What’s on my desktop?
Wednesday November 26, 2003 – 1:26 amFor years I’ve been collecting a lot of crazy clip-art, saving stuff I find on the web and scanning pics from my own collection of mostly cowgirl-related paper stuff — calendars, magazine covers, matchbooks, postcards, Valentines, whatever! I like to display the pics as rotating desktop backgrounds / tiles which change every half-hour or so. I’ve been trying to get them a little more organized, but the built-in wallpaper changer in Panther doesn’t search subfolders; you can only give it one folder and have it choose pictures from there. So I’ve been using this freeware utility called ChangeDesktop, which gives you lots more options, including subfolders. One more option it gives you is the ability to upload your pictures to the web as they’re changing, so everyone can see what’s on your desktop. I set it up to work on my server, but the question is, would anybody make use of it?
We’ll see. For now I’m saving the pictures to a file called desktop.jpg in my /images/blogart folder. You can bookmark that and check back later to see a different picture. At the moment I have it set to change pictures once per hour, just to be conservative about my bandwidth. Let me know if you’re into it! If it’s a hit maybe I’ll make a proper page for it and put a link to it on the front page.







November 27th, 2003 at 10:19 pm
Keep ‘em coming– "A Raid On A Cabin" was awesome!
November 27th, 2003 at 10:45 pm
Oh yes, that’s one of the ones I scanned, it’s a postcard.
I really have to go through those folders to get rid of the boring mundane tiles and stupid clip-art, weed it down to the good stuff.
November 29th, 2003 at 10:44 pm
Thanks for heads up on ChangeDesktop-it’s great! I like the screenshot feature too-kinda fun peeking into what people are actually doing at that moment. So yes! I’m into it.
December 23rd, 2003 at 11:39 am
I’m getting rid of this for now. Sorry, but the thing keeps dying on me in Panther. Hopefully the next version will be more stable… I really do like the features, if only I didn’t have to keep monkeying with it and reinstalling every time it gets corrupted!