Auto wallpaper multiple monitors with...AutoWallpaper

by Drew Olanoff May 22nd 2008

Are you lucky enough to have more than one monitor on your computer? Sure it looks cool, and it's fun to show off to friends..but it's very helpful with productivity too.

What's the first thing you do when you set up a new machine or monitor? Throw up fresh new wallpaper of course! Your mom, your cat, or your wife or girlfriend (hopefully not both, awkward!).

AutoWallpaper comes from a company called AlternativeRealities Software. It solves the multi-monitor / multi-wallpaper problem.

It's out for Windows and Mac and only costs $10. It's well worth it because you can not only manage wallpapers on your monitors, you can add effects and gradients as well.

My favorite feature though? Set your wallpapers to change whenever you want. That's right, if you want new wallpapers at exactly 9pm, you can do it.

Give it a shot and drop a link to a screenshot of your hot new wallpaper in the comments!

[Hat tip to snowbear]

Tags: autowallpaper, desktop, mac, monitor, pc, wallpaper

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Haplo said 5:45PM on 5-22-2008

Wallpapermaster.
UltraMon.

Tom said 8:20PM on 5-22-2008

Ultramon, http://realtimesoft.com/ultramon/ also handles wallpapers on multi monitors as well has producing a task bar on them.

Teddy said 11:49PM on 5-22-2008

but ultramon dosent automatically change the backgrounds

Alex Leonard said 6:15AM on 5-23-2008

John's background Switcher. That's my favourite

Drew Olanoff said 8:03AM on 5-23-2008

Awesome, thanks for the comments..we'll have to try some of these out.

Rocketboy said 9:55AM on 5-23-2008

I use wallpaper changer at home, so I'm not sure how well it works with multiple monitors. It's old, but it works just fine.

http://www.wallpaperchanger.de/

ethan said 3:01PM on 5-24-2008

Display Fusion is perfect if you want something for free.

But if youre ever going to pay for something like this, you want UltraMon.

No doubt about it.

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