Desktopr

Make any website your Mac wallpaper

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Make any website your Mac wallpaper

4 followers

Imagine your Facebook, Gmail, Twitter or favorite blog or magazine as a background of your desktop. Extend your desktop background with any content you can even imagine. Using Desktopr you can set any website, social network, movie or other content as your desktop background.

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Maker

Hey Product Hunters! Here's my initial thought: Every Mac comes with desktop background image. The pre-set one used to display wild animals, space and volcano. Now it's mountains. I kinda like them, but still - it seems to me like wasted space that could be used in slightly more meaningful way. I'm collecting stories about the way how poeple are using the app and it's really great - there are café owners who run publicly accessible computers in their spots and have their café's website on desktop, there's a broker who use Desktopr as wall with financial data, Desktopr is used on trade shows, bloggers are monitoring new comments using the app, there are geeks with random wikipedia article on the desktop etc. What are your thoughts and website you'd like to put on your desktop background?

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10yr ago

@mirapod hey Mira, first up, I love Desktopr. A few things which I've not been able to figure out which would greatly help me extend usage and advocate to others. 1. I use two screens. I'd like to choose which one it runs on. Is there a way to do this? 2. There are one or two sites I use to input data in all day long. Turning on browsing mode is really helpful for clicking but what would be really helpful would be to interact with forms, fill in data etc. I've never figured out a way to do this. This would also help for logging in to various password protected resources. I know the Safari workaround for passwords but it would be great to know if there's a better way!

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10yr ago

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Maker

@daniel_craig Hey, Daniel, 1) This is planned feature, in two versions there will be support for multiple displays. 2) Amount of websites you may go with is unlimited. Each URL has also adjustable duration (from 1sec to unlimited). The forms thing - there was changes in last versions of Safari which caused this issue, I have to figure out how to re-enable these functions again.

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10yr ago

@mirapod Thanks Mira great news on both points!

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10yr ago

Great idea! Would love to use for managing todo list and calendar events etc... Would be easy to build a local page that grabs all this stuff via API's. Like GeekTool but way easier and more modern! I just tested out with our software and I can't use the login form. Is there anything we need to do is support for input fields coming soon?

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10yr ago

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Maker

@mposborne If you use todo list or calendar which runs in browser...

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10yr ago

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Maker

@mposborne There was changes in last versions of Safari which caused the issue with forms, I have to figure out how to re-enable these functions again. Will be fixed.

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10yr ago

@mirapod Great thanks

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10yr ago

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Maker

@mposborne You're welcome.

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10yr ago

@mirapod @mposborne Hi. Sorry to be so late. At work and away from beloved Mac all day. Any chance of getting one last code? :)

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10yr ago

Snap Wear

I just bought the app. It's really great, but there's one problem, I can't access private pages because I'm unable to login. Is there a way to fix this?

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10yr ago

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Maker

Hi @baidoct - There was changes in last versions of Safari which caused the issue with forms, I have to figure out how to re-enable these functions again. It will be fixed.

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10yr ago

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Maker

@baidoct Hi Tudor, this issue should be fixed now. Try it out. ;)

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9yr ago

Is it possible to have a changing desktop feed from a site like https://alpha.wallhaven.cc/ ? I've been wanting to build something like this but maybe your product can or could do this.

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10yr ago

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Maker

@atomparish It is possible. But it would need a webpage showing just the one random image.

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10yr ago

@atomparish You should check out Wallcat. It was on here some months ago.

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10yr ago

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Maker

If you want to try Desktopr for free - here's few redeem codes: 4E9MXRK7HELF THRJN3A3PLAY 6TXLXJYLYP7X 3463T3HJW4JW 3PKRTPKK9XNR (all redeemed now)

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10yr ago

@mirapod All redeemed for those who are coming in late.

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10yr ago

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Maker

@flowsion Okay, let's do one more round of redeem codes: MF6A66NXN6XN PAAJA6643KJ7 9FYN9PL3TF3M XM4LW97MFH63 7XKL4RTNF4P6 (all redeemed now)

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10yr ago

@mirapod @flowsion All redeemed.

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10yr ago

@mirapod how to redeem? any available codes?

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10yr ago

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Maker

@menjvillalobos @dasilvacontin Here's more codes to go with: PRYYXHHJXNPN EYL7LWAMP7M7 TTY6J3HEWFLR ENMNJ4A7YXW3 JA4HPT4E34KR (all redeemed now)

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10yr ago

I've been trying to use this app well for over a year @Mira. I love the concept and execution, but it doesn't work reliably for me in Sierra. I essentially just want it to load newsmap.jp ... and if I uninstall everything, it does for a short while but eventually breaks, and now clearing out all sites, putting any other site...just doesn't seem to load anything, where can I get support? This is just a nitpick, but it also drives me crazy that the app doesn't respect keyboard shortcuts, like closing the window with command+W or being able to copy paste into the website url fields... Again, I love the concept and app, I want to use it. I run it on a media center, so I'm not interested in displaying my social media, but things like news, interested conversation pieces, cool visuals.

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9yr ago

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Maker

@robgranholm @mirapod Hi Robert, the copy and paste actions will be fixed in next release. The newsmap.jp is tricky - it runs in Flash, but I'll try to run it for a while and figure out what's happening. In next release there will be few more fixes based on our bugtracker.

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9yr ago

@mirapod Thanks, hopeful for the fixes.

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9yr ago

Dear @mirapod, Desktopr seems very interesting and I would love to try it out. However, it is not available in my country (Sweden) — any plans on making that happen?

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7yr ago

untools

@mirapod @haraldpeter I was just trying to get it, but it seems to be also unavailable here in Czechia.

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7yr ago

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