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July 30, 2007

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ShuffleSaver does for screensavers what the iPod shuffle does for music

Posted Jul. 30, ’07, 8:45 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Software

ShuffleSaverOS X makes it a snap for you to turn your photos into an attractive screensaver—as long as your pictures are on your Mac, or you have access to .Mac. But what happens if they’re on a different computer—or somewhere on the Internet, like photo-sharing site Flickr? Or what if you want to be delighted and surprised by a random assortment of photos?

In that case, you turn to a solution like Hendrik Holtmann’s ShuffleSaver. While you might think that it has something to do with the iPod shuffle, you’d be wrong—dead wrong. Rather, ShuffleSaver lets you create a screensaver from a stream of Flickr photos. Within its capacious menu options, you’ll find options to specify photos from a particular user or marked with specific tags, the ability to choose only the newest or most interesting photos, or even pull pictures from iPhoto.

ShuffleSaver’s interactive too: you can control the slideshow with keyboard shortcuts, pausing or skipping back and forth. And if a particular photo grabs you, just hit a hotkey to save it to iPhoto or a default folder. How easy is that? I’ll tell you: pretty easy.

If you enjoy ShuffleSaver, shoot a donation to the author at his website. Tell ‘em MacUser sent ya.

[hat tip: Kelly Turner]


1 Comments

funkright said:

Just dl'd and installed the app, love it. Many options to chose what you want to display. Great work! :)

July 30, 2007 9:17 AM

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