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What’s new in Wallpaper Changer v12?

A total of 101 features were introduced in v12 and 140 issues were fixed. Here are some of the new features: Matrix background animation, Eye-candy calendar blended over wallpaper, Video support, Faster playlist, etc. Read more details about each of the features of BioniX Wallpaper App.

What’s new in BioniX Wallpaper Changer v11?

  • v11.45: Show thumbnails in playlist.
  • v11.45: Let user access skins easily.
  • v11.45: BioniX comes now with 8 cool skins (4 dark, 4 light).
  • v11.45: BioniX GUI is now fully DPI aware (however, the main menu icons and logo images are not!).
  • v11.40 New feature: BioniX can now automatically decide how to resize the wallpaper based on its aspect ratio (fill/fit)
  • v11.30 Automatic wallpaper size detection: BioniX will automatically detect which is the best approach to resize the wallpaper to perfectly fit your desktop
  • v11.20 Custom graphic properties (mirror, tile, zoom, saturation, contrast, etc) can be now configured for each individual wallpaper
  • v11.20 Custom graphic properties (mirror, tile, zoom, saturation, contrast, etc) can be now configured globally (for each all wallpapers)
  • v11.30 Improved ‘Wallpaper properties’ window
  • v11.30 Improved ‘Automatic background color detection’ window
  • v11.02 The user can change font size for all GUI, from the Settings window
  • v11.02 Countdown time (time until next wallpaper) shows in task bar
  • v11.11 MASSIVE architecture changes in PhotoPile
  • v11.11 MASSIVE changes in Wallpaper Properties
  • v11.02 MASSIVE speed improvement when loading images from disk
  • v11.02 MASSIVE speed improvement when extracting thumbnails from static (normal) images
  • v11.02 MASSIVE speed improvement when extracting thumbnails from animated gifs
  • v11.02 MASSIVE speed improvements in PhotoPile
  • v11.02 MASSIVE speed improvement when loading images from disk
  • v11.02 MASSIVE speed improvement when extracting thumbnails from static (normal) images
  • v11.02 MASSIVE speed improvement when extracting thumbnails from animated gifs
  • v11.02 MASSIVE improvements in PhotoPile.
  • v11.00 New helper tool released: Video Wallpaper
  • v11.00 New helper tool released: BioniX RainDrop
  • v11.43: The “auto updater” settings tab is hidden until the user chooses to show it.
  • v11.41 The user can click the “Downloading wallpaper ” to view the image directly on the original website. Good for when Bionix cannot download a wallpaper.
  • v11.41 The width of the first column (‘Wallpaper Name’) in the playlist is now automatically expanded
  • v11.41 The bug reporting tool was upgraded from EurekaLog to MadShi MadExcept (trial version) .
  • v11.41 Switching from ‘Full graphic user interface’ to ‘Simplified graphic user interface’ will show/hide some irrelevant columns in the playlist
  • v11.41 Removed the ‘Played’ column from the playlist.
  • v11.40 The user can apply skins/themes.
  • v11.40 New playlist format. The old formats are still supported.
  • v11.35 Added tooltip for “animation settings” btn in the toolbar.
  • v11.32 We only show advanced menus if the GUI is in ADVANCED mode
  • v11.30 The ‘Wallpaper options’ tab was re-organized
  • v11.30 The user can choose which panels to show on the main (top) GUI: Monitors, Quick tools, Timer, Preview panel
  • v11.30 The GUI was uncluttered by moving some less important panels from the main GUI to a dedicated (default hidden) window
  • v11.30 ‘Monitors’ moved to the main (top) GUI
  • v11.2x PhotoPile: User can set rotation randomness level, including 0 (no rotation)
  • v11.2x Autorotate thumbnails based on EXIF
  • v11.02 Improved splash screen (uses a separate thread now, better antialiasing)
  • v11.02 Improved code in “skins”
  • v11.02 fixed: when trying to resize playlist columns, the clicked column was first sorted and then resized.
  • v11.02 Downloading wallpaper panel: changed ugly lime color in the waiting panel, show only the website name, show Busy cursor, added icon FOR “downloading”.
  • v11.02 Downloading wallpaper panel: also add an icon that means “downloading”.
  • v11.02 “Details about ini file” moved to a different tab
  • v11.00 Improved updater
  • v11.00 Improved power management
  • v11.00 Improved ‘Clock as wallpaper’

What’s new in v10?

  • Animated wallpapers
    • Support for AVI files (DivX and MPG compression). Simply drag and drop a video to your playlist.
    • Supports online videos. The video file must be directly accessible. Videos accessible via scripts or streaming (YouTube) are not YET supported.
    • Preview for video files
    • Decreased CPU usage when playing animated files
    • Improved GIF Animator
    • Animation (GIF/AVI) can now be played on both monitors (‘Force animation below desktop icons’ must be enabled)
  • Online wallpaper
    • Online images/wallpapers can now be added directly to playlist
    • At start up, the user is presented with several lists of online wallpapers (a total of over 50000 items) to choose from
    • Next wallpaper is automatically pre-downloaded (in background) for a smoother experience
    • Improved speed when adding thousands of online images into the playlist
    • Download ALL images from a website with AID (Automatic Image Downloader)
    • Added tool to extract URLs from local HTML or text file
  • GUI
    • Massive GUI layout improvements. The GUI is now resizable
    • Improved icons in main menu and buttons
    • Cool splash screen at program startup
    • The user can now switch between Advanced and Simplified user interface (see Settings menu)
  • Speed
    • Faster startup
    • Faster routines to change the wallpaper on Win 8 / Win 10
    • Smaller memory footprint. BioniX now uses only 30MB of RAM in standby and about 60MB when changing the wallpapers (memory requirements depend HEAVILY on your monitor and wallpaper resolution!)
  • Wallpaper
    • Wallpaper properties (image orientation, fill/fit to desktop, tile, color enhancements, etc) can now be customized individually, for each individual wallpaper
    • New image effect: smoothing
    • New image effect: lightness
    • New image effect: darkness
    • Improved Tile/Mirror effect
  • Playlist editor
    • NEW: Delete from playlist all images that have been already played
    • Put on desktop next wallpaper when current wallpaper is deleted
  • Multimonitor support
    • Major improvements in multi-monitor support
    • Information about multi-monitor is now instantly updated
  • Installer & updater
    • Automatic updater: inform the user when a new version is available online
    • Updated uninstaller
  • Day/night wallpaper
  • Now supports ‘Shuffle’
  • Now takes into account ALL items in the playlist (including online wallpapers)
  • Detection of dark/light wallpapers improved
  • Other new features
    • The user can now send an image to BioniX via command line. Example: BionixWallpaper.exe -“c:\wallpapers\image.jpg”
    • Embedded screensaver. Play your favorite wallpapers as screensaver when you are away from your computer. The images are picked from current playlist.
    • Improved: Clock on desktop
    • Improved; Calendar over wallpaper
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