Desktopia is a clever little freeware program that does one thing: changes your desktop background based on a schedule you set. Think of the possibilities, in the morning you can have a nice picture of the sunrising, and at night you can have a full moon. The possibilities are only limited by the desktop backgrounds that you have available to you, though Desktopia does ship with a few backgrounds.
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8-25-2006 @ 10:16AM
jason said...
YES! I have been waiting for an app like this forever... ok not forever. But there was an app for the BeOS called Tave Desktop (or something like that) that would change the color from a dark blue hue in the morning to a bright sky blue at noon, and then darker as the day progressed. I've been looking for an app that could replicate this functionality. yay!
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8-25-2006 @ 10:29AM
Ed said...
Yes, but does it do it with nice transitions? Just a simple fade over a minute or so would be clever :)
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8-25-2006 @ 10:46AM
Kyp said...
So simple yet brilliant. One of those “why didn’t I think of that?” things.
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8-25-2006 @ 11:24AM
Nate said...
Sweet. Now I just need to setup a camera on a tripod on the beach and take a picture every 5 minutes for a day. During the Summer of course! :)
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8-25-2006 @ 11:59AM
Keith said...
1. & 4. Have you looked at XSkyDesk? It simulates the sky outside (based on your lat & long) in a very realistic manner. You'll get beautiful sunsets and sunrises, along with a real starry night.
Check it Out:
http://www.globalconscious.com/xskydesk/
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8-25-2006 @ 5:53PM
Matthew Treder said...
Yes, xSkyDesk is beautiful, and beautifully put together. A most calming environment for working at a desk ten hours a day. I like it together with the Pixie Dust setting of OmniDazzle. (Impress your kids on the Fourth of July!)
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidazzle/
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8-26-2006 @ 3:08PM
Pancho said...
Wish someone would replicate ol' Expresso (by Berkeley Systems) feature of splashing the monthly calendar on to the desktop. Three years on, that is the one feature I still miss from OS 9.0.4.
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8-28-2006 @ 12:34PM
Mike said...
7. Wish someone would replicate ol' Expresso (by Berkeley Systems) feature of splashing the monthly calendar on to the desktop.
GeekTool
plus the 'cal' command takes care of that for me.
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8-28-2006 @ 1:24PM
Brady J. Frey said...
Is there something like this, or an applescript, that will switch screensavers on some type of schedule? It's purely selfish, but we have one of our xserves that we swing between the occassional looped mac add or pong or pacman or other stuff - we have hundreds, but we just change them on random occassion, an app that did it for us seems simple enough and worth paying for.
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8-31-2006 @ 8:01PM
Yuri Walkiw said...
I was just thinking about this a few days ago. Why can't I have a sunrise in the morning, and sunset at night? Now I can!
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9-05-2006 @ 1:53PM
Bob said...
I'm looking for an app that will allow me to change the desktop wallpaper everytime I open a program. For example, when I open Safari, I want the wallpaper to change to black, or when mail opens, change to a blurred version of the destop to add emphasis to the current app. Anyone heard of something like this?
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