7 Tools For Automatic Background Switching

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Sean P. Aune
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7 Tools For Automatic Background Switching

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It doesn't matter what operating system you use, everyone wants to change their desktop background from time to time. So, we've gathered you up a sampling of the programs out there that can automate the whole process for you; some of them are using online sources for images, and some combine several online/offline possibilities.

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Chaos Wallpaper - An odd mix of a background changer and RSS reader in the bottom half of the screen.

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DeskLickr - A Mac application that will pull images from Flickr while sitting in your menu bar. Can change up your desktop as often as you want.

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FlickrWall - A Windows application with lots of options for the groups and users you can pull from including the 100 most popular of the day, groups, public favorites, and more.

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Fun Desktop Wallpaper Changer - Lets you set up a folder with the images you want to rotate. You can set it to rotate every day at start up, or you can click a desktop shortcut to change the image on the fly.

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John's Background Switcher - Runs on ever flavor of Windows since 98, your background images can come from your own drive, Flickr, Phanfar, SmugMug, Picasa, or Yahoo Image Search. Settings can be for just about every time setting you can think of.

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Wallpaper Master - Offers free and pro versions of the program that offers the ability to rate wallpapers so they show up more often, hotkeys to change wallpapers on the fly, promises to use low resources and more.

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