If you installed
Google's photo screensaver but you can't find MediaRSS feeds to add,
Framechannel lets you create a feed from more than 200 channels of photos that include NASA's photo of the day, travel pictures, images from National Geographic, news and weather. You have to create an account, select your favorite content and copy the URL of your feed. Then add the feed to Google's screensaver. The cool thing is that the URL of the feed remains the same even if you add or remove a channel.
For those who don't want to install Google Screensaver, there are
alternative programs or plug-ins for Windows and Mac.
Labels: Google Pack
Nick said on May 9, 2007 7:05 PM PDT:
Fairly cool, however the "LuckyOliver Annoying Watermark" is irritating enough to avoid this feed. I assume I'm supposed to pay to remove the watermark, however I wasn't impressed enough to waste money on a screensaver.
I guess I'll try it yet again. Anybody have an Interestingness feed that works?
Nevermind, uninstalling again.
The Google screen saver still has a couple faults I've bemoaned before:
Every time it starts I see the same photos.
Runs through folders, or feeds in this case, consecutively, rather than drawing from them variously.
It's a great idea though, and will be nice someday. Perhaps Yahoo will put out their own.
Just in case someone else wants it I did find this
somewhat working feed.
said on May 13, 2007 7:23 PM PDT:
how do i get these samples to stop popping up & off this pc ?
said on June 7, 2007 7:45 AM PDT:
I'm working on this one:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/googlescreensaver/
350Z said on August 10, 2007 8:32 PM PDT:
Does anybody know if there are any museums participating in this "feed" type of screensaver program? I'd love to see famous works of art from museum collections around the world. Well that's my idea, or request. If you know of something like this, please share with everybody.
said on September 18, 2007 8:23 PM PDT:
It works fine. I enjoy how with my two 19 inch monitors it will display a different picture on each one.
said on December 7, 2007 10:45 AM PDT:
Although I like the way it works with my dual monitor setup, there seems to be a bug that causes the program to try and close either Outlook or my browser (whichever application is on tip) whenever I try to close the screensaver.
Has anyone else experienced this?
I found that with some Flickr photo feeds, you need to add "&format=rss_200" to the end of the URL to actually have it work.
said on May 12, 2008 12:05 AM PDT:
Hello All...
Once the timer goes up for screen saver i see only a black monitor and the pics are not showing up... I like the pics in google's screen saver. I dunno why this happening... Please suggest me a solution.
Regards
None of these 'channel feeds' work. I immediately get the message from Google Screensaver that the "feed does not appear to have any images".
Do I need to alter the url somehow?
said on October 2, 2008 4:54 AM PDT:
Guess no one from Google pays attention to their own pages?
Mark said on October 15, 2008 8:26 AM PDT:
I found this link and copied a lot of feed addresses from it.
http://groups.google.com/group/google-pack/web/check-out-this-feed
said on November 12, 2008 5:39 PM PDT:
Google sucks in the support department
ShaRon said on December 6, 2008 10:02 PM PDT:
I like the original pictures and want some more, but with all of the dissatified users, I will refrain from trying to get more picture or feeds. Hope that I don't get too bored with the originals.
Does this really, truly not work at all? If so, pretty sh*tty...
Kaj said on February 2, 2009 4:46 AM PDT:
Works great with flickr feeds, if you append &format=rss_200 to the end of the feed-link. (Just as previous post says)
said on February 20, 2009 11:57 AM PDT:
HELP!! I set up the framechannel account and added stuff now how do i copy this URL thing to my Google screen saver thing???
Try one of our photo feeds with the Google Screensaver... works beautifully! http://feeds.nph.org/nph_photos_en
Many more feeds at http://www.nph.org/ml/contact/feeds.php
foxmajik said on May 6, 2009 10:29 PM PDT:
> Try one of our photo feeds with the Google Screensaver... works beautifully!
Because you really want to be caught with a screen saver that displays little children..?
