HT2478 Pictures for my desktop ?

How do I download more pictures from the internet for my desktop?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Using Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard
Your system profile shows you are using both Lion & Snow Leopard.
Instructions for Snow Leopard are as follows - Select the picture/right click/Select As Desktop Background/click the Set Desktop Background button.
Post in the Lion forum area for their instructions. Unknown if the same as Snow Leopard.

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where can I find desktop pictures for my iMac on the iMac?

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I am trying to use the same folder of picture across all my desktops. It seems that every desktop I have to go in to preferences and click the same thing over and over. Is there a way to do it once and apply it across all desktops?

The only way I know is to delete all the desktops and then add them back. They will all default to the picture in Desktop 1.
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Captfred
Hold the Option key down in Mission control to get the x to delete all the desktops

Help! I zoomed in on a picture online and now I can't zoom out enough for my desktop to return to normal. How do I get my desktop back to its regular dimensions?

I zoomed in on a picture online by holding control and open pinching and for some reason, my desktop was enlarged as well. How I can't zoom out enough for my desktop to return to normal? I would like to be able to see my whole desktop without scrolling over to see the time or the file menu!

Hold down the Control key and drag two fingertips down the trackpad toward you.

Feature Request: Cover Flow for Selecting Desktop Picture

Cover Flow is a great way to scan through a set of images within a defined visual real estate. It would be perfect for the Desktop System Preferences, where we users have had to suffer forever with squinting at 72x51pixel images (at 1440x900 resolution) of our desktops. It's nearly impossible at this thumbnail size to tell what image one is looking at, and selecting to view it in the preview at 128x73 pixels is only marginally better. And of course, there's no way I know of to expand the System Preferences window to expand this whole scanario. It's the year 2009 guys; please give us your great Cover Flow to help us choose our Desktop Pictures in a reasonable way.

Hi Scott,
I know this isn't the best place, but Apple doesn't make easily apparent where to submit such requests, and I know its staff do occasionally visit these boards.
As to the appropriateness of the expectation, I have to disagree. I make my living in user interface and usability, and Apple has clearly set the expectation in the user's mind that System Preferences is the primary method for setting all sorts of Finder behaviors, including screensavers and desktop pictures. I see no reason for the user to either accept a substandard main method of setting this preference or have to learn a secondary one simply to avoid the main method.
As to the System Preference not lending itself to Cover Flow, there may be some underlying technology of which I'm unaware, but interface-wise, it seems to fit right into the Preference screen:
http://www.loungelife.com/DesktopSystemPref.jpg

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I purchased an Intel Based Imac, 24" screen, in November and initially had problems uploading pictures from my desktop to put with my ebay auctions. After several attempts I was able to complete this task. However, 4 days ago, I'm now no longer able to upload any more pictures. I'm experiencing one of two problems, either I don't see the browse tab from the ebay site to search for the picture I want to upload, or I'm able to click the browse tab, choose the picture I want and start the uploading process, but soon after the picture starts to upload, the process stops. I'm able to do this task on my PC laptop. Any ideas as to what is wrong?

I don't see the browse tab from the ebay site to search for the picture I want to upload
I've had that incomplete browse tab thing happen - where there's no button to click - and concluded it's either an eBay issue or an ISP issue. However, for me, I was able to come back to it half an hour later and no problem doing the photo upload.
Were you blocking pop-up windows at the time?
I've also had the photo fail to upload, but never (yet) failed on the second attempt. I determined that the failure was due to my starting the upload process too quickly - before my thumbnail was showing after selecting the photo to be used. I just had to wait a few seconds more in the process to resolve that.

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'''''Note:''' When you use this feature, you will lose any extensions, toolbar customizations, and some preferences.'' See the [[Refresh Firefox - reset add-ons and settings]] article for more information.
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# Open the Troubleshooting Information page using one of these methods:
#*Click the menu button [[Image:New Fx Menu]], click help [[Image:Help-29]] and select ''Troubleshooting Information''. A new tab containing your troubleshooting information should open.
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I see this thread is over a year old and still no fix for this issue. Just 'upgraded' from old Vista laptop to new hi res Asus N551 with Windows 8.1 and Skype Desktop looks crap! Blurry fonts and pictures, webcam image terrible. In short a disgrace. I hate the kiddies version on Windows 'Metro' style app by the way. So, looked up support and only solution suggested was to retore my custom desktop scaling option back to 100%. Obviously I am not doing that otherwise I would be unable to read the resultant microscopic text in Windows 8.1. So if anyone does have another, workable, solution I be pleased to hear it.After over a year though the Skype team really should make scaling for Skpe Deskto a No. 1 priority.

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I have recently purchased the lovely iPod Touch and I would therefore like to download the pictures for my music. However, when I attempt this, I am told that the program was unable to download the pictures for some albums. I attempted to get pictures for a little over 500 songs and iTunes was unable to download 344 of them...
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SMC RESET
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and all peripherals.
Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
Release the power button.
Attach the computers power cable.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
PRAM RESET
Shut down the computer.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
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hello everyone.
i'm new to jmf and i have been reading a bit about it. so i tried the sample code at: http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/media/jmf/2.1.1/solutions/JpegImagesToMovie.java (THIS WAS VERY HELPFUL)
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can anyone help me please. THANKS

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i'm new to jmf ..>The [JMF forum|http://forums.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=28] is the best place to ask JMF related questions, but I am guessing you are also new to Java, and to programming, so this forum might be best for the moment.
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..and i have been reading a bit about it. so i tried the sample code at: http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/media/jmf/2.1.1/solutions/JpegImagesToMovie.java (THIS WAS VERY HELPFUL)
this program displays each image for 1 second each.
now my problem is, i want to display these pictures for different amount of time... for example: display pic1 for 1 second, then display pic2 for 3 sec and so on.>Well.. given a run of [JpegImagesToMovie.java|http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/media/jmf/2.1.1/solutions/JpegImagesToMovie.java ] might go..
java JpegImagesToMovie -w 400 -h 300 -f 1
-o the.mov pic1.jpg pic2.jpg pic3.jpg..you might instead try..
java JpegImagesToMovie -w 400 -h 300 -f 1
-o the.mov pic1.jpg pic2.jpg pic2.jpg pic2.jpg pic3.jpg
Lines broken for clarity. Instead have command all in one line.
This simply repeats the second frame, three times. The .MOV format might 'optimize away' the second and third frame from the final file, but I would not count on it.
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Have you got, or could create, a higher resolution version of the image that you could try instead ? With iOS 7.0.3, from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5595 :
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I have created a book for Christmas on iPhoto. The book is 100 pages. There are two steps to the process of sending in your order.
1. Assembly (which it assembled no problem, under 30 min)
2. Upload (it shows a bar and a blue line moves as it uploads)
I have been uploading for 2 days now and I am 1/4 of the way there. Now while I am waiting for it to upload I cannot do anything with my iPhoto pictures. Which is a problem since I take pictures for my school and I need to edit pictures by Tuesday.
It states under the "Uploading book to the store...." Note: Any interruption of the upload process will cancel your order.
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I've managed to get a picture or two in Addressbook, but it must have been pure luck. Tonight I went to replace the "flower" that is next to a persons name, and though I dragged a picture into the little frame where you can enlarge and shrink it successfully, and I pressed the button that says "SET"....the picture never "takes" and replaces the one that is there.
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