Active WallPaper 2008 is a Wallpaper Tool product from activessoft.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, Customize your desktop with your photos and remember your appointments using the calendar.
Display your photos without any distortion, the intelligent processing of the image provides full coverage of your desktop, without any distortion of the image, whatever your screen resolution

With Active WallPaper you can :
Effectively manage your desktop while automatically displaying your favorite photos,
Select, in one click, among the 3 possible sources (2 folders or folders and sub folders, or slideshow projects), which photos you want to see,
Show your pictures, always in full screen, whatever it is your screen resolution and the size of your pictures, without ever deform them,
Annotate your appointments, birthdays and other important date in the calendar,
Be warned with customizable alarms for this important dates,
Use one of the 70 provided templates of alarms or create your own templates,
See, with one click, all the notes for a day,
Improve your computer with a real Bell's Tower that ring every fifteen minutes half-hours and hours! (With different kind of sounds: Village's Bell-tower, Cathedral's Bells, Chimes, Swiss cuckoo!).
Define hot keys to access to the most important functions and access to them with the keyboard even when you work with another application.
With the control center of Active WallPaper, you can :
Totally customize the calendar,
Totally customize the alarms, and create your own reusable template,
Make a fantastic slideshow easily with the slide show wizard,
Setup all options for your slideshow, display time, depth and speed for the automatic zoom, transition effects, speed, and more ...
Display your slideshow on multi-screen configurations, and see different pictures on each screen,
See amazing transition effects, using multi-screens, (photos slide from one screen to another eg),
Define various parameters of integration and easy use, like the colors, saving and restoring all windows size and position,
You can also customize the colors of the interfaces, change the language of all program of the suite (even if they are open), in real time.
Description of the features
With Active WallPaper you can impactfully manage your desktop and display automatically wallpapers with your pictures.
You can choose the folder(s) containing your different images, also adding the subdirectories, and adjust all the parameters to always show your photo as best as possible. The various parameters such like the maximum deformation factor, ensure optimum display of your pictures.
You can define up to 3 different sources, and change between these various sources in a one click of a mouse, to display them as wallpaper or to view them in your a slideshow with Active SlideShow.

Preserve your private life
The function "Neutral Screen" lets you change the source of wallpapers and quickly switch between the usual origin (Desktop or project) and the Neutral Screen source.
If you do not want than somebody come in the room where you are, can show the images displayed on your screen, select this option to quickly switch the source of wallpapers. To go back to the originals photos, select again this option.
Your appointments
Annotate your appointments, birthdays and other important dates in the calendar, which you will recall all events that should not be forgotten. You can customize alarms and notes, (text, image, sound, etc...), and / or choose one of the 70 templates, and create your own templates for reuse your settings.

License
Active WallPaper is distributed as "Shareware", which means that you can freely and fully use it for a trial period of thirty days, after which you can buy a license that will allow you to continue to use it, without the need to re-download a new program

Control Center
Setting Active WallPaper is really simple, easily and strong, because it has a large number of parameters that let you to change to adapt the behavior of Active WallPaper to your system.
The calendar and alarms
The calendar is fully customizable, its appearance, its colors, font used, its position on the screen, its size, you can even (in Windows 2000, XP, Vista) to move it in the background of the screen, and continue to work normally with your desktop while viewing the calendar. The license of this graphic software is Free Trial Software, the price is $39.90, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of Active WallPaper, you can buy this graphic software.