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Keeping your Windows Phone 8 wallpaper fresh with lockscreen apps

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By George Ponder, Friday, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:51 am

One of the neat features on Windows Phone 8 is the flexibility with lockscreens. We've seen several apps take advantage of adding widgets to the lockscreen and rotate the wallpaper images.

This week's roundup focuses in on a selection of Windows Phone 8 apps that helps keep your lockscreen wallpaper fresh. All are either free or have a trial version to let you try things out first. The selection continues to grow and if we've missed your favorite lockscreen app, feel free to chime in below in the comments.

Photostream updated for Windows Phone 8, adds 500px to the mix

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By George Ponder, Wednesday, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:20 pm

The Windows Phone 8 lockscreen app Photostream just got a little better.

Photostream already gives you the ability to not only rotate your lockscreen wallpapers from images in your Pictures Hub but PhotoStream will also tapped into Flickr to generate lockscreen wallpapers. The app was recently updated to version 1.2 and allows you to tap into photos on 500px as well.

Flickr Live Wallpaper: Adding a photographic touch to your Windows Phone 8 lockscreens [Updated]

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By George Ponder, Thursday, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:02 pm

Windows Phone Lockscreen apps seem to be appearing out of nowhere these days. You have Befriend, Paper Shuffle, Lock Themes and now you can add Flickr to the growing number of wallpaper sources. Flickr Live Wallpaper is a lockscreen wallpaper app that pulls images from the popular online photography source.

The nice thing about Flickr Live Wallpaper is that you can name your photo source, use multiple sources and if need be, crop the photos so they fit a little better on the screen.