BioniX Background Changer - Features
Intuitive graphic user interface
Even if BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer is the most complex wallpaper manager around, we kept the main interface simple and uncluttered. Only the strictly necessary buttons were left on the main interface: the Previous/Next Wallpaper, Panic, Minimize All, Shuffle and the countdown controls.
If this is too much for you to digest, you can switch to the Minimalistic Interface which was even more simplified.
Making you king over your desktop!
You have a beautiful wallpaper on your desktop and you want to admire it in all its glory? Well, without BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer this is hardly possible. You wallpaper is probably hidden behind the open windows, the icons and the taskbar. BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer can temporary hide your icons, your taskbar and minimize all applications to expose your wallpaper.
Monolithic, compact, portable
Don't you hate mammoth programs that install literally hundreds of MB of crapware in your system? They takes ages to install and when installed they make your computer crawl like a lizard in the snow. Our software is monolithic and portable. You can move the program around in your computer without reinstalling it. You can put it on a USB stick and take it with you. You can send it via email. To uninstall it, just delete it!
Huge program/microscopic package. No installation required
As it doesn't need to install stuff into your Windows system/registry. However, we deliver it with a 'fake' installer only for convenience. The program itself is only 3MB but few demo wallpapers are 'bundled' with the program.
Hundreds of features in such a small package and no stuff installed in your system? That's impressive! Right?
BioniX, the navigator
Two handy buttons allows you to navigate to the next/previous wallpaper. You have a global (system-wide) shortcut for these function, so, if a wallpaper that you don't like accidentally lands on your desktop you can advance to the next/previous wallpaper without opening BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer.
BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer can play a user defined sound file every time it changes the wallpaper so you will know that a fresh wallpaper awaits on your desktop.
Ingenious time control
You can set the interval at which your desktop wallpaper will be changed. The program is extremely flexible allowing you to choose any interval between one second and 60 hours in increments of one second, one minute or one hour.
Smart crop
BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer will automatically stretch/crop wallpapers that don't fit your desktop – for example when you have a wide (16:9) monitor but your wallpapers are 4:3.
The Panic button
Quick! Your mum/boss is coming! Press the Panic button to replace the picture of that blonde girl you have on your desktop with something decent. Don't forget to pretend you're busy!
Of course, you can customize the 'Panic' image.
Auto rotate your wallpapers
- Rotate wallpaper at 90º clockwise
- Rotate wallpaper at 90º anti-clockwise
- Auto-rotate based on EXIF info - Digital cameras automatically add a special field (called EXIF) to photos. It contains miscellaneous information about the picture such camera orientation (portrait/landscape). The program will use this field to automatically rotate your background wallpapers.
Lights and shadows
The program allows miscellaneous saturation (oversaturated, normal saturation, gray scale, negative colors), brightness and contrast adjustments
Smart wallpaper resizing functions
If your images/wallpapers are smaller than your monitor, BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer can automatically enlarge them to fit your desktop:
- Enlarge small wallpapers until one border touches the edges of the screen
- Enlarge small wallpapers with no more than x%
Flip it
Usually the artists are 'concentrating' the image on the left hand of your screen. Unfortunately, desktop icons are also cluttered on the right side of the screen, hiding the best parts of your image. Therefore, we also added a button to quickly flip the background wallpaper.
Smart background color
You wallpaper is smaller than your desktop and ugly borders appears around it? Most programs will stretch the wallpaper to fill the desktop but at what cost? The wallpaper looks poor.
Using revolutionary algorithms, BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer takes it to the next level. BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer can analyze the image and try to determine desktop's background color in order to blend the image into that color seamless. If the image doesn't have a predominant color the program can fade wallpaper's borders to black using a smart fade effect.
Wallpaper enhancement
With BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer even low resolution/ tiny images can be used as wallpapers. Even on huge screens.
Smart algorithms tells BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer when it is necessary to tile an image or to mirror it (both horizontal and vertical mirror effects are supported).
Hmmm… I wonder which wallpaper is that?
BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer can show the name of your current wallpaper right on your desktop. You can change the position of the text to the left/right side corner, or center.
Dual monitor
BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer can auto detect dual monitor (multi monitor) configurations. You can set the wallpapers in miscellaneous ways:
- Clone wallpaper on all monitors
- Expand wallpaper on all monitors
- Individual wallpaper on each monitor
Lock on folder
This absolutely unique function allows BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer to actively monitor the specified folder. The program will automatically update its playlist as you add (or delete) files to that folder.
You can monitor folder for changes constantly or only at program start up.
BioniX from dawn till dusk
You can start BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer at Windows start-up, minimized to taskbar, to system tray or maximized. And when it starts it can do several additional tricks. It can:
- start the countdown timer
- change wallpaper instantly
- wait for your to change the wallpaper manually
Even more! You can set BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer to "Don't disturb me" mode. BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer starts changes your wallpaper and then shuts itself down. Every time you start your computer you will have a nice and fresh wallpaper but the program won't be running.
Uncluttered your taskbar be moving the icon to system tray
You can instruct the program to show its icon in system tray instead of taskbar. An animated icon will be used when the countdown is on and a static icon when it is off. You can also see the countdown in the icon. The program can be minimized to system tray or closed to system tray. There is also a handy pop-up menu if you click the system tray icon.
Even your dog will understand how to use BioniX
Nobody likes to read the manual, therefore, the graphic interface are peppered with tooltips. Just hover your mouse cursor over ANY item on the interface and a tooltip will pop-up to explain what that control does and how to use it. It cannot be simpler than this. Right?
Always tuned on our frequencies
BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer can automatically check for updates once per day and let you know if an update was found. For those that haven't heard yet, the updates are free!
Master your BioniX with a single key stroke
BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer supports system-wide shortcuts. These are combinations of keys that work everywhere even if BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer is not visible on screen. For example you can press "Control+Alt+N" to switch to the next wallpaper or "Control+Alt+I" to hide desktop icon or "Control+Alt+P" to go to Panic mode.
State of the art resamplers
The word "resampler" may not ring a bell for some users, but believe us, when you are working with images this is the first thing you should look after! A resampler is a special algorithm used to resize an image. Resizing the wallpaper using poor resamplers will ruin it. BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer offers you state of the art resamplers impossible to find even in professional image processing tools.
Not just a wallpaper manger. Also a time manager!
You have an important meeting in 30 minutes and you are keeping an eye on your clock? BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer can display a huge digital clock over your desktop. You won't miss your appointments anymore!
Additional tool integration
BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer seamlessly integrates with "CategorizeThis!" and "Painless Image Resizer", two programs that will make your life easier and your desktop prettier.
Wallpaper editor
BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer allows you to define a preferred image editor and open any wallpaper in the editor so you can edit it.
BioniX is power efficient
BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer can be set not to change your wallpaper if CPU is busy (if you are playing a game, for example) or if your laptop is running on batteries. BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer displays info about your battery status and can announce you when the laptop switches from AC to batteries. You can also adjust BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer process priority.
Know it all
All operations performed by BioniX Background Wallpaper Changer are recorded in a log. You can set the program to show this log if an error occurs. Different levels of verbosity can be set.
The Playlist Editor
The playlist is plain and simply a jewelry. You can customize multiple aspects of your playlist editor, such as filtering, font, color, etc. It shows the name, path, resolution file size, category and the rate you gave to each wallpaper (you can rate each image with up to 5 stars).
Create new playlists with drag & drop
You can create an infinite number of new thematic playlists or edit existing playlists. Adding new wallpapers to your playlist is as simple as saying 'drag and drop'. You can even drag and drop folders. The program will get all images contained in that folder and its subfolders.
More smart algorithms
The playlist has a smart feature that allows you to cycle through the wallpapers in the playlist more evenly. This means that no image will be used more often than other.
Tidy up playlists
To delete unwanted wallpapers from your playlist just press the "Delete" key. Press "Control+Delete" to delete the images also from your computer. The program will show a confirmation dialog box before deleting anything. The files will be deleted to Recycle Bin.
You don't want to see the same wallpaper twice? The images that have been already played can be deleted using the dedicated function.
But the fun only now begins: With BioniX Desktop Wallpaper Changer you can move your wallpapers to user defined categories with a two clicks. Just right click your image and send it to the desired category. You can also rename wallpapers right from the playlist.
No duplicates please
BioniX Desktop Wallpaper Changer is smart enough to automatically detect and reject duplicate wallpapers when you add files to the playlist.
BioniX will accept only pretty wallpapers to your playlists!
BioniX Desktop Wallpaper Changer has filters that allow you to reject images that are not suitable as wallpapers (tiny images). It can:
- reject images smaller than certain size
- reject images larger than a certain size
Also it can reject invalid (broken/corrupt) wallpapers or even delete these wallpapers from disk.
Playlist association
You can switch between playlists with a single click: double-click a playlist file in Windows Explorer and BioniX Desktop Wallpaper Changer will automatically load it.
The fun never stops
BioniX Desktop Wallpaper Changer is not a fun-breaker. If invalid wallpapers (wallpapers that don't exist in your computer) are found, it will not bother you with an error message. The error will be noted in the Log but the program will continue to put attractive wallpapers on your desktop.
Thumbnails at your fingertips
You will not work blindly with your playlists. BioniX Desktop Wallpaper Changer shows a thumbnail for the currently selected image. The thumbnails are cached (and therefore they are really fast).
Tons of other features in the Playlist Editor
There are way too many features in the playlist editor to list them here. Here are only very few of them: Delete wallpaper from hard drive, Delete wallpaper from playlist, Delete inexistent wallpapers, Delete duplicate wallpapers, Delete already played wallpapers, Clear playlist, Reset 'Played' column, Show wallpaper full path, Show drive letters, Acquire image resolution, Show extensions, Sort wallpaper by path, Sort wallpaper by resolution, Sort wallpaper by rating, Randomize playlist, Reverse playlist, Open playlist location in Explorer, Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the current selected image, etc
Windows OS compatibility matrix
Operating systems supported by BioniX Background Change
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BioniX Background Changer also works on 64 bit operating systems.
System requirements
BioniX uses only few MB of RAM. Basically, its footprint is so small that your system will never notice it.
Everything its better when it is… freeware
BioniX Desktop Wallpaper Changer comes in three editions: Lite, Extreme and Ultimate. The Lite edition has some limitations but it's free.
The never ending story
As you can see, this page is huge even we left out lots and lots and lots of features. Almost every single feature enumerated in this page is customizable and there are literally hundreds of other features in BioniX Desktop Wallpaper Changer!
New features piles up every month. Here are the features that we plan for the near future:
- Skinable interface
- Taifun – Share files (mainly wallpapers) with other BioniX users
- Download millions of wallpapers from Flickr, Facebook, Google, etc with a single click! Literally!
- Embedded screen saver
- Multi language manual, web site and interface
Download the software right now and explore it. And if there is a feature that we don't have you can ask for it and we will implement it!
