Comments on: Tiger: RSS Visualizer Screen Saver

By: Mike D

Mike D — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:43:15 +0000

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.

By: natas

natas — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 01:09:30 +0000

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

By: David Drucker

David Drucker — Tue, 17 May 2005 18:11:29 +0000

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?

By: mason

mason — Sun, 01 May 2005 15:23:35 +0000

“I’m not sure how useful it is.” – oh come on, I always read my RSS feeds when I’m away from my computer.

By: J44xm

J44xm — Sun, 01 May 2005 03:45:32 +0000

I love the design. It’s got this “information superhub” feel to it. Other than that, I’m not sure how useful it is.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 01 May 2005 03:36:05 +0000

How edifying Wyatt.

By: Wyatt

Wyatt — Sun, 01 May 2005 02:09:21 +0000

That looks completely retarded.

By: Kent

Kent — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 14:40:44 +0000

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.