Posted: 2/4/08; 10:23:46 AM.
Something new today for FlickrFan users!
There's now a new built-in feed from one of the great international news organizations, Agence France-Presse.
The result is now ready for FlickrFan users to try out.
How to
To get the latest version, 0.46...1. You should already have the automatic update that comes at the top of the hour. If not, click here to update immediately.
2. Within a minute, your copy of FlickrFan will automatically subscribe to the Agence France-Presse feed.
3. At the top of the hour it will download the first batch of pictures.
Welcome to my fire hose
Now, there are a lot of pictures. Yesterday their feed contained over 3000 pictures. I don't know whether this is good or not. When they asked what kind of pictures I wanted I said I want them all, and I guess that's what they gave me. I figured we could create sub-feeds if we needed to.Matt Mullenweg saved the day
Because there are so many pictures, I asked my friend Matt Mullenweg, if his company Automattic could help us out with server space and bandwidth, and he said yes. So the AFP pictures are hosted on wordpress.com. Many thanks to Matt and his company for helping us out. If you can find a way of thanking them, please do. :=)Opting-out
If you want to opt-out of the AFP feed, you can easily do so:1. Visit the Feeds page (click this link on the machine running FlickrFan).
2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page where you'll see a checkbox for the Agence France-Presse feed. (Screen shot.)
3. Uncheck the box, and click on Submit.
You can go into the Finder and delete the folder in the screenSaverPics folder.
Getting the full version
I'm going to do a new build of the full app after I'm sure this update goes through without glitches. Check back here later today for a pointer.