If you are like me, you don’t like plain and boring backgrounds. Through one my YouTube subscriptions, I have been introduced to great piece of software to create customized backgrounds for your desktop. That software is called John’s Background Switcher (JBS) and it was written by a gentleman named John Connors.

JBS can be set up to change pictures periodically to as much as every hour. You can use pictures from your computer, Flicker, Facebook, and/or Picasa. Once you setup the credentials, it will pull the photos you select. This program launches on start up and sits in your system tray, it does very little to hurt your system’s performance so you have no worries about slowing your computer down.

There are quite a few options on how to view your photos. From colorization to how they are viewed on the desktop, your possibilities are virtually endless. As far as operation systems go, I have used this on XP, Vista and Windows 7 with no problem.

John’s website can be found here and it has other useful programs, information and templates on it. JBS along with the other softwares listed on his site are freeware.

Thanks to Britec09 for the video on this software.