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Dream Desktop downloads, cycles your favorites from 5,000 beautiful wallpaper images
Like having a stash of beautiful wallpaper images on your computer? Dream Desktop has several thousand to choose from, and their free Desktop Agent program makes it easy to download and enjoy your favorites.
Install the Agent and head to its configuration screen. There you can choose which images you want to display -- either random selections from those you mark as favorites in the search view (above, left) or anything Dream Desktop has tagged within the categories you choose -- or both!
You can also specify the interval between wallpaper changes, customize the maximum size of your local image cache (the default is 100MB), and enable or disable updates and notifications. Desktop Agent can also be set to launch when Windows starts up, and you can select which category you want to appear first when opening the main program window.
There are plenty of stunning images available, though I do have two small gripes. Resolution could be higher (scaling leads to some predictable graininess on my 1920x1080 display) and there's no support for dual-monitor configs. Still, I'd much rather see this on a customer's desktop than Webshots...
Install the Agent and head to its configuration screen. There you can choose which images you want to display -- either random selections from those you mark as favorites in the search view (above, left) or anything Dream Desktop has tagged within the categories you choose -- or both!
You can also specify the interval between wallpaper changes, customize the maximum size of your local image cache (the default is 100MB), and enable or disable updates and notifications. Desktop Agent can also be set to launch when Windows starts up, and you can select which category you want to appear first when opening the main program window.
There are plenty of stunning images available, though I do have two small gripes. Resolution could be higher (scaling leads to some predictable graininess on my 1920x1080 display) and there's no support for dual-monitor configs. Still, I'd much rather see this on a customer's desktop than Webshots...
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Subscribe to commentsThorin78Mar 18th 2010 3:50PM
I like John's Background switcher better. It's also free, has multiple monitor support with each monitor having its own style of background. It reads from Flickr, picasa, smugmug, and your own pc. It's a better alternative. Granted, this guy has nice wall paper, but I think I can get John's background switcher to link to his wall paper as well.
TheEmperorofChaosMar 18th 2010 3:58PM
It doesn't have a feature to manually add locations/files, ditto.
Gilbert PalauMar 18th 2010 5:19PM
They should offer a Mac OSX client as well.
Niels van DijkMar 19th 2010 5:02AM
It does not work! When I select a wallpaper, a box above the system tray pops up saying "0%" and it disappears after a couple of seconds.
I like having beautiful wallpapers, but this is just another process in the task manager.
Too bad you can't save the wallpapers they have over there.
RichardMar 19th 2010 5:42AM
I think I'd rather just have the pictures and use the built-in switcher that Windows 7 has.