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Re: Change #018. How to find a user's feed, if they have one

Trevor Manternach — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 01:35:20 -0000

Is there currently a way to share a picture that was downloaded, say, a day ago? The only way I can see to share a picture is goto the Events page, but that only shows the recent pictures that were downloaded.

Re: Change #018. How to find a user's feed, if they have one

dave — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:44:44 -0000

There's no easy way to do that yet, but there will be.

The roundabout way is to post the picture to your Flickr account, and make sure you're subscribed to your own feed, and then Share it.

Re: Change #018. How to find a user's feed, if they have one

LensLord — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:12:27 -0000

I find it easy to share other peoples pictures, but have not yet found the key to picking my own images and sharing them with a comment.

Re: Change #018. How to find a user's feed, if they have one

johnfeld — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:10:52 -0000

I use a hot corner of my screen, just drag my mouse there and it starts up. Hot Corners are set in the Screen Saver System Pref.

Re: Change #018. How to find a user's feed, if they have one

Trevor Manternach — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:05:21 -0000

The best I can think of is to make an Applescript script that contains this:

do shell script "/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Conte... &"

I then use Quicksilver to quickly access that script (or you can set up a trigger in quicksilver to run that).

But that won't stop the screensaver from quitting from a bump of the mouse. It will only allow you to quickly get back to the screensaver.

Re: Change #018. How to find a user's feed, if they have one

Roland Smith — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:09:27 -0000

Is there a way to just roll the pictures without starting the screen saver? Anytime the computer gets disturbed for any reason, the screen saver stops and I have to wait until it starts again. I'd like to just show the pictures without having to rely on the screen saver.

Re: Change #018. How to find a user's feed, if they have one

dave — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:38:07 -0000

Ooops, xxx in the above should read photoFanSuite.myFeed.publish.

One more thing, if you know how OPML Editor works internally, you can hurry up the updating process as follows.

1. Updating photoFan.root (there's a command to do this in the Tools menu).

2. Push something out via RSS feed.

3. Manually run photoFanSuite.ping.

That would do in a few seconds what the normal updating would do in two hours.

Re: Change #018. How to find a user's feed, if they have one

dave — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:36:27 -0000

Got to the bottom of the problem...

I made a change to xxx, now the ID we send is the "nsid" not the username, because as Trevor Manternach observed, the username that Flickr sends back is actually a screen name. I'm not willing to bet on them being unique. So we'll transition, early-on, to the more cryptic but guaranteed to be unique ID.

The next time you publish something to your RSS feed, the url will change. At the top of the hour your copy of OPML Editor will ping the server, and the public list will then reflect your new feed address. If you've told anyone the address of your feed you'll have to tell them the new address (the old one will not be maintained).

I know this is breakage, and normally I am very much opposed to it. But this is still early in the process, and rather than maintain two naming systems, I decided to break a little. At some point I'll delete the old feeds.

Thanks to Trevor for the excellent bug report, it enabled me to zero in on the problem and quickly dispose of it.

Re: Change #018. How to find a user's feed, if they have one

dave — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:39:03 -0000

I know some of the links are 404. I'm pretty sure that's because the users have set up their feeds but never posted to them. Looking into it. :-)