Geek Posted February 17, 2012 Posted February 17, 2012 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/flickr-images-rss-screensaver.jpg" alt="Flickr Images RSS Screen Saver" title="flickr-images-rss-screensaver" width="620" height="443" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27394" /></p> <p>Flickr has an endless supply of beautiful photos that make for fantastic automatically updating image screen savers in Mac OS X. All you need is a good Flickr stream and you can easily create a new screen saver from it, here’s how:</p> <ol> <li>Find a Flickr photo stream you want to use and scroll to the bottom of the Flickr page, looking for the “Subscribe to” RSS link</li> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/subscribe-flickr-rss.jpg" alt="Subscribe Flickr RSS" title="subscribe-flickr-rss" width="398" height="51" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27392" /></p> <li>Right-click on “Latest” and copy the URL (starts with api.flickr.com) into the clipboard</li> <li>Launch “System Preferences” and open “Screen Savers”</li> <li>Click the “+” icon in the lower left corner, select “Add RSS Feed”</li> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/add-rss-feed.jpg" alt="Add RSS Feed screen saver" title="add-rss-feed" width="290" height="116" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27393" /></p> <li>Paste in the Flickr RSS feed URL you copied earlier</li> </ol> <p>You can use your own Flickr stream or just pick one from the “Explore” or “Interesting” lists. General themed image lists can be had by choosing tags, groups, or pools, but not everything on Flickr has the RSS feed option. </p> <p>For best results, choose a Flickr user that uploads high resolution images, and select the Ken Burns Display Style within the screen savers options. </p> <p><strong>Fix Grainy Screen Saver Images with a New RSS Feed</strong> If you notice that the resulting images are not full resolution, you can run the Flickr feed URL through a third party service to create a new RSS feed that will use only the high res images:</p> <ul> <li>Go to <a href="http://www.bigflickrfeed.com/">BigFlickrFeed.com</a> and paste the Flickr RSS feed into the URL entry</li> <li>Copy the output URL (www.bigflickrfeed.com/photos/username/) to the clipboard</li> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/bigflickrfeed.jpg" alt="BigFlickrFeed RSS url" title="bigflickrfeed" width="600" height="369" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27391" /></p> <li>Use that URL to add as the RSS feed screensaver in Mac OS X</li> </ul> <p>If you want some absolutely stunning high resolution landscape photos from around the globe, this Flickr user stream is hard to beat: http://www.flickr.com/photos/coolbiere/</p> <p>You can also gather collections of images manually, place them into a folder, and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/04/30/make-a-screensaver-out-of-your-own-images-in-mac-os-x/">create a custom screen saver that way</a>.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/l3JnWC5y9TREsAzo-ox0E9cP_m8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/l3JnWC5y9TREsAzo-ox0E9cP_m8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/l3JnWC5y9TREsAzo-ox0E9cP_m8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/l3JnWC5y9TREsAzo-ox0E9cP_m8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=e5YZkCCXBHk:gG09tl1xWbg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=e5YZkCCXBHk:gG09tl1xWbg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=e5YZkCCXBHk:gG09tl1xWbg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=e5YZkCCXBHk:gG09tl1xWbg:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=e5YZkCCXBHk:gG09tl1xWbg:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=e5YZkCCXBHk:gG09tl1xWbg:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=e5YZkCCXBHk:gG09tl1xWbg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/e5YZkCCXBHk" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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