Man kennt das. Irgendwann gehen einem die Standardhintergrundbilder auf die Nerven. Immer wieder das gleiche Tag für Tag. Dann legt man sich dank Flickr oder deviantart eine beachtliche Sammlung an, die man dann aber, angenommen, man wechselt so ungefähr alle 5 Minuten den Hintergrund, nach einem Tag wieder durch hat.

Desklickr ist die Antwort, dieses kleine Tool lädt automatisch alle 1, 3,5 oder wasweissich Minuten ein neues Bild von Flickr und setzt es als Wallpaper. Wahlweise kann man dazu noch die Info-Anzeige anschalten, die einem sagt, wer es gemacht hat inkl. Avatar, der Name des Bildes und eine Beschreibung mit einem Link zu Flickr. Nicht nur, dass dadurch der Hintergrund ständig im Wandel bleibt, man kann sich dadurch schnell neue Flickr Freunde machen und vieles neues entdecken, ohne wirklich etwas dafür tun zu müssen.

Weitere nette Features sind “New Desktop, thanks!”, welches bei Aktivierung sofort den Hintergrund wechselt, und “Previous Items”, dass falls man mal eins übersehen hat, das man eigentlich sehen wollte, die letzten 5 Bilder zurückholt. Wenn mal ein Bild nicht gefallen sollte, gibt es die Funktion “Never show this Desktop again”.

Ich muss sagen, dass ich bisher vielleicht 2 oder 3 Bilder 2 mal gesehen habe, da ich mir nicht sicher bin, wie das Programm wirklich arbeitet. Ich denke es gibt keine History, die verhindert, dass ein shconmal gezeigtes Bild wieder gezeigt wird. Aber bei der Fülle die Flickr anbietet, passiert das eher selten.

Im großen Ganzen ein tolles kleines Tool, das man ressourcentechnisch nicht wirklich bemerkt, und den Mac bereichert.

Hier der Link.

Si te gusta darle a tu Mac un aspecto diferente, y además te gustaría que esto se hiciera de forma automática, DeskLickr es una buena opción, ya que cambia el fondo de pantalla de forma periódica con imágenes de Flickr .

Es posible configurar el período de tiempo en el que deberá cambiar la imagen, o elegir alguna de las que han bajado anteriormente.

Es una aplicación gratuita que nos ahorrará mucho tiempo.

Enlace | DeskLickr |

Flickr é sem dúvida um dos sites da  Web 2.0 que mais êxito tem já que é um dos serviços mais acessados da internet e, para Mac OS X existem várias aplicações interessantes para usar Flickr a partir do Mac ou até mesmo adicionar novas funções.

Neste post vamos ver 5 aplicações simples para aproveitar Flickr ao máximo no nosso Mac.

1001. Com este peculiar nome nasce uma aplicação disposta a fazer um pouco de tudo. Por um lado é um “upload” perfeito para subir nossa fotos ao Flickr enquanto etiquetamos e nomeamos corretamente as mesmas. Mas também é um navegador e visualizador de fotos. A única questão que vemos neste software é uma aparência e acabamento um pouco pobre, e algumas vezes custamos a encontrar o que queremos.

DeskLickr. Creio que como Macqueiros, somos de longe um dos seres mais pesados com relação aos seus fundos de tela, quase todos temos alguma mania especial de ter o fundo de tela mais incrível e que mudem constantemente. Para esses usuários o Desklickr é uma aplicação perfeita, encarregada de buscar imagens do Flickr e usá-las como fundo de tela.

ShuffleSaver. Se Desklickr é para fundos de tela, ShuffleSaver é para ScreenSaver e sinceramente é muito divertido. Seu funcionamento é similar ao comentado anteriormente, busca imagens constantemente e as usa como fundo de tela fazendo uso de transições personalizadas.

FlickrBooth. Conheces o fenômeno Photo Booth no Flickr? Basicamente consiste em subir fotos do Flickr do nosso Mac e para fazer o FlickrBooth acrescentar um botão com o qual poderemos subir as fotos diretamente do aplicativo Photo Booth para o Flickr.

Flickr Upload. Não podia deixar fora desta lista o que é o melhor programa para subir fotos ao Flickr, o qual logicamente foi desenvolvido diretamente pelo pessoal do serviço. Do meu ponto de vista é a melhor opção para subir fotos. Tem um design simples, limpo, fácil de usar e além disso tem muitas opções para poder editar as nossas fotos antes subi-las.

Todas estas aplicações são gratuítas e se você é usuário do Flickr Pro é uma boa maneira de aproveitar mais a sua conta paga.

Via Applesfera.

Ventrilo – Surround Sound Voice Communication Software. It’s surround sound VOIP in a chatroom GUI. Now I asked my friend, we’ll call her Mmmmm, for the moment, just because I haven’t thought of a good alias for her yet, when she sent me the link to download Ventrilo. I said “Why in gawds name would I want this? This surround sound internet phone, when I already have Gizmo?” Do I really need to talk to my friends in surround sound?

“It’s free,” Mmmmm said. Nuf said?

Well it involves running a free server client, which thankfully I wasn’t responsible for. It’s cross-platform, Windows, Mac and Linux platforms; the sound is absolutely amazing, compared to Gizmo and it’s annoying cycling, which results in loss of sound every so many seconds. The sound is so true and clean that it’s a little creepy, especially if you are hooked up to surround sound speakers in your bedroom, as I am. It also supports voice chat for groups. Even though Gizmo is $0.01 per minute, Ventrilo is $0.00 a minute. The chat room GUI is downright dismal, do what I do, look at something else! Maybe the person who runs our particular server can post on the set-up. www.ventrilo.com

Adium – If you are on a Mac and don’t have Adium, either you do not IM ever, do not have internet access, have no friends, or have been living under a rock for the last several years. This is the best chat client EVER! I actually neglected to re-install it for over a year, after I replaced my PowerBook’s hard drive; I finally installed a new updated version, and baby, it’s tits! There are lot’s of add-ons, and many options for customization, visual and otherwise. Adium let’s you log into all your chat screennames, even myspace chat. It’s free, Mac users have no excuse, unless you really have no friends. www.adiumx.com

iClip – iClip is the best clipboard utility I’ve come across. It’s interface is elegant, and customizable. Every time you copy ANYTHING, be it a web link, text or an image, iClip stores it in the recorder. What’s really nice is that iClip gives the user the option of creating separate menus to permanently store everything. One click, and what you’ve copied is pasted into whatever application, web browser, etc, you are working with. It also comes in a free widget. inventive.us/iClip

Amnesty Singles – If your are like me, with way too many widgets running in your dashboard, then Amnesty Singles is for you. I love this tiny little app! AS, let’s you turn any widget into a separate desktop application. www.amnestywidgets.com

CSSEdit – A few years ago, MacRabbit’s CSSEdit was a nice little app for tweaking your CSS, in a nice simple interface. Imagine my surprise, when I got a load of the new CSSEdit! It’s like a whole new application. You can extract all the CSS from any site, view a site in X-Ray mode, and make changes live, for ANY site. I am still learning about all the new options, but at this point I can already see what a great app this is for the beginning CSS coder and the experienced, alike. macrabbit.com

DeskLickr – this is a nice little free app I like to run, when I’m sick of all my desktop images. DeskLickr accesses photos from the DeskLickr Group on flicker, which I am a member of. It allows you to view all photos from the group, or only new submissions, or ban photos from your desktop which you never want to see again, or mark them as favorites. DeskLickr is Mac only as far as I know, but I’m sure there is a Windoze app out there that does something similar.

DeskShade – If your desktop is a perpetual mess, don’t bother cleaning it up and organizing, just use DeskShade. Not only does DeskShade hide everything on your desktop, giving you a nice clean workspace, but it will gladly change your desktop picture, complete with animations, with a click of your trackpad. You can always put away your desktop toys later, just don’t tell Mom!

GoogleMail – Or gmail. OK, if you are still using Hotmail or Yahoo, you need to get yourself over to GoogleMail and grab a gmail address, (hey! grab two, they’re free) and pick up Google Talk, as well. It’s 2008, not 1995, drop those old free-mail addresses, paleeze! Yahoo and Hotmail are SO-O decrepit and useless these days, at least in comparison to gmail. Do you really enjoy traveling through 3 or 4 pages just to get to your Inbox? REALLY? Wouldn’t you like to send and receive attachments of over 20MB? How about using your 2GB of mail storage for file storage, using a simple Firefox add-on? Here’s the best reason of all, they actually give you their incoming and outgoing mail servers to use in your mail client, for free. Yahoo charges for that little convenience. Gmail is fully customizable for POP and IMAP, in fact it’s so customizable I’ve gotten lost in there. You can use it in conjunction with your existing server space and it’s loads better than the email that I pay for on this server. Get off your ass, and tell your friends you have a new, better free email address, and tell ‘em to write you there.

Next time, BitPim, for us Samsung cell phone users, who can’t Sync their phones to their Mac. I’m still trying it out on my A900, which is not supported yet. There is a generic profile to play with, hopefully I won’t completely screw up my phone.

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Hoy he sacado tiempo y me he metido media tarde a trabajar con mi MacBook a pleno rendimiento. He estado probando software de lo más diverso, y me gustaría compartir con todos vosotros algunos de los programas que más me han llamado la atención, y que aunque para algunos ya sean conocidos, siempre habrá a quien les resulten tan curioso y útiles como a mí que soy todo un switcher

1.- Todos: Este programa lo que hace es mostrarte todos los programas que tienes en tu carpeta de aplicaciones a modo de lanzador de estas. Es muy visual dado que te representa todos los iconos y así poder escoger entre toda tu lista. Una alternativa para el Spotlight o el Quicksilver, que te ofrece una vista rápida de todo el soft que tienes en tu Mac.

2.- iStumber: Esta aplicación complementa la búsqueda de redes wireless que pueda realizar tu Airport y la búsqueda de conexiones Bluetooth. Es muy sencillo de usar y liviano, muy útil para quien lleve su MB en la mochila.

3.- DeskLickr: Para quien se cansa rápido de su Wallpaper y tampoco tiene tiempo ni ganas para ir buscando por la web uno mejor, esta aplicación te permite cambiar automáticamente el wallpaper tirando de la red de fotos de Flickr, bastante curioso el invento.

4.- Coconut Battery: esta aplicación la recomendaron en mackinando.com, y sirve para llevar un control exhaustivo del uso que le vas dando a la batería de tu portátil, te mide incluso la vida de tu batería según los ciclos de carga, el uso etc… Además no necesita ni instalación. Muy recomendable.

5.- LiquidMac: esta aplicación es bastante graciosa, lo que hace es convertir a tu portátil en una jarra de líquido con el que puedes jugar según muevas el portátil. Para muestra este video, muy chulo.

I’ve been a Flickr nut for pretty much as long as it’s been around. I’ve been a Mac nut for a few months. I’m also a desktop wallpaper changing junkie too.

So, to my rescue comes DeskLickr (!), a neat, free program for the Mac that’ll go grab images from Flickr at a time interval of your choice and use it as your Mac desktop. You can grab random pics, or limit it to your own account. How neat is that? I might be wrong, but I think the author – Aaron Wallis – actually wrote it specifically for me. No? Oh well.

Anyway, go grab it now and if you like it, make a donation to buy the author a beer.