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 PicMeme - by jason plumb                        http://www.noisybox.net
 Copyright (c) 2002 jason plumb
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  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307
  USA or visit http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

  Any questions or comments to the author may be sent to
  jason@noisybox.net

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About
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[Pic]  n. A photograph, image, drawing, diagram, or still picture

[Meme] n. A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or 
          idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from 
          one mind to another.

PicMeme is a stand alone Windows application *and* Windows screen saver
that crawls through internet web space and collects interesting pictures
to be displayed on your screen.

PicMeme provides a window into the heart and soul of the internet.  An
ever-changing collection of visual data is compiled by PicMeme's
automated web browsing engine. It is web surfing without the effort.
It is browsing without the burden of reading.

As PicMeme crawls the web, it grows a vast collection of URLs so that 
even more information can be mined.  Images are checked into an 
"image store" on the hard drive and rotated out over time.  A history
of visited sites is maintained to minimize the duplication of data
and increase browsing efficiency.  Built-in garbage collection 
also happens 

Although it is primarily intended to run on computers with persistent 
internet connections, it can be used on machines with no network 
connection to create a slide show of personal photos.  PicMeme is quite 
configurable and has options to control web spidering aggressiveness, 
image sizes, display modes, display speed, image types, memory and usage.

With the amount of data currently available on the web, you are
guaranteed a unique, personalized, screen saver experience...or your 
money will be refunded.

If a picture is truly worth a thousand words, then this work of
software can be considered epic...

Configuration and Documentation
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For additional documentation, including detailed program usage and 
configuration help, please visit http://noisybox.net/computers/picmeme/.
You may obtain the full source code for this program by visiting
configuration help, please visit http://noisybox.net/computers/picmeme/

When running in application mode, you may want to try pressing F1 for
the help screen.

Please feel free to contact the author directly by emailing
jason@noisybox.net
