Anyone here remember Dreamscene? It was apart of the ‘Windows Vista Ultimate Extras’, a long winded name for the extra bits and bobs you get for forking out an extra $60 for Windows Vista Ultimate (compared to Windows Vista Home Premium). For anyone doesn’t, it was basically an extra which allowed you to use a video as your desktop background as opposed to a still image; a pointless feature, but nonetheless at least it looks good and impresses the kids.

Now if you’ve upgraded to Windows 7 or your using a Mac and missing this feature, do not worry, as there are solutions for both to make your Desktop pretty again (and no it’s not Deskscapes which is just a rip off). Video and tutorials after the break…

Vista showin’ off all its fancy stuff there eh? So lets start with us Mac users, what we gonna do?

Well there’s this little app I’ve found called Wallsaver. Despite a recommendation against Wallsaver, I have found this application to give the best results. There is a catch though, but I’m sure you’ll overlook this when faced with the prettiness it brings to your desktop.

So go and head over to WallSaverApp.com. When you visit the homepage you might be thinking…

“Well hang on… this sets a screen saver as your desktop background not a video!”

Well a screen saver is a video. It’s an animated image which, for the most part, is rendered in realtime. Mac OSX comes preloaded with some gorgeous screen savers and you can even download more from the web. Who wouldn’t want to exploit that?

Wallsaver Application

So lets get back to business, get wall saver download and installed onto your system and go ahead and open her up. If your a bit eager, go ahead and click activate now. This should turn the desktop backgrounds of all your monitors to the default screen saver. Once your done drooling at the screen, your probably thinking to yourself…

“Duuude, I want this thang as my background all the time!”

Account Preferences

That you should, and it’s a pretty simple thing to do to. First of all, click on the Preferences tab of Wallsaver and check all the the tick boxes, and while your there choose your screen saver. Next, go into your system preferences and click on ‘Accounts’. From here click on ‘Logic Items’, add Wallsaver by click on the plus icon and finding it in your applications folder and add it on in.

Finding Wallsaver

This will ensure that Wallsaver is opened up and changes your background automatically every time you start up your Mac.

Wallsaver In Action

Well what about you Windows 7 users? Where did dreamscene go!? Well MyDigitalLife.info has a nice tutorial on how to use DreamScene on Windows 7, regardless of the version you have. What’s the best thing about these apps I hear you ask? They’re completely free. I mean… you could use DeskScapes but… Stardock just suck, right?