Streaming our photos to your screensaver or desktop

Today is my very sad last day, and while tidying my desk I realised that there was a capability in Manuscripts & Pictorial that had never been explored, and if I didn't blog about it right now it might slip beneath the waving goodbye and be lost forever.The capability is humble enough:Every time you do a search in Manuscripts & Pictorial, you can retrieve your results as a Media RSS file by clicking the Get these results as RSS at the bottom of the search page.What use is this? I hear you ask. Well it turns out that there are screen savers and desktop backgrounds that will happily take this RSS feed and display the images on your screen, as a montage or in sequence, for your enjoyment and education.The URL looks likehttp://mp.natlib.govt.nz/rss/?numResults=100&f=collection%24Heritage+Images&q=seawhere sea is the query term you would like images from.You can, of course, put any word or words in place of sea based on your interest. With about 60,000 images, you'll be unlucky not to find any results.For users of Windows XP and Vista, I recommend the free Google Photos Screensaver which is part of the Google Pack. If you want a slide show that cycles through your results in the background for a kiosk or presentation, the full screen mode in CoolIris is a good bet. Just do a search in M&P, click the CoolIris icon in the top right corner, double-click an image and click the play button.