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A Chrome Extension providing a screen saver with custom photo sources. Developed with Polymer Web Components

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Photo Screen Saver Chrome Extension

This extension displays a screensaver composed of a slide show of photos from multiple sources. Supported photo sources include:

  • Your Google Photos - Note: Shared Albums are not supported
  • Some background photos used by Chromecast
  • Several streams from 500px
  • Several sources from reddit
  • Interesting photos from Flickr

Note: Photos from the local file system are not supported.

Many options are available to control the appearance of the slide show, including:

  • Wait time after machine becomes idle to display screensaver
  • Between photo time interval
  • Photo display mode - (e.g., letterbox, fill screen)
  • Photo transition animations - (e.g., fade, scale up)
  • A scheduler to control when the screensaver, display, and computer should remain on
  • Do not display over full screen Chrome windows (e.g., YouTube, Netflix)
  • Show on all displays
  • Display time

Works great on all platforms but may be especially useful for your Chromebook.

It is free and advertising free.

It is implemented using Vanilla JavaScript and Polymer 1.


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