Here’s a trick many people don’t seem to know about: You can have a new beautiful picture on your computer every day, and it’s free for Windows users.
The pictures are as dazzling as any we’ve seen from the National Geographic and range from animals to exotic landscapes. The free download, from bing.com/explore/desktop, also puts a search box on your screen. Along the bottom of the box are icons for weather, news, and facebook. The first time you click weather, click “options” to change the default city, Seattle, to your own home city. (Unless you’re really keen on seeing Seattle weather.) Type in a zip code, then click the plus sign to add it. The search box also has links to “trending” searches, pictures and videos. When we first looked at it, a popular search was for “Mike Ditka falls asleep.”