John’s Background Switcher: Never Change Your Background Again
I’ve been using “John’s Background Switcher” for a few months now, and I don’t know how I ever lived without it. This simple freeware program allows you to automatically change your desktop background on Windows for any length of time (every 5 minutes, 1 hour, 1 day, etc). Not only does it read local picture folders, but it also has online connections to Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, and even Facebook photos, so you can view your friends’ photos.
John released the latest version on Sunday, which added a new feature that is quite amazing. The program, along with all the other photo-connecting sites, now allows you to add an RSS feed (usually denoted on most websites by the little orange square with the wavey lines) to it so you can display pictures from ANY website that has one.
Take for instance the image above, straight off the developer’s website. This is what your desktop could look like if you were a fan of the LOLCat’s site ICanHasCheezburger.com. If LOLCats aren’t for you, you could also add a deviantArt feed, or FAILblog, or any other number of photoblogs out there. With the new RSS feature the possibilities are only restricted by the number of sites you like to visit.
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October 28th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
That is so freakin cool.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Isn't it though?
If you want to make it in the “montage” mode like the pics above, choose where you want to pull the pictures from, and choose “Create a snapshot scrapbook” from the drop down. You can refine the picture sizes under “More Settings”
October 28th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
That is so freakin cool.
October 28th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Isn't it though?
If you want to make it in the “montage” mode like the pics above, choose where you want to pull the pictures from, and choose “Create a snapshot scrapbook” from the drop down. You can refine the picture sizes under “More Settings”
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:46 pm
WOW, this is really great, It’s an awesome idea to show all my friends pictures, I will try it, thank you!