ChronoWall 1.00 RC2

ChronoWall 1.00 RC2 is created to be a simple to use yet ideal wallpaper manager for Microsoft Windows 7/Vista/XP.

One of the key features is the ability to specify which wallpapers to use based on the time of day and time of year. Beyond that, ChronoWall offers many unique ways to view your photos on your desktop. Take photos from any source and aesthetically arrange them as a collage on your desktop in various different styles. See your friends on Facebook cheering you on as you work on a project.

Span a single image across multiple monitors, display different images on all monitors or specify what you want to show on each individual monitor - all while preserving all the features of ChronoWall. Intermittent external displays are fully supported.

Enhancements:

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• • If Flickr was being used, all online searches could stop downloading after a period of time if ChronoWall was left running. This has been fixed - it was due to the counter that limits the maximum number of running searches at a time not being reset properly.
• (BUGFIX)
• • Another bug was fixed that dealt with multi-screen images and the number of monitors these images were for.
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• • Dialogs and collages now take into account the position of the taskbar.
  • Previously, the taskbar was always assumed to be on the bottom of the screen.
• (BUGFIX/FEATURE)
• • Multiple files can now be added at a time via the 'Add...' menu item. This should have already been implemented given that multiple files could be added by dragging them into the application.
• (BUGFIX)
• • The system tray icon is now restored and the wallpaper fade setting is preserved in the event Explorer crashes.
• (BUGFIX/FEATURE)
• • When searching for your latitude and longitude by Address, the Google Geolocation API and the Static Map API are used. This makes it much easier to set your location for the first time. Furthermore, it ensures that the correct values are used. Feel free to try it out!
• (BUGFIX)
• • RSS images and feeds are no longer lost if a feed is unable to be parsed under rare conditions.
• (BUGFIX/FEATURE)
• • When any settings are changed, a notation is shown beside the 'Save' button. This makes it more clear as to when that button needs to be pressed.
• (BUGFIX)
• • Images that are solely from online searches that aren't used locally no longer have their resampled bitmaps cached. In addition, the thumbnail cache for searches and RSS feeds is now cleaned up in the event that they are no longer available.
• (BUGFIX)
• • On Windows 7, the icon fading text issue has been fixed.

Requirements:

• Microsoft Windows 7/Vista/XP (SP2)
• Memory: 1 GB recommended
• Hard Drive: At least 5GB for the resample cache, several GB more if using online sources
• CPU: At least a dual-core CPU is recommended
• Screen resolution: Minimum of 1024x768. Neither the width nor the height can be smaller than these dimensions.
• Video Card: For desktop transitions, you must have a hardware GPU that supports Direct3D 9.0c at a minimum