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10.4: Show MacOSXHints on RSS screen saver
yes,
what if you dont want to use safari? what if you dont want to have to go into safari and add a feed to make it work with the screensaver? what if you wanted to make a screen saver that went to only one place and rename it something else so that it will only display news for one thing? be creative.
10.4: Show MacOSXHints on RSS screen saver
Maybe they missed the point of the hint because the hint says NOTHING about Safari. It doesn't say, "here's a way to use the RSS screensaver for a custom URL without using Safari..." Instead, it just says, "here's how to add a custom URL."
10.4: Show MacOSXHints on RSS screen saver
I think this hint is good, it may be the long way around and not a shortcut but this is a osxhints site not an osxshortcut site!!!!
10.4: Show MacOSXHints on RSS screen saver
"Creative" would be modifying the screensaver to do something that it can't normally do via. it's regular UI. As already pointed out, this hint demonstrates how to do something the long way, that a simple click of the UI's "Options" button will achieve. This hint is largely counter-productive.
"Creative" would be adding functionality, not making existing functionality more complicated. As for non-Safari users, there's nothing stopping you from simply running Safari just to bookmark feeds. To me this seems far more convenient than .plist editing. I don't think anyone is trying to steal anyone's thunder here. I just think think it's irresponsible to teach people that three lefts make a right, when only one right can make a right.
10.4: Show MacOSXHints on RSS screen saver
so it's quicker to go through 2 terminal commands and renames?
10.4: Show MacOSXHints on RSS screen saver
jcroft & zane,
you two dont get it either. maybe because you arent creative. how about this scenario: you are ESPN. you want to use the quartz composer to designing a cool screensaver to handle ONLY your RSS feed. sadly, when you do create a screensaver using quartz composer, it defaults to the same behavior that the one apple ships with tiger has. so then you have to explain to your readers that they need to open safari, bookmark the RSS, and blah blah blah. lots of steps. and that leaves the screen saver open to manipulation with the "options..." button that you are all fond of pointing out. this hint would let someone create a unique RSS screensaver that an end user cant mess with. unless they hack it with this hint, that is. thats what "be creative" meant.
10.4: Show MacOSXHints on RSS screen saver
I am not creative? I'm a graphic and web designer by trade, and a pretty well respected one, at that.
10.4: Show MacOSXHints on RSS screen saver
"this hint would let someone create a unique RSS screensaver that an end user cant mess with. unless they hack it with this hint, that is. "
Actually, that's not true. The options button will still let you modify the preferred RSS feed after you have manipulated the .plist as described in this hint. Why? Because this hint is merely modifying the preferred RSS feed by typing it in the long way directly in the .plist file instead of choosing it from the option button. And to be clear, this has nothing to do with creativity, just simplicity. Had the hint actually been about using Quartz Composer to create a new RSS feed screen saver that is site-specific or is unique in some other way (like making the feed all lower case) that would be creative. This hint did not discuss anything to do with Quartz Composer. This hint discussed taking the long road and manually changing the .plist file instead of simply doing it via the preference pane. That being said, I applaud the hint poster for taking the initiative and figuring out how it all works.
10.4: Show MacOSXHints on RSS screen saver
LOUD NOISES!!!!!!!!!
(See the movie Anchorman)
10.4: Show MacOSXHints on RSS screen saver
That is actually not true, because you can define the url for the feed in the quarz composer already. Just select the first box RSS Feed box in the Root patch layout and do an Apple-I. Cycle to (or choose from the pulldown menu) Input Parameters and enter your RSS Feeds URL. Once you modified all what you want, color, speed, whatever, and you save it, it will keep the url.
10.4: Show MacOSXHints on RSS screen saver
you completely missed the point of this hint. First prize for King Doofus goes to rgould. Question: What if you don't want to use Safari? My answer: Its installed by default with Tiger. Shouldn't be too much trouble to fire it up just once to add a bookmark. Question: What if you dont want to have to go into Safari and add a feed to make it work with the screensaver? rgould's answer: Instead of going to all that hassle take the easy road and hack a system plist file (but don't forget to convert it to and from binary plist format so that you can edit it in your 'favoriate' text editor). rgould's answer to any other comment: Be creative/you're not creative/I am creative. No doubt Rob will delete this comment because he likes things to be nice and clean on his site, but this rgould character is a clown and I think it needs to be pointed out. As written, this hint is completely inappropriate for most users and it doesn't even make use to either the Apple-sanctioned way of doing this, or any of the "creative" cases which rgould suggests justify the hint. |
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