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[Freeware] Change Your PC’s Wallpaper With John’s Background Switcher

John’s Background Switcher is a free to use software which changes your PC’s background picture at specified intervals. The background photo can be chosen from your disk, Flickr, Smugmug, Picasa and Phanfare, Webshots, Google and Bing image searches.

JBS (John’s Background Switcher) sits in your system tray and changes the wallpaper of your computer at the speficied time interval chosen by you. You need to tell the software about the image source and how to show them, – maybe you just want to see one photo at a time or maybe you’d like to see a ‘Snapshot Scrapbook‘ of photos thrown across your desktop. It’s up to you and you never know what’s coming next.

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You can specify which pictures to choose from. Following list tells you about all the sources from where you can get the pictures for JBS

  • Individual pictures on your computer.
  • Folders containing pictures on your computer such as ‘My Pictures’.
  • Flickr photo sharing – selecting pictures by person, tags, sets or just plain random.
  • Facebook – your friends photos on your desktop.
  • Any Media RSS feed – choose pictures from sites like DeviantArt, Photobucket, LOLCats and Zooomr amongst many others!
  • Phanfare web albums – keep up to date with your friends and family.
  • Smugmug photo galleries – yours, your friends, anybody’s.
  • Picasa Web Albums – choose from specific albums or any search text.
  • Webshots – if you’re a Webshots user, you can choose from your photos.
  • Google Image Search – get pictures from anywhere across the internet.
  • Bing Image Search – not a Google fanboy? Then Bing is for you
  • Yahoo! image search – the internet is your oyster!

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In order to get started, download and install John’s Background Switcher 4 from here.  Once downloaded and installed, instantiate the program. You now need to create picture sets to be set as the wallpaper. To do this, click on the Add button. Once you have chosen some pictures, decide how often you want your background to change and how you would like your pictures to be shown. If you have multiple monitors setup on your PC, you can use John’s Background Switcher to specify how to set wallpaper on multiple monitors, like same picture on both monitors or different picture on different monitor etc.

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Once installed, JBS sits in the system tray. In order  to bring up the settings dialog, right click on the JBS icon from the tray and click on “Settings”.

Overall, John’s Background Switcher is a nice little utility to install if you are someone who like me can’t stand plain, boring backgrounds.

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