Those nutty folks over at the GOOG are up to it again. One of the company’s policies is that it’s employees are encouraged to work on open source projects, either full time or in the 20% time that they can work on personal projects. One of the latest Mac-based projects to hit Google’s Mac Developer Playground is Visigami.
It’s an application! It’s a screen saver! It’s a—okay, actually, that’s pretty much it. Enter a search term and choose your picture source (currently, Flickr, Picasa, or Google Image Search) and you’ll be barraged with images. You can pick how you want them displayed (in a grid, a fan, or a carousel), and alter the speed, spread, and zoom until your little heart is content. Do be aware that the animation takes up a decent amount of horsepower on some machines (it totally slowed my Growl notifications to a crawl, for example).
I also made the fatal mistake of specifying “baby panda” as my search term. The resulting overdose of cuteness almost sent me into convulsions—do not mess around with baby pandas, folks. I’ve already been contacted about doing a PSA on the subject.
