You know what I actually miss when I use OSX? An actual mspaint clone.
Not an ad-ridden or pay version, just a built in paint app I can doodle on that's in there by default.
Show HN: A Native Art Gallery for the Mac
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#42You know what I actually miss when I use OSX? An actual mspaint clone. Not an ad-ridden or pay version, just a built in paint app I can doodle on that's in there by default.
I believe you can doodle on an image with Preview
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#43I think I'm the only one who rarely look at my desktop. Most of the time, it's been covered by windows/apps.
Me too — hence the "Show Desktop" shortcut by right-clicking the menu bar icon.
This is a cool app, but isn't the idea to integrate it somewhere you end up looking already, rather than have to think to look at it and click the shortcut? I have the same problem, I always cmd+tab between windows so I never see my desktop.
In the past I used a chrome extension called tab.pics that shows a new landscape image pulled from reddit on every blank tab. It was kinda buggy though, it rarely shows the caption of what I'm looking at, and the source material isn't always that interesting or high enough resolution and sometimes doesn't load at all.
Just an idea, but if you converted BackgroundifierBuddy to a chrome extension I would totally use it.
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Negligible energy consumption. I wrote a desktop timelapse wallpaper app for Mac that creates a below-the-desktop window containing a movie player and then plays the movie stretched over 24 hrs. Energy impact was small, something like 0.1 in Activity Monitor.
Is this something you would care to share? This would be ideal for watching Wong Kar-wai films.
Sure, send me a mail at the address in my profile. I'll dig up the code tomorrow.
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#45I collect Maps of the World in a Dropbox folder, and tell Windows auto rotate to use this folder. So I see a different perspective or interpretation of "The World" every 10 minutes. Some are just regions - USA, Europe, China, etc. Most are actual maps - places listed by Google searches or names translated from their native tongue, etc. A few are visualizations of the tallest mountains or longest rivers.
Ah, xearth! http://hewgill.com/xearth/original/
It inspired many clones. I used to run osxplanet but it seems long since defunct too: http://www.osxplanet.com
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I recently looked into doing this for my Windows laptop, but found that it halved the battery life. Is this also a problem with running stuff like this on Macs?
Heh it's incredible hearing about someone _trying_ to do this one Windows (and Mac) - I have very vivid memories of Active Desktop on Windows 98 that let you set an HTML page as your 'wallpaper'/on your desktop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop
I remember that some system crashes would cause it to disable itself, with a hyperlink to reenable it. I also remember being obsessed with converting movie clips into animated gifs, and setting those as my background.
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That was one of my original goals as well, but unfortunately there aren't many (any?) sources of downloadable art tagged with metadata. Hence, just the filename in the pop-up menu.
I realised the same thing when building Artpip and built up a database of ~25000 images and ~5000 artists via wikimedia's extremely unfriendly API. I've thought about creating an open dataset that is free to use/download (everything is in the public domain anyway). The thing is, I have around 250GB of images (all images available in 4k) and I'm put off by the cost of hosting. If I were to just serve 2K images then th…
Can you distribute a torrent file?
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Creator of Artpip here. Came to suggest it as an alternative. Happy to answer any questions! Also @OP - you might want to take a look at the wallpaper-macos[0] lib that I developed for Artpip. It uses the nodobj node wrapper but it should be a useful reference. You don't need to read from the sqlite DB or deal with restarting the dock. You can reliably get the current wallpaper like so [1]. Also you might want to che…
Just downloaded your app, as I was looking for a more curated solution that what OP provides (I don't know enough about art to make my own selection). One quick question I had was if it is possible to have Artpip only apply a background to one screen. I have an external monitor and I'd prefer if the two didn't always show the same wallpaper. Additionally, I have one personal wallpaper I particularity enjoy, and would…
Unfortunately no, not at the moment. This is a commonly requested feature though, so I'll definitely be adding support for different options for multi-monitor setups at some point.
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#49You know what I actually miss when I use OSX? An actual mspaint clone. Not an ad-ridden or pay version, just a built in paint app I can doodle on that's in there by default.
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#50You know what I actually miss when I use OSX? An actual mspaint clone. Not an ad-ridden or pay version, just a built in paint app I can doodle on that's in there by default.
I believe you can doodle on an image with Preview
Preview.app doesn't allow you to start off with a canvas of a specific size, and then start doodling though. I really think they should add this feature, because the Markup functionality in Preview is really good. What surprises me is that a lot of people don't know that Preview is very powerful.