Messenger Slideshow

If you use Windows Live Messenger on a regular basis, you most likely change the display picture fairly often, in an effort to enhance the whole chatting experience over the Internet.

That’s why you may find Messenger Slideshow quite a handy application, as it has been designed especially to help you change display pictures or, if you prefer, avatars, automatically.

But this apparently lightweight application can do a lot more than that. First of all, it can change your display picture at a user-defined interval with no fuss, letting you specify the source folder where all pictures are hosted.

As said, you can configure the interval for the fully automatic changes, so you can get a new image either daily, weekly, monthly or every new minute.

The more impressive feature is the one that automatically detects the song you’re listening to in iTunes, Windows Media Player or Winamp and sets the album art as display picture. If you don’t have such an album art, don’t worry, because Messenger Slideshow searches Amazon and Google for the content and, if found, it quickly sets it as display photo.

And that’s not all. The application also searches SeekLyrics for lyrics and, depending on the song you’re listening to in the aforementioned media players, it can set them as status messages.

Messenger Slideshow works flawlessly on all Windows versions, but Windows Live Messenger 8.0 and later is required.

Messenger Slideshow is the kind of tool that can greatly improve the chatting experience over the Internet, offering not only a simple interface, but also very handy features for every messenger aficionado.