BioniX Wallpaper Changer

Is the world's famous software that allows you to change your background wallpapers at any chosen time interval, from 1 second to several days. Currently it is the choice of millions of users all over the world, winner of multiple awards from renowned reviewers and critics.

The program is loaded with features but still VERY easy to use. If you encounter an item that you don't understand instantly, just hover the mouse over it and a help tooltip will pop up. BioniX Wallpaper Changer is not only a wallpaper changer but also an advanced wallpaper manager: with BioniX you can easily move wallpapers to user-defined categories, filter small files that are unsuitable as wallpapers, sort wallpapers by filesize/resolution/name/rating, move wallpapers to Recycle Bin, rename wallpaper, photo edit wallpapers, etc. It supports multiple/thematic playlists. Adding wallpapers to playlist is as simple as drag & drop.

Another neat feature BioniX is the Lock on folder that allows BioniX Wallpaper Changer to monitor a folder and automatically update its playlist when wallpapers are added to that folder. You can even burn BioniX Wallpaper Changer software on a CD together with your background wallpapers so it will automatically start changing the desktop wallpaper when you give the CD to someone.

There are literally hundreds of features. Here are only very few of them:

• Making you king over your desktop - You have a beautiful wallpaper on your desktop and you want to admire it in all its glory? Your wallpaper is probably hidden behind the open windows, the icons and the taskbar. BioniX Wallpaper Changer can temporary hide the icons, the taskbar and minimize all applications.
• No installation required - Don't you hate mammoth programs that install literally hundreds of MB of crapware in your system? Our software doesn't install stuff in your system. To uninstall it, just delete it!
• Portable - You can move the program around in your computer without reinstall. You can put it on a USB stick and take it with you or you can send it via email.
• 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 Desktop Changer. It can also play a user defined sound file every time it changes the background.
• Flexible 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.
• Low hardware requirements - BioniX needs only 4-5MB or RAM to run so it can work even on ancient computers.
• Advanced Playlist Editor with wallpaper rating system that supports up to 500,000 background wallpapers.
• Dual monitor support, smart enlarge, smart desktop background color, smart tile, smart borders, mirror effect.
• Stores your background wallpapers in multiple thematic playlists.
• Supports JPEG2000 wallpapers.
• Intuitive graphic user interface - Even if BioniX Desktop Wallpaper Changer is the most complex wallpaper manager around, we kept the main interface simple and uncluttered. If this is too much for you to digest, you can switch to the Minimalistic Interface which was even more simplified.
• System tray icon, context menu, panic button, hide desktop icons, minimize all open windows, remote control, show time over wallpaper, hide taskbar, brightness, saturation or contrast, customizable global hotkeys, shuffle wallpapers, wallpaper preview panel, next/previous wallpaper buttons, "Don't disturb me" mode, playlist association. Full list of features here.

BioniX Desktop Wallpaper Changer is a mature program available on the market since 1999. It runs any operating system from Windows 98 to Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and even Windows 8.

Things you should know about desktop background wallpapers

 A wallpaper is an image used as background on a computer screen. The wallpaper is commonly used in Microsoft Windows, Macintosh Mac OS, Linux, and in other operating systems. The term used in Windows is desktop background or wallpaper, and in Mac OS is desktop picture. Prior to Windows Vista, only BMP or JPG images were recognized. However, with introduction of Windows Vista and Windows 7 the following file formats are recognized: JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIF.

Screen resolution is the number of dots (pixels) on the entire screen. For example, a 640-by-480 pixel screen is capable of displaying 640 distinct dots on each of 480 lines, which are about 300,000 pixels (0.3MegaPixels).
The most common screen resolutions are: 1920x1600, 1440x1280, 1280x1024, and 1024x768.
Please note that setting small images as wallpaper for your desktop will enlarge them too much and the picture will look pixelated.

Position options:

When you set a background picture on your desktop you have 3 positioning options: tile, center, or stretch.

Stretch - you must manual choose it for those pictures closer to your screen resolution. If the picture is too small, when you apply stretch settings it will be distorted.  BioniX Desktop Changer, which automatically resizes the picture to fit your desktop with one of its smart functions. This smart function allows you to:

• Enlarge small wallpapers until one border touches the edges of the screen
• Enlarge small wallpapers with no more than x% so the picture won’t look pixelated

Classic Windows stretch:

BioniX smart stretch:

 Tile - puts repeated image on your desktop in the form of tiles. You just need to find that picture that will look nice in tiled settings.

Classic Windows tile:

BioniX smart tile (with horizontal mirror effect):

Center - places your image in the middle of the screen.

Classic Windows center:

 

BioniX center:    


               

Another amazing feature of BioniX is the Smart background color: the program can analyze the wallpaper and determine your desktop background color in order to blend the image into the background seamlessly. If the wallpaper doesn't have a predominant color the program can fade wallpaper's borders to black using a smart fade effect.

Aspect ratio

Aspect ratio is the proportional relationship between image's width and its height . For example a monitor with a height of 9 inches will have a width of 16 inches.
Five common aspect ratios are: 3:2(aspect ratio found in photography, old digital cameras), 4:3 (old CRT monitors, old digital cameras), 16:9 and 16:10 (modern LCD monitors), 1.85:1, 2.39:1 (cinemas).
Please note that in Microsoft Windows, using wallpapers with an aspect ratio different than the aspect ratio of your screen will distort them. However, BioniX Background Changer has a feature called ‘Smart Enlarge’ that allows it to fit a wallpaper on your entire desktop/monitor without distorting it.

Setting your wallpaper

You can set on your desktop any kind of pictures: family, travel, holidays, animals and pets, favorite vacation, celebrities, and even abstract arts that you admire, also your desktop wallpapers can reffer to specific the time of year (holidays (like Christmas), summer, winter), your mood, etc... And if you are tired of the plain background and simple pictures you can set animated wallpapers on your desktop like rain shower, screen bubbles, billowing wind, cartoon characters as flash and others.
To customize your computer you can choose personal pictures to set them as wallpaper. Under Windows XP/Vista/7 this can be done by navigating to the folder where your photos are stored and right-clicking on any image file. This will display a pop-up menu. Choose Preview to open a slide-show window to cycle through the images in the folder. Find the picture you want to use as desktop wallpaper, right-click on it and choose Set as desktop background.

What is so nice about wallpapers?

When you wake up in the morning and you open your PC, first thing you see is the desktop wallpaper. A funny image on your desktop makes you smile all day long. Even if your day starts bad, your desktop wallpaper will give you a better mood.

How to set your preferences for the current wallpaper?

Here is how you can do this on Windows Vista/7:

1. Right click on a clear area of your desktop. This will show a pop-up window.
2. Click on Personalize. This will open a new window with many options. Here you can choose a theme to set as wallpaper (those themes are created by Windows or you may create one by yourself). A theme is a category of pictures that changes.
3. Click on Desktop Background. Now you have on the screen another window with settings for your current wallpaper (position settings, picture location).

Unfortunately, Windows allows you to change pictures in 10 and  30 seconds; 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 30 minutes; 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12 hours and 1 day.  But what if you want to change your picture every 2 minutes, or 10 hours, or, why not, every 15 seconds? There are two solutions: you can change it manually (this is the hard way), or you can use BioniX Desktop Wallpaper Changer (the easy way). It is extremely flexible and it allows you to choose any interval you want between one second and 60 hours.
If you have a dual monitor configuration and you cannot find wide-screen wallpapers you can set use dual-monitor feature offered by BioniX Background Changer.  It auto detects multi monitor configurations and permits you to set different wallpapers on different monitors. It can set automatically the wallpapers in miscellaneous ways:

• Clone wallpaper on all monitors - the same wallpaper will be set on each monitor. The wallpaper is stretched independently to fit to each monitor.
• Expand wallpaper on all monitors - if the wallpaper it’s large enough, it is stretched through multiple monitors.
• Individual wallpaper on each monitor - each monitor shows a different wallpaper.

There are a few other hundred of features of BioniX Desktop Changer. Click here if you want to see the entire list.