SitePix is a screen-saver content utility developed by publisher Alex Reich that automates the process of collecting large photographs from WordPress-style news blogs and organizing them into a folder that an operating system's screensaver or desktop slideshow can use as an image source. The software works by downloading high-resolution images from any site that follows WordPress conventions, specifically those with dated permalinks and standard and OpenGraph markup, which allows it to reliably locate and extract full-size pictures rather than thumbnails. Beyond simple downloading, SitePix can optionally overlay title and date text onto the retrieved images, giving each photo context about the article it came from before the images are placed into the designated output folder. The tool was originally built to pull images from kadampa.org, but it has since been generalized through a profile-driven architecture based on JSON configuration files, meaning the same core engine can be pointed at any compatible site simply by supplying a new profile rather than modifying the program itself. This design makes SitePix useful for anyone who wants a constantly refreshed, automatically curated collection of photography from a favorite news blog displayed as a rotating screensaver or wallpaper slideshow, without having to manually browse the site and save images one at a time. SitePix falls into the categories of image downloaders, screensaver utilities, and desktop customization tools. The current release is version 1.0.1, and the catalog records two versions of the software in total, indicating an initial release followed by at least one subsequent update. The application is suited to users who follow photo-rich WordPress-based publications and want their idle screen to showcase new content from those sites with minimal ongoing effort.
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