How to Find 4th of July Wallpapers for your iPhone

The Fourth of July is well known for fireworks, parades, barbeques, and is a major tradition for many in the United States. There are plenty of ways to celebrate and they mostly involve plenty of food and drink. Chances are your iPhone will be carried with you to wherever you celebrate the Fourth of July so how about some special 4th of July wallpapers? The big question is how can these pictures be incorporated into the iPhone? Read on to find out.

The American flag is a large part of the 4^th of July holiday. If you want to proudly show the flag on your iPhone lock screen or wallpaper (if you are running iOS4,) look no further than the application Backgrounds for the iPhone. A nice addition with Backgrounds is that if you are one of the lucky few (at the time of this writing,) to have an iPhone 4, it will support the 960x640 resolution protocol. There is actually a category in Backgrounds called 4^th of July flags. Downloading a picture is simple. You are presented with four thumbnails per page and go through the thumbnails by swapping left and right with your finger. Once a thumbnail is selected, a preview is generated. From there the picture can be saved to your camera roll. When comparing other apps in the Apple Store, I have found Backgrounds cannot be beat hands down. It features a stand-alone category for flags and many different Fourth of July themes can be searched for, such as fireworks.

Once a picture is downloaded, it has to be opened within the Camera Roll. This can be accessed within the photos application, camera application, or within the iPhone settings by tapping on Wallpaper. Unfortunately pictures cannot be added directly to the phone without manually selecting them from the Camera Roll. This is due to the Apple SDK restrictions put on developers.

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Google Images features images being cached from multiple websites. This is very easy to access. Go to Safari on the iPhone. From there go to http://m.google.com. This is Google's mobile portal for the iPhone, which results in easier formatting as you go through the pictures. These are the same pictures that you would see from the full blown desktop version of Google. Something that I really enjoy with using Google Image search is the auto suggestion mechanism. For example, if I type in "4th of July", I get suggestions such as "4th of July Fireworks" and "4th of July Cake" These suggestions can play off of any words that you type. Once you select a search item, thumbnails are displayed. From there, the pictures are displayed in full screen. To download the pictures, simply hold down on the image with your finger, it will give you the options of to Save Image or Copy. When you choose copy, it downloads to the Camera Roll folder, just like the Backgrounds Application.

I would like to include some tips when using Google Image Search. One item that I would suggest is to turn safe filtering on. Otherwise, I found some interesting pictures that wouldn’t be appropriate for all audiences. In addition, when you select a picture, you will see a resolution at the bottom of the page. I suggest trying to get a picture that is close to 320x480 or 960x640 resolution for an iPhone 4.

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If you want the easiest way of getting iPhone 4^th of July wallpapers, I would go with the Backgrounds application for the iPhone. However, if you want a large selection of pictures with some looking around and a few more steps, go with the Google Image search. It may take some time, but that perfect Fourth of July wallpaper is within reach. So, go out and enjoy the holiday and show your patriotism with 4th of July wallpaper for the iPhone