One downside of Apple changing the size of the display on the new iPhone is that all your iPhone wallpapers no longer fit properly without being stretched. Whilst Apple has included some new default wallpapers and made them all in the new iPhone 5 resolution, sometimes you just want a bit more choice. Thankfully quite a few people have already done the work to recreate their wallpapers for the new 1136 x 640 resolution of the iPhone 5. We had a bit of a search and found these collections and individual wallpapers that you might enjoy.

Collections

• InterfaceLift: a great website that already has over 100 wallpapers for the iPhone 5
• Louie Mantia: over 80 wallpapers and some stunning wallpapers
• David Lanham: a couple of beautiful drawings and illustrations
• Subtle Papers: our own Chris Herbert updated his collection for the iPhone 5
• Matt, Julie and Ani: a great Flickr photostream I stumbled upon
• Poolga: dozens of nice wallpapers including some abstract ones
• Duckfarm: a bunch of great abstract illustrations and nature photographs
• Aperture Science set by Damien Erambert
• Simple iPhone 5 Wallpaper Set by Kai Halfinger
• PXL wallpaper set by Pixelcave
• (New) CriterionCast Collection
• (New) fiftyfootshadows iPhone 5 Wallpapers
• (New) Max Themes iPhone 5 Collection
• (New) Daniele Delgrosso Photographs for iPhone 5

Individual Wallpapers

• Steve Jobs Silhouette: Agile Bits’ Dan Peterson updates this classic wallpaper for the iPhone 5
• Wooden Shelf: Realmac Software recreates the popular and beautiful wooden shelf wallpaper for the iPhone 5
• Solaris: Cole Rise makes a beautiful space wallpaper for the iPhone 5
• iPhone 5 Event Poster: Last week I recreated the poster from Yerba Buena and included an iPhone 5 version
• Daniel Waldron makes a very nice, subtle wallpaper
• Aharon Rabinowitz makes a really cool, abstract wallpaper
• Grill by Pixelcave (iPhone 5 and 4S sizes)
• Redlands by Timothy Reynolds
• (New) iPhone 5 Internals by iFixit
• (New) Cube by Marc Edwards
• (New) Antracite by Marc Edwards
• (New) Hex Grid by Matt Gemmell

If you’ve made some iPhone 5 wallpapers or know of some other great ones we missed, let us know by tweeting us at @macstoriesnet.

On Friday, workers put up the traditional event banners on the Yerba Buena building in which Apple is holding its special media event next Wednesday. You can have a look at the banners here, but as an eagle-eyed reader of MacRumors realised, it seems as if Apple made the poster by stretching various app icons vertically. Another one of MacRumor’s readers, roosternugget, put together a little graphic to indicate which apps were most likely used (see below). It’s pretty clever by Apple’s designers to stretch iPhone app icons vertically and use it as the event poster, given we expect the iPhone 5 itself to feature a vertically larger (or “stretched) display. If you recall, Apple also had fun with the media event invitation which subtly features a shadow with the number “5″ coming down from the number 12.

With this knowledge, I decided to open Photoshop and do my best to recreate the event poster. Now it certainly isn’t a perfect recreation but I’ve done my best and it comes close to the banner featured in a photo below. I’ve created multiple versions with and without the Apple logo and for various screen resolutions so that you can use it as a wallpaper, including the following:

• [16:10] 2880 x 1800 - aka. Retina MacBook Pro
• [16:9] 2880 x 1620
• [5:4] 1280 x 1024
• iPhone 4/4S
• iPhone 5
• iPad (Retina)

Download the wallpapers (.zip archive)

Direct links for iOS devices:

• iPhone 4/4S (no logo)
• iPhone 4/4S (logo)
• iPad (no logo)
• iPad (logo)
• iPhone 5 (no logo)
• iPhone 5 (logo)

A new tweak developed by Limenos, coming soon to Cydia, will enable users to activate the iPhone’s camera directly on the Springboard, and see the results in real-time as a live updating wallpaper. This tweak, which supports Activator gestures to come in the foreground inside a popup menu, will also let users set a picture as the Springboard’s background without opening the Photos app — something that’s pretty neat if you’re into that kind of backgrounds. CameraWallpaper can record videos and take photos with the rear and front-facing cameras and activate the iPhone’s flashlight, too.

More importantly, with CameraWallpaper it will be possible to achieve some sort of see-through Springboard that can come quite in handy if you’re walking and looking at your iPhone at the same time. We think it looks really interesting, so make sure to check out the demo video below. [Youtube via iSpazio] (more…)

One of the neat features of Android devices is the possibility to install custom “animated” wallpapers that will display moving elements behind or through icons. The effect’s pretty cool and some of those wallpapers are simply crazy.

It turns out, people have found a way to achieve a similar setup on the iPad. Thanks to a tweak called vWallpaper and a video specifically resized for the iPad’s screen, it is possible to set an animated background and keep swiping on the homescreen.

Check out the (brief) demo video below, and go download the butterfly video wallpaper here. (more…)

A new tweak available in the Cydia Store, Parallax, allows you to set a panoramic wallpaper as background on your iPhone Springboard and enjoy all the details of the wallpaper scrolling behind your icons.

All you have to do is upload on your iPhone some widescreen wallpapers (the ones that iOS would usually “cut” to fit the smaller screen of the iPhone) and select the auto scroll speed (or manual adjustment) in the tweak’s preferences inside the Settings app.

As you can see in the video below, the tweak seems pretty stable and fast. Installation on older 3G devices, however, isn’t recommended. Parallax is available at $1.49 under BigBoss repository. (more…)