My daughter has a PowerBook, and she has the neatest desktop (or whatever Apple calls desktops) on it. It scrolls through pictures in a specific file, leaving the desktop icons visible.
I use the Picasa screensaver on my Toshiba, which is nice, but it’s a screensaver. This kind of has the same effect, of viewing all my poctures, but wouldn’t necessarily be a screensaver.
I Googled and there’s just a mess of themes out there, does anyone know if/where something like this is available for non-Macs?
I had never heard of this so I checked it out and there’s some cool stuff there. Don’t know if it’s all safe. The picture frame is an element of the desktop, though, and doesn’t become the desktop.
They’re pretty cool, I use a couple, a clock (there’s quite a few to choose from), a BBC RSS reader and on my media server I use one that reports HDD space. IIRC Yahoo bought out Konfabulator and renamed it ‘widget engine’. The usual caveats about downloading programs from the internet apply though.
I’ve had a program called “create a saver” by Howie’s Funware (?) for many years. Google it and you’ll find the shareware program.
You tell it what folder to look in, and it displays your pictures in a slideshow as your screensaver. You can’t, however, make your desktop appear through it.
Well, YMMV I suppose. It’s been running on my computer for nearly two years now and I’ve never had a problem. Sorry to hear you have. Perhaps you used a feature I don’t.
There’s at least one Web site out there with source code to a program that does this (cycles through all of the BMP files in a given folder, setting each one in turn to be the wallpaper and changing after a set period of time).
It was a programming contest at a place I used to work. If I recall correctly, it was under ten lines of code in C++ or VB. It did not require active desktop to be enabled, and we hardly noticed the effect on performance.