Archive for April, 2008

Photo feed as Desktop Background

I first came up with this idea after reading a post on HackerMoJo.com about getting an RSS feed of images as a Screen Saver using a python script. The idea is simple: Take a feed, parse it, and save the photos it links to as numbered images in a folder on the disk, then use […]

Tags: CC Licence, Chromasia, ddoi, Feed, Google Apps, Python, RSS
Posted in Code, Google, OS X | 10 Comments »

Downloading your code from Google App Engine

I've started using Google's App Engine since it launched, mostly playing around with Python (always wanted to learn), and setting up a small app to deal with my Desktop Photo Feed script. One irritation I had was that I wanted to share my code with a friend, but the app engine doesn't provide any way […]

Tags: Google, Google Apps, Hack, Python
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