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Live Desktop 1.0

The ultimate wallpaper/screensaver utility is finally here! Live Desktop is a complete wallpaper manager/changer and a full-featured screensaver with the coolest features ever included in any software of its kind.

It provides an easy and convenient interface to navigate among your wallpaper collection and manage the images that will be used as desktop wallpaper and/or screensaver. As wallpaper manager, the program keeps a large set of standard features: wallpaper changes at system restarts or programmable periodic intervals, multiple wallpaper presentation modes (centered, tiled, stretched...), wallpaper change notifications, desktop icons text backgound transparent... As screensaver, Live Desktop becomes a powerful DirectX application that performs stunning slideshows with impressive smooth image transitions and your own music on background.

Import your own images from your disk or download tons of full-sized desktop wallpapers from the Live Desktop website. There are thousands of hand-categorized images, all at 1024x768 or higher resolutions, and the archive is updated daily with new wallpapers. You can configure Live Desktop to notify you about new images being added to the website, or make the program download them automatically. Enjoy new fresh wallpapers every day without even having to open your browser!

Supported image formats are: APM, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCD, PCX, PNG, PSD, TGA, TIFF, WBMP and WMF/EMF. Supported sound formats are: MP3, WAV and WMA. The most important functions of the program can be instantly accessed via customizable system-wide hotkeys, or via the convenient Live Desktop System Tray Menu. To get quickly started, this package comes with 16 of the images available on the website already present in your local collection. Download and enjoy!

This software is a shareware. You will be able to download and test Live Desktop during a certain period of time, then, if it does what you need, you will have to acquire the full version. The trial version available for download on www.softandco.com has a size of 4436 KBytes. For additional information and support request, please contact directly Live Desktop publisher.

Live Desktop 1.0 was released by Dancing Bits on Friday 22 April 2005. Its known requirements are : None. DirectX 6.0 or better highly recommended..

Live Desktop will run on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows XP.

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