MacMost Now 84: Flickr Photo Screen Saver

http://macmost.com/e-84 Gary Rosenzweig looks at how to pull in an updated list of photos from Flickr or an RSS feed and use them as you Mac screensaver.

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by this guy rosenzweig without a fresh
episode of macros now
one of the things i wanted to recently
with my mac was to have fresh new photos
brought in from the internet and then
you see my screensaver
sort our listings our went on i have
some new interesting photos to look at
now the budget for ways to do that let's
take a look at them on this episode
so one of the most popular site muna for
photos is flickr
and you can view lots of people's photos
on flickr through some really cool stuff
but turns out folk are also has
really cool
interface for getting photos as far as
test date
so all you need to do is go to issue
r_l_ here
you can go ahead and get a public feed
of various thing so
you want to basically copy and paste
u r l at on this page and then at some
prime minister here that i think west
market and the promise of rest tags
equals
and then you put moon
you'll get lots pictures of the moon
and everything is of course this is
falling in
our access fee so the say universal type
of defeat that we can now planning to
something else light i thought so going
to our photo here in iphoto has ability
under file to subscribe to photo feet
and you go ahead you paste in this
feed here for a flickr and i'll take a
minute and populate eight photo album
basically with
pictures
from the feet in this case pictures tag
with the word moot
so now that we have that we can go into
the our system preferences in the system
preferences we can go ahead
look at the desktop and screensaver
switch to screensaver
and you can choose a photo album
by photo including thesis cry photo
albums this one's called recently
uploaded
recent uploads tags moon
and there we go
there are pictures of the moon
we go ahead
run this annual look basically like this
weight loss different options on the
display style
for the
photos so-called choose those and now i
pull pull a new pictures of the moon and
that you let them displayed on your
screen
has photos of your screen saver
now there's a little problem with this
most notably that what happens with the
flickr r s espy's it gives you
low-resolution images
and if you have a nice big mac screen
dismal resin which is a screen saver
image is not a look at
one week and cracked it is go to this
website and this website actually will
provide you with eight flickr feed
that uses high-resolution images
and then you can use these are just
going to ever get beautiful images are
whatever tags or feed you select
went wrong flickr you can also slot
somebody specific feedback to your own
feed or friend speed or
eighty some pro qatar crispy that always
has fantastic landscapes
whenever you want you can get it as a
screen saver just using i thought oh
and the built-in screensaver nako
western leopard
have got to always for you do this
one is choosing new service from google
and you find it here at this web address
and it's basically a screen saver an
application
double pole pictures from their flickr
orbitals on picasa
and display them as cool images on your
screen it's it's own screen saver in
other words
there's a breakaway to do it another
even working q_-eight duit is used a
prank on flickr fair flickr fan is his
arse s reader that continously whole
photos
from different teams
and put them into a folder he dropped
and then you can use the max built-in
screensaver display them in the same way
that we did we've got a photo photos
except you selected folder rather than a
i'd photo album
at the very next days a lot more than
just this so if you're really talking to
him are said to be concerned about
we want to take a look at this spring if
there are three different ways to create
a lot of photo screensaver for your mac
the couple all sorts of interesting
picture from all over the internet put
them on your screen
is also grief you've got a computer that
serves
as a central machine or server something
in your office and they base this is for
the screensaver not a
you can have a display
photos from newsfeeds for instance
or photos from as the strongly picture
the day
just search the web for
photo are assessed feeds or something
similar depart come up with all sorts of
interesting photo pete if i were being
added every day
so check that out and until next time
this is gary rosenzweig with macro snap