
v10.9 [Nov 7, 2018]
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.
v7.9 [Jan 25, 2013]
Perfect tile - If an image needs to be tiled and the image height is pretty big BioniX will tile it only horizontally but not also vertically.
Added menu (in Tools) to allow access to Flicker Mass Downloader. Deliver the latest version of Flicker Mass Downloader with BioniX.
v7.3 [Nov 8, 2012]
November - BioniX Wallpaper Changer provides support for Webshots WB1 file format
Folder Background Changer lets you quickly and easily change the background of any folder with a right-click