Flickr Live Wallpaper: Adding a photographic touch to your Windows Phone 8 lockscreens [Updated]

Windows Phone Lockscreen apps seem to exist appearing out of nowhere these days. You accept Befriend, Paper Shuffle, Lock Themes and now yous can add together Flickr to the growing number of wallpaper sources. Flickr Alive Wallpaper is a lockscreen wallpaper app that pulls images from the popular online photography source.

The nice affair about Flickr Live Wallpaper is that you can name your photo source, use multiple sources and if need be, ingather the photos so they fit a lilliputian meliorate on the screen.

When you starting time launch Flickr Alive Wallpaper yous accept to ready a source for your photos. In that location are 4 sources to choose from:

Interesting Photos: The uncomplicated and directly forward choice. This source pulls from Flickr's Interesting Photos feature.
Flickr Group: This source requires y'all to identify a specific grouping on Flickr to pull photos from. You lot can search by keyword or name a group directly.
Flickr User: The user source volition pull images from a specific Flickr user. You can search for Flickr users past username or electronic mail. You can use a Flickr user'south total photostream or a specific photoset from that user.
Keyword: Simply blazon in the keyword describing the blazon of photos you are looking for and a collection of photos matching will be generated from Flickr'south galleries.

Once y'all get your source in social club, just tap save and you will be taken to the main pages of Flickr Alive Wallpaper where the source will be displayed on your Sources Page.

From the main pages of Flickr Alive Wallpaper y'all can view the electric current wallpaper, crop it to better fit the screen, view and select your sources (multiple sources are allowed), and view the app'due south settings. Settings cover the frequency of the wallpaper rotation and whether or non yous want to update just when y'all're on Wifi. Unfortunately, Flickr Alive Wallpaper lacks the power to save wallpapers to your Windows Telephone for more extended use. However, if you don't desire to rotate the images and run across i that you want to use for an extended catamenia of time, only cheque the "Lock this prototype as my wallpaper" box.

Flickr Live Wallpaper is a nice option to keep your Windows Phone lockscreen wallpaper fresh. It joins the growing number of quality lockscreen apps in the Windows Phone Shop.

Flickr Alive Wallpapers is a free app for your Windows Telephone and you can find it here at the Windows Telephone Store.

UPDATE: It didn't have long only Flickr Live Wallpaper was but updated to version 1.1 that brings a name modify and new feature.Flickr Live Wallpaper is now Photostream and you can add galleries from your Windows Phone Pictures Hub every bit sources. It's a nice characteristic to allow you mingle your photos with those from Flickr.

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