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I don't see a helluva lot of point. It seems like it's just a thumb in the eye of bing and everybody who has said "I like bing, it has pretty pictures". But it

• kierank 16y ago
  If I want to look at one of my own pretty pictures, or some other picture I've chosen myself, I'll just make it my desktop background. One reason is that the customised background makes users feel more accustomed to the concept of a "cloud desktop".
• Ygor 16y ago
  "... I'll just make it my desktop background." Interesting. This is actually what first came to my mind: Google is copying the desktop? Not Bing. As many of you said, Bing isn't the first web page to put a pretty background picture (some of the first web pages were the first web pages with pretty background pictures, were they not?). And, as we concluded, the concept is different - choosing, instead of getting a random pic. So, now you can change the "desktop background" of your google homepage - "the Internet", as often called by many people where I come from. Add some shortcuts to the picture with pretty custom icons (links), support for a clock, a calendar (widgets), a tray or a bar with quick launch and various options... If only a browser existed that loaded automatically when you start your computer, without the need for all that "windows loading stuff"... :)
  • henrikhansen 16y ago
    Chrome OS?
    • Ygor 16y ago
      Exactly. Just asking a question from the perspective of a !hacker. :) I was aiming at the concept of the "cloud desktop", as kierank commented in the meantime.
      • rooshdi 16y ago
        If you're looking for an experience similar to the concept of a "cloud desktop," you should try out Favetop. It has icon shortcuts, which you described above, along with media management and social sharing capabilities. We currently do not have a customizable wallpaper option as of right now, but we are planning on offering this feature in the near future.
        • kierank 16y ago
          You could perhaps try and internationalise it a bit. e.g. Hulu replaced with BBC iPlayer etc.
          • rooshdi 16y ago
            Thank for the suggestion. We're going to continue to try our best to ensure international users have as many of their favorite web apps and sites available to them as U.S. users. We currently have over 1,000 web apps and sites in our database for you to choose from and we are looking to offer users the option to upload their own site icons very soon. Btw, the BBC iPlayer app is now available with the added ability to directly search it from your Favetop if you'd like. If you have any other suggestions please let us know through the "Suggestions/Feedback" link on our homepage. :)
• natmaster 16y ago
  I have my desktop background set to rotate on Bing's pic of the day.
  • hugh3 16y ago
    Really? How did you do that?
    • Jach 16y ago
      I assume the parent runs Windows, so I don't know how to do it with that, but with a Linux box running Gnome it's really easy, just change some values with gconftool. http://github.com/Jach/cycle_gnome_background/blob/master/change_desktop.sh http://github.com/Jach/cycle_gnome_background/blob/master/ch... You could probably change the script a bit to wget Bing's image into /tmp or somewhere and use that.
    • natmaster 16y ago
      http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/bings-best-3 http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/bings-b...
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• panacea 16y ago
  They've re-identified a niche. The "I wanna customize my shit, even if it makes it ghetto" - ala MySpace set. (Except those users don't think they're making a mess of their ability to customize... they think they're expressing themselves, yo).
• est 16y ago
  I like mit.edu, it has pretty pictures.
• Herald_MJ 16y ago
  You can also use a public Picasa web album - I'm sure in light of this announcement, they'll be all sorts of bing-photo-like albums appearing.