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Flickr.Net Screensaver 4.1

I’ve finally got around to releasing a new version of my screensaver. It unfortunately doesn’t add much functionality, but it should get around the “threading” error, as well as fix a bug or two elsewhere.

[Download Flickr Screensaver 4.1 (420k)]

As usual, let me know if you have any problems.

{ 17 } Comments

  1. Jon | May 17, 2007 at 3:38 am | Permalink

    Great job. This works perfectly!

  2. Holger | May 20, 2007 at 9:43 am | Permalink

    thx for the cool Screensaver

  3. Jeremy | June 1, 2007 at 4:45 pm | Permalink

    Is there any way of making this work on WIN98? I know it’s old school, but I need it for an OLD laptop. It is like 120 MHZ. I am using it as a picture frame. Thanks.

  4. Sam | June 6, 2007 at 9:45 am | Permalink

    Well it uses .Net 1.1, so in theory should run on Win 98. What appears to be the problem?

  5. rdog | June 11, 2007 at 5:30 pm | Permalink

    Best flickr screensaver !
    I have a memory problem after leaving it overnight, the msg says low in virtual mem and the screensaver has a white background with a red cross.

  6. Bill | June 15, 2007 at 3:27 pm | Permalink

    Hi-

    Love the screen saver too. Unfortunately I get the same virtual memory error leaving it running overnight along with the same red cross on white background.

    Any fix for this?

    If it helps, it’s running on an old laptop with 256 MB of RAM and running Win 2000. I’ll try to increase the swap file size tonight and see if that makes a difference.

    Thanks,
    Bill

  7. Bill | June 20, 2007 at 5:58 am | Permalink

    Hiya-

    Yeah so increasing the swap file didn’t make any difference. Anything else we can try?

    Thanks,
    Bill

  8. Sam | June 22, 2007 at 2:15 pm | Permalink

    I’ll be honest, I’ve no idea.

    I’ll see if I can get a chance to test it, but it seems to work fine on any system I’ve tested it on.

  9. Redgum | July 19, 2007 at 6:05 pm | Permalink

    Sam,

    Overall, wonderful job on the Flickr apps.

    Issue I’m consistently running into is that it appears the Proxy setup or the
    FlickrNET wrapper isn’t compatible with Microsoft’s Firewall Client
    for ISA server. Our company firewall setup uses a routing script for
    web browsers, so using the Screensaver’s default IE proxy isn’t working
    either.

    Trouble is, every other app I have does work, and I have a rather larger
    list of apps that can successfully pass through the firewall without
    issue.

    I’m in the process of writing a Windows Forms app that functions
    as a bot for a group that I manage, and both with your .NET API
    wrapper and this screensaver, I have run into exactly the same problem-
    the Proxy just won’t let my data through.

    Big Wish: Document the .NET wrapper with a sprinkling of coded examples

    Big Thanks: Overall, for a useful set of tools… just guess I’m either
    thick or need better instructions. :-)

  10. Attila | July 22, 2007 at 10:14 am | Permalink

    Hello Sam and Everybody!

    Thank you for the screen saver I really like it. It’s working perfectly under Windows XP and Vista business too. I don’t have any problems with that!

    I have a question, we would like to show photos from the “Last 7 Days Interesting” (http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/) just from this, but it’s always changing. Is it possible to view pictures in your screen saver from this?

    Attila from Hungary

  11. Cougarten | August 5, 2007 at 2:25 pm | Permalink

    “Last 7 Days Interesting” was great!

  12. Georg | December 6, 2007 at 12:48 pm | Permalink

    Hi, seems the download-link for the screensaver is broken… :-(

  13. Sam | December 6, 2007 at 1:51 pm | Permalink

    Thanks Georg. Fixed now.

  14. sphere | December 8, 2007 at 5:42 pm | Permalink

    Can’t download:

    Warning: mysqlnumrows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/www/blacksway.net/wacky/download.php on line 21

    Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/www/blacksway.net/wacky/download.php:21) in /home/www/blacksway.net/wacky/download.php on line 22
    File ‘FlickerScreensaverSetup4.1.exe’ not found in database.

  15. Sam | December 8, 2007 at 6:14 pm | Permalink

    OK, I’ve redirected both to Codeplex now - so go download it from there…

  16. Monty | December 22, 2007 at 3:17 pm | Permalink

    Having the same problem as rdog and Bill. Running overnight on Vista, it says “out of memory” and shows a white background with red cross.

    If this is likely a system-specific issue, any suggestions on tracking it down?

  17. Sam Judson | February 1, 2008 at 8:26 pm | Permalink

    For those who didn’t see, there is now a new version of the screensaver:

    http://www.wackylabs.net/2008/01/flickr-net-screensaver-release-42/

    Download it direct from codeplex at http://www.codeplex.com/FlickrNetScreensaver

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