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You know what would be cool... (a caedes program)

Risingson
04/13/05 4:02 AM GMT
I've wondered if it would be possible to write a program or a ActiveDesktop that would download a random image from the Days Top Images, and place it as your wallpaper? It be nice to turn on the computer every day and have a new exciting Caedes wallpaper to look at :)

Thoughts?
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::CanoeGuru
04/13/05 12:23 AM GMT
There is a cool program (free, which is cooler) called Wallpaper Slideshow. You can load wallpapers into it and set it to display them at whatever frequency you like. Here's a link!
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+cc_Beowulf
04/13/05 2:20 PM GMT
Or just get an Apple where a automatic desktop changer is built right into the OS. =)
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"Abolish the God, and the government becomes the God." -G.K. Chesterton
vamoura
04/13/05 4:22 PM GMT
You can put the window's incorporated Screen saver slide picture show with your Caedes downloaded pictures in it! :0))!
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::nmsmith
04/13/05 6:19 PM GMT
Another good one for PC is wallmaster. It's free if you're satisfied with a limit of 50 wallpapers in a gallery, inexpensive if you want unlimited numbers. We use wallmaster here in my center - completely stable and customizable.
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::regmar
04/13/05 7:40 PM GMT
I use Webshots, and I recommend it. It's designed to pull images from the webshots website, but it can be set to pull files from any place on your local machine that you want. It's a neat program and very versatile, since you can create multiple libraries and activate only those you want to activate. I'm also writing one which will, of course be the best:-)
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*caedes
04/13/05 8:29 PM GMT
The difference is that RinsingSon wanted something that would automatically pull images off of caedes.net, not from a local directory. I've thought of this before, however I'm not very interested in programming for the windows platform, so someone else would have to do it.
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-caedes
::regmar
04/13/05 11:03 PM GMT
My impression, Caedes was that the reason you didn't want to do this was the increased traffic through Caedes.Net that would bog down your servers. N'est pas?
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*caedes
04/13/05 11:07 PM GMT
Not really, the program would only need to request an image once per day: a negligible load on the servers assuming they do it at different times.

If someone is interested in doing this then let me know. I think that it would be an easy project for someone with VB experience and I'd be willing to do the small amount of programming that would be required sever-side.
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-caedes
Risingson
04/14/05 4:08 AM GMT
cool! keep me updated Caedes :)
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::CaptainHero
04/14/05 8:11 PM GMT
Could probably do it in VB.
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*caedes
04/15/05 1:56 AM GMT
Well I know you could it in VB (it is almost a programming language after all) =). I was actually thinking that you could do it with a simple active desktop page as well. I could probably code that myself.
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-caedes
*caedes
04/15/05 1:20 PM GMT
Well I made something that seems to work on Windows XP. It is a simple active desktop page. Just save this HTML page to your computer and set it as your desktop background (yes your should be able to set an HTML file as your background). You may have to turn on Active Desktop if it isn't already enabled. Right now it just picks a random image from the permanent gallery. I'm thinking that we could have one that picks images only from your favorites list. Tell me how it works for you.
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-caedes
noobguy
04/15/05 5:55 PM GMT
Perhaps Top New Images would be good, or a selection of permanent images with a c-index requirement or something. As long as its random and high quality I would be interested.
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+Samatar
04/16/05 2:09 AM GMT
Is there a way I can use this on a Mac?
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::CaptainHero
04/16/05 10:26 AM GMT
Neat idea.

It seems to work ok with my desktop, though it effectively disables my right-click display options. The other drawback is that it displays a whole bunch of images that I don't remotely like. Still, I guess this is just a beginning.

As per the original post, a script for favourites or TNI's would be interesting.
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::regmar
04/16/05 2:31 PM GMT
Caedes, I have come to the impression that there is no way in hell that you can be married. Before I was married (last September), I could crank out projects in my "free" time two or three times a week. They were good stuff too. I could dabble in new technologies and try things I'd never tried. Now that I am married though there never seems to be time to do these things. I get to work on houses and lawns instead. Yes, you must be single. :-)
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::bayoubooger
04/16/05 4:51 PM GMT
add a couple of kids to the recipe...
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Some people's kids...
+Piner
04/24/05 2:16 AM GMT
Caedes, what about an AppleScript/javascript or something for us Mac users?
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from an artist is to make him ruin his work. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1832)
*caedes
04/24/05 11:51 PM GMT
I could proabbly do one for the mac in Perl, but it would require some research on how to set the wallpaper.
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-caedes

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