Opal
A Desktop Wallpaper Changer for
National Geographic's Photo of the Day

 


Opal is a small tray based application that will update your desktop wallpaper with the Photo of the Day from National Geographic.com. Photos can be set to downloaded daily or can be set to randomly select a past photo for your desktop on the hour.

Dedicated to my mother, Opal Beacham, who enjoyed reading National Geographic all her life.

Features:

  • Browse through past Photo of the Day images easily and set as your wallpaper
  • Minimizes to the system tray and stays out of the way (right click to exit)
  • Option to change your desktop wallpaper to the Photo of the Day
  • Option to change your desktop to a random photo on the hour
  • Adjust your background color, set to center, or fit to desktop options
  • No additioal libraries or DLLs to install; no dependencies at all
  • Total disk space needed only 144k (Windows) after install!
  • Free for any use

    * Windows Update - Version 1.1*
  • Now works with the new design layout at the National Geographic's web site.
  • Added "Download large image" to the setup options. Some images are now available in 1280x1024 format! Thank you National Geographic!
  • Larger preview window for thumbnail images

    * Linux Update - Version 1.5.1*
  • Now works with Gnome and KDE (GTK2 only)




  • Download (Win2K, WinXP)

    testOpal Setup.exe version 1.1 (208k)

    MD5: 430598146d38a1ade62182d7c9ee2e73

    Downloads: 848


    Linux (Debian based distros)
    MD5: 81363dfe7197d427fdd879eb3f4d42fe

    Downloads: 394



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