FEEDR

Last Friday, I bought Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), and spent Saturday morning backing up and doing a nice fresh install on my Powerbook. After a few days using Tiger now, I’m really enjoying it, and it’s mainly the little things that make it so worthwhile (integrated slideshows in the Finder, great b/w photo desktop wallpaper, system-wide dictionary, and a bunch of other little details). One feature that I originally thought would be a lame gimmick, but now I’ve grown to love, is Dashboard.

Trawling through Apple’s dashboard widget directory, I found a great little applet called Feedr by Ben Levy, that displays photos from Flickr, either by tag, ID, or RSS feed, as a slideshow. The only thing that troubled me was that the graphics and icon weren’t nearly as attractive as the beautiful ones provided by Apple, so since the widgets are made with nice, simple JavaScript/CSS and Feedr was distributed under a Creative Commons license, I went ahead and made my own. Ben was quite happy with my changes, so now Feedr 1.1 has been released with my graphics and some cool new code from Ben, available from Apple’s web site.