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Tranquil Wallpaper Parodies Busy, High Contrast iOS 4 Backgrounds

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While the ability to set a user background wallpaper under iOS 4 is a welcome addition to the operating system, the default wallpaper choices can be pretty, well, garish. Some of them are just too busy, too high contrast, too gross.

The wallpaper above, called Tranquil, is Jason Kottke’s brilliant send-up of the questionable taste Apple employed when picking some the default iOS 4 wallpaper choices.

Just tap and hold on the image until the “Save Image” dialog appears to apply it as the wallpaper of your iPhone.

Point well made, Mr. Kottke.

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