about flipper

Personalize your desktop today!

Flipper is an Internet aware screensaver to help display your favorite image collections. Image collections can be local directories full of images or web links to image sets (or "cans") maintained and updated by the hosting site. This allows flipper to provide an ever-changing variety of image collections for your enjoyment.

Select from numerous categories or create your own. Categories such as:
   

Check out the step-by-step settings explaination: here

Flipper is not freeware, but at the same time, we don't want to charge the end-user just to try it. As such, we settled on subtle advertising by showing ad content every so often. In order to lessen the impact and avoid the intrusiveness of most websites and ad-ware applications, we decided to ask for only 3 pieces of information; gender, year of birth, and zipcode. With this information, we hope to provide images that are at least interesting to the end user.

If flipper has shown you the path to true happiness, or if it was just neat, please donate US$10 so we can get out more often.

Please send check or money order to:

    Solid ICE Technologies, Inc.
    2569 Eagles Crossing Drive
    Clearwater, Florida 33762

Anyone that can publish a webpage can create an image can. An image can is a plain text file, with the images or sub-image cans defined, one per line. Once the file has been completed, upload it to the website of your choosing and place the URL to the file in the "Net" tab of the settings dialog.

The file itself is a comma separated value (CSV) file, with three(3) fields per line. The fields are:

    "[ type ]","[ category ]","[ url ]"

The type can be either "dir" or "img". The category can be any user defined phrase provided there are no blank spaces. The URL can be any valid URL. Relative pathing does work.

So a sample image can of my beach pictures might look like this:

  beach_cw.can
    "img","beach-clearwater","beach_cw_001.jpg"
    "img","beach-clearwater","beach_cw_002.jpg"
    "img","beach-clearwater","beach_cw_003.jpg"
    "img","beach-clearwater","beach_cw_004.jpg"

If I would like to include it amongst a larger set of images, I could just do this:

  beaches.can
    "dir","beach-clearwater","beach_cw.can"
    "dir","beach-miami","beach_miami.can"
    "dir","beach-stpete","beach_stpete.can"
    "dir","beach-daytona","beach_daytona.can"

The user would place the URL to this top-level can in their Net-URL field, and add it. Once added, they would have all the new categories added to their list of categories to choose from.

**Note**
If you make an image can, please email us the link so we can admire your handy work.

Flipper is free for non-commerical use. As such, anyone not using Flipper to showcase company products are encouraged to use it freely.

Businesses that wish to use Flipper to showcase their products may do so by purchasing a site license. Please contact Solid ICE for more details.

We still have a few items left on the to-do list. Such as...

If you have any questions or suggestions, please send us an email, we'd be glad to hear from you.

Send email to:   flipper@solidice.com