I’ve been really into flickr lately. So the other day I made a flickr screensaver in Flash and Swf Studio 3 (Windows only). I know, there are probably ten hundred zillion other flickr screensavers out there, but if you absolutely can’t live without another one, here it is.
It doesn’t even use the flickr api. Just grabs the rss feed of the 10 most recent photos, parses out the urls and loads and displays them one each second. Then reloads the list, which is usually 10 new photos. Its amazing the sheer quantity of photos that are being uploaded to flickr 24/7. Pretty fun to watch actually.
Anyway, you end up with an ever-changing mosaic of the latest photos on flickr. It only shows 100 at a time, then starts removing the old ones. Enough to usually cover most of the screen, but won’t continue to eat memory until it crashes!
Get it here: http://www.bit-101.com/screensavers/flickrSaver.scr
Just save that file into your Windows directory, and … well, you know how to set a screensaver.
totally fascinating. It’s like being able to see a real-time snapshot into the lives of anonymous people from all over. babies being born, people on vacation, portraits, and on and on. cool.
Yeah, I have it going on the monitor of my least used computer, but it gets very distracting!
This is great – thanks..
but… :)… can you do it with a black background..