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If you are doing screenshots of applications, webcasts for your podcast you may not want people seeing what you have on your desktop. For example mine is a cluster bomb of folders, images and various other bits and bobs. If I am taking a screenshot I might not want people to see them. This is where Desktop Curtain comes in. Its a small, free application that can hide your desktop.

Drawing The Curtains

Desktop Curtains is free, (you probably wouldn’t want to pay for this application). Once as it is launched, it will but an image, full screen, as the back most window on your desktop. This means that when you see your desktop you will only see this image. As a result it hides all of your icons and folders from prying eyes. It works really well. For example you can use the show all windows Expose button (but not the hide windows button) and the background will still be there.

It is a bit tricky to get working. Since there isn’t any application as such running it can be a bit funny get your head around how the application works. Once as you launch the app, it will start. You can change your desktop image to anything you want, ones with your logo work particularly well. As well as change a couple of other features such as which Spaces and screen it effects.

Conclusion

There are a couple of problems with this application. For example if you want to show your desktop with Expose it will show you original desktop and not the backdrop one you wanted. As well as this it is a bit tricky to show the application once as you have closed the window. It takes a little bit of shortcut trickery (explained in the app) to load the window back up again. One final drawback of this application is that it is quite slow. But you can’t complain about it.

This application is very useful for people who need it. Probably only those who are taking screenshots or videos. Other than that it has limited use.