Desktopia is a desktop wallpaper manager for Windows and Macintosh that, unlike so many of its counterparts, is providing a limited amount of wallpapers instead of user selected ones. This approach does have some consequences. The good news is that the wallpapers provided by Desktopia are mostly well done, designer wallpapers so to speak. The benefit is obviously that the user does not have to flip through thousands of pages full of wallpapers to find the good ones among them.
Wallpapers are divided into categories like Games, Graphic Design and Photography which can be checked separately. If you only want graphic design wallpapers you leave that category checked and uncheck all other categories.
The bad side of this approach is the limited choice. Wallpapers will only be chosen from the available ones giving the user no control in this matter. It would be nicer if the program would provide a custom category that would allow the user to add his own wallpapers to the program.
Some wallpapers contain information about the artist which some users might not like that much. The Windows version of Desktopia is currently in Beta and requires the .net Framework 3.5 to run. It provides a few additional settings like the interval that the wallpapers should be changed and a buttons to update the application and images.
I personally prefer more control when it comes to wallpapers on my desktop. There is unfortunately no way to download the wallpapers directly from the Desktopia website.
Tags: desktopia, software, wallpaper manager, wallpaper-changer, wallpapers, Windows
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