I'm afraid to report that I've been forced to take my Wallpaper & Photo site offline temporarily. I have been experiencing major denial of service attacks from multiple ip address in Russia. Until I implement some kind of download limiter I'll just have to take the whole site off the net.

Just completed some changes to my web site, if your reading this via my RSS feed you might like to fire up your browser - Firefox of course.

• Added random wallpaper control, with links to my changer application plus the current wallpaper for the half hour.
• Added my streaming radio control - ported over to new dasBlog macros.

These controls were added to dasBlog without recompiling - pretty cool. I did however fix a number of bugs in dasBlog which I'll upload when totally complete - mainly to do with XHTML compilance.

Here is the public api to my random wallpaper web service: WSDL

I encourge everyone to write clients, be it wallpaper changers, screen savers whatever...

Please post links to the source. Best client app wins 100 "happy" developer points.

These apis are temporary for the duration of the competition. Once completed the best of the best will be merged into the offical wallpaper changer (available for all via sourceforge).

Any questions mail me, better still leave a comment here.

Just uploaded a nice selection of wallpaper from vistawallpaper.com. Have a browse and choose your favourite. Also any of you using my random wallpaper app remember to rate the pictures and these will download more often. I’ll be added rating functionality directly into the tool soon, but for now use the web site.

Here’s mine:

Now playing: Dire Straits - Walk Of Life

Many thanks to everyone who sent me wallpaper recently especially wayward for their entire angels collection and HunterBoy486 for their Hustler collection dating back to the early 90s.

Now I have just got to upload most of it! Maybe I’ll write a bulk uploader…

Current queue size 22.4K images; Predicted Collection after uploads – 59,000 images!

Now playing: - solidstore radio

In the new wallpaper changer you can choose:

• only have Angels
• never have Angels
• min Width & Height

All the real work has been on the web service & backend to handle these features and the ever increasing load from new users. The UI is not particularly good or responsive. For this reason I'm planning a competition to design a new UI, details soon.

Anyway here are some screenshots of where to find the new options.


 

For those of you who reported the auto-updater bug with the recent 1.0.3 release of my wallpaper changer, many thanks. I've now corrected the problem, which was a simple typo in the installer. Please uninstall and redownload the setup.msi again. Thanks.