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The Twenty-Four Hour Movie

This application lets you set your desktop background to a series of images that changes consistently according to the time or day. With it you can have as your desktop background, for instance, a timelapse video whose frames line up consistently with the time of day or day of week. For more information on this application and its history, select one of these links:

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