One of the more than 200 new features in Apple’s new OS X Tiger is a screensaver that pulls content from an RSS feed.
See a video clip here for an example.
Now I haven’t purchased Tiger yet, so I am asking this question of anyone in the FG nation that has. Can this RSS Screensaver support enclosures? For instance, could you subscribe to an RSS feed from Flickr, and have this screensaver show photos, or does it only support text feeds?
One thing you could do is create an RSS feed of custom messages, for use in welcoming a client or greeting visitors to a party. Are there multiple options in the way it renders the screensaver, or just the one that is being shown in the video clip?
Visit site link goes to video clip.
I’m at home now, and Tiger is at work, but I seem to recall there were no options apart from what feed(s) it shows.
I did however see a tip on macosxhints.com that mentions you can change the appearance of the screensaver with the Quartz Composer tool that is included in the dev apps.
That looks completely retarded.
How edifying Wyatt.
I love the design. It’s got this “information superhub” feel to it. Other than that, I’m not sure how useful it is.
“I’m not sure how useful it is.” – oh come on, I always read my RSS feeds when I’m away from my computer.
Ah, but if you walk by, you can catch a headline, like ‘World about to end…’
Actually, without all of the Quartz gymnastics, a simple screensaver that displayed super-readable headlines (and maybe just did a simple fade or scroll between them) with a lot of options (like reading in your RSS feed choices from an OPML export or something like that) would be very, very nice. In fact, I’ll bet a developer who threw a lot of features into that (like touch-screen support, configurable transitions and backgrounds, display of images in a feed, alerts when a particular word or phrase was displayed, etc.), they could probably make some money off of it. Any developers listening?
this thing pulls its RSS feeds from safari bookmarks News folder, so to add more feeds, just bookmark your fave RSS links into the news foldr and they will apear in the options in Rss visulizer
1st of all, Quartz Composer is the most awesome thing to tinker with and make cool things like the RSS visualizer.
2nd of all, it doesn’t matter where you choose to read your RSS feeds, you could totally just glance at your computer and see “LHC just created a black hole! world about to end!”
3rd of all.. that’s all.