Been a fan of Wallpapers, a kind person send called Marie Asselin sent me an email telling me of this fantastic product. Wallcast is a PC/Mac application that transforms your computer wallpaper into a dynamic collage of photos from you, your family, and your friends. It periodically updates your wallpaper with a mix of pictures uploaded online, with the Wallcast iPhone app or via email. My founding partner and I both have family members and friends scattered across the continent and overseas; we created Wallcast to facilitate the quick sharing of pictures on a support that’s seen everyday yet is often forgotten, the computer wallpaper.

What does it do?

Wallcast turns your desktop background into a personalized display of pictures from you, your family and your friends. Multiple times per day, your wallpaper will be refreshed to display a fresh collage of photos you like, stunningly presented on a beautiful background image of your choice.

Wallcast allows your family and friends to send photos to your wallpaper – and you can send the latest photos you snapped to theirs. All that without privacy concerns: all uploaded pictures remain private, and only people you invite can send you new ones.

Wallcast Screencast

You can check out more screenshots on flickr link provided.

How much and what does it run on?

It runs on both the Mac range of computer and Windows. You sign up on the WallCast Page and by all account for now the service is free. Give it a whirl and tell me what you think.

If like me you are not happy with a static wallaper day after day – the choice here is to get a piece of software that will cycle through your wallpaper on a timed basis and there is no better FREE Software then John’s Background Switcher {Windows}. You can set various options such as having a different picture per screen (on a Multi Screen desktop), how often it should change and so forth.

As you can see form the Screenshot Above – ot supports grabbing images from the internet as well such as Flickr, SmugMug and even RSS Feeds. It is Freeware and updated to include more choices – I personally use this on all my desktops that use Windows, Mac OS X has it built in and Linux has a addon that does the same job, so no programs are needed for these platforms.