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"FlickerFan is the latest offering from serial inventor David Winer. FlickrFan is essentially a screen saver program designed for displaying hi-rez images from Flickr accounts as well as RSS feeds that come with media enclosures (or in English, Photobucket, AP' news wire and Flickr tag streams). The system is designed with the MacMini in mind, and only comes in Macintosh flavor - no cross-platform compatibility here.\nThe application, at first blush, appears fairly cool, despite the rather dry description an introduction on Winer's blog. It puts into action something I've actually been doing for quite some time now, albeit in an expensive and apparently difficult way.\n\nKeep in mind that I'm not a Mac guy.  In fact, I'm about as anti-Mac as a person can be without being an Apple-hater and MS fanboy. Having properly disclaimed myself, I feel no compunctions in informing you that Dave Winer's \"game-changing program\" has actually existed for almost two years, and it's called Yahoo! Go.Since I'm not a Mac guy, and don't actually have any Macs running here at the house, I had Kristen install the software so she could get some screen shots for me, and perhaps do a cute little PC vs. Mac square vs. hip review of the software. After she installed the software, though, her analysis was the it was \"way to much work to install it,\" and the process didn't merit the rewards that the software delivered; it isn't just me scratching my head wondering why all the wonderment in the blogosphere over this software.\nYahoo Go, at least the version I have running on the Asus MicroITX board that's hooked up to my living-room big-screen, can display photos as a screen-saver from any RSS stream or from any Flickr stream.  What's more, I can display with a built in Windows screen saver all the photos saved on my own hard drive, and with any number of freely available screen-savers display images from other's RSS feeds.\n\nThere are literally a hundred ways to skin this cat. I went through the laborious process of testing all of them as I decided on a home theatre PC back in early 2006, and Yahoo! Go was the most well-rounded solution for what I wanted at the time.  Your mileage may vary.\nIf you absolutely, positively want new photos to display through your MacMini on your TV screen, Dave Winer's software is designed specifically for that.\nIf your needs are separate from that very narrow niche, I'd find a more stable solution."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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