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JBS The Desktop Slide Show Rotator

Windows 7 users are equipped with a Desktop Slide show feature which rotates automatically and alters wallpapers of a desktop at regular intervals. Other operating systems like Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Server are not equipped with this feature. A Desktop wallpaper rotator or switcher, JBS – John’s Background Switcher provides many rotating wallpapers freely.

This application software is seated in a system tray called as notification region which frequently switches wallpapers on a PC’s desktop at periodic intervals. The primary characteristic of JBS software abbreviated as John’s Background Switcher allows one to utilize photos and images from many sources. These photos are then used as wallpapers. Images and photos can be obtained from any of the following sources:

From a personal computer
From “My Pictures” folders
From websites like Flickr, by choosing photos according to a person, sets, and tags or picking them randomly.
From “Phanfare” albums on web.
From few image galleries like smugsmug.
From “Picasa” albums. Select from a few specified albums or according to typed in text search.
From Facebook – extracting photos of friends and families to a user’s desktop.
From Yahoo! photo search.
From any RSS feed – select images from different websites like Photobucket, DevianArt, Zooomr, LOLCats and many more.

There are many more options available with John’s Background Switcher software, which can be accessed from “more settings” option. An option which displays quarterly calendar on the desktop is available with JBS. This option displays backgrounds in sepia color; it also shuffles photos from folders. It also changes the background at startup every time, provides support for multiple monitoring, offers battery saving settings, and supplies varied effects for softening and many more.

This software can be downloaded freely. The present John’s Background Switcher version available is 3.6 and can be easily downloaded.

Open Windows 7 Jump Lists With Slide Menu

Generally, to access jump list in Windows 7 OS, you have to right click on the button which is present on Taskbar. You will be prompted with the pop up list, which is nothing but the jump list. However, while using some of the devices instead of mouse such as a TackPoint pointing stick, pointing device (TouchPad) or using your finger on a touch screen, then you would experience the real hassle to do so.

To avoid this, Microsoft provides a shortcut in Windows 7 to pop up Jump List. User just need to left-click on the mouse button and slide across the icon or Taskbar button to display the Jump List. If you are using TouchPad or touch-screen monitor, simply touch and point your finger to icon or the button on Taskbar and slide it up to open the Jump List. This is as easy as swooshing the list in your iPhone and iPod Touch for browsing.