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Spotlight Saver

Spotlight saver is a small app that saves your lockscreen spotlight photos and showcases them in a beautiful gallery.

Features

  • Save images in C:\Users\Username\Pictures\Spotlight/ images\
  • Set any image as the wallpaper
  • App autostarts on boot but is minimized to the system tray (Low impact on memory)
  • Beautiful UI and Gallery

Tech

This app uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

  • Electron - Develop windows apps in javascript!
  • WinJS - great Metro UI for Windows apps
  • Node.js - evented I/O for the backend

And of course the app is open source with a public repository on GitHub.

Installation

  • Download the spotlight-saver-win32-x64.zip from here.
  • Extract it and run setup.exe
  • Done!

Building from source

Requirements:

Open powershell / git bash / terminal in the folder where you want to run the app and enter the following commands:

$ git clone https://github.com/lewis-munyi/spotlight-saver.git
$ cd /spotlight-saver/
$ npm install 
$ npm start main.js

Publishing the app

To package the app for production run

$ electron-packager . --platform=win32

Navigate to the spotlight-saver folder that's been created and run setup.exe ...That's it!

Credits:

This app wouldn't have been possible without the help of James Kimani and Codeburst

License

MIT

Free Software, Hell Yeah!

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