Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Customize your desktop as live webpage

Do you know that you can display a webpage as your desktop wallpaper? Yes, you can and without using any third party tools. To do this follow these steps:

  1. Right click on the desktop and select Properties.
  2. Click on the tab Desktop at the top and then "Customize Desktop" at the bottom.
  3. Now click on the tab Web. Click New and copy the URL of the webpage that you want to set as the wallpaper.

Windows will start downloading the necessary files and once completed, you can maximize the page to cover your whole desktop background or only a part of it. You can schedule Windows to automatically synchronize or update the page. Now consider the various useful things you can do with it. Set Google reader as your desktop so that you have all the RSS feeds right on the desktop. Or if you use personalized home page like that offered by Google or Netvibes then you can set them as your destop. Google calander is another helpful utility that you might like right on your desktop. The possibilities are endless. Just try this out.

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