Pulsepaper: Custom Photo Content For Your Standby Screen
This morning I was made aware of a pretty interesting app that approaches standby screen customization from a different perspective. To be perfectly honest, I’ve never used a wallpaper on any of my S60 3rd devices. I like to stick to the default background in a theme because of the way S60 3rd crops wallpaper images. In short, it’s very awkward. The concept of Pulsepaper is very unique and interesting though and it just might be cool enough to lift my person ban on wallpaper content. Pulsepaper isn’t just a wallpaper picker or a content randomizer or an image portal - in fact it’s a unique amalgamation of each of those components.
The aptly-named Pulsepaper app allows you to choose an image source from a fairly wide selection of options. Sources include categories of its own such as Night, News, Sunsets, Sports and more; and newly-released version 2.0 of the app also allows you to source your images from a google image search or any Flickr account, keyword, tag or group! Pulsepaper will then pull content from your selected source and automatically apply a random image as your wallpaper. Furthermore, it will automatically download new content and change your wallpaper up to three times per day.
Above is just one example of this app in action. As you can see I’ve decided to use a Flickr tag search as my wallpaper source. I simply select the Flickr tag option and enter the tag of my choosing. Pulsepaper pulls down the first random image from Flickr and applies it automatically as my wallpaper. As time goes on the app will continue to automatically pull new images matching my selected criteria and change my wallpaper.
In using this app I would recommend a simple solid theme as opposed to themes like the one pictured above in my screen shot. I’ve also decided to ditch Active Standby while using the app, but this is a matter of preference. Since SkyeQuiKey was released I haven’t paid much attention to Active Standby anyway and the screen is way too cluttered for me with text over the images. At any point in time if you see an image you like, Pulsepaper allows you to save the current image to your device. Simply invoke the app and choose Save to Gallery from the main menu. Unsaved images will automatically be deleted when Pulsepaper loads the next wallpaper.
Pulsepaper autostarts if you so choose (enabled by default) and is completely free in ‘lite’ form. There is a pay-as-you-go option for a premium service that gives you access to additional image sources but I don’t know much about it. Details on their pay service are a bit scarce but their site looks to be relatively new so hopefully more info will unfold shortly. Update: Pulsepaper’s pay service unlocks the “meta search unfiltered” source. Payment can be made using Paypal mobile - sweet! I’ll update this post with anything new that I learn but in the meantime the app provides plenty of versatile sources for content. Whether you’re a Flickr enthusiast, a photo lover or you’re simply looking for a way to enhance your standby screen with new and original content - Pulseapp is definitely worth checking out.
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Check it out with a solid theme though - it's pretty cool :)
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