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Online Desktop Wallpaper Generator
by Jason Clarke Aug 9th 2006 at 9:50AM
Some web based applications are extremely simple, yet very useful. This is the case with Desktop Wallpaper Generator. Sometimes the ability to leave a note for someone that they can't possibly miss on their machine is just the ticket. Or maybe you're a network administrator that needs to leave reminders for your users, or make multiple machines on a KVM switch easily identifiable. Desktop Wallpaper Generator lets you create a nice-looking wallpaper that includes any text you write right in the image file. Note that it seems to only work in IE, and in my experience creating 800x600 images gave the best results.
Can you think of ways that you could make use of this functionality? Leave comments with your ideas!
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df said 10:45AM on 8-09-2006
I love it. It could be really useful for to-do lists. It´d be nice if you could upload your own background tough.
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cDub said 10:56AM on 8-09-2006
Can't you do the same thing with ms paint?
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Daniel said 11:27AM on 8-09-2006
yeah and if you have a mac it comes with Stickies so there's no use for this except maybe the "cool" factor... hell i think Stickies are cool.
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Dan Geiser said 12:35PM on 8-09-2006
If you need to "make multiple machines on a KVM switch easily identifiable" I would recommend BGInfo from the boys at Sysinternals.
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Dan Geiser said 12:38PM on 8-09-2006
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/BgInfo.html
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Suresh Jadcherla said 2:38PM on 8-09-2006
I would compile a weekly/monthly to-do list with the same. I would (also) personally like to control the background image.
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Robb Topolski said 3:57PM on 8-09-2006
In Firefox 1.5.0.6 on WinXP SP2, I get a spew of text but no image. Anyone else?
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danbee said 8:53AM on 8-10-2006
It does the same in Opera 9 here. It's probably because they're outputting a PNG image with the wrong mime type. IE ignores those so you get the image, other (correct) browsers display text.
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