Yet Another Photo Screen Saver

.NET Framework version 2.0 or greater

2008-02-16T15:44:00.000-08:00

The screen saver now works with version 2.0 or later of the .NET Framework. Before you could only install it if your machine was up-to-date with version 3.5. This has been fixed.

Media center screen saver

2008-02-01T13:21:00.000-08:00

I think this screen saver would be excellent on a Windows Media Center PC. I don't have one, so I can't try it. Coupled with a nice, big, flat screen TV, it would be the ultimate electronic picture frame.

Multi-display support fixed

2008-02-01T05:25:00.001-08:00

I finally got around to fixing the problem with displaying the screen saver on multiple monitors. The code was correctly creating multiple windows (one for each display), but wasn't correctly moving them to their assigned location. As a result the one working screen would appear idle for long stretches while the other screens (displayed underneath) were updated. The lesson: don't try to do much inside the form constructor.

I also noticed a problem with the layout manager when there's not enough rows or columns on the screen (4 or 5). That seems like an edge case and I probably wont get around to fixing it. Cela programme.

What's going on here?

2007-12-31T05:32:00.000-08:00

This blog is my shameless attempt to drive traffic to my open source, free software project: Yet Another Photo Screen Saver. In my opinion, this is a nearly perfect photo screen saver: it shows lots of photos at a time, it shows both your own and other people's photos, and the display updates in a methodical, rhythmic progression.

The screen saver uses photos from your local hard drive, and can also download photos from Flickr. If you're like me and have thousands of photos, you'll get to see tons of images you haven't seen in years. And watching photos downloaded from Flickr is almost as fun as real life people watching.

At this point development is basically complete. I will fix bugs that show up, but probably wont be working on major enhancements any time soon.

This doesn't mean the project is dead. If you're an able-minded coder and would like to contribute, by all means, please do. Some things that I've thought about:

Port to Mac
Integrate with other photo sources, like Picasa
More Flickr photo selection options, such as by interestingness
Ability to mouseover photos to get additional photo information (like file name, URL, tags, etc.), and perform actions on the photo (like upload to Flickr for photos on the local hard drive, and add to favorites, for photos downloaded from Flickr)

If you want to help, leave a comment here and we'll get in touch.

That's it! Enjoy!