Backgrounds 7.3

Backgrounds makes your desktop dynamic with 6 themes: iTunes, Parallax, Quartz, Video, System and Time. It is designed for Mac users who want to make the backgrounds of their computer screens more attractive, stylish, and dynamic. This can be done by adding brand new features and helpful widgets to your screen to achieve an exquisite and original desktop appearance.

1) iTunes Theme:
Shows the artwork of iTunes’ current track as a wallpaper. Or a music video

• Play a video that matches the current track, excellent for playing music videos.
• Use the track’s first artwork, a random one, the one that best matches the current display or all artworks changing every 20 seconds.
• Activates automatically when music is playing.
• Fullscreen mode available.

2) Parallax Theme:
Give depth to your desktop by moving the cursor.

• Uses the user desktop image or images.
• Flip the x or y axis movement direction.

3) Video Theme:
Play any video as your desktop wallpaper.

• Express yourself with your own videos and live wallpapers
• Add your own video loop to make it even better.
• Add multiple files and play everything as a playlist.

4) Quartz Theme:
Run any Quartz Composition as a wallpaper.

• Make your own Quartz Compositions or download them.
• Access to iTunes current track info.

5) System Theme:
Monitor the CPU and Network usage.

• Get a glance of your system from Notification Center with the included widget.
• Set your own bandwidth speed limits or leave it as 0 for dynamic mode.
• Set it as transparent for combining it with your Desktop Image.
• Adjust the pointer speed and the update frequency.
• Set the size and position that you like the most.
• Measure your connection as bits or bytes.
• Stack gauges vertically.

6) Time Theme:
Know the time from your Desktop.

• Customise attributes like the Font, Size, Position, Color and Shadow.
• Show or hide the day, month and seconds.

What’s New:

Version 7.0
Backgrounds 7 adds full support for macOS Mojave, includes a new dark appearance, new configuration options, user experience and under the hood improvements, and more.

Dark mode in macOS Mojave

• All-new dark appearance
• Today widget adds dark and light rings variants

Quartz

• Adds the music track Loved property to the Quartz composition input data so it can be rendered along with the Rating property (compatible already with the Quartz composition BeComposed 1.6)

System

• Includes new Memory and Storage options
• New configuration options Show label and Color text

Time

• New option to reset the font

Today Widget

• Adds support for dark and light modes
• Includes new Memory and Storage options

Screen Savers

• Glass and Quartz X add macOS Mojave support

Improvements

• User experience improvements
• Under the hood improvements
• Minor improvements
• Improves the video streams export process

Fixes

• Bug fixes
• Fixes some issues that prevented selecting videos in a playlist

Compatibility: OS X 10.10 or later, 64-bit processor
Homepage https://apps.apple.com/us/app/backgrounds/id808501572

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