Use a photo feed as screen saver or Desktop background

2008-04-21 17:20:10 / Mac OS X Hints

I've created a small script that runs against a web app built on Google's new App Engine. The app parses a few photo feeds, stores the photos in a database, and can generate custom feeds which will enable the use of the photos in the feed as a Screen Saver, or Desktop background photos. So far, two feeds are parsed (with the approval of their owners): Chromasia: http://deskfeed.neophytou.net/feed/chromasia Daily Dose of Imagery: http://deskfeed.neophytou.net/feed/ddoi These feeds are ready to be placed in iPhoto, and be used as Screen Savers or Desktop backgrounds. The disadvantage of using iPhoto however is that only one feed can be used at a time (there isn't a feed that produces the photos from both blogs together - yet), whenever iPhoto refreshes it has to download all the photos from the server again, and to update the stored photos one must launch iPhoto and click refresh, manually. To get around this, I created a sma...

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