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Live Desktop - Make your Mac desktop come alive with animated themes

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Live Desktop is an awesome app which makes the Mac desktop come alive with stunningly high quality live and animated themes instead of the boring wallpapers.

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So the obvious question (and it isn't address on your website), how will this impact the battery and performance of my macbook? What is the impact on the CPU?
Maker
Hi, We tested it carefully. While comparing it with browser. Live Desktop takes 15 - 17 where as firefox takes 108.4 as the energy impact :). Avg impact is just 2 where as Firefox takes 6. CPU Firefox 55.3 where as Live Desktop is 3.8
Don't start playing music when I access the website.
Maker
Makes Perfect Sense i would ask my web team to make it mute.
Maker
Its rectified immediately now there will be no sound :) Thanks
Maker
Dear Product Hunters, Live Desktop is a product we dreamed for a couple of years but shelved it as it had a lot of complexity and difficulty in getting approval from apple. Finally, we are here today and we believe lot more things can be done and added in next subsequent releases and we have lots of ideas in mind. For the first version, we wanted it to be simple and magical. Enter into a different world by these live themes. We are officially launching it this Independence Day week end. Please download and let us know your feedback. Live Desktop is an awesome app which makes the Mac desktop come alive with stunningly high quality live and animated themes instead of the boring wallpapers. Bring your Desktop to Life using Live Desktop. App Download Link 10 Promo Codes for First 10 Product Hunters :)
The effect is ruined when the video jerks when it loops back to the start. this is particularly evident on the lion background for example. You have created a great, low resource app, but you need to work on the content.
Maker
True Dave we too felt it and tried to make it too smooth, we will correct it in upcoming update, but our team loved lion so no other go i had to release it. You are right and with my taste :). Yes we are working on the content and will add high quality ones with smooth ones. Thanks so much Dave for your wonderful feedback.
I think that video people solved the "endless loop problem" many years ago. Don't reinvent the wheel, find someone who has done it before.
Maker
ha ha sure :) thanks, yes will never reinvent. Thanks once again so much for taking your time to share it.
Not a fan of the current selection of desktops, but there is potential. Currently I just run `/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background` on startup for the same effect — Looks amazing when paired with [Aerial]()!
Maker
Thanks Will, yes we are adding up many and working on lots of updates.
Maker
10 More Codes to Product hunters :). Kindly use the promo and share about the app to your friend and family. Kindly up vote.
Thanks!
Maker
Welcome :)
Are they retina/HD quality?
Maker
Yes they are HD quality.
it doesn't seem anything like hd quality on my rMBP.
Maker
1920 × 1080 is the resolution of the live theme but we have reduced the size with minimum lossless techniques else 1 theme would be close to a GB.
I made GIF: And one for the 4th of July:
Maker
Wow Wow Wow Thanks so much, we were thinking to do one and thanks so much for taking your time and efforts in making this. Thanks for your love and support.
my pleasure :)
my pleasure :) (and updated the 2nd one that was broken)
Maker
This is so wonderful and i see many tweeting this :)
Thank you!
Maker
:) Welcome
Very Cool! I've been hunting for something like this for a while. Thanks :)
Maker
Thanks Tristan you made our day :). Thanks for the love kindly share with your friends and family. If possible leave a review in macappstore
Thanks for the code! Tried it out but for me the backgrounds are far to cheesy and of little artistic value (an american flag, really^^). Also the loop seems far to short for me. I'm back to "Artpaper", it's more after my style ;-)
Maker
Thanks so much for your feedback. Many wanted to have it for the Independence day :) i understand tastes differ, we will try to add artistic themes soon.
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