Desktop Wallpaper Calendar

The desktop wallpaper can be used for more than just displaying a pretty image to look at every now and then. For instance, with applications like Desktop Wallpaper Calendar, you can have a collection of your favorite picture shown, with an additional calendar layer on top, and various customization options.

Before you get to check out the set of features, it’s best to place all pictures you want to appear on your screen in a folder. You’re asked to select this folder right from the start, with the main window showing up once you do.

Most of the main window is taken up by a preview resembling your desktop, so you get an idea of how it all fits, and how changes affect the design. You’re free to leave default configurations active, or completely customize everything about the background picture, as well as the calendar itself.

If you consider the calendar takes up way too much desktop space, there’s an option to resize it by dragging the box edges around, and move it anywhere on the desktop. Number of cells from past, and future weeks can be set, as well as default holidays, week start, or font color, style, size, and type.

The background picture can be changed at the press of a button, but you can also configure it to change at a custom time interval. Edit options aren’t abundant, but allow you to modify basic color options like contrast, brightness, and gamma, auto equalize, grayscale, or flip. An extra overlay image can be added over the original, with an impressive array of transparent frames to choose from.

When configurations are done, the application can silently stay in the tray area, or configured to run, even with a delay, on startup. The only thing missing here is an option to pin events on the calendar, so they’re always in plain sight.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Desktop Wallpaper Calendar is a neat desktop enhancement, with a bit more in mind than just to look pretty on your desktop. Even though you can’t set reminders, or alerts, the abundance of customization options are sure to convince you it’s worth at least a try.