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Another Windows 7 secret revealed; desktop to have slideshows
"Teach a man assembly, and he'll write device drivers for a day. Give a man a disassembler, and he'll figure out every secret hidden in the Windows 7 pre-beta."I swear, I'm never going to get tired of posting about Rafael Rivera finding cool stuff hiding in the guts of our Microsoft products. He's done it yet again; this time, Rafael has uncovered another couple of Windows 7 shell goodies people have been asking to see for quite some time now. What's the latest discovery? Rafael is coining it "Desktop Slideshow;" it's a new setting hidden away in your Personalization settings that allows you to select multiple images to create a fading slideshow on your desktop.
"But wait," you're thinking, "I can a) do that on my Mac already and b) there are third-party utilities that let me do this on my Windows PC." That's true... but can your Mac or your third-party utilities automatically pull desktop wallpapers from an RSS feed? No? Well, Windows 7 can. Check out Rafael's blog Within Windows for more details, and a tool to let the masses check out the shiny new features once he's got the finer points worked out.
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Subscribe to commentsMatthew McNamaraNov 4th 2008 2:20AM
I may have missed something, but to me, you just described Desktoptopia, http://desktoptopia.com/
aristarkhosNov 4th 2008 2:54AM
They - as in, MS - has always been a little slow to realize the usefulness of RSS. For the longest time even IE could not double up as an RSS reader.
Given the way Windows Bloatware works, I don't see what is so great about using an RSS feed to make a desktop slideshow?
Have you seen the screenshots of MSPaint and WordPad? Instead of upgrading MSPaint to something more useful they make the UI fancy. I wonder how long they think people will be fooled by their antics.
What of WinFS? Anyone seen that video on Channel 9? I guess that team was sent underground.
JamesGNov 4th 2008 3:08AM
aristarkhos, it's only bloatware to little kids who don't understand everyone else has needs/wants as well. I like the features in Windows, and hard disks are cheap, so complaining about it is getting old. And if they improved mspaint or wordpad significantly, idiots like you would sue them into oblivion (and win in this socialist climate). And WinFS features were integrated into other products where it was found more useful, do some research THEN mouth off, not vice versa.
Hashbrown HunterNov 4th 2008 7:03AM
The future of porn awaits us with this new feature.
Jash SayaniNov 4th 2008 8:45AM
Its like the new Mac app by Google......
coleNov 4th 2008 11:08AM
Now if they could only figure out how to resize an image to fit the screen while preserving the aspect ratio. Seriously is it really that difficult?
ChristianNov 4th 2008 12:48PM
I would assume that the drop down menu for the "Picture Position" will have that option the same as the current option available in Windows Vista; well it's an option I can select in my Vista Ultimate SP1, may it be a picture or a dreamscene.