love to see it but I'd assumed these weren't exclusively UK images. That said I'm sure I say the London Eye and I had mistakenly thought (as I mentioned earlier) that the first image in my post was a less common species of hedgehog. I was way off on that one :-). Mike

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MikeOrmond — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:09:14 GMT

Thanks Samad. That does work for the current image but wasn't working when I posted. Probably just a glitch. I see the US backgrounds have extra info embedded which is nice. Mike

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Adam — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:04:20 GMT

Hi Mike,

Yea I see what you mean. It would be nice - sort of like a Bing version of Doodle for Google, only without a conveniently relevant word that rhymes with Bing...

The current Bing background is Victoria Falls - the only waterfalls I can think of in the UK are Roggie Falls in Scotland (fantastic for salmon jumping) and Canonteign Falls near Plymouth (which is less a waterfall and more a man-made pipe sticking out the side of a cliff). Not sure if they compare really with the overseas offerings :)

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Rory Donnelly — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:21:56 GMT

Mike,

If you right-click the image and click Save Background, the image name starts off with the location name.

Rory.

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Babylon Masheads — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:42:44 GMT

The copyright only shows the copyright info which may , or may not, include the name.

If you right click and select "show background" it will open just the background image. In the address bar it will show the name of the thing or place, followed by "_ROW982895728957" for example.

If you dont get "show background" then refresh the page and right click before it loads. Sometimes it seems to turn into a flash page. Thsi has been tested and workign with FF2/3 and IE 7.

The "hedgehog" is in fact a Double JapsEyed Cocknosed WormMuncher. Aka a Echidna.. a type of Spiny Anteater.

The mountains are in actual fact the Wuyi Mountains in china. More info wikiquote: "..are a mountain range located at the prefecture Nanping, at the northern border of Fujian (Hok-kian) province with Jiangxi province," So close..but no cigar. It in fact reminded me of many scenes in the Kungfu Panda movie lol.

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Matt Refghi — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:42:04 GMT

Babylon Masheads and Rory Donnelly are right on - the filename typically reveals the information you need to find out more.

I actually just wrote a blog post outlining how to do this. I provide steps for the four major browsers too:

http://tinyurl.com/ofc443

By the way, check out the United States version of Bing. While it doesn't have the same image, it is much more informative - you can hover over the background image for more info. Why can't others have those features as well?

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Zoey — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:51:35 GMT

hello,

culd you please tell me if i can get the bing backgrounds for my desktop????

if i can could you also please tell me how!!!!

Thanks a lot,

Zoey

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Zoey — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:57:13 GMT

hello,

culd you please tell me if i can get the bing backgrounds for my desktop????

if i can could you also please tell me how!!!!

Thanks a lot,

Zoey

re: Bing Background Images

soub — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:04:52 GMT

You can get the images from : http://www.istartedsomething.com/bingimages/

Soub