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Change Desktop Background Automatically Every Hours, Minutes, or Days With John's Background Switcher

John's Background Switcher is a free program letting you to change desktop background automatically at any time interval you want whether it is for every five or ten minutes, every one hour or two hours, every single day or every two days, every Windows start-up, you name it. What makes it different from other automatic desktop background changers is its ability to include numerous pictures from some popular photo sharing sites like Flickr, Phanfare, Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, Yahoo! image search, and smugmug.

Other features:
  • Aside from the ability to use photos from photo sharing sites as desktop background in automatic rotation manner, it also allows you to simply select your own pictures from folders in your computer.
  • Each rotation mode has different setting. The dialog menu where you can select photos from Picasa Web Album to be rotated on your computer desktop background has different options than the options available within the dialog menu where you can choose to use Flickr photos for the wallpaper rotation.
  • Supports single monitor and multiple monitors. If you use multiple monitors, you can set it to use the same or different picture for each monitor.
  • Apply sepia, grayscale, or desaturate effect to the background.
  • Auto picture rotation as long as the orientation information exists.
  • Set pixel limits that are allowed to be displayed.
  • Add calendar to the desktop background.
  • Shortcuts for changing desktop background manually.
  • Create thumbnail mosaic or snapshot scrapbook with customizable sizes.
  • Disable desktop background rotation when a screensaver is running.
  • Delay automatic rotation at Windows start-up.
  • Disable or stop rotating if any specified program is running.
  • Export or import John's Background Switcher setting from a computer to another computer.



Believe me, there are still many things you can do with this cool automatic desktop background changer. I've never seen any free wallpaper changer like it. Interested? John's Background Switcher supports Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista (both 32 and 64-bit version). In case you don't have Microsoft.NET 2.0 installed in your computer yet, the setup wizard will download and install it for you.

Download John's Background Switcher



Sunday, October 26, 2008 At 11:11 PM - Permalink


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