Poking around with Photocasting
I've been playing around with the new photocasting feature of iPhoto '06 recently. Sadly, no one in my family has a copy of iLife '06, so I'm unable to take part of the fun. Not wanting to be left out, I've grabbed the RSS feeds of some of my Flickr contacts to add to iPhoto. It worked...kind of.
For some reason, the Flickr feeds only display a user's ten most recent photos. Dave Chartier and I were messing around with this the other night, deep in the hermetically sealed TUAW offices, and we confirmed this suspicion when he updated his own Flickr pool (to which I had subscribed. Scary thought). You can try it out by subscribing to our "Rigs of the Day" Flickr feed [link].
Subscribing to our TUAW news feed [link] pulls the twenty most recent photos from our posts, which is kind of weird because it leaves you with a bunch of out-of-context images.
When publishing a photocast, your outgoing images end up in web/sites/iPhoto/ on your iDisk, and the images from subscribed photocasts land in home/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Data on your Mac (I'm glad to see that iPhoto's method of arranging its library is no longer a labyrinth of nested folders).
It's definitely a cool thing, and if I were using it for its intended purpose (the grandparents in Florida) I'd probably love it. Are you publishing/subscribing to any 'casts?
