I’ve wanted to learn how to write desktop gadgets for a while and decided to write my own Flickr slideshow gadget. Nothing fancy, but it was fun to write.
You can download the results here: GPFlickr gadget (34.9 KB)
After you install it just set the account to yours and change the timeout to what you want. Right now it only shows the first 100 images. I’m still learning my way around Flickr’s API. Figuring out how to get all of my images was a pain. It took a while before I figured out to just use the search API.
I have submitted the gadget to the live gallery, but as of now it has not shown up. I need to go back and read the directions and make sure I did all the right stuff.
I’ll probably do another version in a while that will get all of the images associated with a user and put them all in a slide show. It might also be cool if instead of just showing them in the order returned I could randomly skip around or show them based on when they were uploaded.