Lee McKusick

Desktoptopia

Friday, April 11th, 2008 | Fun

I gotta give Lifehacker a shoutout for this one.

I’m the kinda guy who constantly shuffles around his desktop picture. I’ve got a folder in My Pictures that is dedicated to Wallpapers and has somewhere around 40-50 images in it. Some Star Wars, some LotR, Guild Wars, landscapes, etc.

So when I read the Lifehacker article about Desktoptopia I was excited, cause I thought it meant that I wouldn’t have to go in and do it myself, and it would automatically shuffle through my Wallpapers on a regular basis. Well, my friends, I was mistaken. It does not allow you to cycle through your wallpapers automatically.

It does one better.

On a given interval (I have mine set at 15 minutes), it will grab a random desktop from their database of wallpapers, and will set it as your background. You can pick and choose a number of different categories, like Abstract, Illustration, Photography, Film, Games, Architecture, etc. And the wallpapers are top notch. You can browse through them out at the Desktoptopia website. Also, there are next background and previous background buttons to manually cycle through them.

There is a negative thing I’ll point: if there’s a background you particularly like, and want to keep, that doesn’t seem to be an option. I could be mistaken, and there may be some sort of hack to save the image, but if there is, it is not obvious. However, you could always pause the rotation or quit the program to keep it for a while. Also, some backgrounds do have links to the artist’s page, where it may be available there for download.

So, all in all, Desktoptopia is a great application. It’s available for both Windows and Mac.

Happy wallpapering!

Tags: wallpaper, background, desktoptopia, lifehacker

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