![]() The script has been updated to reflect the correct region. I hope this DIY method is helpful in any way □ Now a new bing image will be automatically downloaded everyday and make that the desktop wallpaper. I set the time to refresh the wallpaper to per hour but that can be change if required. The last step is to setup the “Desktop & Screen Saver” setting as follows. Task Till Dawn will show a floating window that looks somewhat like this: So I set the task to be executed at 4.15pm everyday. It looks to me that Bing update its images at around 4pm Australian Western Standard Time. Setting up is extremely easy.Īfter installing the software, add a new task and configure the task as follows: So I downloaded a free tool called “ Task till Dawn” written by Oliver Matuschin. In Mac, one can use Crontab, Launchd or even the Calendar. To further automate this step, we will need to use some kind of task scheduler. In my case I can just double click on the “GoBing” icon on my desktop and it will go fetch the latest wallpaper. Now that the Automator workflow is complete, we need a way to launch the workflow action automatically. I didn’t modify anything except the path to which the images will be downloaded. Obviously this is personal preference so one can modify this step or kill it to suit. The idea is that new wallpaper image will be automatically downloaded to “new-bing-wallpapers” folder but before we do this, we want to first move/backup the last one we downloaded to the folder “old-bing-wallpapers”. I have 2 folders in the Pictures folder called “new-bing-wallpapers” and “old-bing-wallpapers” respectively. I name this Automator workflow as “GoBing” and I saved this on the desktop. Print ("Downloading %s to %s" % (url, path)) Path = home +'/Pictures/new-bing-wallpapers/'+name+'.jpg' (Note: it looks like WordPress truncates some of the text so go to Owen’s website to see the full untruncated version) # ĭir_src = "/Users/norah/Pictures/new-bing-wallpapers"ĭir_dst = "/Users/norah/Pictures/old-bing-wallpapers" Please make sure you give Owen Rumney the credit that is due to him. I launched Automator and create a new workflow containing a “Run shell script” action. I am doing everything on Yosemite 10.10.4 (on an old 24″ iMac 2007 I may add). One can either go to the Appstore and buy an app such as this one here but I thought there must surely be a way to do this easily and most important of all, free. A quick exercise in google-fu rewarded me with a bunch of python scripts that can be adapted to the Mac OS.Īll credits go to Owen Rumney of course. So I downloaded this python script and I thought why not bind this python script to an automator action. Maybe it is because Microsoft and Apple are not the best of friends? I don’t know. On the Mac, however, it is not so straightforward. I like to be greeted with awesome photos everytime I switch on the device. On all my PCs, notebooks, my Android phones and even my windows mobile phone, it is so easy to automatically download these images as wallpapers. ![]() I am sure everyone would agree that every images featured on are nothing short of being breathtaking.
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