Desktoptopia is what I can only define as a “desktop background manager”. Confusing? Keep reading. It’s a little application, available for both the Mac and PC platforms (sorry Linux), that changes your desktop’s background in a set time interval of your choosing.
What makes it different from most other existing solutions (Mac OS X has had desktop picture automated changing as an option since at least Tiger) is that Desktoptopia gets you desktop pictures directly from the web, downloading them from the cloud once it’s time for a new image. The quality of most backgrounds is stunning too, and there are a lot of themes covered: 3D, Illustration, Typography, Photography, etc. The software includes a rating system, so you can grade backgrounds as they come and go, or even reject a picture such that it’s never showed to you again.
That said, the application consumes fairly little resources, the download times are almost instantaneous and everything past the first configuration screen is seamless to the user. The only gripe I have with it is I can’t seem to download full versions of the backgrounds to keep locally. Oh well :P.