![]() ![]() ![]() While my Photos library contains that many pictures, too many of my photos don’t make good backgrounds or simply aren’t very good images. 160 images is nowhere near enough to prevent boredom for me - I estimate the number needs to be more like 10,000 before I won’t see any given photo often enough to remember it. I prefer changing images, but I’ve found that I get bored if I see the same picture regularly. And of course, the Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane lets you cycle through images on a schedule, and it can even pick among them randomly. You can select them from System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Desktop, and find the files in /Library/Desktop Pictures. Space is still likely a limiting factor since Apple provides only about 160 images that take up almost 575 MB. Irvue Decorates the Desktop - With every release of macOS, Apple provides a collection of stunning photos for use as Desktop pictures. With the right software, you don’t even have to build your own collection of images, and you can decorate not just your Desktop, but your screensaver and new browser tabs. It’s hard to imagine such privations today, with spectacular photographs readily available on many Web sites. As far back as 1991, I was writing about the DeskPicture utility bundled with Now Utilities, while bemoaning the fact that I didn’t have enough disk space to store many photos at once (see “ Wallpaper Your Mac,” 16 December 1991). ![]() Of course, resourceful developers had provided such functionality for years. The original Mac’s Desktop was just gray, and it wasn’t until mid-1997 when Mac OS 8 introduced the Desktop Pictures control panel that let users set photographs as the Desktop background. #1665: Important OS security updates, abusive Web notifications, solve myopia with an iPhone, Self Service Repair.#1666: Air quality websites and apps, The Password Game.#1667: OS Rapid Security Responses, 1Password and 2FA, using Siri to request music.#1668: Updated Rapid Security Responses, OS public betas, screen saver bug fixed, “Red Team Blues” book review.#1669: OS security updates, ambiguity of emoji, small business payments with Melio, Twitter now X. ![]()
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