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iPhoto 6 can handle non-.Mac photocasts

While Apple might have coined the term "photocast" (at least I never heard it until Macworld this year), an RSS feed containing images is certainly nothing new. Fortunately, iPhoto 6 knows this, and you can easily subscribe to non-.Mac photocasts simply by using File > Subscribe to Photocast and entering the URL of your favorite photocast. Try our TUAW Flickr feed on for size.

The MacOSXHints post where I found this mentioned they had errors the first time they tried a couple feeds, but they wound up behaving on a second try. For the record though, our Flickr feed behaved just fine for me in iPhoto 6 on my PowerBook.

While Apple might have coined the term "photocast" (at least I never heard it until Macworld this year), an RSS feed containing...
 

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Joe Buchheit

I'd like to have a photocast of the daily interestingness photos. Is there a way i can do this?

I want to have a photocast of this page:
http://flickr.com/explore/interesting/2006/01/

and
the other months as they come out.

January 20 2006 at 9:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joshua Hernandez

Im having a problem with my own feed. I have like 40 something photos and only 10 are showing. 10 are also showing for this one as well.

January 20 2006 at 3:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mitch

get ride of the word feed// and thte link wokrs for me! Love the sign of Apples HQ and the street sign

January 20 2006 at 2:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Oliver

Spymac has integrated photocasting into the already as well.
http://www.spymac.com/news/article.php?contentid=4005

January 20 2006 at 2:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jerry Halstead

get rid of the http:// and put a colon after feed

January 20 2006 at 2:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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