I love National Geographic photographs. Sujeet linked to a Nat Geo photo on a tweet today, and that led me to setting up National Geographic Photo of the Day as my Mac desktop wallpaper using an Automator action.
Interested? Here are some notes:
- Nat Geo offers free Windows and Mac screensaver applications of their best Photo of the Day. If you want a screensaver and not a desktop wallpaper, that's your best bet!
- This work on Mac. Haven't searched for Windows / Linux alternatives yet.
- Download the NPODWallpaper Automator script by Maxwell Duncan.
- When unzipped and installed, it will create an Automator application in your Applications folder.
- Double click and run it. Status messages will be shown in top menu bar.
- If all went well, your wallpaper would have changed. Hit F11 to quickly verify.
- If you are happy, setup an iCal event to run the script everyday. That will give you the latest POD from NatGeo automatically!
- Sweet, uh!
I still remember the sweet old Webshots days! Beautiful wallpapers are always refreshing! May be time to try out their beta mac application!
marc
the maxwell duncan site is dead, do you by chance still have the automator script for the NPOD? Thanks!
Marc
Nirav
Sorry Marc. The script stopped working for me too. I tried debugging it, but gave up finally. NatGeo changed the way they were showing images / providing full size images.
So no luck yet!