Change the Desktop Wallpaper Automatically in Mac OS X

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<p>Can’t decide which <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/wallpaper/">wallpaper</a> to use as your desktop background? Me neither. Fortunately there’s a setting in Mac OS X that causes the desktop picture to change itself automatically at a user selected time interval, ranging from every 5 seconds to once a day or upon system wake.</p>

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<li>Open “System Preferences” from the  Apple menu and click on “Desktop & Screen Saver”</li>

<li>Click the checkbox next to “Change picture” and set the time interval, the default is a new background every 30 minutes</li>

<li>Select “Random order” as well for best results</li>

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<p>Whatever your background picture was set to will be changed immediately, and then it will change again at the time interval you selected. </p>

<p>Changing every 5 seconds can be a bit neurotic, but if you have enough similarly themed wallpapers to go with, it can create a feeling similar to the living desktops of Android fame. </p>

<p>Another option is to use a free app like <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/wallpaper-wizard-lite/id421274812?mt=12">Wallpaper Wizard Lite</a>, which will automatically download new desktop pictures in addition to changing them for you.

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