Windows Desktop Hacks - Part 1 - The Desktop Wallpaper Hack. This is by far one of the cooler tips. It starts with an free program called John's Background Switcher. What an awesome name! John's Background Switcher does exactly what the name implies. It switches the background of your Windows desktop.
My favorite features of John's Background Switcher are;
- It changes the background on any schedule you wish. Once a day, once an hour, one a week. The time is up to you.
- It will change the background to any one of a million pictures available on the web. Your pictures, pictures from photo-sharing sites like Flikr or Picasa, picture from your Facebook page. You can configure the heck out of where it finds images, or you can keep it simple (I opt for simple).
- If you don't like the picture it chooses, John's Background Switcher is always sitting in your window system tray, awaiting your command. A simple double click on John's Background Switcher and a new picture will be randomly selected.
The installation is breeze. Simply download the installer from John's Blog.
You will never get bored of your Windows background wallpaper again!
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1 Response to Desktop Wallpaper Hack
Great tips on this post and the others, will have a good look around.
This has been one feature that I've really missed, as I have a large collection, and it's too difficult to change them over often. Had a play with the Windows 7 beta, and this desktop rotation is actually built into the OS - which I'm very pleased about. But I think I might even try this one out - grabbing photos from places like flickr is an awesome idea.
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