Windows desktop wallpaper is boring. For a year or so I've had desktop earth, which shows the current sunlight on a satellite shot of the earth stretched across the desktop. It's alright.

Just now, and just in time to be a Friday Freebie, I thought - why not have a program that could display random photos of your friends' photos of Facebook or flickr? Thanks to google, I found John's Background Switcher - a free program that can display and rotate randomly (if you want) photos from

• your computer
• Facebook (yours, your friends, or your choice of which of your friends)
• Flickr
• Picasa
• ... and several more online sources.

It's free. Its fast, it's really simple to set up on Windows 98 through Vista. (Sorry mac users, you'll have to stick with that photo of Steve Jobs with a halo. )

Check out my current windows desktop. It's 1/2 family photos from Facebook and 1/2 random photos from other Facebook friends. It'll change every hour. I can't wait! I think I'll refresh it now to see some more photos.

Ok, this is too fun. Here's the next two after I refreshed (the background b&w photo is also random from a Facebook friend)

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