Comments on: A Flickr-powered screensaver? Incredible

By: flowersphotographs

flowersphotographs — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:10:32 +0000

Rob Armstrong's pictures have appeared in publications such as Birds & Blooms Magazine and the Jackson Hole Explorer Magazine (including the current 2009 cover photo).
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By: flowersphotographs

flowersphotographs — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:10:32 +0000

Rob Armstrong's pictures have appeared in publications such as Birds & Blooms Magazine and the Jackson Hole Explorer Magazine (including the current 2009 cover photo).
flowers photographs

By: tammied79hickman

tammied79hickman — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:02:14 +0000

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By: jonknee

jonknee — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:39:08 +0000

Flickr's default feeds don't contain the high quality images. The ones from Photocastr do (if you want, there is an option). Combined with iPhoto, it's essentially the same thing as FlickrFan.

Each photocast feed you add in iPhoto shows up as an option in the OS X screensaver. You could also easily view the images via an Apple TV since they get added to your iPhoto library.

So in effect iPhoto does the same thing as your software and Photocastr just helps out.

By: jonknee

jonknee — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:58:05 +0000

I tooled around with it for about 10 minutes before deleting the DMG. I don't really see the point, this stuff has existed for years. The AP feed was really cool though, so I wrote a Python script that syncs a local folder with its images. It updates via cron every hour so I get the same live screensaver but without having to run the OPML Editor (which seemed to hijack a lot of CPU, maybe because it's carbon and PPC?).