Screensavr

By kate on March 27th, 2007

Finding a cool screensaver is hard. Just try googling it and a myriad of crappy sites fills the results, many of which give you some malware along with your free screensaver, not to mention all the blinking ads. Eventually, I had the brilliant idea to look through the archives of Life Hacker and found Slickr.

It’s a screensaver that pulls pictures from Flickr and displays them. It’s smart enough to notice when you have two monitors, and displays different pictures on each. It even tends to display similar types of pictures (two sunsets, two flowers) on each screen.

If you want, you can input tags, users, or groups to use for selecting pictures. I prefer to use “interestingness” to select pictures, which is an option. Here’s Flickr’s description of interestingness, if you care.