Comments on: Flickr Screensaver v3.1

By: Zertox

Zertox — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

30 minutes to switch to the next picture? What happened to the 30 seconds?

By: Sam Judson

Sam Judson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

MMmm – yeah, if you upgrade thats the default – the minimum is 1 minute though, so just change it… New installs it should default to 1 minute.

Sorry about that… and the fact the screensaver has been crashing due to my hosting being down! I’ll get a new version out soon which wont have that problem…

By: Nicolas Hoizey

Nicolas Hoizey — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It works now very well, bravo!!!

By: Nicolas Hoizey

Nicolas Hoizey — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maybe you should let use use our own API key, if we have one…

Anyway, well done!

By: Neil Rickards

Neil Rickards — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is great – thanks. I was just setting to writing my own in Java when I thought “I’ll just check if anyone else…”. Cheers!

Some feedback (ie whineing) – it only seems to pick up my most recent X photos (where X is around 100).

Features request: a delay of more like 10s, slow fade transition, gradual zoom in or out while displaying

Again – many thanks

By: Sam Judson

Sam Judson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve had discussions with the Flickr folks over the time between photos. 1 minute as a minimum is my best offer at the moment, due to trying to be nice (and not overworking the api).

It does indeed only look at your most recent 100 photos. This is the maximum I can pull down in one go and its quite hard to add two lists of photos together so i just stuck to the one list.

As for transitions – a lot of work would be required for this kind of stuff – but its something I have been considering attempting. No promises however.

Feel free to add more suggestions or comments.

By: jenn

jenn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

boy am i amazed that THIS exists. thanks, dude. it’s totally loaded on my computer now.

By: wolfey

wolfey — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Did you have any discussion with the Flickr folks about copyright?

By: Sam Judson

Sam Judson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What copyright issues?

They gave me the logo personally so I don’t feel an issue with that.

As for the image copyright – I think it was agreed that I am simply caching them in the same way as anyone using a web browser, therefore it should be fine.

Do you think there are other issues that need to be addressed?

By: wolfey

wolfey — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yes, but it’s not really your fault at this point. It’s the fault of Flickr’s completely vague Terms of Service. If not for that, it would be a big problem. I’m able to display for my own entertainment other people’s copyrighted photos without permission or even attribution. A pain-as-day copyright violation. Not clear who would be the guilty party, but I would guess you and/or flickr, rather than me, the user of your cool app.