Desktop Slideshow major update

May 8th, 2006

DesktopSlideshow 2.0 is out, and finally supports scaling images to fit the screen. Check out the link to the right –>

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  1. Seth on July 18th, 2006 at 3:04 pm

    Hi Karl,

    Thanks for creating this cool widget. I just installed it and ImageMagick and got it to work briefly, but I just added a bunch of pictures to my picture folder, and now it won’t load any of the pictures. All my images are jpegs, and I’m positive I have the image folder preference set correctly. Any idea what could be wrong?

    - Seth

Added random order to DesktopSlideshow widget

May 3rd, 2006

Version 1.5 finally allows you to randomize the order–get it here. Next I’ll work on automatic image resizing.

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Desktop Slideshow widget updated

April 13th, 2006

Version 1.4 of my Desktop Slideshow widget is here. The issue where it won’t load should be fixed. I’ll try to get it posted to the widget gallery as soon as possible, but it usually takes them weeks.

For those who don’t know, “widgets” are free little applications that do all kinds of useful things like display the weather or (like mine) change your desktop background. This widget works with the Yahoo Widget Engine (formerly Konfabulator). Widgets can be cross-platform, but this one is Windows only.

To use it, install the widget engine, then download the widget and double-click on it. It will bring up a little “slide projector” icon. Right-click on the slide projector to set options (what folder to look in for images and how quickly to cycle through them).

Enjoy!

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5 Responses to “Desktop Slideshow widget updated”

  1. Bill on April 22nd, 2006 at 1:20 am

    Hi Karl-

    Thanks for the widget… been using it for awhile now.

    One question: anyway that you could have it resize the pics to fit the screen? Most of my pics are 5 Mpixels and so sometimes I get a closeup of someone’s nostril, etc.

    Just curious…

    Bill

  2. karl.kranich on April 22nd, 2006 at 8:15 am

    I know that would be a great feature, but I haven’t had time to figure out how to do it. What I’ve done so far has been pretty simple, and resizing would be a bit more involved. I’ll try…
    I’m glad you’ve found it useful!

  3. Bill on April 23rd, 2006 at 12:38 am

    Hi Karl-
    Check out this imagemagik tool…free and works well for programatically resizing pics…

    http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

    Let me know if I can help…

    Also while we’re at it, let’s throw the randomizing feature that we all want in there! :)

    Bill

  4. cmsix on May 11th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

    Can your widget tell it’s on a multi-monirot system and only show the slideshow on the intended monitor?

    cmsix

  5. karl.kranich on May 12th, 2008 at 7:45 am

    I’m sorry, but that’s beyond my abilities.