Lazyweb request: Twitter screensaver for OS X
Alex Payne
I'd really love to see a screensaver for OS X that showed Twitter
updates floating by. Preferably customizable and able to switch
between the public_timeline and your user_timeline, but I'll take
what I can get :)
If I weren't busy working on the API I'd be hacking this up in Quartz
Composer or something. Can some talented individual deliver?
Whoever makes it happen gets access to the super-secret "deliver
update to all the cute girls/boys on Twitter" API call (kidding!).
Seriously though, you'd get mad gold stars.
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Alex Payne
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Niall Kennedy
it a bit cooler. Just add the RSS feed for user_timeline or
public_timeline to your list of subscriptions in Safari and set that
feed as an option for the RSS Visualizer screensaver.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tips/safari07.html
You can edit colors and such in Quartz Composer.
-Niall
Alex Payne
I'm familiar with the RSS screensaver. I was hoping for something a
bit more creative that worked in user icons and such. Thanks for the
suggestion, though!
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Alex Payne
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http://twitter.com/al3x
Chris Messina
I'm a n00b, but I'll give it a go. ;)
Chris
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Ed Finkler
>
> Wow, I totally am motivated to make that happen.
>
> I'm a n00b, but I'll give it a go. ;)
This is very doable with quartz composer. I am no expert with it, but
one time after a few hours of hacking around I made something that
displayed flickr photocasts, with the help of yahoo! pipes (because
out of the box, the Quartz Composer RSS reader module wouldn't look at
the right elements in the items). The feed address had to be
hardcoded, though -- you'd need to do a little extra external
scripting or obj-c coding to externalize it.
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