Chromecast Now Lets You Use Your Own Photos As Its Wallpaper

[techbeck]

Previously limited to displaying the current time and a randomly selected photo from Google?s relatively small collection, here?s what you can do now:

• Use your own photos as wallpapers. The photos have to be pulled in from your Google+ account, but you can pick and choose which albums you want to pop up on your screen.
• Display the weather at your Chromecast?s location.
• Display tech/political/business/world news headlines (though you can?t pick which topics to show). If you pop into the Chromecast app before the headline switches, you can click in to view the story.
• Add more Google-picked photos into the wallpaper rotation, including a bunch of art pieces and satellite photos of interesting places.

 

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http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/08/chromecast-now-lets-you-use-your-own-photos-as-its-wallpaper/

[DocM]

Yup. Checked Chromecast in the App Store and the upgrade was flagged.

Needs work though; the UI is a bit kludgy, and you need to upload your backgrounds, but it works.