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Irvue — Gorgeous wallpapers on your Mac
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Josh Puetz
Insta-buy for me: @leonspok was super responsive fixing a bug with the old Unsplash Wallpaper for me. Love this app! (Bummer about having to split off the menu bar toggle though)
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@joshpuetz I had to split it off, because I wasn't able to change OS X theme from the sandbox. It was surprising for me.
Installed! The ability to update interval is great. Be cool to have more collections.
Do I need to update my existing version of the app? I love it and your reason for making it is exactly why I use it
@itsthisjustin Yes, all updates now will come from the Mac App Store. My free plan on Devmate is almost expired.
Previously called Unsplash Wallpaper, it's nice to see this app continue to get love — it's my favorite way to find new desktop wallpapers from the Unsplash collection... filling the hole left by InterfaceLIFT.
I am user of unsplash and I realized that it's not updating for a while. Upgraded and discovered that you guys have also renamed. Good application, Is there a specific reason for name change ? I am curious since it might have costed you a userbase
@haseeb You can't use the word "Unsplash" in the name and their logo as a part of your product logo if you are using Unsplash API. It's a common requirement for services with API for third-party applications.
It costed me around 20% of userbase. Fortunately, second featuring on ProductHunt gave me much more new users.
Works pretty well. Great product.
When I change the update interval in the menu the submenu turns grey and the checkbox is up at "Never" until I restart Irvue.
@shimmb It's known issue. I'll fix it in the next release (coming on the next week, I think).
@leonspok, thanks for this! My feedback:
1. Changing the wallpaper only on one of the screens doesn't work. If I try doing that, nothing happens.
2. Enabling "Launch at startup" triggers an error: "LoginHelper quit unexpectedly.".
Application Specific Information:
Sandbox registration failed: Process is not in an inherited sandbox.
Application Specific Signatures:
Registration error: Process is not in an inherited sandbox.
3. Can you add shorter update intervals? OS X has 5 seconds, 1/5/15/30 minutes, 1 hour. 30 minutes is my favorite.
4. Can you preload a few more wallpapers so when the user changes the current wallpaper, it happens instantly?
Thanks again.
@andrys Thanks for your feedback!
1. Can you give me more information? If "Update image on" is set to "all displays", when you press "Change current wallpaper", it will set the same image for all monitors. If it's set to "current display", image will be loaded only for monitor, on which your cursor is and if you press "Change all wallpapers", images will be loaded for all monitors. Does it work on your Mac?
2. Does it happen on version 1.4.1? I thought I fixed it...
3. Sorry, I can't add shorter updates. Currently number of API calls is limited to 5000 per hour, even with 1 hour update interval I exceeded this limits.
4. Thanks for the idea! But images from Unsplash may use a lot of space on your disk (it's often 30-40mb per photo). Maybe I add this function as an option.
@leonspok
1. It doesn't.
2. Yep, still happens on 1.4.1.
3. Cache the photos to your server and serve them from there.
4. A photo shouldn't take 30-40MB, if you serve the minimum resolution required for each user. You could cache the most common resolutions on your server. Right now Irvue is using 50MB of RAM on my Mac. A 1920x1080 JPG with no perceivable loss of quality takes up 465KB.
Love me some wallpaper apps. I've used Adobe's Behance Wallpaper app for a while now since it was the best free option at the time. Hope this is even better!
@bentossell I made Unsplash Wallpaper for myself, because I was too lazy to browse Unsplash to find new wallpaper for my Macbook. I posted link to dmg on dribbble and created simple page on tumblr. Then in July @nbrempel found it and posted on ProductHunt. After few weeks Unsplash Wallpaper was featured. In the end of July @lukechesser from Unsplash contacted me and offered beta access to the API. One of terms of API usage is not containing the word "Unsplash" in the name and their logo on the app icon. That's why Unsplash Wallpaper now is called Irvue (pretty weird name, I know :D). Also one of the functions from old version turned into separate app Menubar Toggle (http://github.com/leonspok/Menub...), because it wasn't working in sandbox.
@mkaroumi It is set to "Available in all territories" in iTunes Connect. Try to use search in the Mac App Store. Or try direct link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/...
Looks good @leonspok. I'm working on something similar and was wondering if you could share how you store the images on the user's computer?
It's great to see such neat products being created with Unsplash's API. Great work!
