January 11th, 2013Top StoryKeep Your Desktop Wallpaper Always Fresh with These Tools and SitesBy Melanie Pinola Your desktop wallpaper can inspire or motivate you, help organize your icons and folders (or even serve as your to-do list), or simply serve as amazing eye candy. Here are several fantastic tools for keeping your wallpaper from getting stale. Automatically Download and Update Your Desktop WallpaperThe easiest way to keep your desktop looking good with a fresh crop of wallpapers is by having them automatically come to you.
There are many others, including Wallpaper Juggler, which downloads images from interfaceLIFT and WallpaperStock, but the ones above are the most feature-rich. For Mac, we've recently highlighted Kuvva Wallpapers, which offers a curated selection of images from artists and photographers. For Windows, Mac, and Linux, there's Wally, which refreshes your wallpaper at your designated intervals with images from sources like Flickr, Picasa, and Photobucket. Seek and Ye Shall Find: Great Wallpaper SourcesThere's no shortage of awesome wallpaper sources. We've highlighted several of our favorites a couple of times : VladStudio, 4Chan /Wallpaper Forum, Social Wallpapering, InterfaceLIFT, DeviantART, Wallbase, SimpleDesktops, and the last hive five winner, Digital Blasphemy. (See our most recent hive five for best wallpaper sites and the earlier version for descriptions of these sites.) Plug those URLs/source feeds into your wallpaper switcher for a surprise every time your wallpaper changes. Of course, I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention our own curated Wallpaper Wednesdays. (Add it to your RSS feed.) There are two other great ways to easily find beautiful wallpapers and automatically send them to your desktop wallpaper folder: Desktoppr and IFTT:
Using the solutions above, you should never have to worry about running out of wallpapers or being bored by your desktop. Enjoy! |
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Keep Your Desktop Wallpaper Always Fresh with These Tools and Sites
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