I've just set my latest software production free into the world. It's called Fleace, which stands for the Flickr-Enabled Automatic Changer for Everyone.It's a small, easy-to-use wallpaper changer for Windows which retrieves pictures in areas of interest that you select from Flickr. As you browse through Flickr you may notice that many photographs have descriptive tags attached. For example, a picture of a cute puppy may be tagged 'cute' and 'puppy'. Just enter these tags into Fleace and it will select the most interesting pictures that match your selection.
I've based the design of Fleace on my successful offline wallpaper changer, WimpWall, which is still a popular download from this site. The two crucial elements that I maintained were
- no installation, not even a file to unzip. This means no ini files, and no effect on your registry. And,
- it does not stay resident. Once it has changed the wallpaper, it exits completely.
Although there are a number of Flickr wallpaper changers around already, many are based on the .Net framework, and thus require an onerously large download onto the user's computer. In contrast, Fleace runs happily on any version of Windows from Windows 95 to Windows XP.
I've also worked hard on making it easy to use, and part of this is removing unneccessary options from the program. I hope you try it and enjoy it.