Windows: If you like to mix up your Windows wallpaper, the latest version of John's Background Switcher lets you do it from almost any web source, and in any specific way you want to match your. John's Background Switcher is a desktop enhancement utility which changes the background image on your desktop every-so-often. The program doesn't just function as a basic wallpaper changer but also as one which can create custom backgrounds from multiple images by creating collages with different styles. John’s Background Switcher John’s Background Switcher puts beautiful full-screen photos and stunning montages on your desktop from places like your computer, Flickr, SmugMug, Unsplash, Google Photos and plenty more places. Choose your platform below: John’s Background Switcher for Mac. John's Background Switcher allows you to automatically change the wallpaper each certain time. Choose the timing in the configuration panel and choose the folder where the images you want as background are stored. You can choose local folders or wesites like Flickr, Picasa.
John's Background Switcher is a handy tool that will regularly change your desktop wallpaper to something more interesting.
The program accepts images from a huge range of sources. So along with graphics on your own PC, you're able to import pictures from Flickr and Picasa web albums. The ability to work with media RSS feeds means you can connect to sites like DeviantArt and Photobucket. And if that's not enough, support for Bing and Yahoo! image searches will quickly retrieve graphics matching whatever keywords you provide.
John Background Switcher Portable
You don't have to restrict yourself to just one of these sources, though - John's Background Switcher allows you to define as many as you like. Then decide how often you'd like the background to be changed (anything from weekly to once every thirty seconds) and you could stop there, leaving the program to cycle through the source list retrieving pictures as required.
If you feel like exploring, though, John's Background Switcher has many more advanced features on offer. It's possible to use multiple images at once, for instance, to create montages or mosaics. You can define 'no draw' zones, areas of your desktop where the background won't be displayed (useful if you have a few desktop icons that may difficult to view with some images). And there's even the option to draw a calendar on the desktop, with a variety of customisable views.
Version 5.1 brings these improvements (see release notes for more):
- Add support for Ultra HD Wallpapers
- Update the Unsplash icon to use the new oneUnsplash to remove the deprecated API methods
- Removed the deprecated Unsplash API endpoints which includes the curated options unfortunately.
- Google Photos integration to use a separate browser for authentication
Verdict:
John's Background Switcher has so much functionality that it consumes more RAM than we'd like, 22MB or more on our test PC. If that's not an issue, though, give the program a try - you'll find it's one of the most powerful and versatile wallpaper switching tools around.
John’s Background Switcher puts beautiful full-screen photos and stunning montages on your desktop from places like your computer, Flickr, SmugMug, Unsplash, Google Photos and plenty more places. Choose your platform below:
John’s Background Switcher for Mac | John’s Background Switcher for Windows |
John's Background Switcher Linux
Then you can have beautiful desktop backgrounds like these!
John's Background Switcher Bing
Enjoy! 🙂
Privacy
Please refer to the John’s Background Switcher Privacy Policy. The short version is JBS only stores data locally on your computer and doesn’t transmit any of that back to me or any third parties. The only exceptions are when JBS checks for updates (which passes the version of JBS you’re using back to me) or on the rare occasion it crashes it sends back an anonymised crash log which contains no data that enables me to identify you.