How to use Flickr favourites as your screensaver in Mountain Lion -- September 4, 2012 Mountain Lion is an improvement on Lion, which I had mixed feelings about when it was released. Unfortunately, however, Apple seems to have decided that RSS is a dead technology, and consequently the handy RSS screensavers have been removed, which means there's no simple way of creating a screensaver out of one's Flickr favourites. Having come up with an effective solution for how to get Flickr favourites as a screensaver in Mountain Lion, I thought I'd share the method for the benefit of those who are not so used to fiddling with the deeper technological aspects of their Mac. I've gone into quite a lot of detail for those who are less technically-minded, but those of a more technical bent can just skip ahead accordingly. Set up the RSS feed Flickr does its best to make this process less than straightforward by not providing large versions of images in its RSS feeds, so we need to use a Yahoo! pipe to generate the RSS feed. Firstly, visit your "Favorites" page on Flickr. To make it easier to see what you're doing, change the "View" to "Square thumbnails". You should then see something like this (only for your own favourites rather than mine, of course). At the bottom of the page you will see a "Subscribe to your favorites" link. Right-click (or Ctrl-click, or two-finger click) on that, and choose the option to "Copy Link" (or