Screen saver from remote photo feed?

This is both an iPhoto and an OS X question. A few years ago I was able to 1) use iPhoto to automatically sync an album up to my apple cloud storage and then 2) configure my mom's computer's screen saver to subscribe to that feed so she could see all the photos. This was a great system, it just worked, when I dragged notable pictures in iPhoto into that album, they started showing up on her screen saver a thousand miles away.
It appears that at least one half of this capability -- screen savers from remote servers -- is gone in Lion, and perhaps the iPhoto album sync-to-cloud feature too, I haven't checked, it doesn't matter since I would need both halves.
Does anyone know a way to do this still under Lion or a piece of software I could purchase that would do this easily? I do NOT want to cobble together some myriad of complex pieces involving iPhoto manual file exports and other manual steps -- I want something that is seamless and automated. Thanks.

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