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tech trends For those who like to sport art, it’s culture bling! Change your phone wallpaper with your mood. Flit from Impressionist to epic to classic African art or Freud cartoons — Indrani Bagchi Are you an art aficionado? Better still, do you aspire to be one? Read on. You do know it’s terribly un-cool to have your beautiful wide-screen mobile or smart phone sporting those really predictable wallpapers—flowers, dolphins, the Aegean coast, even a pic of your girlfriend. As for ringtones, puhleeez! It is so ‘lowering’ to have to even contemplate sharing out-oftune Himesh Reshamiyya or dulcet Shreya Ghoshal with the autodriver parked next to you, the grocer or worse, your relatives. Get a life, climb up the taste ladder, give yourself a quality treat. Download some of the world’s most famous masterpieces on your mobile from museumonthego.com, the world’s first online portal where you will find eye candy of a different kind—Klimt, Cezanne, even some classic films and their directors. The portal is a combined initiative of museums in Germany, Austria and Israel and aims to make classic art more accessible to the mobile world. For those of you who like art, this is a unique opportunity. For those who like to sport art, it’s culture bling! So change your wallpapers with your mood. Flit from Impressionist to epic (Ramayana or Mahabharata, anyone?) to classic African art or Freud cartoons from the New Yorker. These are high-res images, not amateurish efforts, so the quality is truly astounding. And as for ringtones, try something new there too. How about loading quotations from historical figures? Or a reaction to the first telephone? “This new invention is very interesting.”