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Active Desktop for Windows

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Active Desktop revitalizes the animated wallpaper concept for Windows 8.1+. It integrates dynamic backgrounds with weather, news feeds, and smart home devices like Philips Hue, enhancing the user's desktop experience.

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  • Pros

    • Animated wallpapers with natural motion.
    • Integrates with weather and news feeds.
    • Synchronizes with Philips Hue smart lighting.
    • Features an embedded browser for wallpaper management.
    • Supports 3D landscape weather simulation.

  • Cons

    • Platform limited to Windows 8.1 or later.
    • Does not detail creation of custom animated wallpapers.
    • Android app integration only mentioned for Push Ups trainer.
    • Lack of specified multi-monitor support.
    • No mention of user-controlled interactive desktop elements.
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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
1.2
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 8
Additional Requirements
.NET Framework 4.0
POPULARITY
Total Downloads
1,519
Downloads Last Week
2
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Developer’s Description

By Pulsar Technologies
Enhance your desktop with natural motion animated wallpapers.
We created Active Desktop to offer the best Windows 8.1 (or later) experience to our customers by adding the old abandoned Windows XP feature, called Active Desktop, but in a far more advanced way. This new technology allows to connect your desktop background to the latest feeds (weather, news), or even to your own Philips Hue light bulbs in a Windows Metro fashion.

The app has a small embedded browser that will let you explore the Active Desktop world and update your wallpapers. Some of the greatest wallpapers of Active Desktop will let you connect your desktop with the weather and simulate it in a tiny 3D, beautiful landscape, or will let you synchronize your Philips Hue lamps with the desktop background (color, intensity), or will let you connect with our Push Ups trainer Android app.

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