I use a Desktop screen resolution of 1280x1024. You may not be.
If you're using a smaller screen size then you may have to adjust the scaling
factor of the ChangeFSI (CFSI) line in the Scripts.
The Script 'PickfromList' or 'Landscapes' uses a wee program of mine called
'Camchk' that tries to resize the image to fit on the Pinboard for you
automatically.
It takes as a parameter the image file which has been downloaded.
ie campin:camchk <filepath to sprite> for example
It then calculates the correct scale down for the size of screen and places the
scaling factor in a system variable called <scale>.
So if you're always changing screen sizes or don't use 1280x1024 as a desktop
size place <scale> instead of the ?:? in the CFSI line of a script.
'Camchk' also works out if you're using a 256 colour screen or a higher colour
screen. Then it allow you to alter the colour depth of Sprite produced by CFSI to suit. You do this by using the system variable <col> instead of say '28r'.
Note, Camchk only tries to make larger images than the current Desktop size fit
down into the size of your pinboard. So if you use it for small images the scale factor will come out at scale 1:1 as small images scaled up look awful.
Tip: Use the <scale> phrase instead of 10:7 in the ChangeFSI line if you're
using a smaller desktop mode than 1280x1024.
Camchk also sets the variable <bkd> to either -C or -T. That is Centre or Tile so you can make the Backdrop command auto tile or centre your sprite.
So small sprites are tiled whilst large sprites are centered.
See the Script 'PickfromList' or 'Landscapes' for an example of this use.
Camchk also requires that the Curl command in the Script that downloads the actual Image file to also use the '--env' option.
This returns the file size that is suppose to be downloaded and Camchk compares this to the file size of 'Image' that was downloaded.
If they don't match then the Image file has not downloaded 100%. When this happens, the Image and Sprite file is replaced with a Sprite called 'failed' which shows the words 'Image did not download'.
LIST OF THE SCRIPTS
====================
Any previous scripts now not listed have been deleted probably because that
site has removed their service.
All tested working as of 2002-05-21
AndyCapp
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A daily cartoon.
ARMShares
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Updated Hourly.
A example of grabbing a graphic of 'ARM Holdings' daily share price from Yahoos site.
To alter this to show any share, you need its 'Share Symbol' name.
So go to http://finance.yahoo.com/l look up the symbol and type over
'arm.l' in the script.
For example, ECI Telecom is symbol 'ECIL' so enter ecil instead of arm.l
BBCeurope_ISObars
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Daily.
BBCs pressure chart of Europe.
If you know about isobars then you can get a clearer idea of what the weather is going to be like.
BBCeurope_weather
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Daily.
Traditional weather image of Europe with clouds and temperature symbols.
BBCuk_weather
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Daily.
Traditional weather image of the UK with clouds and temperature symbols.
BC
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A daily cartoon of a Stone Age man.
BetterHalf
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A daily cartoon of married life.
BFriends
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A daily cartoon of friends.
CalvinHobbs
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A daily cartoon of a boy and his Tiger.
DailyBabe2 and DailyBikini
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A daily image of a woman in a Bikini.
Requests by various people for some reason.
DailyNatGeo
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A daily 1024x768 image from the archive of the National Geographic Society.
Interesting and educational too.
DailyOverlookL
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A large daily image from around the world.
DailyOverlookS
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A small (800x600) daily image from around the world.
DailyPet
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A daily image of a Pet.
Dilbert
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A daily cartoon of a man and his work.
DoctorFun
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A daily cartoon of a Doctors look at life.
Subject tends to vary.
Edinburgh
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Updated every 1 minute.
A webcam of lots of different views of Edinburgh. Voted best city in Europe!
Okay my home town.... :-)
FTSE100_5d
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Updated every 30mins.
The UK FTSE 100 graph over 5 days.
Glasgow
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Updated every 2 minutes.
A webcam of Glasgow citys George Square.
GuineaPigs
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Updated every 5 mins.
A view of several Guinea Pigs living in the USA.
Bizarre I know.
HagarHorr
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A daily cartoon of a Viking.
Lakelandcam
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A daily image from the Lake District of England.
Landscapes
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Over 200 great pictures of the sky and landscapes around the world.
My Favourite.
LochNess
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Ten different views of Loch Ness updated every 15secs.
Marmaduke
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A daily cartoon of a large dog.
Marvin
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A daily cartoon of a baby.
MBusiness
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A daily cartoon of a Mean Business.
NASA-ISS
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Updated every 2 mins.
Current view showing where in the World the
International Space Station can be seen from.
NASA_Views
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Updated every 5mins.
15 views of live views around NASAs buildings and the Space Shuttle.
Switched off from time to time if the Military are at work.
Catch people at work!
NOAA16ir
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Latest (usually daily) high resolution (large, 500K?) infra-red image of Europe from the NOAA 16 satellite with false colour.
If you use InfraRed light then clouds and rain show better.
NOAA16vis
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Latest (usually daily) high resolution (large, 500K?) image of Europe from the NOAA 16 satellite. This one uses visible light and the countries are usually
marked out in red.
OldFaithf
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YellowStone National Park in the USA have a famous Geyser that you can watch
erupt.
ONLINETEST
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Tests your connection to see how your Internet access is performing.
See notes above.
PCandPixel
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A daily cartoon of a computer user and his cat.
Peanuts
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A daily cartoon of the famous boy and his dog.
PickfromList
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This one uses a list of over 440 URLs in file resources.list
and picks one from random to show you.
NASA (old & new, big and small), arm patches, moonshots, X-Planes,
lots of nice earth landscapes and weather images.
Radio2
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Daily webcam of the DJs of BBC Radio 2.
RandomBabe
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A random picture of a woman.
Ripleys
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A daily cartoon of amazing facts.
SharePrice
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Current view of the FTSE 100 index from Yahoo.
You can easily alter this to show any Share.
Spiderman
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A daily cartoon of a man once bitten by a spider.
UKtemp
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Current view of the temperture of the UK
UsrFriendly
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A daily cartoon of people in IT Support.
Weather_Europe_infrared2
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Current Infrared image of UK and Europe.
Weather_Europe_IsoBars
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Weather map showing the latest isobars, temperature and wind over Europe.
Wiz_of_ID
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A daily cartoon of a medieval land hopefully far far away.