Great program & does exactly what it says without any fuss, hassles or problems & to top it all off... it's FREE !! It also reminds very much of a program I used to use when I had a PC called "Wallpaper Master", which did almost the same thing.
One thing I do wish the developer would add to this program is something that "Wallpaper Master" had... the ability to remember the user's choice of setting for each wallpaper, e.g. Wallpaper1=Fit To Display, Wallpaper2=Fill Display, etc... as sometimes the "Smart Fit" doesn't quite work with all wallpapers sizes, and the program only currently allows only one choice for all wallpapers.
I hope the developer can help us out...

Very good! Restores the automatic desktop picture change when using Path Finder. Plus the benefit of a different desktop picture for each space (when using spaces). Plus the price is just right!! I always say if its free, its worth every penny.

One of my favorite applications for amusement and non-productivity. I have almost 7000 images that it rotates through. Many of them are my own vacation photos, some are images from the web, some are scanned in. I love the nice reminders of my travels to places like Cinque Terre, Paris, Madeira, Morocco, or holidays with family. ChangeDesktop allows me to collect aliases of my chosen folders in a folder instead of moving actual photos our of their "album" folder. It can elect a background fill color to match when the photo does not fill my 2560x1600 Apple Display. Never a dull moment with new images every 30 minute! It is free and the developer is very responsive to suggestions and the rarely needed bug report.

See here for the changelist: http://www.bergstrand.org/brian/software/ChangeDesktop/notes.html

This is the only desktop changing program that I have seen that has the set of features that I want: parse an entire directory tree for images, change images on a schedule (e.g. every five minutes for me), provide many options for display sizes of the images, limit the minimum size of images that will display (e.g. no images smaller than 1024x768), etc. It also has lots of other features, like transitions and display of the EXIF tags of images.

Unfortunately, it isn't updated very often and it has tended to have memory leaks that limit my ability to use it. I keep my computer on 24/7, but after a couple days of running CD its memory footprint bloats to the point that it slows down the rest of the computer (I have a Mac Pro with 6 GB of memory). The author stated that he fixed some memory leaks in 3.1, so hopefully that will take care of things.

One other thing that bugs me is a feature change that was made in the transition to v. 3.0. The author removed the ability to go directly to the currently displayed image in the Finder. The menu option “Now Showing -> [Image Name]” looks like it should take you there, but it instead shows a QuickLook-style window of the full image. Not very useful, in my opinion.

I love this app. It does much more than the standard wallpaper settings and does it very well. I really like being able to change the wallpaper whenever I want with a hotkey. Also the effects provided are very nice and are more extensive than the system provides.
It would be nice if this could run as a preference pane although the app is great as it is. I hope you keep doing further development. It would be nice to see the option of specifying photo websites such as flickr as a source for example.

Does this not work with a MacBook Pro? I have a 2011 15" MacBook Pro. When I try to start the program I get a message that reads:

No Valid Displays
Change Desktop requires a Core Image accelerated video card with at least 64MB of VRAM; none were detected.

Hi,
I'm using Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and Change Desktop v3.1.3 (620). Unfortunately everytime I run the program, I have to click twice the "Preferences" before the actual Preferences screen appears, but then when it does appear all I get a screen saying in Latin...

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What the heck ?? AND if I try and add a directory full of pictures by clicking on the "+" button, nothing happens. I've downloaded it from here at MacUpdate, but can't figure out what's going on.

Any ideas anyone ?

Thanks

I've discovered that Change Desktop and My Living Desktop conflict with each other causing the animated desktop image not to appear. The only fix is to quit Change Desktop.

I have a GeForce FX 5200 graphic card installed but when I start the programme it says "Change Desktop requires a Core Image accelerated video card. None were detected". Please advise.