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Wally is a kick-ass, connected wallpaper changer for Windows, Mac, and Linux
by Lee Mathews Nov 13th 2009 at 3:00PM
There are plenty of wallpaper-changing applications out there, and plenty of them can tap into photo sharing sites like Flickr and Photobucket for access to a plethora of images. Still, not many of them are quite as well-connected as Wally.
Even fewer are cross-platform. Wally, though, is happy to share its background-rotating skills with Windows, Mac, and Linux users alike. It's built using Nokia's Qt4 framework and supports an insane number of image sources: local and remote folders (via FTP), and popular photo sites like Flickr, Yahoo!, Panoramio, Pikeo, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa, Smugmug, and Bing. You can use any combination of sources you choose by adding and removing them on the settings screen.
Customization options are plentiful, from specifying the delay between image changes to tweaking the size of your local image history store. Images from the 'net are pulled in based on the search terms you specify - and yes, you can shut off Bing's adult filter if you want to.
Wally is free and open source, and pre-compiled downloads are available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The project is also mirrorerd over at Sourceforge.
Even fewer are cross-platform. Wally, though, is happy to share its background-rotating skills with Windows, Mac, and Linux users alike. It's built using Nokia's Qt4 framework and supports an insane number of image sources: local and remote folders (via FTP), and popular photo sites like Flickr, Yahoo!, Panoramio, Pikeo, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa, Smugmug, and Bing. You can use any combination of sources you choose by adding and removing them on the settings screen.
Customization options are plentiful, from specifying the delay between image changes to tweaking the size of your local image history store. Images from the 'net are pulled in based on the search terms you specify - and yes, you can shut off Bing's adult filter if you want to.
Wally is free and open source, and pre-compiled downloads are available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The project is also mirrorerd over at Sourceforge.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
davidfbecker13 said 5:32PM on 11-14-2009
I've scoped out their page, but I can't decipher whether or not it supports having different wallpapers on separate monitors, a-la ultramon or John's Background Switcher. Anyone have any insight in that department?
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THJ said 12:00PM on 11-21-2009
If it has secondary monitor support, I haven't found it yet. That being said, you can have searches for tags from multiple sites and local and remote folders all mashed up together, and there is an 'explore source' option that takes you to the folder or page that the shot is from. I've really enjoyed it for the past week or so that I've been using it.
randalltrini said 9:03PM on 11-17-2009
Wally is nice, especially the crossplatform for a triple boot like me. However, John's Background Switcher still rules for me in the Windows world:
http://www.johnsadventures.com/software/backgroundswitcher/
Has many more options.
Randalltrini
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Pangean said 8:02PM on 11-21-2009
Win7 has one built in!
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