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AutoWallpaper 3 released
August 26, 2007It's finally here. AutoWallpaper version 3 (Windows). After a final week of rigoursly testing the new features I launched the new version yesterday (Sat 25th), along with a few tweaks to my website; including a little flash introduction movie for AutoWallpaper 3 on the homepage.As previously mentioned AutoWallpaper 3 is available free for registered users… [Read More]
AutoWallpaper 3 nears completion
August 19, 2007Bug fixes and feature additions galore this week, as development of AW3 nears completion.This weekend I have been concentrating on an outstanding bug in the screensaver module and also adding the calendar overlay (as requested by a few registered users). The bugs in the screensaver module were: incorrect scaling ratios when the image isn't a… [Read More]
Lots of PiPs
August 13, 2007Another good weekend of AutoWallpaper 3 development. The new tray menu has been completed and is working nicely.However, this weekend I turned my attention to PiPs, or in full, Picture-In-Picture options. In AW2 PiP's were a part of the effects processing for each monitor. Now in AW3 I have moved PiPs to a main tab.… [Read More]
Returning to the Asylum soon
August 6, 2007Yep, I've had a bit of a brainwave regarding Asylum development and I will be proceeding full steam ahead with development as soon as AutoWallpaper 3 is out the door. More details soon.<br />As for AW3, development is going extremely well and I'm putting the finishing touches on it over the next week or so.This… [Read More]
Building a better menu
July 30, 2007A number of registered users of AutoWallpaper have previously expressed a desire for a more advanced tray menu (right-click tray icon), and so this week I have been coding away at the menu upgrades.Although it's far from finished I'm quite happy with the results so far. Other things that are now complete. Groupings – it… [Read More]
Improving your desktop wallpapers
July 23, 2007AutoWallpaper 3 development is progressing very nicely. At present I'm redeveloping the tray icon menu to allow me to drastically improve the options available there. I'm aiming to add thumbnails to each of the history items so that it will be very easy to look back over the previous wallpapers and quickly locate one you… [Read More]
AutoWallpaper3 update
July 17, 2007Last weekend I sat down and thrashed out solutions for the multi-wallpaper support, and I have to say I'm very pleased with the results. AW3 will split the multi-monitor wallpapers into screen sized chunks so it can properly apply effects. The added bonus is that if your monitors are mis-aligned (top positions vary) then AW3… [Read More]
A good weekend of development
July 9, 2007I spent a great deal of time this weekend working on AutoWallpaper 3. I decided that with the inclusion of multi-monitor paper support and other key new features it was worthy of a version number increment. As before version 3 is a free upgrade from version 1 and 2.Features planned:<br />Multi-monitor paper support – this… [Read More]
Journey to Azshara and Multimonitor paper support
July 2, 2007I had a little time over the weekend to look into other items on my AutoWallpaper to do list and see what I could do. First up was support for multi-monitor wallpapers. These are wallpapers that are already designed to span across all of your monitors. At present AW2 will treat these oversized wallpapers exactly… [Read More]
Update completed
June 27, 2007Took a little longer than expected but the blog update has been completed. So back to the application development.But before then I have a problem (just a small one) with Vista to sort out. For some bizarre reason it seems to sporadically loose the drivers for my DVD writer. A shutdown and powerup usually fixes… [Read More]