![]() ![]() However, I’ve now found Igor Savelev’s Irvue, a free app that downloads images from Unsplash, a Web site to which over 40,000 photographers have donated more than 200,000 high-resolution photos. Various utilities have promised to solve this problem in the past, but I’ve never run across one that would draw stunning images from a large-enough source and support multiple monitors. 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. #1627: iPhone 14 lineup, Apple Watch SE/Series 8/Ultra, new AirPods Pro, iOS 16 and watchOS 9 released, Steve Jobs Archive.#1628: iPhone 14 impressions, Dark Sky end-of-life, tales from Rogue Amoeba.#1629: iOS 16.0.2, customizing the iOS 16 Lock Screen, iPhone wallet cases, meditate for free with Oak.#1630: Apple Books changes in iOS 16, simplified USB branding, recovering a lost Google Workspace account.#1631: iOS 16.0.3 and watchOS 9.0.2, roller coasters trigger Crash Detection, Medications in iOS 16, watchOS 9 Low Power Mode. ![]()
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