Comments on: A Flickr-powered screensaver? Incredible

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?).

By: Whatsup | FlickrFan - a flickr based screen saver

Whatsup | FlickrFan - a flickr based screen saver — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:23:01 +0000

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By: Photo Slideshows On Your HDTV : Awakened Voice

Photo Slideshows On Your HDTV : Awakened Voice — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:43:33 +0000

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By: Shelley

Shelley — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:09:25 +0000

No offense, Franky, but nowadays a person could present Pong to their development teams and a third could see potential.

The problem is that people get caught up in the hype, but when you scrape away the blather, what you're left with is an application that a) isn't new, b) isn't ready for even an alpha release, and c) isn't all that revolutionary.

If it hadn't been Dave Winer that released the app, it wouldn't have gotten any press. That's rather sad, because there are a lot of great apps that are ignored because they're not released by one of the Insiders.

We're losing the ability to differentiate the hype from the innovation, and that's not necessarily a healthy state to be in.