You can use the open source video player VLC to make animated desktops from animated GIFs that are converted to a video format. You can use such a desktop to play a video that highlights milestones in ...

Live wallpapers are already a thing on mobile phones, and they look good. While they consume a little more power and resources, it is not a good idea to have them on your mobile. But laptops and ...

Put a goldfish on your desktop with this beautifully animated wallpaper. In our household we have a hard time keeping goldfish alive–infact, we just buried one last week. Instead of heading back to ...

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Genshin Impact developer miHoYo released Childe live wallpaper, based on the “A Warrior Far From Home” EP. The animated wallpaper is available for free via the N0va Desktop app on PC, as well as ...

The digital era that we’re in is all about doing things differently and ripping the rulebook. The phone personalization trend started years ago and is still growing as we speak. Whether it’s a phone ...

Sony’s updated its Welcome Back widget with two new animated backgrounds, based on a couple of 2025’s biggest games. The new animated wallpapers for Battlefield 6 and NBA 2K26 can be applied to the ...

The Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro have leaked in just about every single way at this point, and now you can add one of its animated wallpapers to that list. Granted, animated Pixel 8 wallpapers are not ...

Mac: Sick of using those boring, static images as your wallpaper. If you want to spice things up a bit, the GIFPaper app can set any GIF as a wallpaper. All you’ll need to do is download GIFPaper ...