#Johns background switcher montage software#
#Johns background switcher montage series#

– Another options is to filter by tag or search text, which can also be applied to a source that simply gives you all pictures on Flickr. This allows you to make sure that you only get the very best pictures from in example a very big group as your wallpaper. – Once you’ve selected a Flickr source, you can then choose to only show in example the top 500 pictures of that pool. So if you find a very good photographer or simply a user that shares your taste, you can add his pool of pictures (or a specific subset of his pictures). – It’s also possible to add a source that’s based on a specific Flickr user. There are even groups focused purely on wallpapers of certain sizes. So if you for instance want high quality landscape’s, look for a Flickr groups that only admits those kinds of pictures. Flickr basically has groups which generally have a specific focus. – You can add a source that’s based on a Flickr ‘ Group photo pool‘. Here are some tips (mostly for the Flickr feed): Note: There are a number of other sources which might be useful, I haven’t tried some of them recently. A better alternative however is the Flickr source, which is extremely versatile and can get you pretty much any picture from the Flickr site as wallpaper. In my experience there aren’t that many RSS feeds that offer high enough quality pictures to really be useful as a source. For that purpose I tried using the RSS source feed initially. I haven’t used those extensively as I prefer the diversity of having an online source which will provide new wallpapers regularly. If you just want to use your own wallpaper collection you can just use one of the Dropbox, Picasa or local folder sources. The really neat thing is that there’s a number of possible online sources you can use ( Flickr, Picasa & RSS feeds in example). You can in example select a folder on your drive which has all the wallpapers you want to cycle and have the program cycle through them. The main reason I have been using it for a number of years is that it allows you to very flexibly choose from which source you want to cycle your wallpapers.

John’s Background Switcher has a bunch of features and offers them in a pretty intuitively way. I tend to enjoy utilities which have a lot of features even if I don’t have a direct need for some of the features. Basically a short spotlight with some useful tips & tricks. It’ll just be about why I’m using it and how I’m using it. This won’t be an in-depth review or comparison with other similar utilities.

#Johns background switcher montage software#

I expect these will mostly be about software / gadget related stuff, but we’ll see.

#Johns background switcher montage series#

This article will be the first in a series about useful tools I’ve had the pleasure to have experience with. John’s Background Switcher is a freeware software utility which does what its name says: It automatically switches your desktop background periodically.