Backgrounds HD For Mac

Backgrounds HD is a Mac OS X application that comes with an extensive collection of high-quality wallpapers of all resolutions. It helps you bring more life to your Mac’s desktop by browsing a growing collection of wallpapers in every major category.

The application provides a menu bar item that allows you to launch the main window. By accessing the main window, you can browse wallpapers by category and preview them. Moreover, you can access the newest, oldest, random, favorites or downloaded images from a category.

Categories are diverse and numerous: abstract, animals, brand, car, food, floral, mountains, love and many more. As mentioned before, you can download wallpapers and then use them into a slideshow that can be started by clicking a button. Some slideshow aspects can be set: transition effect, delay time and an option to randomize transition effects.

Backgrounds HD enables you to access a panel where you can browse your downloaded images as picture thumbnails. You can enlarge the thumbnails in order to get a better view of them. What’s more, you can even use a button for setting the selected image as desktop wallpaper.

The application offers a few basic preferences, such as automatically setting an image as wallpaper after downloading it, hiding the desktop icons, hiding the status bar icon, hiding the Dock icon, showing the main window when opening the app or opening the app at login.

To sum up, Backgrounds HD is one of those wallpaper applications for Mac OS X that we usually love because of the beautiful wallpapers they provide. The app makes it really easy to browse pictures by theme and then to organize and display them on multiple desktops.