lundi 27 février 2006
Media Feed Screen Saver v0.1
Par Dam², lundi 27 février 2006 à 19:17 :: Media Feed Screen Saver
I love photography and I love my photoblog ;-)
Last month, I tried to find on Internet a Windows screen saver that could download my photoblog's RSS feed and display the last pictures in a slideshow way but I couldn't find one. Since my RSS 2.0 feed contains media:content tags (like the feeds from Flickr), I decided to build one from scratch.
And voilà ! I did it ! ... moreover, anybody can download it and use it for free, with any feed !

Features :
- compatible with any RSS 2.0 feeds embedding images through
media:contentorenclosuretags (thus compatible with any Flickr feed) - RSS feeds and images are refreshed in background
- supports caching (minimizes your Internet bandwidth usage)
- displays pictures full screen with (or without) their title
- supports GIF/BMP/JPEG/PNG/TIFF image formats
- fully configurable... feed URL, feed refresh interval, slideshow interval, background color, text color...
- C# source code and projects available (distributed under the GPL license)
Requirements :
- A computer running Windows 2000 or XP (I don't know if it works under Windows 95/98/Me) with .NET 2.0 Framework (if this component is not installed, the installer will do it)
Links :
- download the last revision of the Media Feed Screen Saver (installer)
- download the source code of the Media Feed Screen Saver (C# source code under GPL license)

Feel free to report any bug/comment, send me an e-mail.