Tiger: RSS Visualizer Screen Saver

Saturday, Apr. 30 2005 | Author: jeremy

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.

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.

Category: Apple

7 Responses for "Tiger: RSS Visualizer Screen Saver"

Kent

April 30th, 2005 at 9:40 am
1

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.
Wyatt

April 30th, 2005 at 9:09 pm
2

That looks completely retarded.
Brian

April 30th, 2005 at 10:36 pm
3

How edifying Wyatt.
J44xm

April 30th, 2005 at 10:45 pm
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I love the design. It’s got this “information superhub” feel to it. Other than that, I’m not sure how useful it is.
mason

May 1st, 2005 at 10:23 am
5

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

May 17th, 2005 at 1:11 pm
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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?
natas

December 6th, 2005 at 8:09 pm
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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