CB RSS feed in your screensaver
Tigerstorm (1009 points) | Tue, 2005-05-03 00:07
Apple has made a really nice screensaver called RSS Visualizer that in a 3d style reads a RSS feed while your’e away and you’ve set that your screensaver starts in certain minutes..
Perhaps you want to impress your co workers with this screensaver which perhaps is running Windows (Cough Cough) and they can read latest blog posts on Creative bits.
How-to:
First we need to get the Creative bits RSS feed into our system, the screensaver is choosing from a bookmark folder in Safari called All RSS stream so we’re gonna need to save the RSS feed into that folder.
1. Goto Creative bits and press the blue RSS icon in the adress field, press it and you’ll get right into the RSS feed. Now save this into the folder called All RSS feeds.
2. Goto System Preferences and choose Desktop&Screensavers and choose Screensavers, then you press options and choose Creative bits RSS feed in the list.
3. Press test and volá it’s there..
A big thanks to my voluntary test rabbit called larusson to grab the RSS image for me, one big carrot for you!
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Now I shall tell no lie, the only reason I didnt like the screensaver because the rss feeds wasnt that great to choose from, but now i know how to do this, its my fav!
Cheers guys, much appreciated!
*hopes that Backlight will have support soon for the new tiger screensavers that use quartz
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Haha how on earth would you work with RSS feeds zipping aroundint the background? ;)
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I dont know how i can, but i find the only distraction is when it chews on ram / processing power.
Everyone makes mistakes, thats why they put erasers on pencils!
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You guys got it goin' on. That's a cool tip, now if only you could take a screenshot of that. ;)
How'd you do that? With a camera?
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/
It purty much rocks your socks for screen capture. It can grab *anything* on your screen. Either that or a "Timed Screen" in Grab.
I had a kernel panic during Tiger install (yes I bought it... no it's not a burned copy... yes I have a DVD player from a 1998 HP PC stuffed in my pimped out Sawtooth) so I gotta wait to show this one off at work. Looks slick.
This is could be fun..
Don't forget I used my voluntary test rabbit called larusson to do this heavy magic trick.. ROFL
(Get some coke and a bucket of popcorn and sits down and enjoy the guessing show)
it was as good carrot
haha... mac wannabe's. u know u want to. (if you download this)
I cannot save my RSS feed to the "All RSS Feed" bookmark folder. Why? I tried to bookmark it but it does not even show up. I also tried to do it manually but it will not allow me to drag and drop. WTF, I had given up until I read this article. Now I feel like I'm being teased. HELP, please. Great job by the way!
I can't save any feeds to "All RSS Feeds" either. I am assuming that was a mistake in the original hint. It appears as though the "All RSS Feeds" folder is actually more of a smart folder. It lists any RSS feed you have bookmarked. Simply bookmark an RSS feed and it will be available to the screensaver. You can organize the bookmarks however you like :)
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i didn't save it to 'All RSS Feeds' - but i just loaded the feed, then hit cmd+d and saved it into my "Mac" folder with all the other Mac RSS Feeds. shows up fine the the Screensaver Preference Pane when you go the the RSS Visualizer options.
about having this as a wallpaper on your desktop... yeah that'd be SWEET!!! i used to have one of those Matrix screensavers as my wallpaper... only problem was that it really slowed things down.
i found this on VersionTracker: Quartz Desktop. it allows you to display .qtz files on your desktop as a wallpaper... and if you follow the other article here on CreativeBits - Core Image Fun House, and download the attachment then you may just be able to tweak that to achieve the bliss of a CreativeBits RSS wallpaper. :D
That's cool. Got to try this out. I don't think I would keep it. It would use like 30-50% of CPU all the time. :)