I love that {{OS X}} lets me change my background on a schedule (I use every 30 minutes now).<\/p>\n
But I don’t like having to find pictures to populate my desktop menagerie with.<\/p>\n
Enter completely SFW backgrounds via RSS feeds!<\/p>\n
Using IFTTT<\/a>, I watch for new items from a variety of daily photo feeds, and upload the new items to a folder in my Box<\/a>\u00a0account. I have that folder set to be the source for my desktop backgrounds, and bingo bango we have automated new images coming to enjoy!<\/p>\n The recipe I’m using is available for you to grab here<\/a>. (I have several running, but you can use any RSS feed you’d like.)<\/p>\n Also, to ensure I don’t end up with duplicate images (eg from the Bing images feed<\/a>), I have the following running as a cron job (thanks to Unix.SE<\/a> for helping me figure it out):<\/p>\n That script removes any files with duplicate MD5 sums from the folder I keep the images in (note – you should put the\u00a0actual<\/em> path to\u00a0your<\/em> folder in your cron job).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love that {{OS X}} lets me change my background on a schedule (I use every 30 minutes now). But I don’t like having to find pictures to populate my desktop menagerie with. Enter completely SFW backgrounds via RSS feeds! Using IFTTT, I watch for new items from a variety of daily photo feeds, and …md5 -r * | sort | awk 'BEGIN{lasthash = \"\"} $1 == lasthash {print $2} {lasthash = $1}' | xargs rm<\/code><\/p>\n
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