![]() ![]() Steve asked: “How do you do your recording?” We didn’t really have any tools to record, there was not much going on at the time. Which is why foundational podcast creator and former MTV VJ Adam Curry’s recent podcast interview, quoted by Kafasis, is so fascinating. The rise of MP3s, CD burning, and peer-to-peer file sharing meant that piracy had gone digital-but many of those technologies could also be used for legal purposes, enabling iTunes and the iPod and creating mix CDs from your own music collection.Īs is traditional, industries reacted to the new technologies with fear and tried to stamp them out. The late 90s and early 2000s were an interesting period when it came to Apple and the music industry. Unfortunately, there was nothing for us to do but feel uneasy and await their next move. We were naturally concerned that they were aware of our product. That put a damper on our first anniversary celebrations, as we had full knowledge of the organization’s litigious history. On September 30, 2003, exactly one year after we opened our virtual doors, an order with an RIAA email address came through. Subsequent background changes are quicker.A remarkable blog post by Rogue Amoeba’s Paul Kafasis uncovers a key moment in the history of Apple and the recording industry:Īt that time, our sales were slow enough that we often skimmed incoming orders to learn about who was buying. The initial run may take a minute or more before the background image is switched.Elevated rights are in any case not required for portable use. Do not run with elevated rights or it will restore the desktop background from the admin user rather than the current user.If you use the settings to change the Win 7 logon background or to run at Windows Startup the required registry keys are not saved to ensure host settings are left in original state.JBS portable should restore the original background when application exits.I understand that this bug also affects the Platform Wallpaper Switcher too. There is a bug where if you use the Built-in Windows Slideshow and then start JBS portable, it will not restore the slideshow on exit.if you operate them both together it will create problems with image overlays. ![]() If you use the built-in Platform Wallpaper Switcher, you need to turn it off whilst JBS Portable is running.(At the moment this means that the JBS Portable cannot be made an official app) XP users or earlier may need to download it (free) from Microsoft if it is not already installed. This should be installed if you are using Vista or Win 7. Minor changes to pass Development Toolkit validation."I'd certainly be interested in testing out a version so I can take a look at it and I have no problems at all with you releasing a portable version of JBS - in JBS now incorporated into the install package (no need for online installer).Other values are those included in the original default set. DefaultData introduced to ensure initial load of setting.xml file has correct language file and set to PortableApp Pictures folder.English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese-Brazilian, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), Slovenian, Russian, Hungarian and Finnish. Added language support to portable version.Updated to new version of JBS version 4.4.Yahoo! image search – the internet is your oyster!ĭownload John's BackgroundSwitcher Portable Development Test 2.Bing Image Search – not a Google fanboy? Then Bing is for you!.Google Image Search – get pictures from anywhere across the internet.Webshots – if you’re a Webshots user, you can choose from your online or downloaded photos and collections.Picasa Web Albums – choose from specific albums or any search text.smugmug photo galleries – yours, your friends, anybody’s!.Phanfare web albums – keep up to date with your friends and family.Any Media RSS feed – choose pictures from sites like DeviantArt, Photobucket, LOLCats and Zooomr amongst many others!.Vladstudio wallpapers – choose from the coolest wallpapers on the net!.Facebook – your friends photos on your desktop!.You never know what you’re going to get next! Flickr photo sharing – selecting pictures by person, tags, sets or just plain random.Folders containing pictures on your computer such as ‘My Pictures’.You can specify which pictures to choose from: John’s Background Switcher (or JBS for short) periodically changes the background image on your computer (like every hour or every day) to something interesting. Make your wallpaper interesting! With John's Background Switcher! Application: John’s Background Switcher (Freeware)ĭescription: (Taken from the link above):
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