Projects

flickrwall

FlickrWall is an application to jazz up your desktop wallpapers. The application connects with Flickr.com to find stunning and vibrant images and applies them as your wallpaper. Currently the application gets amazing graffiti creations, but as time progress the theme structure will grow. The ... [More] technical details: Written and tested on Ubuntu 7.10 with python 2.5 and connects to Flickr.com using flickrpy(http://code.google.com/p/flickrpy/). [Less]

film-canistr

OverviewFilm Canistr uses the Flickr API to download images based on photo preference tags that the user defines, and automatically refreshes the desktop wallpaper at a user-specified interval. This Windows application resides in the system tray and is easily controlled through both a graphical user ... [More] interface and a system tray context menu. RequirementsThis application requires Windows XP, an active Internet connection, and the .NET Framework 2.0. InstallationTo install this application, download the latest version of the installer. Double click on the installation executable to start the install wizard. UsageWhen you launch Film Canistr, a new icon will show up in your system tray. You can right click on this icon to access its context menu, or you can double click on it to launch the configuration dialog. You can then specify a refresh interval, a refresh mode, preference tags, and more. To see it in action right away, simply click the Refresh button in the configuration dialog or on the system tray context menu. TechnicalFilm Canistr has four dependencies. The first is the application executable, filmcanistr.exe. The second is the .NET Flick API library, flickrnet.dll. The third and fourth dependencies are the history.dat and settings.xml files, both of which are stored in the current user's application data. The history.dat file stores a list of all of the files the user has downloaded (or seen), and prevents them from showing up again. The settings.xml file stores all of the user's settings for Film Canistr. LicenseThis software, and its dependencies, are distributed free of charge and licensed under the GNU General Public License v3. For more information about this license and the terms of use of this software, please visit the license page. Not affiliated with Flickr or Yahoo, Inc. [Less]

waptor

Waptor (Wallpaper Rotator) formerly known as Flickr Baby is a small but powerful utility which extracts images from various image hosting application (presently http://www.flickr.com) and sets them as your wallpaper. Waptor is based on html parsing and data extraction and is no way owned or endorsed ... [More] by Flickr. Waptor has a very lightweight and customizable interface. The image extraction algorithm is based on user defined tags. Every image on Flickr is tagged by user uploading/viewing it, Waptor uses these tags to search images. Waptor is free to use and distribute. The source code of Waptor is not available right now but will be available sometime in the future. Waptor doesn’t uses any API like this http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=FlickrNet developer by timheuer. I developed Waptor before I even came to know about it. Waptor will support various image hosting application in the future. Here is a set of minimum requirements you require to use Waptor: • .Net 2.0 and greater. • Internet Connection. Waptor is very bandwidth efficient; it has been tested across various bandwidths, and least being 32 kbps download and 20kbps upload so should be good for you dial up guys over there. [Less]

walleg

Wall.EG Engaging Wall. It keeps your desktop fresh and engaging by downloading interesting wallpapers from the Internet and rotating them at specified time intervals. Wall.EG goes to Flickr, Picasa and many other websites to find really cool wallpapers for your desktop.

felicitous-desktop

A better random background scriptfelicitous: adjective. well chosen or appropriate. felicitous desktop My previous setupA folder containing a large number of photographs saved from Flickr and a script to select a background from these at random. ImprovementsTake interesting photographs live ... [More] from the web using the Flickr API Search for photographs appropriate for the current time of day and weather, eg. foggy morning, or cloudy sunset Credit: photos are Creative Commons licensed by Flickr users lukeas09 and aramisfirefly [Less]