{"id":822,"date":"2012-04-20T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/?p=822"},"modified":"2012-05-07T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T16:25:09","slug":"windows-7-dynamic-themes-bing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2012\/04\/windows-7-dynamic-themes-bing\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Dynamic Themes (Bing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-US\/windows\/downloads\/personalize\/themes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 4px 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/image3.png\" width=\"215\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a>While I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m overly partial to any one search engine, I tend to use Bing more often than I use Google.&#160; I like the overall format of the results more, and I especially like seeing the daily images on the home page.&#160; I wasn\u2019t aware that I could get something similar for my desktop, as well (and without installing Bing Desktop or anything else that tends to want to take over your browser and OS).&#160; <\/p>\n<p>As part of it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-US\/windows\/downloads\/personalize\/themes\">Windows 7 Themes<\/a> page, Microsoft provides a section called \u201cRSS dynamic themes\u201d (it\u2019s cleverly hidden in the list on the left).&#160; Unlike other (non-dynamic) themes, the actual download is just a small file that allows Windows 7 machines to download images using RSS.&#160; It may take a few minutes for your first images to appear, but after that everything seems to work properly.&#160; For example, I can right-click on the desktop and choose \u201cNext desktop background\u201d if I want to move on to something else.&#160; Overall, it\u2019s free and seems to work well (even in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview\u2019s Desktop mode).&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Of course, there\u2019s also a huge list of collections of other desktop wallpaper options if the dynamic ones don\u2019t work well for you.&#160; Perhaps when it comes to \u201cinterior decorating\u201d for desktop machines, it\u2019s the little things that matter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m overly partial to any one search engine, I tend to use Bing more often than I use Google.&#160; I like the overall format of the results more, and I especially like seeing the daily images on the home page.&#160; I wasn\u2019t aware that I could get something similar for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-general","category-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}