The hack isn’t strictly standalone. Like the Kindle weather station hack on which it is based, you need a computer to act as the server. We see this as a good thing.

Impressively, the wallpaper hack has now racked up 15.3 million views and a whopping 376,000 likes online. Many people rushed to the comments to express their delight over the nifty wallpaper hack.

If you scoff at Instagram and wouldn't sully your wallpapers with heavily-filtered photos, you can use Flickr instead, for example. Just point IFTTT to your Flickr account, or to a public Flickr ...

Woman uses amazing life hack to transform her home with free wallpaper samples Donna Taylor was offering help on the Extreme Budget DIY & Life Hacks Facebook page so others can reap the benefits ...