Fleace

Fleace, the Flickr-Enabled Automatic Changer for Everyone, is a free wallpaper changer that retrieves pictures from Flickr based on topics of your choice.

• Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7
• an Internet connection

• Runs automatically at startup, then terminates. Most other wallpaper changers hang around in your system tray, taking up valuable resources.
• Chooses a random image from the most interesting Flickr pictures containing any of the tags you specify. These can be topics as diverse as Paris, rainbow and kitten.
• Select whether you want pictures to be stretched or centred on your desktop.
• Preview window shows what the wallpaper will look like, and gives the opportunity to select another, or cancel the change altogether.
• You can set for how long the preview window is visible, down to 0 seconds to run completely invisibly.
• No program installation required

• Fleace was designed to change wallpaper at startup. Returning from stand-by or hibernation do not count as starting up. If you normally hibernate instead of shutting down then see the next two tips for alternatives.
• For a one click shortcut to change the wallpaper whenever you want, just copy the Fleace shortcut from the startup group of your start menu.
• You can also schedule that shortcut to run any time by using the Windows Task Scheduler.

• Although Flickr supports JPEG, GIF & PNG, Fleace currently only supports JPEG because of its overwhelming popularity. If these other image types appear more often I shall reconsider this.