PhotoStickies 5.4 review

Use this program to stick multiple photos (located on your local drives or in the Internet) to your screen, as a fast image viewer, for webcam viewing, recording & replaying, to display slideshows (with sound), as a wallpaper utility (e.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Christian Grunenberg, DEVONtechnologies Buy Now Price: $19.00 Updated: 31 Mar 2006

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Use this program to stick multiple photos (located on your local drives or in the Internet) to your screen, as a fast image viewer, for webcam viewing, recording & replaying, to display slideshows (with sound), as a wallpaper utility (e.g. view pictures of day/hour or periodically rotate through all images of a folder) or just as an advanced XTeddy-clone.
PhotoStickies can float above all or behind all windows.

Features:
Windows are borderless (Stickies)
Windows can float above all or behind all windows
Supports and even calculates alpha channels and therefore your stickies don't have to be opaque rectangles
Records and replays webcams
Supports fading, transparency and shadows
Zooms, tiles, rotates and flips images
Saves and restores multiple window states
Favorites to access your preferred images easily
Supports multiple screens
Is highly multi-threaded and dual processor optimized

Limitations:
PhotoStickies will both display an »Unregistered« message stop of all images and stop recording after 30 minutes.

What's New:
NEW - Dragging a saved state (*.plist files) to the Dock or Finder icon of PhotoStickies or selecting the .plist file via File > Open... in PhotoStickies opens the state. This can be also used via AppleScript, e.g. »tell application "PhotoStickies" to open "/path/state.plist"«).
NEW - It's possible to open .webloc, .inetloc, .ftploc and .url files by dragging them to PhotoStickies' Dock or Finder icon or by opening them via File > Open...
Improved - PhotoStickies uses its cache to initialize webcam stickies (e.g. on startup or after choosing a saved favorite/state).
Improved - Reduced network traffic when initializing webcams
Improved - Scanning of HTML pages for webcam images.
Improved - Invisible windows (zero opacity) need less memory.
Fixed - After choosing a state or favorite, the webcam mode was always »Waiting« and the saved window level was ignored if it was the normal level.
Fixed - Wrong numbers in Processes panel.
Fixed - More reliable »Check for updates.