Flickr Interestingness Screensaver Tutorial for Windows 7

This is a short tutorial for how to integrate the "interestingness" photos from Flickr into a screensaver in Windows 7, so it pulls them directly down from the internet to display as a screensaver slideshow. It's a pretty cool effect. You can read more about it on my blog here:
http://www.blackpoolcreative.com/blog/flickr-interestingness-screensaver-for-windows-7/

Here's the URL for the Flickr Interestingness feed that you can copy & paste into your screensaver, as mentioned in the video:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=e3ff33c8410232eabf6388f6f42c24e2&_render=rss

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hi everyone this is Bryce with Blackpool
creative
and here going to show you how to set up
the Flickr interestingness feed
as your screensaver and Windows
particularly
windows 7 which spurred call show your
why on so here we have a Flickr website
um course Flickr a is well known for
their photos and and really good quality
photos
a.m. they've got quite a few great
photographers on there that are
uploading
great photos from all over the world all
the time she go here to
the 64 I am link
you can start to see and get a an idea
for
ok the tender photos that are put onto
for all the time one of the things I
like up about to
flickers they provide this interesting
up typeof tagging up the photos the
college interestingness
just kinda funny word about um
it does a pretty good job you can go to
it
by clicking this link right here and you
can get
a photos that a have tacked isn't
resting
for the last 7 daysin you can keep
reloading this page in getting a
of all a different set of photos each
time you do it
um the way they pick these photos if
you're interested you can go to hear and
it'll tell you about the interestingness
she the user an algorithm that the
tracks click-throughs in
a number of comments & number of
people there marking it as favorite so
on to get them so
there the pretty quality photos sur that
that end up in this feed
and I thought to be fun to
to take these and make them into
screensaver um
last year I I actually took the
the Flickr interestingness and turned it
into a dynamic theme for windows
so that it would change the desktop
wallpaper to be
a to download those photos and set the
wallpaper about every 30 minutes
to a different really interesting photo
and
you can find that on the Blackpool
creative block but second show you how
to
a said it as the screensaver as well
which is
prequel you get see more the photos
typically
in the screensaver faction and so
last the first thing you're going to do
is you going to need
a way to show an RSS feed
I am as a screensaver probably
several out there the one that I've
chosen I is the Google
photos a screensaver which is to be part
of the
Google Pack which is no longer available
but you can the I believe it still
bundled with Picasa
so kept Picasa load on your machine he
might
Rd be there a.m. because I believe it
comes pre-installed
casa if you don't there's a link and the
post
on my blog with further a link to
download the Google Photos Screensaver
directly
it's a zip file um you can see it here
comes with just a couple files inside he
only to pull out that she photos start
SCR and drop that file into chore
your windows if you're on a 64-bit
machine to be
says Windows sis a
while 64 directory archer a 32 bit
machine
believe it goes into Windows a system 32
and noticed dumb now file right into
that directory
it's kinda the way you install a
screensaver there's my night there
and the SIS well 64 directory what
you've done that
and you can now bring up
the screensaver a consul
or control panel and in the screensaver
list you should find Google Photos
Screensaver
so click on that and then settings
and this is the settings for the Google
Photos Screensaver discuss things like
you can
adjust the visual factor transitions
between photos
how often to change the photo whether
the show captions which
on on the screen saver or setting up a
lot would show the title
and the author of the photograph here
you can set up but
to display photos from different places
on a computer um
but if you're just interested and doing
the Flickr feed and you just
unchecked those boxes the final one here
photos from public sites on keep checked
ok that's what we're going to use to
pull in photos from Flickr
so check that men click on configure and
here you can see I've already put in
this feed
I'm but you most likely will have
anything there so it'll be blank
and this area down here also be blank
so what you going to do then is so you
going to take
the feed URL the to i've put onto the
blog post
which is also right here on
so you can copy that on your clipboard
a.m.
or get hear from the from the video as
you can see it
and taste it into without box right
there
so to look something like that and then
you click on
add and up here you'll see verifying
I am and help thanks for second about it
and then it'll have a check mark and
it'll be all set to go
so then you're just click on the okay
decks at other
and it'll should be all set up so
know of it OK to exit out again course
you can set the screen saver to turn on
however
after however number minutes you wont
home
but then know if you want to get a sense
for the kinda pictures
the the polls in you can just click on
preview
this gives you an idea I love for
what it looks like so these photos I
have been seen before its
its pulling the men live a directly from
the Flickr interestingness
lotsa interesting on the bubbles that's
kinda cool
a little bit coffee tea here
graffiti art you get all kinds of photos
from
all all over the place sir sometimes a
their their not so great and
if that's the case you can you know just
moved the mouse and and
and to get out of out of pitchers
usually lmao most must've
the photos that come up for a pretty
good sir well-taken well
up well-thought-out photos from
from pretty good photographers
and just really creative things as you
can see here
arm cell
so that's a that's basically how you do
it I am
there's probably other type 2
screensavers the class a poll in our
suspicions I don't know if it will work
with
this sir this URL this feed URL
but you could try it but otherwise
that as a way to to set up
Flickr interesting massager your
screensaver
in Windows 7 so I hope you enjoy it