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Set desktop pictures via Safari 3 beta Web Browsers
After what seems like an eternity, Apple has finally made it extremely easy to set an image you find online as your desktop picture. It couldn't be simpler: Find the image you want to use, control-click on it, and choose Use Image as Desktop Picture from the pop-up menu. It's as simple as that.

[robg adds: Perhaps I'm the only one, but I hadn't noticed this option yet. Keep in mind that unless the image you find is at least the same resolution as your monitor, you'll get some pretty bad fuzziness as OS X attempts to scale the chosen image up to your monitor's resolution.]
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Set desktop pictures via Safari 3 beta
Authored by: RussellK on Jun 19, '07 08:15:55AM

Any idea if/where the file representing the new desktop image is stored when this method is used?



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Set desktop pictures via Safari 3 beta
Authored by: emanhaud on Jun 19, '07 08:36:51AM

I found the image at ~/Library/Safari/Safari Desktop Picture.jpg. Safari renamed the image when it downloaded it. Oddly enough, Spotlight was able to find the picture when I searched using its original name on the web.



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Could Be a Problem in Labs
Authored by: bedouin on Jun 19, '07 09:59:20AM

This could be real annoying in computer labs if there's no way to disable it.



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Could Be a Problem in Labs
Authored by: ascanio on Jun 19, '07 11:19:25PM

You could probably put a locked folder named "Safari Desktop Picture.jpg" in the Safari folder. Or maybe a (locked) copy of the original desktop picture, with that name.



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