Bing Desktop Download For Mac

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By Microsoft Free Editors' Rating. Microsoft's Bing Desktop lets you search Bing quickly and easily from the desktop or taskbar without opening a browser.

While anyone with a PC, tablet or smartphone can always surf over to the Bing front page to see its daily high resolution image, there's now a new way for Mac OS X owners to download and use a number of those impressive photos from Microsoft as their desktop wallpaper.

Microsoft quietly added download links for three Mac OS X Bing wallpaper packs earlier this month. All three packs have seven wallpapers each. The first is called Canyons of the Southwest, which contains some beautiful scenes of the rocky but majestic vistas that are a part of the Grand Canyon and other similar locations. Business in a box keygen free download.

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The second wallpaper pack is titled Classic Cars and, as you can see above, it has some very cool close up images of some vintage automobiles. Finally, the third wallpaper download is called Arctic Icebergs. It has some breathtaking looks at massive ice flows found in Greenland, along with some other images from Croker Bay, located in Canada. Ahnlab trusguard 50. Apowersoft free screen video recorder online.

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For some reason, Microsoft didn't bother to write full descriptions for these wallpaper downloads, so Mac OS X owners should keep that in mind when they click on the links to avoid confusion

Source: Canyons of the Southwest, Classic Cars and Arctic Icebergs.

I’m sure many of you are familiar with Bing, Microsoft‘s search tool which competes directly with Google. Regardless of which is the better search engine Bing has a cool feature in their picture of the day. Every day they post a different high-res picture to the home page and these pictures always look fantastic.

One of the first things that initially crossed my mind was how do I make this my desktop image. Apparently I was not the only one and Microsoft released Bing Desktop Wallpaper for Windows 7. The program works exactly as advertised on my Windows 7 instances (though with some unwanted and non-disablable ‘features’). There really are no configuration options to this thing. Install and tell it to change your desktop everyday. That’s it.

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Now enter my Mac OSX instances. I liked the Windows 7 desktops so much I wanted the same feature everywhere. A quick search for “Bing desktop Mac” brings up severaldifferentpages. Unfortunately the solutions either didn’t work, were too manual, or downloaded low quality versions of the photots.

I ended up taking a script initially developed by ktmud and modifying it to accomplish the following simple items:

  • Download directly from bing.com
  • Download the highest resolution image possible
  • Allow the OS to handle changing of desktop images

This same script should work on any *NIX system with bash and curl installed. I have also tested it in cygwin with success.

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Keep in mind the following caveats:

  • The script is a hack. It parses the Bing.com JS to download the image. Any changes Bing makes to their JS will probably break my script.
  • The image quality is not as high as the images downloaded by the official Bing Desktop Wallpaper app. I am looking into this and will hopefully update the app to grab higher resolution images.

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The latest version of the script can be found here: bing-wallpaper.