A singular third get together Mac app lets you flip any internet web page, together with YouTube movies and hyperlinks to animated GIFs, into your Mac desktop wallpaper. Sound like enjoyable? Properly it undoubtedly is, and relying on how inventive you wish to be, you possibly can accomplish some actually fascinating wallpaper experiences on the Mac with this free device, referred to as Plash.
Plash has a easy interface, merely open it in your Mac after which present it with a URL, and also you’re able to go. The URL or webpage is initially interactive, so you possibly can zoom in, or navigate to the actual space that you just wish to present (for instance, perhaps a climate or pollen forecast, or a YouTube video, or animated GIF, and so on). Then you possibly can lock it down by exiting out of “Looking Mode”, and the web site, video, or animated gif will stay taking part in and lively within the background, similar to another wallpaper in your Mac.
One vital factor to notice about Plash is that it’s pretty useful resource hungry if you happen to’re utilizing it to show one thing like a video or animated GIF, so if you wish to have some actually fancy eye-candy impact then don’t be stunned if you happen to discover the Mac feels just a little slower, otherwise you discover that CPU and RAM are getting used a bit greater than typical. That’s simply an anticipated impact of getting one thing constantly drawn within the background, so if you happen to’re tremendous eager on most efficiency you’ll want to exit out of Plash everytime you’re wishing to have optimum velocity on the Mac.
There are different free instruments which are type of much like Plash, whether or not for turning animated GIFs into wallpapers on the Mac, and even using an animated GIF or a web page as a screen saver, after which both of these could possibly be used to show right into a wallpaper, however Plash is exclusive in that it focuses particularly on wallpapers. If this feels like one thing you’re serious about, or inquisitive about, or have a use-case for, test it out!
The app resides in your menu bar as a menu icon, and the interface itself is kind of easy. Add and paste in any URL/hyperlink to a webpage (together with https://osxdaily.com if you happen to really feel so inclined) and it’s that straightforward.
The animated GIF beneath is giant in file measurement however demonstrates utilizing Plash to show an animated GIF from a preferred gif web site as an animated GIF wallpaper in MacOS:
Do you assume it is a enjoyable utility with potential for an attention-grabbing use case? Or is that this not one thing you’d ever use? Share your ideas within the feedback.