We may love wallpapers on our desktop, but these are no more than a static image currently (so far). You can now break the monotony with Windows Vista Dream Scene –- enabling you to run high quality videos on your desktop while you work. And these could be your favorite music videos, movies or home videos. The in-built intelligence pauses these videos when you switch to other important tasks, restarting themselves when the desktop background comes once again into view.
This is one of the suite of exciting products available for free to users of Windows Vista Ultimate, the luxury edition of Windows Vista. Another one, the Windows Photo Gallery allows you a more intuitive, easy-to-navigate, and robust way of interacting with your photos and home movies besides giving you some basic editing functions. You can import, organise, tag and search for images easily from here.
And with the third product, the Windows Movie Maker, you can create, manage, and share home movies that have been recorded using a digital video camcorder or a digital camera. You can even make a home video from your still photos -- complete with titles, credits and transitions. Run these on your desktop after that using Dream Scene.
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