Dual Monitors, Now Dual Backgrounds

I found a tool a few months back that I just love… it allows you to display two different pictures on your two monitors (or one huge picture). Best of all it links into photo sharing services to support your viewing photos not on your local machine.

The app is called John’s Background Switcher (no relation to me).

I really LOVE it on my home office setup in conjunction with this cool tool from those brainiacs at MS Research, AutoCollage (license key valid on five machines).

I create collages of our adventures and set the size to the maximum resolution of my current environment (which AutoCollage detects). This ends up being the full width height of my dual 24” setup.

Here’s an example:

I then setup John’s Background Switcher to rotate through the adventure collages once a day… a nice little collection of photos to view all the time around my working windows.